<< I think he's relized that whatever he does people are going to buy it so he
can
drop the quality control and still make the fat bucks. Often times prolific
and quality
control don't seem to go hand in hand. Warp probably puts 10 demos a week
in the trash that knock the socks off of some of their bigger names output.>>
I'm far from being his biggest fan, but you call Mr Jenkinson financially
minded over my dead body. We are talking about a man who put his royalty
cheques in a shoebox under his bed and forgot about them. This is a man who
cares deeply about his music, and while you can critcise it if you like, it
is insulting to say that he is putting out tracks that he knows to be
substandard.
Maybe he's going through a bad patch: we know that he's capable of genius,
and will probably do something incredible in the future, so it's reasonable
that we tolerate this for the moment. Maybe he's right, and we'll be kicking
ourselves in five years for failing to appreciate the great albums of the
decade. Either way, it's hardly criminal that Warp haven't given him his
marching orders.
If there's stuff out there that Warp should be putting out, then thats fine:
there are dozens of other labels who should be equally happy to release it.
Failing that... welcome to the cyber age! Flog mp3s, or mail order cds. It
may not have the promotional budget of Warp, but hey, where did they start.
Besides, the chief advantage of a big label is that they can hawk more units.
And we don't want to be all financial do we?
Grrr
Jorkens
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