They may be still there, but i’ve stopped paying the publishing company so they will probably be gone soon. There are several reasons for this
1: It kinda goes against why i’m writing music to sell it. The reason i did it in the first place was to get a small amount of publicity by saying “hey, i got albums on sale” whereapon people would go “ooh posh”. But in principle i believe that my music should be enjoyed without having to fork out cash, so it will be permenantly available for free here on the website.
2: The RIAA in the ultimate move of stupidity fined someone an unbelievable sum of £1.9 million for downloading/sharing 24 tracks. That was outrageous, had they been sharing entire archives I could agree but this sounds like someone just left Bittorrent on a little too long. Even though the RIAA and any record company have nothing to do with my music, I still feel i can distance myself from the outdated music business that still exists.
3: Giving music away to people is much more satisfying than selling it. I don’t really get any statistics on who’s downloading what or how i fare in people’s minds. But the music is there and free for anyone to use as they wish. Except claim as they’re own, but I trust people not to do that. So feel free to distribute/remix/play these tracks as you wish.
Work on new tracks is on hold until i can find a good audio recorder that will link with Reason. I’d love to use Adobe Audition but lacks the support sadly (unless i’m missing something). I may go with Reaper but nothing will be totally satisfactory until Record comes out in september. I’ve been playing with the demo and it’s damn good…
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