Mark Hawkins "The Doomsday Clock" LP FREE DOWNLOAD

[crime]

I was also thinking that if doing an album this way was a success it could be the death knell for digi labels/digi distibution.. I mean, I don't really see the point of going through a net label when you can just do it all yourself.. the concept of a "record label" was relevent when you had to arrange cut, pressing, label design, promotion, distribution, accounting... say you are doing a net label, well, you are wiping out all the manufacturing side of things straight away.. and I mean if you are only selling 100 mp3s max which is a lot of the figures I was getting from people running small labels that did their releases as net also, it's like what's the point in charging for it?

I think the whole net label thing is people stuck in old ways, and still a lot of people in the "music industry" trying to make their cut without really doing anything.. lets wipe out ALL the middle men :)

[MITA]

hehehe.attack of the pure!

[DVNT]

I'd like to think that net labels, well digital labels (the ones you pay for releases with) get tunes mastered. I belong to other music forums and they discussed this recently. Whilst yes it is piss easy to just release your own MP3s. The quaility of production and mastering (not in your case) has dropped. There is now so much digital music. Some is up to an excellent standard. Some is not. It's far too easy for a person who makes music, but doesn't know how to master it, which is a different skill, and then releases it. Now this produces a drop in quality control, which you didn't get with old music made for 12" release. Because not long ago, it cost a lot of buy audio hardware and to get things pressed on vinyl. Which meant that only the quality stuff was really mastered and put out there. Which I guess explains why older releases become timeless, the quality is up there to start with.

Ultimately this means from a music collector/buyer POV we just have to look further and deal thru more shit.

I know a few net labels and the people who run them (free digital labels). Such as Zymogen.net and Myuzyk.net. Both of which have tunes mastered properly and provide excellent artwork etc...

I won't get into my personal issue about not getting into the music as much when it is just a file on your computer, rather than a spinning disk.

:)

[crime]

I'd like to think that net labels, well digital labels (the ones you pay for releases with) get tunes mastered. I belong to other music forums and they discussed this recently. Whilst yes it is piss easy to just release your own MP3s. The quaility of production and mastering (not in your case) has dropped. There is now so much digital music. Some is up to an excellent standard. Some is not. It's far too easy for a person who makes music, but doesn't know how to master it, which is a different skill, and then releases it. Now this produces a drop in quality control, which you didn't get with old music made for 12" release. Because not long ago, it cost a lot of buy audio hardware and to get things pressed on vinyl. Which meant that only the quality stuff was really mastered and put out there. Which I guess explains why older releases become timeless, the quality is up there to start with.

Ultimately this means from a music collector/buyer POV we just have to look further and deal thru more shit.

I know a few net labels and the people who run them (free digital labels). Such as Zymogen.net and Myuzyk.net. Both of which have tunes mastered properly and provide excellent artwork etc...

I won't get into my personal issue about not getting into the music as much when it is just a file on your computer, rather than a spinning disk.

:)

Well, yeah, bang on point really...

I have nothing against net labels per se, so long as it's quality music. I just had a few people ask me why I didn't release this on a net label, and I just didn't see the point..

And yeah, would be much nicer to have it on 2 slabs of vinyl, but that's just the reality right now ;)

[MITA]

reality is what you make of it~ :P























arghh.forgot you stopped pushing it ( :























p.s.satisfaction when goals acheeved can
kill the will (regarded to said 'bout djaxup).



















no?

[crime]

seems that de:bug picked up on it:




http://www.de-bug.de/news/4163.html

[mattboyslim]

awesome album mate. love it

[robin m]

This is really kind of bittersweet to read, on the one hand your attitude deserves nothing but respect (as does the music I might add) - on the other it's a f*cking sad commentary that someone with your originality and talent has had to resort to giving an album away...

Whatever, thanks for the great music and again massive respect for the attitude - fingers crossed that karma comes around and you find a few grand in a wheelie bin or something

[MITA]

exactly my point.but i see Mark skipped it and paste the de bug pickup on ethe album~ anyhow nice1