audiobulb is still alive and kicking
and from a roster of 15 people - i had only met one of them when we started
out
i have now had the privaledge of meeting 5!
the ideas was always to get artists from diff corners of the world &
therefore develop a set of sounds that had similarities - but cultural
differences add to interesting artistic differences....
it is an important point though.... please support the labels you like
through purchases when you can.... we often sell CDs at a much lower price
than shops or the majors..... the more you support - the more a label like
audiobulb and others can develop - take risks - try new things and bring on
new artists..... personally i would hate the dynamics of having to release
the music of a "mate" - you lose perspective and objectivity.... you have to
put out what you love - because the music moves you....
david @ audiobulb
www.audiobulb.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Strom" <rick@glowdot.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:41 AM
Subject: [idm] why small labels die
quoted 71 lines anyone thought about there being a connection between
>>> anyone thought about there being a connection between
>>> mp3 downloading and inability (by labels) to sale
>>> physical product ?
>
> I'm really surprised no one has pointed out that a lot of these dying
> labels have absolutely horrid business sense, and in many cases had become
> so incestuous it was ridiculous. Hardly an album pressed and offered up
> for sale anymore isn't by the label owner or one of his former
> schoolmates.
>
> I had typed up a long analysis for this list of the current state of
> things, back around August or so, but I ended up just sending it off to a
> friend instead. But among the things I griped about were a number of the
> labels we expect to bring us great music we'd probably not otherwise be
> privy to instead delivering the masturbatory crap they or their friends
> put together. Simultaneously, I saw an audience who had fallen into the
> same label-lust that the old big labels used to profit from endlessly, and
> still do I suppose. Discussion on this list and elsewhere seldom involved
> an artist who wasn't released on one of those precious labels, even though
> the artists who couldn't get a Merck or Neo Ouija or Skam or certainly
> Warp to hear them were doing great great stuff.
>
> What I predicted was that at some point it would have to give. At some
> point, the audience would get tired of it, and the labels, too swolen with
> "god damn we're k3wl" ego would fail to adjust.
>
> Want to hear that new XX Records release? Fuck it, their last 5 sucked,
> I'll download it first. Why take a chance?
>
> That's not a very clever prediction. That's exactly what happened with
> Big Music, just on a much smaller scale.
>
> Have a listen to some of the netradio you know about. Sistrum System has
> gotten really, _really_ good lately, and it didn't surprise me to see that
> something like 95% of the playlist is coming from netlabels -- free music
> that couldn't, for whatever reason, find a label to get behind it. Even
> the Russian music is blowing away the officially released stuff. Russian
> music! Who would have guessed? Cliqhop has been great too, too. Glowdot
> is the only one playing the label shit, and its old stuff, and even then
> that's only because I haven't updated it in 6 months, maybe more. There
> just hasn't been anything of interest to me. And the netlabel stuff is
> out there for download, so why stream it really? (especially when Systrum
> is doing such a good job).
>
> The short point is, I guess, let's not fall into that "mp3 killed..."
> excuse. Its no more true of idm than it was of Brittney Spears. If you
> feel like the labels are putting out quality albums, you want to support
> it. You buy it. I always have. If its shit, though....
>
> I'm just done paying for so-and-so's friend's new album. No more.
>
> (I am sad to see Merck go, though)
>
> --
> V,
> ~Rick Strom
> Glowdot Productions
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