Re: (idm) mp3s & you

From audio
Sent Tue, Mar 2nd 1999, 18:52

> I agree, and figure DVD is a way more exciting format. Someone was 
> telling me about a King Crimson DVD where you can replace the different 
> players in King Crimson tracks, ie. if you really preferred Bill 
> Bruford's drumming on '21st Century Schizoid Man' from a earlier concert 
> vs. someone else's on another concert, but Levin's bass playing was just 
> so sweet in that other version then you can put Bruford with Levin, 
> etc... I havn't seen/heard it, but in theory it sounds wicked. I figure 
> audio/visual artists over time will be able to come up with amazing stuff 
> with this much room on a disc to work with. ....and well again, it 
> satisfies my need to 'own'. 

i think that, with all new formats, dvd, in it's 
infancy will be prohibitively expensive on the 
production side of things to really work well
for smaller labels, etc.  that being said, i doubt
we'll see any sort of dvd thing happening on any
grand scale for quite some time.  in the meantime,
i'm happy to "own" my crates of vinyl and my stacks
of cds.  as for mp3's, i think they are extremely 
useful, but not as a replacement for the real thing.
they're definetely good for previewing things,
to see if you like them, and for emerging artists
to get their material to other people in a format
that lots of people can hear.  i'm all for free 
and artist-controlled distribution, and i think
that in the end, it will signal quite a positive 
shift in the overall mentality of the music industry.
as it is now, you don't really need a record company
to get your stuff out there, and like jeff mentioned,
we can still pretty much rely on the established
companies, such as ninjatune, warp, asphodel, etc,
to be a bullshit filter so that we can spend our
money wisely, and experiment freely with new 
music.  

so there.

brian