The control of the music industry, and unfortunately as an effect, music itself, has been usurped. It is no longer about art but instead commercial business.

Look at the difference in styles of music from the 40’s and the 50’s. Now do the same for the 50’s and the 60’s, the 60’s and the 70’s, the 70’s and the 80’s and the 80’s and the 90’s. There are vast differences in musical style. There is vast progress. Now compare the music of the 90’s with today’s music as far as style. It is almost the same. Nothing fresh and new at all (with a few exceptions, granted). Everything is a conglomerate of primarily 90’s sounds with some 80’s samples thrown in here and there. The main difference is the nineties music had quality because at that time it was fresh and original.

Compare “I Alone” by Live from the mid 90’s and “Wasted Time” by Fuel or “Divorce” by Quicksand from ‘95 with “Never too Late” by Three Days Grace topping the charts today. Not at all like the stark stylistic difference between “Peggy Sue” by Buddy Holly from the 50’s and “Cold Sweat” by James Brown from the 60’s or “the Twist” by Chubby Checker from the 50’s and “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix from the 60’s. Compare “Jump” by Van Halen from the 80’s and “Black Hole Sun“ by Soundgarden from the 90‘s. Huge difference.

Most major label acts of today can barely stay on key when they sing and are digitally corrected after recordings. This is a fact. Even the notes that are on key are still pitch shifted to maintain “homogeny” in the tone. They want to make sure ALL of the notes are fake! It’s that bad, folks. Few write their own material and even fewer arrange it.

Reverse censorship is rife. You have to smut songs up, or at least dumb them down. They want it hardcore or punk, but not too much for a 13 year old to swallow. We certainly wouldn’t want people thinking about anything constructive, would we?

Even independent A&R groups like TAXI won’t submit material that isn’t arranged in one of 2 specific formats, being Verse, chorus, verse, or Verse, verse bridge. These are the most common and simplest musical formats possible besides droning repetition, yet they will try and convince an adventurous composer that they need to work on “learning” these arrangements, as if they were more advanced than a symphony. Yeah, they “advance” the chorus to the beginning of the song! What?!

TAXI is the independent A&R service! The guys who are supposed to help the little guys. Apparently they only want to help you conform. Businessmen, not music lovers, are running the music industry. It has always been this way to an extent but not so drastic as now. They are bringing music and creativity in the industry to the point of ruin.

The days of producers going to clubs and checking out artists to find the new sound and the ultra talent have been replaced by suits sitting at desks waiting for whoever has the most “professional” looking business kit presented by the most savvy yet complacent manager.

The business credo taught in our colleges since the 90’s “Never market anything that hasn’t been proven sellable” has created a pool of recyclement and an impassable wall for new creation to be heard. 13 year old girls buy the most albums and are thus the main target demographic for record companies to cater to.

What they don’t get is that in the 50’s they bought Elvis, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles and Chuck Berry, in the 60’s they bought the Doors, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, and Bob Dillon, in the 70’s they bought Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, the Eagles, Steve Miller, and Abba. These artists were some of the most creative of their time. 13 year old girls will buy whatever is out there, but the business man wants to think he is in control.

What this means is that the bulk of the music you listen to on the radio has been dumbed down to what a penguin and his team of sociologists and marketing executives think a 13 year old girl wants to hear and see. Life imitates art imitates life = everybody thinking like 13 year old girls or what a 45 year old suit thinks a 13 year old girl thinks like.

Smut, vanity, and empty brainwashing material have taken over. Something must be done.

Intervalkid Records is a new company that aims to promote the 10 bands featured on our current album project. We hope to sell enough CD's to accrue enough capitol to sign the willing bands, and any others that we may be able to contact, and effectively promote them. This will take time.

Intervalkid Records wants to give the artist 100% artistic control, free recording and mastering, and free reproduction and promotion, (therefore no cash advances to pay back and get the bands indebted to the company) 50-50 deals on sales and non-binding contracts (either party can opt out of the deal after the sales period is over i.e. all of the discs from the period of replication are sold.) This would allow for freedom for both the artist and the label. Intervalkid Records doesn’t want to produce trash yet we don't want to censor anyone either. This, if successful, God Willing, would change the music industry considerably.

Questions? Contact Adrian.

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