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 200 Mega Bytes!!) 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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