From multsanta Sent Mon, Mar 30th 1998, 02:42
From multsanta Sent Mon, Mar 30th 1998, 02:42
"Arthur B. Purvis" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx> writes: >I was thinking about this $250 lego feet fiasco a bit. Now, we've heard all the >reasons why Skam and V/vm etc don't keep stuff in print. But I really don't understand >why there is any reason in such extreme cases to do so. Why? two words - venture >capital. in concept, i can see where you're coming from, but you have to think about it from the perspective of the labels. If you're v/vm and you've been doing loads of great tracks, and have 'em lying around on dats in your bedroom.. you've got just about enough dough together to press up another record. WHY would you want to rerelease tracks that are two/three years old when you can put out brand spankin new material?? I mean, look at Skam, they have at least a half dozen releases scheduled (freeform, bola, gescom remixes, pbo, takeshi, while, andre estermann, etc.) and even now it's unlikely that we'll see much of this material for months. Why would they further delay the schedule by investing the time and money it would take to repress lego feet?? AFAIK, Mask 3 has been pressed up for a few months, and it still hasn't seen release (and it doesn't help that skam's been dropped from RTM... err.. now vital) I'm sure that the artists WANT this music to be heard, but they can't possibly afford it. Take, for example, Rephlex, a couple years ago, the Joyrexes and Indicators were only pressed up in limited #s.. Why do you think it took so long? Now that phlex has enough money, they can afford to repress them (well, compile them for cd release...) as for you (or anyone, for that matter) putting up the money for a lego feet/vvm repress... I say GO FOR IT. of course, you'd probably have to contact 'em about it first.. ;-) there's my rant__mlt [np-future primative soundsession vol. 1-cut chemist/shortkut] _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]