The internet has democratised music production and allowed us to have so much quality, self-published music that you'd never get in the past. Technology has ma

The internet has democratised music production and allowed us to have so much quality, self-published music that you'd never get in the past. Technology has made music production so much easier and higher quality than before. I don't know much about non-electronic music, but I reckon for under a grand you could set up a half decent recording studio in your garage, and it's so much easier with computers to mix and master tracks than it was in previous decades. I can find amazing techno tracks on Soundcloud and Beatport that are produced by some guy in his bedroom in Berlin that only a few hundred people in the world have also found. Just the other day I found a track on Soundcloud that was produced in Melbourne back in 1997 that only ever had a single release of a few hundred CDs. I managed to track down the producer on Facebook and get a high quality .wav download of it. There's no way that kind of obscure stuff would've found its way to me pre-internet.