Quite ironical, the way things tend to go nowadays as far as the promotion is concerned regarding an industry  - or should I say a niche !!! – (I mean of course the house music scene) which, on one hand, claims its lack of exposure, although firmly attached to its affiliation to the underground and on the other, hardly honours its supposed obligations in regards to the very rare medias supporting it… So let me humbly ask you something pals : is this definitely what we have to expect from you as ? Are these to be taken as your good resolutions while entering this new year ? Who then do you think we are ?

I honestly have to say that I regularly feel fed up with the attitudes of some people having me wondering at times if it's really worth keeping on fighting the way we do when facing such a situation. You'd like me to make myself a bit more explicit ? No prob, as this is the privilege left to the independant to be able to express themselves freely.

I had quite a funny offer the other day. Someone came to me asking me a favour helping him to promote a new release while giving him a free ad on our site and you know what ? He wasn't even in the position of offering me to send any material for a review, leaving me in the obligation to buy a copy of the aforementioned at the record shop next door should I like to be able to provide you with the info… Something I could have been smiling if not laughing at on other circumstances, but this is far from being the only case. I just got offered 3 weeks before the privilege of buying some test pressing of a recent Swiss release by a UK promoter for £ 9.99 ! Was I dreaming ? Naaaaa ! Could I have been drunk then ? No way !!! Was it a dream ? Neither That's the way it f****** works folks… When you (our readers) honour us with your regular visits, expecting us to deliver the most acurate information as the most appropriate time, we spend our time and even more trying to get pics or complementary infos as illustrations to our writings on our very own and end up investing our money on a growing amount of records we do review for you. And I'm not even talking about our investments on new material, server and travels like when having us going abroad for some reports !

We're either said that we can't be served by UK promoters due to the fact that we're based in France and that's about the same regarding some French promoters due to the fact that they concentrate their efforts abroad. As for the Japanese labels and the US ones now the shpping costs have become totally insane, unless in the will to sponsor the post office… We've started with an English written version that we've completed with a French one last September, then what shall we do now ? A Croatian one ??? Have you – our readers – with some pay per view area on our site in order to keep on being informed ? Or having us selling our souls and go mainstream ?

Such a system can't survive for sure when working as a sort of one way street with the same ones taking advantages out of the same others. It's nothing but an elementary principle of life. And for sure, we, at IDMW.Com will be placed one day or another in the obligation to find approriate measures to survive, in or out, within or without the house scene… MFSB