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BRIAN DAMAGE, Toronto, Canada
“Music industry” is an oxymoron, says Damage. “The soul is not for sale.”
A Canadian musician who, as Hypnotic Melody, in the mid-to-late 90s wrote a collection of songs in MOD S3M open source formats using the free MSDOS software applications Scream Tracker 3, FastTracker 2, and DigiTrakker, he says he’s been involved in several module music release groups in Toronto, including AToMIC, Mazurka, and VSL, as well as guest pieces for other groups.
“My earliest musical influences were 80’s synth pop and rock,” he says. “Though I’d classify my first songs as techno I’d never heard techno music before. My later music was inspired very much by fellow trackers (bObby, Skaven, Purple Motion, Keith303, Mental Floss, Basehead) as well as commercial producers (Underworld, Josh Wink, The Orb, Altern8).”
He’s been giving this music away since, “and it’s been played on radio stations in BC and Ontario and has been featured in some projects like homebrew games and the free internet television show (about movie piracy) The Scene,” he says. But the only compensation he’s ever asked is for his name to be listed in the credits.
Click here for MOD S3M downloads. Click here for MP3s.
Below are three free mp3 tunes. I kind of like The Morning After. Reminds me of my misspent youth, maybe? heh. Drowning in Acid isn’t bad either. Same same ;p
- Drowning in Acid
- Mellow Floor (composed with Genocide)
- The Morning After
What does Damage think of the current online music scene?
” ‘Music industry’ has always been an oxymoron because if anything on this Earth is priceless, it’s the human soul,” he says, going on:
The only reason the music industry has ever been profitable is because of the relative difficulty of reproducing their product. This all changed with the proliferation of the internet, just like the Great Wall of China met its obsolescence with the advent of the tank and the aeroplane. As humanity steadily and irreversibly evolves we collectively find the impossible becoming possible, and the insurmountable becoming insignificant.
The insurmountable gaps between human bodies has been made all but insignificant thanks to our greatest achievement, the internet. Our physical realm is rapidly becoming digitized while tangible objects become luxuries. This is why music in the 21st century is absolutely worthless from a business standpoint.
Artists’ efforts at stifling evolution are little more than a pothole on the highway – people simply steer around it.
There are some artists who provide tangible benefits to owning albums by including a book or autograph or beautiful design. These are tactile luxuries that are pleasurable to own, cannot be duplicated, cost someone money for materials, ergo artists are justified in requesting compensation. Other artists demand compensation for easily duplicated digital representations of their creations. Such artists are spinning their wheels. Bits belong to no one.
Me? I invite you to consume and copy my creations for free. Please enjoy.
For more insights into my opinion of the music industry feel free to check out my essay on the topic -
Cheers!
Jon
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July 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Good music.
August 4th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I like The Morning After; it’s nice and soothing. I might use Mellow Floor as a ringtone.