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Beardyman: I recently downloaded the entire Aphex Twin back catalogue. I've been listening to loads of King Crimson and I've been listening to lots of Squarepusher. I just eat up music. There is so much music out there. I was having this debate with Norman Jay the other day about whether or not dubstep is girl friendly. He thinks it's fundamentally techy. It's not as uplifting as a lot of stuff. I don't know....I suppose it depends...

ILM: What are your thoughts on the illegal download debate?

Beardyman: Personally I think music is a market like any other. The interesting thing that distinguishes it, is that these days, for the first time since music was in it's uncomplicated, primal form, we've got it to the stage where it's been taken back to the people. The means of production is now owned by the people and not a series of oligarchical nob-ends.

I think there is going to be a levelling out. A complete market re-adjustment that is going to need to happen. I think record companies are trying to prevent it from happening, but at the end of the day it is technology that changes the world. Because we are able to make music without having to rent out a massive studio, and we're able to distribute music without having to go through these really expensive marketing and distribution channels, that actually means that these massive record companies that dictate taste exist purely for their own purposes.
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