Mike Skinner has spoken on the collapse of his record label.
Skinner, whose The Streets are safely signed to Warner offshoot 679 recordings, was forced to watch as The Beats faltered and then finally passed on last month.
Home to artists like the quite decent Professor Green, the mediocre Mitchell Brothers and the atrocious Example, The Beats even had its own funeral, held by Skinner on the 19th of December.
“It just comes down to the fact that the traditional record label is dead,” Skinner explained to NME.COM.
“The Beats represents me growing up. Spectating was more nerve-wracking than performing.”
He announced his intention to delve into the world of online labels; a feat Drowned in Sound just undertook in line with a few others over at RCRDLBL.com.
“What I’m doing now is looking for the thing you can create that embraces the next generation… I’m really into what you can do online and I’d rather be at the centre of it.”
The centre of this?
Video: Speak the Hungarian Rapper ( “It's not meant to be a joke!!!!!” )
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"The traditional record label is dead"
Funny, because in both sales and quality terms The Beats was stillborn.
“the traditional record label is dead”
no, traditional piss poor vanity labels are dead. hurrah!
i can't believe
i replied in the wrong place.
i'm going to killer myself :'(
Wow
Well done on finding the Hip Hop Hasselhof!!!
Sometiiiiiiiiiimes perople fight a war...What's it for?
Business.
so
no more example
that's a shame - such a goon
can someone please tell me
what the video has to do with the story. Such a funny video though. loltastic
who cares
it's all about the keychange
good old speak
yeeh, cmon.
you can't rap and
you're from fullllllllllllllllhaaaaam.
that RCRDLBL site is great!
.
I'm amazed
that Speak managed to get Chris De Burgh in the vid (1:20)
Come on. Cheah!
Don't make war. Yeee. Come on. Yee, that's right.
Surely it would have lived if he had been signed to it?
I had an
online label 7 years ago and i'm an absolute biffter. Certainly not the future by any stretch of the imagination.