Few questions here (various topics):
1) Does anyone around here know of any reliable vinyl distributors for
experimental ambient/techno/IDM? I'm looking for a distributor who's
more interested in disseminating good music than making a quick buck
shuttling off formulaic 4-on-the-floor. I realize they have to make
money too, but this has been my experience of late: our main
distributors right now have sent back copies of our last two releases
saying they couldn't move the records; and when we talked to some NYC
record stores about sales and our next release (who deal with these
distributors and were awaiting news of our releases), they never even
knew those last two releases existed!!!! I'm afraid of being driven out
of business by unstable distribution rather than people not liking the
music -which I could at least understand. So does anyone know a reliable
distributor or two out there?
2) I'm travelling to San Francisco next week. I'm not really into that
west break-beat thang' (My tastes are something more akin to the topics
on this list.) but I would be looking for something to do and places to
go. I'm hesitant to spend time visiting the USUAL spots (Primal,
Tweekin', Amoeba, 1075 Fulsom, etc.) if they're going to cater to the
local ethnocentric tastes only. Could someone inform me of some
alternative sources of entertainment or give me faith that the usual
spots could deliver something for MY taste buds?
3) Autechre and STC: Does anyone know, positively, if Autechre is still
playing Detroit this weekend? I know STC canceled, Jonah was also booked
for Miami on Sat for the Winter Music Conference- probably a lot more
money, among other things, to be had on south Miami Beach in front of
thousands of who's who in American dance music production than in early
spring Detroit in some sketchy warehouse where the cops might bust in
and break all your equipment in a cannibal frenzy...
Anyway, my point being this: Autechre was billed to perform with STC
in both Miami and Detroit. Now that STC has backed out, has Autechre
followed suit and flown south for (MTV's) spring break OR can I travel
to Detroit this weekend, comforted by the thought of analog and sampling
bliss to be had at the end of the pot-hole-ridden road?
-----I know there are info lines but I don't trust a one of 'em. I've
lost count of how many times I showed up at a party for the mere sake of
a name, shelling out $15 -$20, only to find out- once inside- that my
"name" had canceled a week before. -----
...confused, bored, and praying for sunshine in northern Ohio...
KSerrano
sks0563@oberlin.edu