#23 Musicland Muck!
Today I replay a segment I produced for Jason from Insomnia Radio. Music from (oh yeah!) Cruzbox, Ndromeda and Planet of Women. We quickly check the listener comments and all but shit a brick over Jan Polet having to give up the Hit Test (at least in it’s current form) due to Music Industry Moguls that JUST DON’T GET IT
November 18th, 2005 at 1:39 am
Hey Skinny…………wassup?!
November 18th, 2005 at 6:42 am
I am up… barely (or is that bearly) but I am up!
November 19th, 2005 at 7:11 am
Yeah what to say about this?
I think our dutch organisation BUMA that ‘represents’ dutch recording artists is against independant artists.
I could tell you stories… For Example: say you want to put out your own record and sell it yourself or with the help of a distributor.
Then you pay about a 500 euro’s (I dont know the amount in dollars but it’s a lot) in advance plús 10 percent administration fees. After over a year (!) they will pay you back the 500 hundred but the state takes 19 percent of that because they concider it income. Is that crazy or not?
And this is not voluntary. When you have your cd pressed at a legal factory
you have to do this.
I could tell you many more stories, don’t make me start…
Our solution at Skipper Boetlek (Bootleg in dutch/www.skipperboetlek.nl): Burn them yourself.
November 21st, 2005 at 3:49 pm
On the whole model of the music industry: viewing a movie is paid for per view, unless you buy the media, so it’s not uncommon. True issue behind all this is: the music industry and the movie industry determine what you will hear or see. Independent artists had no way of reaching a broad audience, and in that way the record industry has the power to make hits. Yes, it has been done over and over. Nobody’s, who wouldn’t have stood a chance by themselves, get picked up by a producer and become multi-million hit factories. If the independent music industry finds a medium to reach a large audience, the record industry actually looses it’s control over a piece of the pie.
November 24th, 2005 at 8:50 am
The stupid thing is that what was designed to do justice to the artists
now partly works against them. I say partly because I can’t say I disagree
when I’m getting payed for being played on national radio.
On the other hand, we now depend on our publishers and organisations like the dutch Biem and Sena (don’t know what they are called in the states)
And that is a grey area. Publishers are making far more money than
record compagnies. But do they really feel responsible for the liitle fish in the pond ? I don’t think so. So many times the artists don’t get paid anyway.
The problem is that most musicians don’t find this important enough to
take action. Too busy doing other things… like making music
I think the only solution there is is to unite. And not to compete…