COTTAGE INDUSTRIAL ‘bands’ disregard commercial constraints and expectations.
They are un-aspirational and reclusive experimental collectives and individuals that record and release their ‘emissions’ outside of the existent industry. They record in adversity making music out of whatever equipment is currently available – home made | do-it-yourself emissions.
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“There is a deliberate and perverse inversion of the standardised musical career ( --- ) These bands embrace obscurity and reject commodity. ( --- ) in doing so they undermine the very purpose of recorded music, being its distribution”Dr. Richard Dunston PHoBa |
MUSIC BECAUSE THEY SAY SO (an analysis of the Cottage Industrial music genre) |
Phon Phon publishing 2003
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“Daft fuckwits”
Pete Waterman | 2005 | attributed
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