Phantom Channel
8,856 listeners (66,026 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.
Top Albums
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Lamenter
Sleeping Me
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Before I Let The Sunshine Rot
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Shouts
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wfkroll wrote:
Very nice dream tones.
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mtallen wrote:
The Mosca track is badass. I want more!
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mosca-music wrote:
i concur - yay!
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SYL2Oh wrote:
w0w, That nice work chased !D
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micky67 wrote:
yay indeed!!
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cm1974 wrote:
yay!
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Recent Activity
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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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micky67 connected Phantom Channel to the group Phantom Channel. September 2008
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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 | Add comment
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Sleeping Me - 'Lamenter' (PHCH010) -- Free Download
by micky67 |
30 Jul 2009 | Add comment
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PHCH008 - 'Konntinent - If I Could Buy A Map of Hope - Vol 2'
by micky67 |
6 Apr 2009 | Add comment
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PHCH007 - Eyes Flutter Beneath - Inside The Dream Laboratory
by micky67 |
2 Feb 2009 | Add comment
