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The release and (1) .......... chart-topping success of "Your Woman" by one-man project White Town in 1997 demonstrated conclusively that it was possible to write, record and achieve commercial acclaim as a musical (2) .......... industry. Working with an 18-track recorder in his (3) .......... room in Derby, Jyoti Mishra produced the track and played it to his girlfriend, who urged him to share it more widely. Unable to afford more than five copies, he sent one to BBC Radio One, which began airing it immediately; it rapidly became the most requested song of the week. As a direct result, Mishra (4) .......... a record deal with EMI, and upon its commercial release the single went straight to number one. Mishra (5) .......... declined to appear in a promotional video or on British television, yet the song still shifted 165,000 copies in its opening week.
Since the (6) .......... of affordable, high-performance home computers, domestic music recording has evolved into both a widespread hobby and a legitimate outlet for (7) .......... producers seeking a route into the industry. The prohibitive cost of professional studios is no longer the barrier it once was. (8) .......... , with the right home setup, a handful of instruments and a considerable investment of time, talent and drive, the next breakthrough record could originate anywhere.