I'd say the indie success of XL or Domino will be hard to replicate. It's just a different time. Dirty Hit might be one to add to the list, while only founded in 2009.
I'd say the indie success of XL or Domino will be hard to replicate. It's just a different time. Dirty Hit might be one to add to the list, while only founded in 2009.
Yeah Dirty Hit would definitely be on there. I think the only reason I didn't mention them (again, full disclosure: they're an MU client!) is because they were partnered with Universal for a good while, which purists might argue means they're not a 'true' indie. Frankly though I think the term 'indie' is increasingly worthless these days because so many have some kind of dotted line to a major (e.g. PIAS being 49% owned by Universal - so does that mean anything they handle isn't indie? And so on...)
Yeah it's very unclear today what 'indie' means. Ingrooves, who is Dirty Hit's current distributor I believe, is owned by UMG as well. With The Orchard owned by Sony, those 'real' indies have become rare. (Shoutouts to Idol.)
Oh god yes when you get into distro there's barely any that are truly indie. Hence all the kerfuffle about RAYE winning her Brit award - some places were making much of her being on an indie label when in reality she still goes via The Orchard (I think) such that it still amounts to a win for Sony too. Messy, no question!
I'd say the indie success of XL or Domino will be hard to replicate. It's just a different time. Dirty Hit might be one to add to the list, while only founded in 2009.
Yeah Dirty Hit would definitely be on there. I think the only reason I didn't mention them (again, full disclosure: they're an MU client!) is because they were partnered with Universal for a good while, which purists might argue means they're not a 'true' indie. Frankly though I think the term 'indie' is increasingly worthless these days because so many have some kind of dotted line to a major (e.g. PIAS being 49% owned by Universal - so does that mean anything they handle isn't indie? And so on...)
Yeah it's very unclear today what 'indie' means. Ingrooves, who is Dirty Hit's current distributor I believe, is owned by UMG as well. With The Orchard owned by Sony, those 'real' indies have become rare. (Shoutouts to Idol.)
Oh god yes when you get into distro there's barely any that are truly indie. Hence all the kerfuffle about RAYE winning her Brit award - some places were making much of her being on an indie label when in reality she still goes via The Orchard (I think) such that it still amounts to a win for Sony too. Messy, no question!