"This dirty dated realm of microscopic labels, home recordings and music-by-post is something of an idyllic simulacrum of the mainstream. Drawing lines on a map between the labels, sellers, artists and distributors in question, it's possible to begin formulating something of an apolitical revision of the music industry's map, a Gall-Peters projection of a culture that – despite all this 'democratising' technology we hold in our hands – chiefly remains little more than a clone of the 20th century music industry model, albeit with a slightly longer digital tail. In the thriving analogue parallel world, all roads can lead anywhere, with London, Berlin and New York no more important than Nottinghamshire or Glasgow. A noise duo from Maine send music to get pressed in Dublin, a Viennese label release sprawling epic drones from Ireland, and it's still blessedly rare in the cassette-sphere to read those dreaded stale words: 'since moving to Brooklyn'. Without an ostensible centre stage, and diminishing barriers, we're all part of it - there are no outsiders."
The Quietus (Video)
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