New music platforms come and go with the tides of time. Enough Records was built on the love of discovering and promoting new music, so we like to check out other platforms when we spot them, just to see if they’re any good or not and maybe get pleasantly surprised. One such platform, which we [...]
Was poking an indie artist on twitter, telling him it would be cool to release something from him through Enough Records if he’s interested. The answer was ‘What’s Enough?’ A perfectly valid question if you don’t know us. Which got me thinking of writing this article to sum it up nicely. Enough Records is a [...]
Our friends from Serein were recently tweeting about “unusual digital releases”, described as “not just a zip file of MP3s and JPEGs.” Well, packaging is important. At Enough we feel the zip with the mp3s and jpegs is still needed, even if you have the stream available or a different way to present the release. [...]
Another year is ending. We thought it would be nice to write some sort of activity report of what Enough Records has been doing on 2012, and what are our plans for 2013. A Decade of Enough Records Some of you might still remember how we got started, the death of Enough Radio and our [...]
This is a response to a recent article titled Speaking Free, written by my friend Dylan Orchard, on the uncertainty of the direction and focus of the netaudio scene. In respect to order and chaos A scene or movement is always a dynamic entity, it forms itself out of people with different backgrounds and interests [...]
‘To push into other audiences.’ Know your enemy In the final part of the Enough Records Manifesto series I’m pushing into what, to some, is the most contentious point of them all – ‘to push into other audiences’. As a general rule this one should garner fairly obvious approval – no one, no matter how [...]
‘To push into other models.’ There are half a dozen different ways to look at today’s point from the Enough Records Manifesto, whether you head in the direction of expanding netaudio into other structures and models of distribution, sharing and community; to create new sound structures under the aegis of absolute freedom offered by the [...]
First of all, hello everyone, as it’s my first post here, and hopefully ps won’t regret letting me touch the WordPress after reading it I’m maintaining Enough releases on Bandcamp, and as it’s coming slowly and painfully (converting mp3s to WAV, then uploading those huge uncompressed files takes about five hours per album – quite [...]
The next step in my often disrupted series on my interpretation of the Enough Records manifesto. At this rate I’m almost in danger of reaching the end within the year. — Pondering the present and the future are always, for obvious reasons, obvious facets of analysing and following the free music movement. With the chaotic [...]
It’s rare, these days, for me to pay real attention to Jamendo. Way back when I first tripped over free music I treated the place as a hub, the first check-in point whenever I felt like finding something new and for the most part it worked. An hour wading through the dross and I’d usually [...]