theres 2 ways of looking at this,for me.
firstly,"great.loads of labels putting out tunes that would just not get
released otherwise.besides,due to the owners personal
taste/gap-in-the-market-aesthetic,they tend to stick to a particular
style.so you know roughly, what type of stuff is gonna be released".
secondly,it seems having a label has become like how djing was 5 years ago.
every man and his dog was a dj.and now that its cool has diminished,it would
seem that being on,or being involved with a label is the new thing.(the cool
diminished because of the amount of dj's that were purely average?)
it would seem that the more records that are released,the more the quality
is diminished.
a number of people start up their own label,mainly because of rejection from
established forces.
again,that has a positive and a negative side to it.good,because you
sometimes get fresh sounds and genuine innovation.bad,because you get stuff
thats not worth the material its printed on.
and at this sort of level,market forces dont really work as they should.
good labels and bad labels go out of business,not because of the quality of
the product,but simply because of exposure.
thats not a good state of affairs,when good records are lost in one
place,and bad records survive somewhere else.(no debates about philisophical
implications of defining good and bad!)
commendations to jeff for keeping it fairly street.
anyone thinking about starting up a label on the grounds of making £££'s-
dont. we dont want you.
simple as that. you need some acumen for running what is essentially a
business proposition,but such a notion will eventually erode the good that
it produces (look at the loss of respect for warp over the last year or
2?!?)
you just need enough money to release the next good trax. thats it.
BTW jeff- whats happening to neotropic these days?
c