| music_phantom13 |
12-20-2009 03:01 PM |
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
(Post 787114)
I'll give an example of what i'm saying..
Say you were going to do a list of the greatest 80s albums.
Even the most mainstream of magazines would include genuine independent labels from those times like Rough Trade, SST, 4AD, Beggers Banquest, Mute...and so on and so on.
Even the lists back then in mainstream magazines had albums put out by these labels on them.
How do I know this? Because that's how I found out about these labels and bands.
If you were to do a 90s list you could pretty much say the same thing.
But now it's not the case, the fact is the big 4 record companies dominate everything and little else has any chance of getting through, even with the internet at their disposal.
And that list is living proof of that.
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I get what you're saying. Still, I see Rough Trade, Jagjaguwar (who also released Farm), Sub Pop, Matador, Asthmatic Kitty (Sufjan's own label), Merge, Secretly Canadian, Danger Mouse and In Rainbows were self released, XL Recordings, and Fat Cat looking through the list. I mean, if you consider any label under Alternative Distribution Alliance to not be an independent label, I guess you have a point. Otherwise, about half that list is not major label releases. And though ADA is owned mostly by Warner, the labels that release their music through the company sign bands themselves and don't work with any of the major labels. It was just Warner's way of making a little money of the independent scene without any control over the music that's produced. I'm not trying to be a **** or say their list is unexpected or even close to true, but I'd consider Jagjaguwar, Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, and Secretly Canadian to be the modern day equivalent of the labels you listed up there and I see all of them on the list. |
