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>From: AeOtaku@aol.com [mailto:AeOtaku@aol.com]
>Subject: (idm) The Good Old Days (Quantified)
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>On another note, someone out there with connections and
>money: there is an extremely lucrative and ethically rewarding
>market for legitimate reissues. There have been a lot of people
>e-mailing me lamenting that these tracks we're speaking so
>highly of aren't available anymore. One person put it best when
>they said that it sucks to hear about the greatest IDM tracks to
>know he'll never get the chance to hear them. Hey, anybody in
>the UK, talk to B12, talk to Kirk, talk to Nuron, talk to Black Dog,
>get some clearance and make some nice discography CD's of
>old singles and reissue some albums and comps.
Its not going to happen for a number of reasons:
* Most of the artists concerned just aren't interested in re-visiting areas
they've already explored, both in terms of writing new material in that
style or releasing/re-releasing older tracks. If they did it, it would
probably only be if they were tempted with large amounts of money, which
would be unlikely to be made back purely from re-issues.
* Despite what you might say, the overall demand for it is NOT high, it is
not a lucrative thing to do. There might be quite a few IDM kids who would
buy it (lets guess a few hundred?) but there needs to be enough non-hardcore
fans (these are the people who buy the bulk of a release) to buy it and make
it worthwhile re-pressing.
* Some of this material has been re-released already (eg. ART stuff by New
Electronica). How many times can you do retrospective re-releases?
* This sound (Detroit influenced UK sound) is not 'current'. A lot of kids
on this list are probably wondering who the fuck B12 are and why (if they're
so good), they haven't appeared on a V/Vm compilation.
The only reason to re-issue deleted things like this is if demand (and I
mean general, overall demand, not just hardcore IDM demand) and interest
reaches a certain level AND most importantly if the artist wants to do it.
And the bulk of them don't want to. Its a shame but they have no interest in
visiting the past again.
However, some do - watch this space :)
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