Although living – or shall I say surviving ? -  has probably never been so hard than in those disturbed times for most of us here, I betcha none of us would imagine himself having another kind of existence. And you know why ? Because, we simply have found a sense to our lives as opposed to a vaste majority of people. Sure, we sometimes find it difficult to pay the bills, but there's nothing like what we're living. Nothing like vibing for doing what we do. Nothing like freedom…

As you probably all know – and if you doubt it, then I would humbly suggest you to reconsider the whole thing – there's a price to pay for everything… And even more when deciding to do your own stuff against all ods, starting with the current globalization process of our societies. A process which tends to abort all signs of personality in favour of things supposedly reputed to fit the tastes of the biggest amount of people at the same time… So the choice is quite simple. Either, you end up going into the latest while jumping on the wagon with the potential risk of losing your own foudaments, unless it's a deliberate choice of yours. Either, you keep on doing your sh.. with no assurance of seing your work recognized on a wide scale but the certitude of remaining who you deeply are. In such a case, chances to see you feeling isolated on your own environment are great. Not to mention the fact that you're not even sure to make yourself a decent way of living moneywise. Then you'll have to count on some serious agenda, either knowing people at the right position, either prgressively making it on your own. But one thing's for sure : you'd rarely achieve anything like this on your strict own. And it's exactly where the problem stands nowadays, with the DJ's taking the musicians'seats on the dancefloor with the launching of the first clubs then the producers'ones on the process of purveying music right after the death of disco some 25 years ago. People who, for many of them, tend to sort of find hard sharing the spotlights with anyone else after such a long period spent on their own devices to make their niches on the circuit…

This said, each situation reaches its limits one day or another, leaving of us whatever we may do in the obligation to reach a new level. With the DJ's now wearing different hats from production and eventually become musicians themselves to the business side of the things while launching their companies, it has become clear that they hardly can keep on dealing with everything alone anymore. Not to mention the fact that they have to establish partnerships in order to maximize the visibility of what they're into due to the lack of mass media support. This is no doubt a question of survival as it's probably the biggest challenge we may all have to face. And when I say WE, I mean the whole scene : DJ's, labels, specialised record stores, dedicated press, having in mind the obligation which is ours to support each member of the community, thus providing it with the necessary incomes to its survival if not growth preferably.

Here again, it's nothing but a question of self conscience. United we (oughtta) stand. Isolated when not divided, we're gonna die… MFSB