From IndieRevolt Sent Fri, Jan 30th 1998, 17:34
From IndieRevolt Sent Fri, Jan 30th 1998, 17:34
> - with the techno market being in the rut it is there should maybe be a > forum for labels to bump heads rather than bump egos and then bump sales at > this point in time. n.a. is far from europe is far from asia etc. There > is virtually no internationally marketing for most of the independants. > distributors simply cannot take the risk. in PERFECT COMPETITION we would > plan together as a group. since last year these Major label guys have > tried to monopolize the retail channels that indies find difficult to > access. The adverse trickle down effect is that the independant > distributors and labels are losing not "riding the wave" as the major > labels and their Media attack would like everyone to beleive. > > If these major corporation didnt saturate OUR independant market (the one > belonging to the consumers and the ind. producers) then we would not be > struggling right know for a) retail shelf space b) the consumers attention > and c) distributor wholsale price floors. In our newsletter this month: > ________________ > "1) The year started off with problems collecting last years accounts > receivable from distributers. After talking with the independant > distributers i realized that this last "Electronic-ha" > craze had hurt the independant distributors of underground electronic > music. It seems that many small labels are suffering. I think that most of > us forcasted this but We cannot let "the ship" sink. > > Discussing 1998 for Techno/electronic music with the Larger distributors > only > brought to my dismay their demand to bring onto the label "bigger artists". > I hold strong in any forum that the music and artists on the label from > the Regions we represent is strong if not stronger than these other > "bigger > artists" which were prefabed to saturate the mass consumer market. I stand > my ground to say that "We as a collective of innovative > artists deserve as much attention and recognition as "big" artists. We are > inovators and not immitators. Those "famous" acts are "acts" and have and > still do misrepresent us to the masses. they are also giving us a bad > image. > ______________ > > > > > > > > >