quoted 15 lines Have you considered the idea of contacting Warp or maybe another label with
>>>>Have you considered the idea of contacting Warp or maybe another label with
>>>>this idea? They may be interested. Give it a shot! What have you got to
>>>>lose?
>>
>>No $h!t !!!
>
>Exactly :-)
>
>>CatCompilation, a compilation of Network [Internet?] bands
>>
>>It has signed AND UN-signed bands on it. And she's been contacted by SPIN -
>>they're interested in it.
>
>Hell yes. Ever since it suddenly became cool to 'play in cyberspace' (ooooh),
>the music media is just ripe for something like this.
Jeez. The irony, here this guy Barry is at NCSA and all ...
C'mon folks. A net compilation *tape*? As in, "analog cassette"? As in,
"yesterday's news", "primitive mechanisms" and all that? Why don't we press
some 78's ...
Surely we can do better than that.
Put on your thinking caps. What's the obvious thing?
Give up? Well, here's the answer: the Virtual Web Compilation.
You click on a WWW page at "techno", it tells you all about the work, and then
there are separate Hypertext links to each track, pointing you off to a Web
server where the track lives. 8-bit ulaw AU format? 16-bit MPEG audio format?
Whatever. I don't care. Just do something.
For example, I could put one of my wife's tracks up on my Web server at work,
and clicking on her entry would download it from here.
You all, of course, DO realize that in the very near future, this mechanism
will become the de-facto distribution mechanism for unsigned music, don't you?
Big Ugly Rip-Off Money-Hungry Record Companies will cease to exist as we know
it, if we can pull this off. They're already scared shitless. Don't believe
me? My wife is an ASCAP member. She gets worthless brochures from the Harry
Fox Agency - the people who are supposed to be out collecting her royalties
from this miserable Belgian bastard who kept them all - and the last one we got
showed a bunch of suits attending a conference to discuss how to keep control
of copyright protection in Cyberspace.
So why shouldn't WE be the first pioneers to show the way towards this kind of
future? Who needs a bunch of tw*ts like Warp or whomever to wait a million
years to get it out, then if it happens to sell they say "Sorry chaps, we've
only sold enough to minimize our losses, argy bargy hah hah hah ...". Take the
means of production and distribution into your own hands. Remember Punk Rock?
As soon as I get off my lazy arse, I'm going to buy a cheap Radio Schlock mixer
that does good stereo -> mono mixdowns, and then I'm going to bring it into
work and start blasting Namlook, AFX, "Trance Europe Express" et al. all over
the g*dd*mn*d Internet. If you're on the net at your desktop and you don't
have MBONE access, get off the stick already. (-: There's already an MBONE
radio show ("Radio Free VAT") and all I have to do is get a slot to play in.
Not hard, since there're only a couple of people playing stuff on it ...
- Greg
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