I just posted this to the technocrat message board regarding this article. Curious to know your thoughts... I know this is a contentious issue, and may have been discussed on 313 while I was off-list. If so, please disregard. The article definitely offers an interesting perspective from an established musician.
>>>> What about vinyl? Vinyl is as strong, if not stronger than ever in the dance music community, almost entirely unaffected by mp3 due to limited pressings and the need (or at least the preference if you're a stickler) for vinyl to DJ well. Vinyl should grow in popularity, if anything due to increased opportunity to listen before purchasing. But... I still think artists should have the opportunity to decide if they want their music freely distributed on the internet. This is why I've started encoding my music in only low quality Real Audio until it (hopefully) gets released. At that point, I may as well encode in mp3, because anyone else could do it anyway. My point is, I fail to see how Napster helps unreleased artists make a living from their work, although it clearly opens the door to new audiences, taking some of the leg work out of promotion. I would be interested to know how many, if any artists have been offered record (ie vinyl pressing) deals for underground dance music, exclusively based on Napster, or mp3 site hype. My bet is that there would be very few. <<<< Having just wrote this, I realize there are a gifted few that can match a vinyl DJ with CDs, but there are very few, and most respectable DJs won't use CDs unless they can't find the tracks they're looking for unless availbe on vinyl. I'm writing this little disclaimer because I was quite impressed by Carl Meier (sp?), and I found out @ DEMF that he spun on nothing but CDs when he played in Iowa City. A very nice job indeed. For the record, I started out spinning CDs, and now almost never touch my Denons. Tristan --- Greg Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > check it > > http://www.technocrat.net/958163435/index_html > > > Greg Malcolm > Twine/Twinesound Audio Productions > > http://www.inneractions.com/twine > http://www.adastra-records.com > http://www.mp3.com/twine > http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/56/3rdwave.html > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
