So having listened to this in its entirety I'm assuming that the new trend is to sing horribly out of tune....
Awesome.

retailers charge you their initial placement fees?

Myth Part 2.

Beatport is a bit fussy with who's with them

This is a myth, have you looked at Beatport lately?

I'm assuming this is to do with a Youtube video?
Normally a DMCA notification requires information relating to the problematic track so I'm suprised you don't know what the claim relates to.

All about Itinerent Priest....waiting for years on that one, too big

Redeye are the best bar none

Big! def be locked

Interesting arguement until.....

i illegally downloaded urban ethics

This argument might go down well at an EMI meeting, but when we're talking about underground dance music the figures won't add up. People who download music for free, it could be argued would never have bought the music in the first place - The only thing that will change that attitude is if it's en...

I've never had a problem spending 5-6 quid on a vinyl, and have done so for many years. This is becoming impractical for various reasons and we need to develop alternative strategies for music production/distribution/consumption so we don't get choked by tech companies and marketing platforms, or t...

prertty sure beatport reencodes 320kpbs mp3s into wavs....

Brilliant. nicely justified.....use your noggin
Beatport require WAV's, If you've got a dodgy file from them then the chances are the label/distro responsible for sending them the files in the first place are to blame.

My labels gross increased 300% upon being accepted to beatport. And Juno is just as bad. They take just as much and they don't even screen the releases. Mix of positive and negative there, can't really work out your standpoint. Tangent: Does this mean that in the end labels begin to take the same s...

More sales > More money > More people hearing your music You must have attended, like, school or something? Nah ;-) seriously - The uprising against Beatport is inevitable i guess, their prices have always been over the top, it's always astounded me how popular they are, horrible flash interface et...

MF Doom gunna hunt you down for using that artist name.....blasphemy imo

The etching is NUTS!

It's all part and parcel of a combination of Dubstep being thrust into the limelight along with the increase in piracy. It's very "quick" for labels to supply their release to iTunes nowadays, so when majors are supplying the radio with their upcoming release they'll also supply it to iTun...

Possibly worse than Chemical Records' attempts at T-Shirt design......GTFO

Sort of....
In the iTunes chart anyway:

Morale of that story is not to let the French handle manufacturing