It would seem as though Lily Allen’s recent rantings about the struggles of young artists in the current music industry climate has struck a chord with other artists, in particularly German house maven Kris Menace, who spoke out this week about perils facing record labels.

“The music industry is fucked up,” the German don sneered. “Sales are gone. Anybody who says he sells a lot is a liar.”

Menace’s own success has boomed in the past few years thanks to his many hook-ups with French house masters Alan Braxe, Fred Falke and Lifelike, and also with his successful electro-meets-tech productions on his own imprint Work It Baby. Accordingly, Menace is amply qualified to discuss the health of the music business and his prognosis is uncompromisingly bleak.

“Tracks are here to promote artists nowadays,” he said, speaking to ITM’s roaming correspondent Skrufff. “Labels don’t really earn anything anymore, which makes it hard to help and develop new projects or artists,” he explained.

Whilst Menace didn’t point the finger directly at file sharing as Ms. Allen did, the German producer did detail how the mass proliferation of artistic material has left many out in the cold, robbing talented young artists of their shot at success.

“There is such a huge volume of releases every week and month and it’s hard to get attention,” he lamented. “I would say only a handful of people are able to make a good living if they’re outside the top 100.”

Quite the dire picture he’s painting isn’t it? Hopefully Menace doesn’t follow Lily’s footsteps too closely and end up throwing in the towel altogether.