26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
11:38 a.m.
Can I interest you in a one time license fee, direct
from artist, that allows you to spin the licensed
music forever without further compensation?
That's something like how underground 12" vinyl works, or used to
work, in the UK. When back street shops packed with 'white label'
vinyl started appearing in our area around 1990, on the back of Acid
House and latter drum n' bass, the 12"s cost about 5 pounds. This
compared to maybe 2.49 or 2.99 for a 12" from a major label.
They can't have been MCPS members because the records rarely had
proper credits on them, so I'd guess the musicians were taking a
straight cut of that fiver. The records were made explicitly for
DJ'ing.
Cheers
Daniel