Agreed! there has to be another way.

Maybe a way forward for the underground to evolve away from the media, is to break away from using record labels altogether. With websites like Kazaa we now have the ability to download professional costly music packages for free and burn tracks onto Cd for just the price of the CD.

A system could develop were each DJ/producer has a mailing list who are emailed a sample of his or her latest creation, if they want it then they order a copy which they recieve on CD. This means that the producer wont have to waste money on getting the track onto vinyl and would basically be making profit for their hardwork from the start.

Obviously everyone would have to convert to CD decks, or those MP3 decks would be even better. Nobody could touch the scene then.