From Alex Reynolds Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 14:24
From Alex Reynolds Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 14:24
It seems I am again way out of line in regards to the nothing/warp issue. Thanks to Greg Eden for permission to repost his replies: >From: xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx (greg) >To: Alex Reynolds <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxx.xxx> >Subject: Re: to whom it may concern >Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:52:55 GMT >Organization: Reasonable > >hello alex, > >what secret track? :) > >erm. well yes we (& Autechre) were obviously a bit annoyed that Nothing >couldn't >include the track on the us release and to their credit so were they. >unfortunately in the good ol u s of a someone has patented the track 0 process >of hiding tracks which meant nothing couldn't include the track as per the >warp >release. there was no way that track could just be slapped on the end of the >release, autechre didn't want that and neither did we. simple reason. no >conspiracy. > >american record companies work under all kinds of ridiculous legal >restrictions >- basically because you live in such an amusingly (from a british point of >view) >litigous society. this is why nothing (and sire and matador for that matter) >versions of warp releases differ slightly sometimes. they always strive to >make >their releases as identical as possible within those legal parameters. > >there have been a lot of people knocking nothing over their warp releases and >whilst there are some problems (non-simultaneous releases and awful stickering >on the front of albums) - what you have to remember is that for years and >years >no one would license warp albums for release in the us. nothing had the >guts to >license our music when no one else would - so it grates a bit when people >bitch >about them. i don't care about nothing's past history or the other music they >release, if they put warp music on the shelves at domestic prices in america >then they are doing their job. there will be difference between the releases >though - it's inevitable. > >it's very hard to arrange a simultaneous world wide release. different >companies >need different lead times, have different release windows. it's hard. it's >something we're trying to improve. > >and hey you made us wait for starwars :) > >greg. > >ps. i am not the 'CEO' of warp. warp does not have a 'CEO'. we have two >directors and several large fluorescent teddy bears. > > >::greg >::www.warprecords.com >From: xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx (greg) >To: Alex Reynolds <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxx.xxx> >Subject: Re: to whom it may concern >Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:09:55 GMT >Organization: Reasonable > >...i might add actually that someone might think it a bit rich >americans complaining about lack of extra tracks after they've had bonus >tracks >galore for years from us and other labels. nobody says thanks when we include >those :)... > > >::greg >::www.warprecords.com Alex Reynolds / Biology IT Support SAS Computing University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 V +1 215 573.2818 F +1 215 898.8780 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~reynolda/