In article <199404051811.AA25267@rigel.oac.uci.edu> you write:
quoted 8 lines It seems as if Rising High is going down the drain. They've had some good>It seems as if Rising High is going down the drain. They've had some good
>releases lately, but they've all been from the same people (Syzygy, FLF,
>Cybertrax/Influx/James Bernard). I guess they lost the licensing deal with
>Harthouse, and it looks like they'll lose it with FAX. I talked to someone
>who went record shopping with Mixmaster Morris up in SF, and I guess the album's
>finished, but it's not coming out on Rising High. He wouldn't tell who's
>releasing it. My guess is that it's not FAX, because the release would be
>too limited.
Rising High has always been a bit lacking in its own signings. The
better artists always seem to move on quite quickly, although they're
apparently better payers than many. Now the majors have decided that
ambient techno is to be The Next Big Thing and started waving their
cheque books around they'll probably find it tougher still to keep
artists. Rising High happened to be in the right place at the right
time to licence some good German stuff, but many of those labels are
now either capable of doing it themselves (Fax now have a UK
distribution deal) or have shacked up with a major (Harthouse now have
a UK subsiduary run with WEA). I don't know if they can find some other
cluster of interesting techno somewhere in the world - Uraguay perhaps?