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Freedom to music!!
BUT...
I'm always wandering though how these artists and labels would end. its very difficult to get hold of some music these days, especially not the one that comes from big stars or even EDM artists (who, if they play the "in", "trendy" sound they would have a higher chance to receive support from the equally trendy djs) but from more independent efforts. I always find it very hard to get hold of some more independent genres like post-rock, electronica or ambient because the small labes can't survive in this music-free world. The artists would eventually end-up selling their music on their own, through s website, or maybe through a very small label with the same procedure. Its a pitty, because i consider a lot of this music to be of the highest quality, at least compared to what is out these days.
It is actually very bad because during the 80s and 90s one could get a cd-copy of even the most underground music. You could just browse thorugh Amazon (during the early years) and find almost everything, even the most obscure, underground thing would be available. Because if that obscure, underground thing was of high quality, it would probably get signed to a label that specialises in such music and a specific target group of people would support the label and the artist by simply buying the cd. Today this whole thing is a far cry from what it was a few years back. We are also not talking about very underground stuff today. Some very melodic stuff which is very nice but a bit more complicated than the perceptual capabilities of the average joe would dissapear in oblivion. Probably a cd available fro the short-term, only to dissapear and never to be heard of again. Maybe this is a big subject probably deserving a thread of its own, but where does this (musical) world go!?
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