I don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but
maybe some of you will find this mail I got today interesting. Tellé
is a smallish, but quite famous, "indie" label here in Norway. They
release mostly house (but quite idm'ish at that).
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Yesterday (11.03) we here at Tellé got thrown in to the discussion
about free downloading of music from the internet. It was a reporter
from the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (More like the Norwegian
Financial Times) who asked us what we thought about the fact that last
year the Norwegian people downloaded music for 7 billion Norwegian
Kroner? And they were wondering how this affects us?
The Norwegian major labels don't like the fact that people get their
music for free, it is the same with major labels all over the world, I
guess. They think that they will make less money. I heard that the
Norwegian CD sales were growing with more than 10 % last year. So if
they loose money I guess it is the independent labels that are growing!
Why? I thought. Maybe it is the fact that we don't use most of our time
and money to chase down these sites were you can download music, we
focus more on the good music and less on the possible sale of the
record. We are always in an attacking position. We constantly want new
people to hear our music.
Anyway, we here at the Tellé office download a lot of music every day,
we respect the artists that we download, and if the music is good, we
probably buy the Vinyl (or maybe the cd) anyway. We thought that we
should show our gratitude to our downloading friends, to our music
scene. So that is why we now publish 4 albums and 1 single release from
Telle Records as free downloads, we even put out an easy-to-print
artwork.
It is now possible to download Bjorn Torske's album Trobbel, Kaptein
Kaliber's 3 albums Pop Ultra 1, Pop Ultra 2 and Pop Ultra 2b
(previously unreleased!), as well as the 7" I will always remember you
by Fredrik Saroea (feat. Annie), from www.tellerecords.com
So, on the behalf of Tellé and the featured artists, we hope you enjoy.
Take care
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regards,
urb
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