From 9-5SuperSpy Sent Fri, Nov 27th 1998, 21:03
From 9-5SuperSpy Sent Fri, Nov 27th 1998, 21:03
I released Loeaine as a limited edition of 500 for a few reasons. The original concept for this compilation was to make CD-R's for the amount of people that pledged during the kuci fund drive. After investigating the price of having a hundred or so CD-R's duplicated, we were pretty close to doing a real pressing at the standard minimum order of 500 CD's. So I figured, what the fuck? Whyt not just do a real pressing for the same amount of money? The original plan for the tracks was going to be one CD full of live performances on my show. After realizing the difficulties involved in releasing live stuff (poor sound quality, licensing nightmares frim released tracks, artists' lack of desire to release substandard tracks) I decided to just ask musicians that had been on my show or that I had arranged to play on ROTPG. I asked about twice as many artists as I thought I could use, because I expected alot of them to not come through. The only people I asked that couldn't come through were Electric Skychurch, (who can't for legal reasons due to thier moonshine troubles), Taylor (who didn't have a track and didn't have time to record one by the deadline), Symbiosis (who had just finished an album and didn't have any other material), and Ben Neill (who had also just finished an album, and his manager wouldn't let him do an unreleased track). In order to fit everyone's tracks, I had to do 2 CD's, and I still turned down a few submissions for various reasons. When I was making release forms, I put in the contract that we'd only make 500 copies, along with clauses that said they weren't entering a contract with uci and that they retained all publishing and ownership rights. 500 was all I could afford at the time, and this project was already much bigger than I had originally intended. At the time, a limited edition of 500 2 cd sets seemed like a whole lot, but in retrospect, I would have been wiser to release one CD without calling it a limited edition, print a thousand of them on color artwork, and just sell them to distributors, repressing as needed. But that in mind, I still think a hand numbered, limited edition double cd benefit comp on semi-translucent paper is a pretty cool way to start a label. Maybe someday if Peach really takes off then it will be a sought-after collectors item. -Daniel xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx ICQ# 16654223 ============================================================================== Peach Space Disco For Fish Tacos PO Box 1902 8-10pm Wednesdays, KUCI 88.9fm Huntington Beach, CA 92647 www.peachfuzz.net/space www.peachfuzz.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coming Soon - Sterile: Orange County's Intelligent Electronic Monthly www.peachfuzz.net/sterile ============================================================================== "It's only funny if somone gets hurt" - Tom McLean