I like where this is going in relation to an online distribution/download portal, if anyone is serious about doing it I would be up for helping out especially once I graduate. My input would be part time and minimal, but if it’s run by a few like minded people I recon it would go a long way especially with the right QC

To be perfectly honest I have been setting up my own mp3 download site just to see how to do it. I thought in the future, I would cut record labels completely out of the picture and sell my music for next to nothing over my own website. Way I see it, is there’s nothing to loose apart from support from people who dj entirely on vinyl. This is why I bought this domain name in the 1st place

www.forbiddensilence.co.uk

crude and unfinished + its going to be marked as a uni project so its going to be filled up with bullshit until i graduate (lots of bullshit :lol:). It’s going to be striped down and used to sell wav or mp3. I wasn’t 100% sure I was going to use it but I wanted the option to be there and to know how it all works. It can be fully functional I know that. Another idea was not to release my tunes and just sell an hour mix of it performed. More than just an A5 mix tho, bring in diff things algorithmically and make it interesting to listen to at home.

See as Dave is, I too have been getting frustrated

My frustration is at how out of touch the scene is, who would have guess the techno scene would be filled with technophobes!

Btw I love vinyl, the sound, the feel, having something solid to latch on. But I don’t think it’s necessary anymore. I can understand how a lot of the older people can’t get their heads out music existing as nothing more than a digital file but you have to remember that in the history of mankind. It’s only in the last 50 or so years, that music has been associated with a product. The fact is, tomorrows generation are growing up in the middle of all this and I think I could be certain that in the future, they aint going to give a shit if its physical or not. Especially with all the new technology coming up, you think ipods are something special? They aren’t, soon you’ll be able to buy cinema tickets, pay for goods on portable devices, theres a massive race going on in the technology market to utilize all the new shit coming out – high speed connections, wi-fi, pda’s, small data storage devices, etc, etc

I know Toscin seems to rub up the old school on here, but really do think that his veiws are totally intouch with reality in the west