It will definitely be interesting to see a showcase of tastemakers selected by Downlink, as many lovers and critics of electronic music often assume these guys are only into heavy dubstep.Įven though it’s about time Downlink - an artist with a lot of relative longevity - started up his own epithet, there are many who believe there is a definite oversaturation in the world of electronic music labels. “I’m not going to try to pigeonhole this thing in to being one specific sound, rather just focus on quality music that I believe in,” says Downlink. On top of all this, Downlink plans to put the spotlight on other artists and sounds he handpicks.

“The label share now goes directly in my own pocket, which in turn allows me to put that money right back into promotion.” Sounds like a win-win situation. “It’s nice to be able to manage your own promotion campaign,” says Downlink.

That being said, Downlink has finally started his own label, Uplink Audio.Īlthough Downlink’s music has been a mainstay on labels like Rottun, he has taken the plunge into managing his own releases. In the case of Downlink, who started his career around the same time as best buds Excision and Datsik, it seems especially strange, as Excision and Datsik have had Rottun and Firepower on the go respectively for quite some time now. Especially if that artist has been a constant on the Beatport charts since pretty much the inception of their career. The practice is so prevalent in “EDM” that it almost seems strange to meet an artist without one on the go. Ukraine's military has said some 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in combat.These days it seems like owning your own electronic music label is almost a rite of passage once a certain level of success is reached. Rudskoi said 1,351 Russian soldiers had died in the operation and 3,825 been injured. Russia did not rule out storming cities, he said, but as its military completed tasks 'our forces and resources will be concentrated on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbass.' Rudskoi said Russia's military had considered confining its operation just to Donbass but opted for extending across Ukraine to damage its military infrastructure and tie down forces so as to prevent them reinforcing the east. Ukraine says it is willing to negotiate an end to the war but will not surrender or bow to ultimatums. Russia has also said it will insist that Ukraine accept the loss of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014, and recognise as independent the Donbass, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian army for the past eight years. The West and Kyiv call that a false pretext to invade a democracy, saying his true goal was to topple the government.

President Vladimir Putin says Russian forces are on a special operation to demilitarise and 'denazify' Ukraine. 'I’d anticipated the possibility of a refocusing of effort back on Donbass, but while Putin rhetoric remains maximalist we need to see more evidence on the ground.' 'Their war aims are/were much wider than Donbass, leaving their force divided with poorly coordinated attacks on multiple fronts by unprepared troops,' the source said. Its forces have become bogged down and failed to take any major city since invading Ukraine from the north, east and south on Feb. A senior diplomatic source in Moscow described it as a face-saving move and possible prelude to a climb-down by Russia.

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