House music on its way out

Have you heard the latest Hed Kandi compilation, the "disco" one...

What they did is remixing last year's hits electro style.

I almost fell for it, I'm digging electro a lot lately.

Hed Kandi are recycling last year's "categorized as house" records and repackaging them with an electro sound, whether we like that or not proves one thing. House will be dead soon.

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Don't believe the charts

One man I know in the music industry confirmed me something I long suspected. Charts are and can be manipulated by the record labels.

It goes like this, a new record comes out, the record label (or the artists crew) goes out and buy thousands of copies then sell them.

I often wondered how come a brand new cd (and a good one) would land on Amazon's Marketplace as used in such short amount of time like 3 days after it was released.

So next time you see a headline that says such and such artists has sold 50 000 copies in the first week, take some and leave some.

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