At 12:43 AM +0200 6/13/02, Peter Heide wrote:
quoted 12 lines 111 copies !!!
>111 copies !!!
>
>the first thing i will do if i'm able to get a copy of this.... IS to rip the cdr
>and upload it to this place : alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.electronica.
>
>next step : soulseek
>
>all this limited shit ....i hate it
>
>best
>
>pete
Becoz of stupid ideas as the one you do write here, most of the independant CD industry is getting done ! Do you know how many labels have gone bankrupcy recently, how most of the labels we do like are experiencing such difficulties they are limiting their next releases?
LIMITED is only a word and a number. Most of CD releases I'm buying are 500, 1000 even 2000 copies. No number on it but this is quite limited number for artists willing to produce music and live on their practice.
If we may do today more and more limited editions, it' s fuck not for the rarety of it BUT because we do like to produce the music of relatives and friends, but stupid people do prefer the shit of MP3s instead to support a network of music activities which goes from composers getting label supportin composition, live gigs and releases production .
Then a number is a number.
I've been producing Cds last years which are for most still at home. The CD company I do work with will soon produce Cds only over a 500 copies.
With Cdr series, I can produce the right amount I do want and I do get rid of most of them. No money is made, but the object exist, the music is spread out, and musicians do own a finished project to ask for fundings and gigs.
few years back, Atom Heart produced on DEl Haze entertainment a LIMITED edition CD of 1 copie ONLY. First frustrated, I then imagine the guy holding it, and it remained me of all these freaks buying contemporary art paintings for.... Why not ? Everything brings its opposite. The so-called democratization of the Internet is destroying an independant industry that will have to develop new ways to exist.
Continue to rip off Cds, load them on the web, listen to live gig through miserable real player, and then do complaint about no good music coming out, no live gigs in your stupid town anymore !
ERIC
ERIC MATTSON
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