Alec Empire Interview 2002 - "Ooh I'm crying, my girlfriend left me, it's raining" Full Interview, Click Here ALEC EMPIRE INTERVIEW 7/10/2002 As the founder of DHR, would you encourage other people in bands to start their own record label? I think there are a lot of people doing their own labels already, and most people don’t realise that it is hard work. Seriously, you are working ALL the time. I don’t know if I would say that every band should do their own record labels, what I see is that is that a lot of people that I know who own labels, don’t find the time anymore to work on their own music. On the other side I think it’s the best way to keep the control. That is the reason we’ve done it. We knew we couldn’t get our music out there the way we wanted it because labels would’ve forced us to change, or manipulated it in some ways. So by setting up dhr we avoided that, but you have to do it full time otherwise your wasting
