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From:
Dave Walker
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Date:
4 Mar 96 07:46:22 -0500
Subject:
Why no promos... (Re: (idm) not The whole AFX bootleg issue...)
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Jasonosaj said: :When I was doing my radio show I tried a million times to get on the :promo lists of some of these companies and was told 'we dont provide :promotional material to radio, even non-commercial radio'...As if they :made the stuff of life at their company. As a result of those policies I :was unable to provide a lot of new music to listeners who aould have been :reached and promted to buy the stuff retail...etc etc... When you're pressing 100-2000 copies of something for a specialist audience (i.e. mostly DJs, who primarily buy things word of mouth anyway) promoing to radio stations is pointless. It adds a whole new layer of f*cking with shipping, keeping track of requests, and the leeches who just grab every promo that comes into the station and immediately sell it to the record shop around the corner. WEA can handle this, Sakho can't. (just to pick a couple of companies out of the air) I'm not trying to diss college DJs here (I have quite a few friends who spin radio shows), but you asked... on now: Dean & DeLuca _Chapter One_ track a2 [funky as _hell_] - d.w. m5 m5 m5 m5...