RCA COLUMBIA - COMPUTERISED HELL

Incantations of Despair my afficionados

This has just appeared in my world and its a warning shot across the bows for all those pirates and buccanners that are trying to forge new empires in the wastelands of musical creativity.

Here is an exerpt from a "Blog" I just read on Vox.com



"SonyBMG Music Entertainment UK has just announced that starting April 2nd 2007 it will no longer accept demos from new artists on physical formats such as CDs for consideration by the company’s Columbia Records or RCA Records labels.

In fact, the only way RCA and Columbia Records UK will accept new music or demo submissions is via Vox! How cool is that?

We think it’s very cool to see entertainment companies embracing the multimedia aspect of blogs, and the way that Columbia and RCA UK are embracing Vox is exceptional. They explained it like this:


“We don't want demo CD's anymore, that's what part of this is about. It takes ages for you to do, they get lost and it's a waste of plastic. Register your blog and be part of our on-line community. You will be directly connected to us and everyone else who's in the community. That's the other reason for this, the artist community being closer to the labels they want to be involved with.”


WHAT THE HELL IS THAT APART FROM A COP OUT CHICKEN SHIT EXCUSE FOR A LABEL?

Oh what a great scam! Now we have a major that can't be bothered to go out and look for decent bands. It looks like the perfect way to keep the mystique going and hide behind a screen of green pseudo pretence without ever needing to employ another A&R guy again. No Artist and synthetic repotoire for all! Can't wait. 

Cd's aren't ever going to get anyone signed to a major - except by idiots like us in the indie world. We love music for its own sake and if the Majors want to get some credibility back they need to listen to music in all forms. CD, Live, MP3 or even in sheet form. They need to work at the front lines and not in an office somewhere.

It is just too important to leave to some computerised scanning machine to filter which is what this will mean before long.

Welcome to the machine age of creativity people!.

A gift to the people

Blessing be upon you dear reader,

I have had a small moment to contemplate the meaning of generosity following the return of 15 Marines after their kidnap by Iran.

It seems to me that the West has been comprehensively out- P.R'd by our Islamic bretheren this time and whilst there has been a huge amount of speculation about power struggles and factional infighting in Iran the truth is that they just got really pissed off with being made out to be the bad guys all the time.

The US kidnapped 5 of their guys in January and pretended that they knew nothing about it. They have lost 2 generals to "special forces" snatch squads and just like us they were pretty hacked off about it. So they grabbed some of our blokes and then made a big show of giving them back after 2 weeks of stalling and making Blair look like a pussy. I guess that sometimes what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

In otherwords - the politicians deserved a good slap from Mr Ahmadinajad this time.

I am glad that no one got killed for once.

The generous gesture is a pretty fair analogy for what should happen in the music world right now.

There are major powers out ther who are happily fucking with our lives and really egging on the reactionary forces by claiming that the cyber world is real and that we should all aspire to become Avatars living our lives by proxy.

I say - Bollocks!

Real life is far more important and if you want to spend your lives in the pointless pursuit of virtual thrills you should istead try to learn something.

Like for example, the gift that is music itself.

Don't fool yourself that the only way to go is down the Western music road.

Did you know for example that Arabic music has a whole different set of scales with 24 notes in an octave? Or that they sing in quarter tones which we don't even acknowledge in the West?

If you did - Great.
If you didn't you need to find these things out. That way you might just be the guy who invents a whole new way of making music just like those old Blues guys became the basis for all the stuff we play today.

ADVOCATE CHANGE

ADVOCATE KNOWLEDGE

ADVOCATE GENEROSITY

Happy Easter

CHEAP CD's

You have been warned people!


"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."

Professor John Ruskin M.A. (1819-1900)