Please Self-Release Me, Let Me Go

MaxerJ wrote: okay i have done a massive tl;dr and I am just responding to Dean's OP. I'd just like to give the example of Rain's album Cerulean Blue. Rain has self-released this album, and yet not only is it one of the best of 2009, but it sounds the best. It sounds completely professional, even more so than many actual professional albums of the year.

stefolof wrote: Nakatira wrote: I finally decided that I wanted some profesionalisme on the end process on the record and hired Pink Floyd's engineer (from 83) to do the Mastering, wich IMO maid all the difference, and I got various friends online that had experience with artwork to help me with the layout finish. Are you talking about Andy Jackson? He did the the mastering for our latest album as well!

stefolof wrote: Nakatira wrote: stefolof wrote: Nakatira wrote: I finally decided that I wanted some profesionalisme on the end process on the record and hired Pink Floyd's engineer (from 83) to do the Mastering, wich IMO maid all the difference, and I got various friends online that had experience with artwork to help me with the layout finish. Are you talking about Andy Jackson? He did the the mastering for our latest album as well!    Yup.   were you satisfied with the result?, it sure made wonders on our stuff. Yes, it definitely added a dimension to the music and unified the sound over the different songs. He was very easy to work with as well.

well, that's great too

Fresh news: just posted in 'free downloads' thread:

The Enid is offering their almost-entire discography as a free download.

At first sight, it seems fishy why a major prog act active for 30+ years is doing such thing. Things get clearer when you visit their website (it's  www.theenid.co.uk , not .com ) - The Enid are 'at war' with their label. It seems label violated some contractual obligations, or got a bit of a too hefty appetite, anyway, legal proceedings are at large.

A new policy, a strategical shift, just a revenge?


In light of our moder Internet era, is that (assuming background is real) just a label's greed, or a desperate struggle to survive at end of the Label's Era? Such things are just speeding up the avalanche. A food for thoughts...

Of course, there were legal battles between artists and labels many times before, but it was not possible for artists to magically snap their fingers (read: mouse-click) and make their entire discographies available along with new issues of newspapers in an instant, all around the globe, figuratively speaking.

Now, if we could only get you guys to play for Jay Leno or Oprah Winfrey...  ;-)

Windhawk wrote: Now, if we could only get you guys to play for Jay Leno or Oprah Winfrey...  ;-)

I would have no objections to that at all! But, meanwhile, we'll happily play for the opening of an envelope!

jplanet wrote: JLocke wrote: Record labels are a dying breed, as far as I am concerned. If I would ever find myself in such a fortunate position as being asked to sign (which by the way, I won't), I wouldn't be completely opposed to joining an indie label one day if they would play fair, but it seems more and more even the tiny guys are getting forced into the pompous attitude by their higher-ups. Shame. I do think it makes sense in some cases for a first release to be on an indie, just to learn the ropes and see who all the distributors, dj's and reviewers are - but being a member of a site like this, you're already tapping into a huge resource....

You know what I want?

A good old fashioned patron. 

Oh wait...

JLocke wrote: Indeed. it seems to me that the greedier the big businesses become, the more free we artists will ultimately be. Sooner or later it's all going to come falling down like a house of cards unless these labels learn to accept that their days of running the show are quickly coming to an end.  . . . or perhaps I'm just fooling myself and being a bit too optimistic about the biz.