When transitioning cultures, music can play an important function. The place communities of musicians do still exist, they tend to be more various and quick-lived, such as the group that coalesced around Approach Out West, a DIY club evening in west London that peaked round 2007 with gigs by Jamie T, Noah and the Whale, Mystery Jets and Laura Marling.

As beforehand talked about, the Dutch office of the American Warner Music determined a while in the past to end its involvement with local repertory and to serve only as the local sales office for music from abroad, primarily from the United States.

In the long run, this course of can lead to the withering away of an important cultural apply, in that a whole sector of cultural activity — one consisting of musicians taking part in music, performing stay in live performance, being recorded by an area music trade …