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Amazing Media: Poised to lead the next British music invasion

CEOs of digital music startups often strive for diplomacy when it comes to talking about the major powers that control most of the world's music. Not Paul Campbell.

"Simon Cowell is Satan, and the major labels have become antique dealers," says Campbell, a 53-year-old former BBC TV and radio producer turned entrepreneur. "We don't touch the labels and never shall. The key is to cut yourself free from the labels."

Which is exactly what Campbell has done with his company, Amazing Media, and it's why he's having such success.

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Bandcamp: For cleaner music sites

Bandcamp is a relatively new service that independent music groups can use to post and sell their tracks.

Creator Ethan Diamond (formerly of OddPost, acquired by Yahoo), told me he created it for two reasons. First, he said, to give control and ownership of online music back to musicians--to end the "online sharecropping" you see on sites like MySpace and iMeem where the musicians don't have full ownership of their art. Second, to make it easy for bands to maintain their music sites and for fans to find, experience, and buy tracks that they like.

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