FUTURE
ICON RECORDS wants to change things. Until now, almost everything people
hear and see has been based on American folk and English pop. We will
concentrate on other folk (mostly East European) and the pop it produces. We will
take only bands and film directors who want to do something different. They might
be 80 year old village musicians from Senegal, a 32 piece U.S. Army Surplus
Munitions Ensemble from Borneo, or a young Russian who wants to make a feature
length film using a pinhole camera and an Edison phonograph. It makes no
difference what kind of music or film as long as it's good, new and different
from the industry standard. We will put all of our equipment and time at the disposal
of the artists. It's done when the artists say it is. We will not get paid by
the hour.
This way of doing things will cut the expenses and red tape and we hope that the
artists will see fit to pass that on to the public by providing high quality
stuff for cheap.
We simply want to give the best a fair chance.
In
addition to using the Internet for distribution and publicity, we would like to
fill the previously unused portions of Audio CDs (usually about )
with Macintosh shareware. That wouldn't really hurt any of the Big Leaguers
because they will always be more concerned with big things that we don't care
about anyway. It would give the public even more of a choice though.
We are not above accepting contributions
and are grateful for any help anyone can offer, anything from equipment or money
to advice.
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