Re: (313) New Burnt Freidmann album on Scape label...

From cognition
Sent Wed, Jan 12th 2000, 01:58

Seth wrote:

> At 12:17 AM -0500 1/11/00, Lance @ Inaudible wrote:
> >(snip) My only complaint is the length of this album which clocks
> >in at just of 36 minutes. But for that short period of time, Just
> >Landed is a deep groovy head-bobbing journey. Scape continues
> >to impress.
>
> Actually, the real release will have one additional track, bringing the
> total length to over 40 minutes. Apparently, a release does not qualify as
> an album unless it exceeds 40 minutes (in Germany, at least, according to
> GEMA). This affects royalties and pricing somehow.
>
> I remember back in the day when a good rock n roll album could be 32
> minutes! These days it's all about quantity, not quality.

***kim cascone talks about this (he calls it "container anxiety") in the
interview
with him posted recently on cognition: http://techno.ca/cognition  talked
about
this with kit clayton recently too, but can't remember if it made it into the
final versions (text and RA) on the iste. thanks. andrew duke

> This electronic
> stuff is just too darn easy to make!
>
> Seth

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