Music suffering from GDS

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Artists that suffer from GDS, choose to bypass all Gatekeepers and distribute directly to the public. If you are an artist you’re probably thinking: Yeah I have a right to skip Gatekeepers and go straight to the consumer.
To understand how this disease is ravaging the industry and why artists NEED Gatekeepers, let me give you some examples of whom some the Gatekeepers are

The Mixtape Solution

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Selling mix CDs as the product served as a gateway for those non-DJs without talent to get a name for themselves upon the backs of known artists and even worse on the backs of those REAL DJs up-holding the title of “DJ”.