Network23 | CreationForge Independent Music

In a time where dance music and parties were being recognised worldwide for their appeal, the corporations of the world set about devising ways to rid the partygoers of their wages forever. While creating "safe" festivals featuring only "selected" artists and diffusing music through "legal channels" , the side effect was to bring about the removal of basic civil liberties like "freedom of assembly" such as we endure today.

The underground dance musician had no choice but to follow in the footsteps of previous generations of alternative artists: attempt fame, sign their lives away for a stipend, start their own label only to be indebted to by a distributor for so long they eventually collapse: in short become a part of the very machine they attempted to escape, leading to the inability to express their ideas because of dictation of sales, and necessity to appeal to the lowest common denominator to keep any hope of food on the table.