Re: (idm) Nothing to release a bunch of Warp stuff

From Greg Clow
Sent Thu, Oct 1st 1998, 03:21

> > >         A friend of mine who works at a local record shop gave me some
> > > interesting news today.  He received a fax from Nothing (and/or their
> > > distributor, Caroline--sorry can't remember which) which stated that
> > > next Tuesday (10/6)  they will be releasing the follow titles: 
> > > 
> > >         Plaid: Not For Threes
> > >         Autechre: lp5
> > >         Squarepusher: Big Loada (with xtra tracks--from Port Rhombus and Vic
> > > Acid, according to Warp-Net)
> > >         Squarepusher: Music Is Rotted One Note
>
> hmmm... is this *really* true? the new squarepusher released in the US
> before its UK release? sounds *way* too good to be true.

I've gotten confirmation that the first three listed above are indeed
being released by Nothing next Tuesday, the 6th, and are being distributed
to Caroline. "Music..." will be following on Oct 13th, the day after the
UK release. Also dist. via Caroline.

No involvement from Interscope/Universal at all, it seems. This, of
course, leads to the usual IDM conspiracy theory speculation that all of
the delays on these releases have had to do with Interscope, not Nothing,
and perhaps this new Nothing/Caroline deal will see a lot more cool shit
finally coming out.


Greg