User:David Torres Montalvo/Independent music

Independent music(often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. The term indieis sometimes used to describe a genre (such as indie rock and indie pop), and as a genre term, "indie" may include music that is not independently produced, and many independent music artists do not fall into a single, defined musical style or genre and create self-published music that can be categorized into diverse genres. The term ‘indie’ or ‘independent music’ can be traced back to as early as the 1920s after it was first used to reference independent film companies but was later used as a term to classify an independent band or record producer.

Independent Music has two parts that are really important (and often found on the music world) one being the label that the artist is building around him which can be called Independent label and the artist himself. The independent label which is build from scratch by the artist or someone without the help of somebody else, is managed by that person and no one can question its decisions on release dates or any other management issue. And by other side the artist who creates the label or helps with it, he makes all the big moves because without the artist there is no label and he makes all the writing of songs and content so the label can promote it.

Independent Artist

“Indie artist”can mean a lot of things like being the one that distributes the content or the one paying a distributor to help the artist reach places they can’t reach with their product on their own. Making independent music and being an independent artist brings pros and cons such as, the monetary point of view which it’s something every artist looks for so they can get paid for writing, recording and publishing their song. When independent all monetary gain its yours and you can do whatever you like with it contrary to the monetary problem that are the Music Labels where you have to share all your gains. Another big problem are the release dates contrary to the monetary problem this one is even bigger if you are a part of a label cause they control when and in were you upload your content and being an independent artist or band brings you the liberty to choose where and where you want to put and release your music without having to ask for permission.

Independent Label

An Independent label is a record label that it’s not managed or funded by any of the mayor labels in the industry. The “Indie Labels” are mostly known by their hard work to get their product(music of their artist) heard and sometimes struggle to get to the next level and distribute that product so that many other people can hear it. Some Independent labels as of today still stay in the industry and are mayor labels and other have struggled and are not in the industry anymore. When you compare a Indi label to a Mayor (non independent) label you can see that in every mayor aspect the Mayor tops the Independent label but what many don’t know it’s that a lot of artists feel more comfy in the Independent label because mostly the independent label has there focus on only that artist and the Mayor labels have so many artists that their focus is not always going to be towards one artist.