Bad news for Airwave

((-&E-)) · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 4:05 pm

its the price we pay tho... i guess.... we cant have the best of both worlds.. Razz

.. tis a shame that mp3s fcuk up artists and producers - but i aint gonna stop d/l'ing music... Confused

White_Lightning · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 5:53 pm

Thing is though, harsh may it sound, im sure if he/they were only in it for the love of the music he/they would not be bothered about the financial loss. Mad

plus the fact that these tracks are already available will surely be good promotion???? i mean if people like the airwave stuff they downloaded then surely its going to encourage people to buy more of their material when it comes commericially available in the future ??

or if only several tracks are available on the net, im surely people will buy the album to get the rest.....

but i would be a bit fcuked off it was me like...but theres always a postive side to everything Wink

thats my view anyway

aah fcuk it just blame ze Germans!!

Ami · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 7:48 pm

Mathew · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 8:52 pm

hehehe.. you always write loads ami Razz

White_Lightning · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 8:53 pm

Fair enough but shouldnt artists have somekind of method for preventing thier work being leaked. if the proper security/procedures was inforced then the artist should have no problems???

but i supose its all well and good saying this because im sure in reality inforcing strict security is not allways that simple and trusting people not to leak your work is another matter.......but either way its a bit of a sh.it situation for airwave. but im sure airware is not the only artist to suffer from this...and hopefully will learn from it and keep doing what they do best...
Wink

Ami · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 11:25 pm

((-&E-)) · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2002 10:23 am

docsavage · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2002 9:53 pm

I posted this on the Tranceaddict form. People who know Tranceaddict know it's a place where people can download a ton of trance mp3s, so their forums are quite biased towards free distribution of music.

Many people commented on the whole 'if he loved the music' thing. Many people took it one step further and called L.Vee a whiny b*tch. But the overwhelming thing people said was that MP3 has a helluva lot to do with trance's success. Speaking as a person being on the wrong side of the Atlantic, trance-wise, let me tell you that it's almost impossible to get your hands on anything trance except crap compilations with the latest from Ian Van Dahl or ATB. Maybe that's not completely the case in New York or SanFran, but that's the case in Canada's capital.

The truth of the matter is that to a producer/DJ, releasing an album is simply one more step up the 'trance scene ladder'. Once you have an album you get videos, a tour, and now have something that the normies can buy out at HMV and MusicWorld.

Although I can imagine it being frustrating after slaving for countless days in the studio, the real money lies in the recognition of Airwave's name, and the subsequent DJ/Live bookings. Since MP3s give us an opportunity to hear how good Airwave is, I feel this helps his name and helps him get bookings.

Any promoter who has tried to book these artists knows how much they get. The only people this affects are those at Bonzai. As a CD-DJ who gets most of his tracks through mp3 because I can't get it anywhere else, I don't feel for them. If I could go to the Bonzai webpage, pick any track off the site and buy 192kbps mastered for MP3 versions of the tracks for a reasonable price (say 2$ per track) then I would LOVE to do it. No more hunting for full length versions, the right remix, etc. They make money and I stop getting harranged for labels not getting with the times.

Airwave is awesome, and L-Vee has a right to be pissed. But not at the people. How can someone be reasonably pissed because people WANT his music? He should be pissed that Bonzai isn't making it available properly. I wouldn't be able to BUY a copy of this cd for less than 27$. I'd have to import it and wait like 2 and a half weeks. I refuse to buy vinyl because it's a backwards medium. So what can I do?

Thoughts?
Ryan

White_Lightning · **Posted:** Fri May 17, 2002 5:19 pm

agree totally mate. even some quality trance cds are hard to get in the uk, so u have to get them some how. good idea about the mp3 purchasing from sites, i rckon that would work..but there will allways be a way to get them for nothing...

Entity33035 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 29, 2002 3:48 pm

Damn, hope he does end up goin through with it, Airwave is a mighty fine producer, and i was looking forward to the album...

Wait & see, i spose

Tea-mo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 01, 2002 4:26 pm

Do you really blame the german ? Sad

No, no !!! That´s wrong.

Tea-mo