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JSEO@us.oracle.com wrote:
quoted 7 lines Somewhat unrelated, but Zenon's emails reminded me of what LTJ Bukem said
>Somewhat unrelated, but Zenon's emails reminded me of what LTJ Bukem said
>about the Black Dog - how they used to put out great stuff when they first
>started out and were "really" underground - and how there was no more soul in
>their music once they became slightly more mainstream, i.e. (Bukem seemed to
>imply) they were signed to a slightly more visible label (could he mean...
>Warp?). Imagine what a bag full of dogfart they'd put out if they were signed
>to Geffen instead of Warp, eh? I don't think so.
I don't think so either , Bukem lost a lot of respect with his move
in uk distribution from the people who have supported him over the
last 3 years to one of the biggestcompanies in the uk , presumably
to get his product into the chain stores , he willnow have the pressure
of having to conform to somebody else's deadlines,salestargets etc , I
think musically as well the style he has pioneered has hit a dead end,every
half wit under the sun is now putting half arsed breakbeats on their tracks.
The number of releases we hear a week with 'tired breaks' is rising all the time.
As for his Black Dog comment, anybody who knows what Ken
Downie & co. have done , will have a good laugh at that , Black Dog did it on
their own terms,period!
quoted 3 lines Question:
>Question:
>There are three singles coming up from the Headz 2 comp on MoWax. Are the
>tracks on the 3 EPs on the comp itself? i.e. are they worth buying?
3 singles coming out are:
headz techno -
urban tribe - covert action (aka carl craig/sherard ingram)
reissue of old retroactive track
lo fi sensibilities - covert feaver (aka steve paton/4th wave)
headz hip hop-
zimbabwe legit - doin damage (dj shadow mix)
dj krush - kemuri (pt.2)
headz drum n bass-
peshay - the real thing
dillinja - in the mood
street date ( supposidly) 16.09.96
Are they worth buying is a different question , it would be better
if Lavelle picked up some unknown artists instead of simply flashing
his cheque book about , I find myself sceptical of the proliferation
of remix releases , it seems to herald the 'advent of the jaded
elementz'.
The current mo wax releases might bring the artists to
attention of people who simply would not otherwise have heard
their material , but there are scores of labels who just get ignnored
in the meantime , buying product just because it is on a certain
label is still the rule of the thumb these days - point in case Mark
Broom's Sympletic release on Warp , if the same music had
been on Ifach,Pure Plastic it would have sold a tenth of what the
Warp release has , it must be hard for these small labels to be
endlessly doing the groundwork for somebody else to cash in on.
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