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All Crews - Point Of Sale
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Jho Oakley: "I absolutely love record shops. I think they’re the coolest places on the planet."
The growth of music piracy is global. A reporter on the BBC World Service describes how it affects even a small African country like Malawi, whose artists’ music makes a large contribution to its economy. "If they don’t get paid, they can’t make music."
Crissy Criss feels piracy’s double-edged sword. "People are losing money. MP3s get lost on someone’s computer; finds its way onto the Internet and people download it. When people got my track I was like, 'Na. What ya doin’?' But obviously it means they’re downloading it ‘cause they like your music."
Boogie Times in Romford has closed. Black Market, sorry BM Soho [provider of Clubbing UK's D&B Charts], are still up, fighting, but struggling through difficult times. The ground floor House department is feeling the pinch, as their scene is dominated by the CD culture. Copyright problems forced Black Market to change its name to BM Soho, though one can be forgiven for still calling them Black Market. Black Market was and is the Mecca. Take care when buying tunes from the web site that you go to www.BM-Soho.com otherwise your cash might not go to the people you most want it to.
Though there seems to be problems with vinyl sales, Jho disagrees. "I always speak to distributors when I’m doing press for our tunes. And they’re all saying that vinyl sales haven’t gone away. If anything there’s more labels. If you add up all those labels, how different is that overall figure going to be?" He’s not depressed about high street shops’ future. "I absolutely love record shops. I think they’re the coolest places on the planate. On iTunes you don’t get that experience of talking about something you love. The guys [and girls] behind the counters are as obsessive as you are." But shops have been closing. "It’s a real shame it’s happening but you have to adapt."
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Words: Bryan Belle-Fortune
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