Basically, there would be record sales in competition with DVDs, video games, mobile phones, concert tickets... Actually had a talk with a guy (professionnal classical musician) who sees the same happening in his field, he records less and less, but tours more and more... The interesting effect being less power to the big record companies, more power to the tour companies. Gwendal
-----Message d'origine----- De : Cyclone Wehner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:25 PM À : 313 Detroit Objet : Re: (313) Is this the new Swayzak sound? Yes, that is very true for Australia, but I have no figures. Alicia Keys' latest record is considered a commercial failure (to BMG's dismay, many of the staff believed in what is an extraordinary record) yet her Australian shows have sold out. I think people - young people - are putting money in mobile phones and so don't have as much money for records. They download. Also people spend money on live shows and download music. Many a musician says that touring, not record sales, is their main source of income these days. Australia has always had a strong live circuit though. ---------- >From: "Cobert, Gwendal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "313 Detroit" <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: RE: (313) Is this the new Swayzak sound? >Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 7:03 PM > > On the "music doesn't sell as much as it used to..." tip - I've read > that while record sales are going down, tickets for concerts are going > up very fast... Is it the same in the US and Australia as well, or > just some European cultural exception ? > Gwendal > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Cyclone Wehner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:19 PM À : 313 Detroit Objet : > Re: (313) Is this the new Swayzak sound? > > Music isn't selling as it used to, period. The market is in transition > and no one knows where it's heading. I think it's some kind of > technological revolution that we don't completely understand as of yet. > There does seem to be a trend for underground acts to set themselves > up as bands, get a singer, and make something more organic, perhaps > less 'faceless'. I don't think it's necessarily cynical as after all > most grew up with bands like Depeche Mode or whatever (many techno > types here are old goths, weirdly, who are rediscovering their love of > bands like The Cure) and that's a genuine avenue of exploration for a > maturing producer. But at the same time I hear a lot of tracks with > vocals, not songs, and when the music is like that it's not especially > memorable, doesn't stand out, doesn't click. I'm not sure what I'm > trying to say - I'm not a slave to pop structures, but... I think > Technasia make brilliant techno 'songs' with hooks and the vocals and > everything - superb. > The songs with Charles Siegling and their instrumentals are first-rate. > I am sure with a different marketing strategy (and some money for > videos, ha > ha) they could have become a techno Daft Punk without changing their > music at all. >
