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Wilder handles his vision on today's shifting music market and the position of the artist in this. Originally intended to be an interview, it quickly turned into a small essay in which Wilder touches the volume war, the effect of excessive compression, the download spiral, alternative ways to release music, the birth of the fan powered release of the limited enhanced single 'Prey'/'Allelujah' in Russia, Mute Records, Depeche Mode, and much more.

<a href="http://www.side-line.com/interviews_comments.php?id=29640_0_16_0_C">Link to open letter from Alan Wilder</a>

All the best,
eighties

Thanks. Nice article.

"In fact the best way to get your music heard is through a TV advertisement."

Yeah, two groups I picked up on from adverts were
Hooverphonic: Renaissance Affair was on some VW Bug commercial
Telepopmusik: Breathe was on a Mitsubishi car commercial


"why not also produce higher resolution audio - maybe on DVD since that's a format most people can engage with without having to buy new equipment?"

Totally agree with this. Even just two channel PCM, it would be an improvement over CD-DA. But of course, people would cry that it should be 5.1, since it is on DVD, and not buy the disc. Shame that DVDPlus and DualDiscs never took off.


Holy cow, they're not kidding that this is a long article. I've been reading for about ten minutes, and not even half done.

Before DVDPlus and DualDiscs, there were two OTHER DVD-based audio formats, SACD (Super Audio CD) and DVD-A (DVD-audio).
Both formats offered the option of super-high resolution stereo audio and/or 5.1 surround mixes.

High resolution consumer audio products were offered to the consumer, and the consumer rejected both formats, preferring the ease and convenience (and price) of crappy sounding MP3s over the quality of SACD or DVD-A.

The proletariats have spoken,

Smart guy, that Wilder. Pity that DM lost him.

[i]> Before DVDPlus and DualDiscs, there were two OTHER DVD-based audio formats, SACD (Super Audio CD) and DVD-A (DVD-audio).
Both formats offered the option of super-high resolution stereo audio and/or 5.1 surround mixes.[/i]

Yeah, but SACD requires a special player to get better than CD-DA quality, and DVD-A isn't "backwards compatible" with CD-DA.

Shame that only a few companies (such as Pioneer) who made DVD players made them SACD compatible. And of course, Sony, in all their greatness, didn't feel like supporting their own format on their BR-D players.


[i]> Smart guy, that Wilder. Pity that DM lost him.[/i]

I wonder if he'll ever go back to working with DM again. No more fucking rock n roll DM.

[quote][i]Originally posted by obs[/i]
<br>I wonder if he'll ever go back to working with DM again. No more fucking rock n roll DM.[/quote]

Highly doubtful. As the most accomplished musician among them there was always a bit of tension supposedly mostly between he and Gore. Plus, the Mode have a strict democratic policy in terms of pay. They all get an equal share. Wilder believed that each should get paid according to their contribution. Never gonna happen.