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It's somewhat more difficult running a netlabel now, as bandcamp/soundcloud weren't really as accessible/easy to use a few years ago. For me, especially nowadays, I like having releases on a separate server outside of the big sites, just incase. I'm not really a fan of netlabels which are just a bandcamp page - what's the point? Have the music on bandcamp as well, of course, but solely relying on a third party site seems risky and silly, to me. For the artist - the more sites music can be accessed, the merrier.

However, back in the day I was never too keen on artists releasing the same thing on multiple netlabels, especially as most of the time it would have been on two chip labels, which always seemed pointless to me. If it was a chip label, and something completely different, then maybe I would have felt differently. CDKr is all but dead nowadays - I message a few peeps every now and then, and if it works out, it works out.

However, a label that carefully selects their releases, issues them in a timely manner (not ALL THE RELEASES ALL THE TIME) and maybe has a consistent theme/idea/aesthetic with their choice of releases is always welcome. With some labels, when a new release comes out, you know it's worth a listen.

CDKr was always free releases, so money was never an issue. If all a label is doing is running a bandcamp page and posting social media updates, then why should they get a cut of the revenue? At the very least, it should be known to the buyer what the deal is. If a label is risking their money putting out physical releases, then obviously that's a whole different ball game.

I'm not too keen on being forced to pay for a release (obviously that's a personal opinion - demoscene/warez mentality?), but of course I understand why artists would do that, especially as some musicians are coming close to working on music full-time, which is fantastic. I'm a big fan of "pay what you want", I'm more likely to buy a digital release if I *can* download it for free, funnily enough.

My physical chip collection is p cool, and I'm always looking for MORE, so physical releases are king. I prefer tapes/records, or even home-made CDs. I'm not a fan of those single-press copy/paste sites for CDs, they seem a little too easy, if that makes sense. A little customised cheap-o CD-R is more fun than those "enter your jpeg, enter your wav files, job done" CDs.

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