quoted 10 lines Astralwerks and Caroline are in the same building and owned by the same>Astralwerks and Caroline are in the same building and owned by the same
>people but their not the same company. One is a label, one a distributor
>simple as that. Warp going through Caroline is in no way the same thing as
>Warp via Astralwerks. Warp will maintain all their own decisions as to what
>they put out, what sales expectations they have for it, how much they want
>to spend. Caroline simply put records in the stores, it's up to the label
>and artist to sell them at that point. We (Ninja Tune) are through Caroline
>(for 4 years now) and when was the last time you heard of us having anything
>to do with Astralwerks. As for Photek and U-Ziq...if you don't like their
>new records blame them not Astralwerks.
i think this last part is by far the most overlooked aspect of comparing a
"label" to an "artist". labels tend to have similar sounds, since the
people who run the label tend to have a certain taste. they sign artists,
the artists make music that the label likes, and a label is supposedly good
when they say "we like your things, please give us more to release", and
supposedly bad when they say "make something like this, cos it sells."
i do know that astralwerks has a strong hand in what they release,
especially now. in an interview with mike paradinas in one of the local
papers here, during the vibert/muziq tour, paradinas said that royal
astronomy was less hectic and more melodic than his previous work because
astralwerks asked for "less of the crazy drums, people don't like it as
much." which explains why "full sunken breaks" is a lot more hectic and
noise-oriented.
but even then, it's still the artist making the music; they could just as
well stall, change pseudonyms, make cheese, etc, to do what they
want. regardless of how much astralwerks or any other label says "make
music like this", it's still the artist handing the tracks over.
labels release music; artists make music.
cheers,
/derek
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