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from Mr BRETT & Friends - THE DANCE PEOPLE
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Mr BRETT - Touched [h_s_remodel] 9:30 Preview: MP3 - 128 kbps (1:00, 944 KB) |
This remix was originally almost 11 minutes long and ended with a several minute long fade out. Upon its initial submission to the digital distributor, Mr BRETT (a close friend of mine) informed me that the length of the track disqualified the project it was to be included on from being an "EP." Instead, the project would have to be classified as an "album," which costs more to submit than an "EP." The only solution was to bring the track under 10 minutes.
Annoyed, I replaced the fade out with a sudden "glitch" (intended to mimic the frequent sound of total system crashes when working with audio software in Mac OS 9) at approximately 9:20, leaving the last 30 or so seconds as complete silence until the track's end at exactly 9:59. When Brett submitted the EP with this new version of the remix, the digital distributor's "quality control department" detected the silence in my remix, flagged it as some sort of violation, and pulled the entire EP just before it was to go live on streaming and digital download platforms.
Angry and embarrassed at all the trouble the digital distributor was causing my friend on my behalf, I tucked my tail between my legs and just cut the silent portion altogether, which the digital distributor happily accepted without further protest.
This entire situation did nothing but validate the critique of online media platforms I've engaged in since releasing "semi" earlier in 2021. Every issue the digital distributor posed was completely and utterly arbitrary. One track longer than 10 minutes instantly transforms an "EP" into an "album?" The digital distributor is not actually concerned with the semantics of commercial music release. Their level of concern is only to the extent to which they can use it to suck small "indie" artists dry. And don't even get me started on their "quality control department."
Had it not been for the fact that this wasn't my own release, I would've fought harder to, at the very least, preserve the silence in the 9:59 version. But to avoid further inconvenience to my friend (and, despite the changes I was forced to make, I was pleased with the remix), I relented.
- Hunter Spencer, January 2023