He has released two sets of recordings ‘Bedroom Data Bank Vols I, II, III and IV’ and the sets of recordings are available for free on his website:http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/
I did download the first package, and the songs did not do anything for me, and I don’t know if the other volumes are in the same vein but I did not continue.
But the topic is not about his music but about the fact that the Vol II is not available anymore, and this is what was posted on Friday:
‘Apparently Sony Music Owns my bedroom. Feel free to call or email and let them know what you think. I can understand them requesting for me to remove a cover but the only one I can imagine that happening with is Dylan. Which was on Vol. 1. Which was not deleted. I am re-uploading the files now. I’ll put new links in the posts.
The file Atlas_Sound_Bedroom_Databank_Vol_2.zip identified by the key (17q0oya5mkx84ow) has been deleted by Sony Music Entertainment on November 26, 2010 at 12:44pm.’
He has re-uploaded the files on Friday, and at the time I checked, they were still available but I wonder what was all this about. The artist cannot distribute his music freely? Music he recorded at home? He is not even on a label.
I have no idea why Sony deleted only Volume II and let the other ones, but big labels like Sony should understand that big corporations are over, artists will make their music more and more directly available on their website, and they will not need them anymore!
I was talking to a friend who is in the music business and he gave me another statistics showing that big labels should really worry about their future as only 5% of the young generation is paying for digital music! He said all big companies will be smaller and smaller soon. So Sony big cats can still surf the web and delete all the files they want, it’s almost over for them.