i'm trying hard to picture you, i remember Jay i think it was him i used to deal with, we used to sell loads of records back then, i think massive did at least two boxes of MT06 with me Leif and Tom Ellis on, it was just before vinyl had its second big collapse, and i stopped doing my own distro.::BLM:: wrote:You used to come into the record shop where I worked - Massive Records, Oxford. That is where I first heard your music.
i did that for 10 years, it was probably the most fun time ive had in my life.
when i read about labels being run as businesses and worrying about beatport sales figures etc.. i think its really sad, and it makes me feel that the original spirit of what undergound dance music was all about has been lost.
luckily there are plenty of people who still believe.
problem is its the holy grail for some people, and while the internet can be great for networking, its also had the effect of dehumanising the scene to some extent, and making it more business oriented.::BLM:: wrote:Its not the case of worrying about sales though. I dont think people worry they are just nice to haveAnd if you can get them exposing your artist to more fans then why not.
but generally i have a fairly positive outlook, i only deal with people in music on co-creational terms, when anyone starts to push in a business like way, i switch straight off.
until very recent times music was something that ordinary people shared and celebrated, business only came into the picture with the advent of the big record labels in the aerly 20th century, and they were mostly a bunch of thieves who never gave the musicians their dues.
music can exist without business.
