Section 04 · 096–108 BPM
Records
Labels, releases and the business of getting music pressed, distributed and heard across a continent with no single centre.
- 096The Labels That Did the WorkThe small independents across Argentina, Colombia and Chile that built the cumbia digital catalogue — and what it cost to do it without infrastructure.
- 098The Cassette Never LeftIn a lot of the world, cassette is retro. In parts of Latin America, it never stopped being Tuesday.
- 104The Pressing Gap: Why South American Electronic Music Often Skips VinylThe economics of a 12-inch conspire against a label in Buenos Aires or São Paulo in ways they simply do not against one in Berlin.
- 108Digital Distribution Changed Everything Except the Part That MattersStreaming and downloads removed the shipping cost. They did not remove the friction of being unknown.
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