In a message dated 11/5/99 4:03:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
david@evolutiontech.com writes:
<< > Those bastards. I was all psyched to hear tonight's show.. and from
what I
> saw, the Warp10.x Realaudio page for the last two days didn't say anything
> about not broadcasting tonight. Very disappointing. But I guess with the
> high sound quality of RealAudio, people could easily download the
> Autechre/BoC/Aphex show and live out the rest of their lives in the lap of
> luxury, selling bootlegged copies of it and running Warp out of
> business. That's almost as bad as people trading obscure, out-of-print
> Autechre remixes in mp3.
i think what that means is that warp will issue the damn thing on cd at
some point. just sit & wait, i guess. >>
Well, on one hand it's extremely humorous, seeing as Warp is
really making a value judgement on how good its artists are (it's
okay for you to hear new Broadcast or Plone, but there's no
way you get to hear new Boards of Canada), and on the other
hand I think it's another example of how Warp jealously hoards
the fact that they have a good deal of the "best" IDM artists. They
release reportedly excellent AFX material as a cassette only
for employees, they have the rights to BoC's entire back catalog
and do nothing with it, they don't release Peel Sessions until a slew
of CDR's gets them angry enough to do it, etc. etc. Meanwhile they
punish us with atrocious releases like "Maximum Priest" or more from
Jimi Tenor, Slum, John Callaghan, et al. Okay, so BoC are playing new
tracks. Does that mean a single person on this list isn't going to
buy the album? "Well, I've got some of it in Real Audio." AFX is DJing.
Maybe he'll play records that are too cool for us. Just another overt
example of what Warp thinks of their supporters. Even if they planned to
release these shows on disc, which seems unlikely, I still don't think
the short-term availability of Real Audio would stop people from picking
it up. Frankly, I'm surprised they even sold tickets to these shows.
But anyway, who cares, there is so much other good music out
there that Autechre and the Boards just don't seem that important.
The more music I hear the less I appreciate Autechre, although I
still think the Boards do the melodic electronic thing as well as anyone.
Hopefully Warp won't snag up anybody else, or it's all totally fucked.
So nobody on this list went to the Warp 3 party? Haven't heard anything
yet. Or is everyone still laying dormant after the blinding strobe lights?
Matt
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