Being positive doesn't necessarily mean say YES to everything and I guess you've already noticed that this has never been (and will never be) the case here at IDMW.com.

We've launched this site with the firm intention to provide the things we believe in with the widest exposure we may generate, not only in terms of content or conception but also while securing partnership deals with other websites throughout the world. In other words, we've done nothing but giving birth to a medium which, although only 7 months old, has gained the attention of nearly 80,000 visitors so far with a current average amount of 7,000 read pages per day. Obviously, it's still not enough, judging by the difficulties we sometimes face in our search to get the raw material !

You wouldn't imagine while getting your regular updates from a week / a day to another on this side of the screen how harder it has become hard nowadays to do our job. Leaving messages on answering machines or dropping e-mails that would get no reactions. Meeting enthusiastic people at the time who promise you the moon with not a single thing at the end of the day leaving you on the obligation to do their jobs, should you want to achieve yours… Such an ironical situation from a scene whose survival is a day to day fight. A scene that, instead of opening itself to the outside, has progressively huddled up to reach a critical level today.

As a matter of fact, today's situation is no surprising, while having a simple look how the things have evolved along the years. Those happy days that saw some of the most talented people being touted by the majors are no more than souvenirs on the collective memory, as well as that DIY spirit that would give birth both to house and techno. Instant consumption society has got even stronger in the meantime, inducing people to adapt their behaviour in consequence, with some of them selling their souls for quick earnings while the ones that reminding true to who they are would have to set up litteral systems of survival in the wait of better days. Not to mention the free downloads and the current recession which have hit structures already fragile and the inflation on international shipping rates making them occasionnaly more expensive than the gross price of the good (the record) itself ! It now makes itself clear that the vinyl has become a luxury product as are perfumes, jewels, fast running cars and the likes and it's hard to see any reason why this would change, with the progressive arrival of new technologies and the dematerialization of format via the use of mp3 files.

Got a recent mail from some promoter abroad which is quite explicit about how the French market may be considered as compared to the British one for instance that was saying that, "to work promowise, the labels he represents need to sell more copies in France !" This, like we say over here, being some reminder of the history of the snake eating its tail, if not of those words from A Guy Called Gerald a few years ago : "You Give, you receive…"