Phantom Channel
44,653 listeners (257,369 plays)
These are troubled times.
You don’t have to be an economist, nor Thom Yorke or even Guy Hands to spot it. Open a newspaper, turn on the radio, read a blog: there it is in front of you in numbers and in quotes and in column inches. The music industry is in ‘crisis’, the music industry is in ‘freefall’, the music industry is in ‘turmoil’. Sales are down and piracy is up. These are troubled times.
Sift through the detritus, the revenue models, the Daily Mail freebies and all the rest. The recurrent theme is quantity. Quantity, quantity, quantity. This is a quantity driven industry and always has been.
But what if the emphasis were to shift? A different focus, free of the financial shackles of quantity. Replace ‘quantity’ with ‘quality’ and how does that change things? Surely the words ‘industry’ and ‘art’ are utterly incongruous?
Phantom Channel was conceived and born in January 2008 as an opportunity to explore just that topic, quality.
We have no wider reaching agenda beyond presenting music that we love by artists that inspire us. It’s a simple plan, there is no financial agenda binding us to volume orientated decisions, just a desire to be sonically stirred, challenged, excited and stimulated. And how!
Perhaps the most wonderful discovery that’s come about from the birth of Phantom Channel, is just how many breathtaking, exciting and creatively dextrous artists there are out there, operating under the music press radar in studios and bedrooms across the world.
You don’t have to be an economist, nor Thom Yorke or even Guy Hands to spot it. Open a newspaper, turn on the radio, read a blog: there it is in front of you in numbers and in quotes and in column inches. The music industry is in ‘crisis’, the music industry is in ‘freefall’, the music industry is in ‘turmoil’. Sales are down and piracy is up. These are troubled times.
Sift through the detritus, the revenue models, the Daily Mail freebies and all the rest. The recurrent theme is quantity. Quantity, quantity, quantity. This is a quantity driven industry and always has been.
But what if the emphasis were to shift? A different focus, free of the financial shackles of quantity. Replace ‘quantity’ with ‘quality’ and how does that change things? Surely the words ‘industry’ and ‘art’ are utterly incongruous?
Phantom Channel was conceived and born in January 2008 as an opportunity to explore just that topic, quality.
We have no wider reaching agenda beyond presenting music that we love by artists that inspire us. It’s a simple plan, there is no financial agenda binding us to volume orientated decisions, just a desire to be sonically stirred, challenged, excited and stimulated. And how!
Perhaps the most wonderful discovery that’s come about from the birth of Phantom Channel, is just how many breathtaking, exciting and creatively dextrous artists there are out there, operating under the music press radar in studios and bedrooms across the world.
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Before I Let The Sunshine Rot
Ian Hawgood
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Lamenter
Sleeping Me Buy- Download Album
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Shouts
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wfkroll Very nice dream tones.
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mtallen The Mosca track is badass. I want more!
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mosca-music i concur - yay!
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SYL2Oh w0w, That nice work chased !D
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micky67 yay indeed!!
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cm1974 yay!
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Events
- May 25 Sankeys Ibiza Opening Fiesta - Part 2 Sankeys Ibiza, Playa d’en Bossa Ibiza, Spain
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May
26
Capital Bass w/ Mosca & Dubbel Dutch
Solyanka, Москва, Moscow, Russian Federation
6 going
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Jun
14
Glade Festival 2012
Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
14 going
9 shouts
Recent Activity
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liftmuziek wrote about Phantom Channel in Headphone Commute's Best of 2010. January 2011
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liftmuziek wrote about Phantom Channel in a deleted journal. January 2011
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liftmuziek wrote about Phantom Channel in Headphone Commute Reviews (April). April 2010
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muhmood connected Phantom Channel to the group Experimental Music Society. March 2009
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A deleted user connected Phantom Channel to the group Scottish Electronic Artists - S.E.A.. January 2009
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Journals (11)
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Sleeping Me - 'Lamenter' (PHCH010) -- Free Download @ The Phantom Channel Label
by micky67 |
30 Jul 2009
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Sleeping Me - 'Lamenter' (PHCH010) -- Free Download
by micky67 |
30 Jul 2009
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PHCH008 - 'Konntinent - If I Could Buy A Map of Hope - Vol 2'
by micky67 |
6 Apr 2009
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PHCH007 - Eyes Flutter Beneath - Inside The Dream Laboratory
by micky67 |
2 Feb 2009
