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Announcing our new Revolver Digital Store, in collaboration with Friend For Music!
As part of our longstanding commitment to music, we have always been at the forefront of new developments in the industry.
Be it Direct Metal Mastering and releasing music on the (then-new) CD format in the 1980s or our support of the first mass market music services in the early 2000s. Today, we continue to release CDs and make increasing amounts of our catalogue available for instant purchase or via one of the many streaming services, satisfying the shifting customer demand we have witnessed over the past decade.
Like many other indie labels, we have no illusions as to the state of the music industry – whilst revenues began to decline in the 1990s, that decline has no doubt been accelerated by the widespread availability of copyrighted music via the Internet. For all the inches of copy, coverage and layoffs in the “Big Four” labels, it has directly hurt independent labels to a far greater extent. And not only that, but artists have felt the pinch too – for labels releasing new material, it’s more important than ever to preserve the integrity of a release prior to its full release whilst still offering promotional copies to radio stations, journalists and selected individuals.
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After the success of Justin’s debut album ‘Silvermoon’, Revolver’s pleased to present his follow-up single, Nothing Better – available right now on iTunes.
If you’ve not been keeping an eye on the news recently, you might have missed the announcement from EDC that they have decided to shut down their Blackburn manufacturing facility on the 31st of December this year. From then on, all of their manufacturing operations will be moved to EDC’s Hannover facilities. As one of the last remaining CD manufacturers with facilities actually located in the UK, this has come as sad news – not only for the Blackburn’s local economy and the company’s employees, but for the entire music industry in general.
Jack Straw, the Blackburn constituency MP, …
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After reading this article from Broadcast Magazine, it got us thinking:
Don’t demonise piracy, says IT Crowd creator
12 August, 2010 | By Ellie Broughton
Graham Linehan, the writer behind comedy The IT Crowd, has said the entertainment industry is gambling with its future by “ignoring or criminalising” the issue of piracy. Speaking at a debate on piracy last night, Linehan said the current response to online pirates was unrealistic and aggressive.
“It seems a bit like the big corporations are saying, ‘put down the gun or I’ll stab you’,” he said. “The discussion at the moment is not particularly …
Following on from our Gogoyoko deal earlier this year, we’re now pushing ahead with new agreements with MediaNet (suppliers to many of the highstreet digital stores and Tesco Digital, amongst others), HDTracks (a specialist vendor with a heavy focus on High Definition audio and 24bit/96kHz high resolution recordings) and LoudTrax – a rock and metal specialist. (Their list of subgenres is incredible!)
… We know. We’re too good to you people. “What,” we can hear you say, ‘Revolver Digital gives me free barcodes AND Free ISRCs AND doesn’t charge me to upload my music to iTunes?” Yep, you got it. We don’t charge for any of that good stuff.
If you went elsewhere, you might be out of pocket to the tune of almost £100 before you even got started if you requested those features with another company. Plus, how do you know that they won’t just take your money and run? Some companies even charge a yearly fee just for “storage and …
