Greetings All Skinny Puppy Fans
Riz (Neotropic) is on tour for the next month, so I've taken it upon
myself to respond to the barrage of abusive e-mails she has forwarded me
(see response from Riz below). Could someone please forward this to
whatever the original source was (ie. Skinny Puppy fan list, web site,
etc...).
It's sad that in this age of easily accessed media information people
still believe everything they read. I'm the president of Ninja Tune's
North American office and was present at the interview with the Montreal
Mirror. At no time did Riz refer to Skinny Puppy as dull. The actual
quote was in response to the question 'How did the Skinny Puppy Remix
come about?'. Riz (Neotropic) response was...
'Nettwerk originally asked for an Amon Tobin remix. He wasn't available
so Ninja Tune suggested me. They had only heard my track on Ninja Cuts
and thought it was dull, therefore I really had to prove myself with the
mix'
Unfortunatly this was taken out of context and turned around to look like
she called Skinny Puppy dull. The Montreal Mirror has admitted this was
there mistake and are printing a retraction in next weeks issue.
Riz is a big Skinny Puppy fan. She is also an incredible nice person, and
obviously gets quite upset when tons of people e-mail her calling her a
'whore', 'cunt', 'talentless bitch, etc... or threatening her.
I suppose the main thing here is that even if she had called them 'dull',
it's not exactly grounds for abusive e-mails. We don't sit here and send
death-threats to anyone who's ever slagged off a Ninja Tune release. It's
just music...fuckin' relax.
Love
Jeff Waye
Ninja Tune / NTone Records
e-mail from Riz to me follows...
hey jeff
i attached a few angry letters from skinny puppy fans and am a tad upset
with the mirror as they have totally destroyed the interview and
made me out to be this big shot...i want some kind of an apology if not to
their fans but to netwerk records as he has no regard for my feelings and
not only that he has mis quoted me, i never would ever say an artist is
dull, i feel that maybe we shoudl let netwerk no of my sadness of this
piece and do not want them to think badly of me.....i really enjopyed
doing
the mixes and felt extremely privilged to do it.....i'm sorry for my anger
but it has upset me particulary when you read what peopl now think of me
and i feel i will never be able to work with the paper again, and also
feel
he has totally disregarded my feeling and reputation as neotropic please
can you foword this onto him and the emails that i had to read......
thanks
best rizx