Album releases can be a tricky thing in this technological day and age. Anyone with knowledge and access to the finished product can secretly upload the album to a file sharing website and BOOM! All that hard work is shared on the internet for everyone to download with just a few keystrokes.
After the leak occurred, Gooch along with his partners at Bittorrent, decided to move up the official release date and get the promotion for it started.
In a reddit AMA, Jon Gooch (Spor) responded to questions about the leak and his views on the D&B genre as a whole.
“I anticipated this happening, no matter how hard I worked to prevent it. As a result, we were fully prepared, and the full release of my album Caligo will launch in about 17 minutes, hence beginning this AMA a little early (also this is getting busy).
It’s important to be pragmatic. In the end, I’m more so flattered that people are interested. I read your sticky and appreciate the angle; essentially it’s the ideal response to the situation. I only wish more people showed that level compassion and emotional intelligence regarding peoples work.
How do I feel? Seeing a good few people saying they were prepared to wait it out, and showing some feeling towards it leaking really is flattering, so a huge thank you to all those people. It’s impossible not to be really attached to something you’ve worked on for so long, I really do appreciate the unity. That said – I’m not one to dwell, and I’ve got the best team and management in the world, as well as BitTorrent fully behind us, so it’s also been humbling watching them all react so quickly.”
While the album is available online to download, it is a “pay what you want” album and we should all seriously consider supporting Spor and his album, rather than give in to the ease of online downloading. Take a listen to the full album on Soundcloud below.
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