From Hrvatski Sent Fri, Apr 2nd 1999, 06:33
From Hrvatski Sent Fri, Apr 2nd 1999, 06:33
>I dunno, my understanding is that Sunny Day Real Estate was supposed to >save them from this supposed "extinction" as well. Sorry, I honestly don't >read Billboard that much, though I try to keep up with the industry as a >whole. It would seem I'm not doing a great job, though. So what's the word >on Matador, then? I'm a little bit bothered by the sudden signing of >dozens of acts over there, and the seeming shift to a totally different >sound. There's pretty much no signing at all @ Matador. It's 99% licensing. No fuss, no mess. Just a one time payment & subsequent acquisition of territorial rights. Clean & easy. The only 'new' (as in non-released elsewhere previously or simultaneously) thing was the Khan, 'I-800-Get-Khan' release which, frankly, boggles the mind as to why they'd dole out even pressing costs to further Khan's cause. Don't get me wrong, the guy's like a saint to me musically, but he's got a stranglehold on like 20 labels already, does he really need the marketing prowess of Matador to 'make' him? And what's going to make the Matador release any different from the ones that come out respectively the week before and after it? Are Matador really aware of whay he's up to other than Temple/El Turco Loco/related NYC-based activity? I found it a bit confounding that on the Burger/Ink one sheets they were touting Wolfgang as a Basic Channel recording artist, that seems like a MAJOR oversight, kind of gave me the chills a bit & made me look for other motives for releasing that record besides Gerard et.al's love of the music (I can't seem to find any though...). They've always been releasing these strange head scratcher projects (remember 'New York EYE & Ear Control'? Borbetomagus & Rudolph Grey tracks?), but 'Nightmares on Wax'? (the first track is that SAME track they've put on every compilation & record they've had so far, VERISON III) .It seems even dodgy for Warp to put that record out, nonetheless to have it licensed in the US by probably one of the largest functioning indies here... Is a new Sunny Day Real Estate album going to relieve Sub Pop from economic stress? Are they that popular? and more importantly have their fans jumped ship to other musics in their absence? Just curious, I know little about them. I thought the J&MC record would have been a MUCH bigger deal & it tanked most splendidly... -Våt np- Mantronix - The Best of 1985-1999 (Virgin). Completely rude... Essential. ____________________ Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge PO BOX 382864. Cambridge, MA 02238 http://www.tiac.net/users/sheket/index.html