[5 Aug 2010 | No Comment | 87 views]
We’ve got a new Friend!

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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[12 Aug 2010 | No Comment | 10 views]

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 …

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[24 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 183 views]

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!)

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[29 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 593 views]

… 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 …