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From:
Erkki Rautio
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Date:
Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:12:35 +0300 (EET DST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) Downpour, Drop Beat, Panacea and the obscurity of American labels
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[Talk about US labels snipped]
quoted 2 lines I guess I have this vague feeling that it'll always be this way. And I'm> I guess I have this vague feeling that it'll always be this way. And I'm > not quite sure why. I could point to Sahko's raised presence above water,
Well, it's funny, and I've whined about this before, but Sähkö (Sahko for all you non-umlaut people) are not really "prophets in their own country". Here in Finland virtually no-one knows them, but they've been lucky to get some international coverage, some distribution and word-of-mouth, but all it needed was to get out of their own country to get someone to actually acknowledge them. Because (sorry about this in advance) generally, PEOPLE IN FINLAND DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK (whew, had to get this off my heart...). So, if you come from some middle-of-nowhere place like this, don't depend on your "own" people to support you. Get contacts (places like this list and Net in general are good for that), try to work the distribution, send promos to all the "right" people and so on, is all I can say... Here's my inflation 0.05... transmission from the pHinnWeb Bunker over, ekku the maintainer of pHinnWeb - everything u ever wanted to know about Finnish electronica scene but were too afraid of the reindeer trerra@uta.fi | http://www.uta.fi/~trerra | http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb