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BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:22 am

The old days were crushed by the internet. These days you can basically forget about it unless what you do falls smack-bang in the centre of the bell-curve. So many great bands from decades gone by would have no hope of achieving any level of success today. Could you imagine a song like Rock Lobster getting airplay today? And without the success of Rock Lobster, The B-52s probably never would have got to Roam or Love Shack. Could you imagine a band like The Sisters Of Mercy getting signed to a major, let alone cracking the mainstream Top 10 on three occasions? Or a band like Killing Joke having a certified Silver album? None of those things could happen today.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:52 am

One important role of labels is that they distribute the promos to DJs who may potentially play them. The bigger label, the greater support (or, quite the opposite in my case

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Besides, doing all the cover, publishing and promotion stuff is something I'm not willing to do myself. They will do it better, with broader range and taking 1% of my time.

It's nice that one of my labels, Aftertime Records, lets me choose one of a few artworks for every release

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:54 pm

BONES wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:22 am So many great bands from decades gone by would have no hope of achieving any level of success today. Could you imagine a song like Rock Lobster getting airplay today? And without the success of Rock Lobster, The B-52s probably never would have got to Roam or Love Shack. Could you imagine a band like The Sisters Of Mercy getting signed to a major, let alone cracking the mainstream Top 10 on three occasions? Or a band like Killing Joke having a certified Silver album? None of those things could happen today.

That does rather make me nostalgic. Not that I would ever trade in the internet... All things considered, in most respects the pre-internet days seem like the dark ages.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:50 pm

Really? I could easily live without the internet, except maybe for Wikipedia. Sure, I have discovered some amazing music from the 80s I would never have come across without Discogs or Zune but, on balance, I think there is far more about it that is negative than positive. In fact, I've only really had internet at home for the past 12 years or so, for 15 years before that it was something I could only access from work or from an internet cafe (remember those?) and for most of that time it wasn't all that useful, really.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:40 pm

For electronic music like Trance they still do. Many good old-ish Trance labels are no more unfortunately. I blame armin van boring for that with his monopoly of trance. Still, some labels (trance) still exist but not the good old ones though.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:56 pm

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:57 pm

oops wrong thread

Do record labels still exist?