Leading independent dance label MS2N fired another nail in vinyl’s fast fading future this week, in a harshly worded statement announcing they’re switching to digital download distribution only for all future releases.

“The price of vinyl is just too high and we’ve decided to pay our artists instead of the many middle men that get rich in the process,” said label boss Dave Elkabas in a statement.

“Distributors, pressing plants, printers, couriers, packers, shrink-wrappers etc have all been taking a cut out of the artist pie for too long,” he added.

The MS2N chief said his label’s new business model will make music more accessible �?both geographically and demographically’ and said artists will receive more for each sale despite buyers paying �?drastically reduced prices’.

“You don’t have to have a big old analogue record player to make buying our music relevant” Dave added.

Berlin based electro-tech producer and label owner Alex Boys Noize Ridha chatted to Skrufff about the issue last week and revealed he remains nostalgically committed to vinyl.

“I use CDs of course as well when I DJ because they have more options and effects but I love to buy records still. I still release on vinyl with my label too,” said Alex.

“I’m very, very sad about that fact that vinyl is dying and the only vinyl lovers left are nerds and people like you and me.”