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Welcome to Music Week's DIY Issue. Over the next 10 pages, we will examine the implications of one of the key developments of 2005, the most significant back-to-basics movement since the late Seventies. We talk to artists, managers and executives about this DIY explosion, ask what has driven the shift and examine what it means for the future.
When music historians of the future look back on the new millennium, the three letters "DIY"--along with "manufactured pop"--will be hard to avoid. The words "Arctic" and "Monkeys" will probably lurk close by as, with even Madonna cutting her best album in years from a west London bedroom, 2005 looks like a watershed year in ...