A while ago now, your favourite blog spoke about Beatport Link. There appears to be money to be made in streaming - certainly not for the artists, but plenty for the labels and plenty for the streaming platforms themselves. Hence why Daniel Ek is worth billions and the average songwriter…
In the dying days of 2020, DJ Sneak posted a few musings on his social media pages. The pandemic had given him time to think, and he’d decided he would be doing things differently in the future. And one thing he pledged to do was remove his music from the…
Someone somewhere is benefitting from streaming. But whom? It’s certainly not the artists whose music is on such services. They’re being paid a pittance for the use of their work. And it’s not even really the listeners - who only have access to that music so long as it’s available…
A few weeks ago, the garage house crew were happy. Traxsource had finally given garage its own category on their site after a campaign which has been on and off for the past three years. And the infighting - for a while rife in the genre - appears to have…
On December 29th last year, DJ Sneak decided to make a few changes to the way he did business. And one of those was to declare his music would be coming down from digital services. This was taken to mean download and streaming sites, although Sneak never elaborated further. So…
Oh, what a difference a week makes. Last weekend, Greek producer T Markakis ranted online - making allegations that record label Glasgow Underground hadn't paid him for his most recent release. Label boss Kevin McKay made a statement denying all his allegations. But in the middle of last week, things…
This blog has been doing a public service at the request of its readers over the past few months - although I suspect the protagonist here would prefer I didn't. I've been keeping an eye on DJ Sneak's vow to remove all his music from the digital stores. How's it…
A few weeks ago, DJ Sneak announced that he was having his music pulled from the digital stores. This was all done in a wave of publicity in the way only Sneak can do. I notice with great interest that not only is DJ Sneak's profile still online on Traxsource,…
I've seen a few people over the past few days talking about the way that genres are classified on the likes of Traxsource, Beatport and probably elsewhere. Typically, they find it a complete mystery how things are categorised. Or to put it another way, I had long suspected that Traxsource…