I just heard that EFA Medien - probably the largest distributor of
electronic music in Germany, if not all of Europe - has filed for bankruptcy.
Their in-house labels (Clearspot, E:motion, ESC, Here2Hear, Secret Life)
will presumably disappear along with EFA. And this will undoubtedly lead to
the demise of quite a few small and medium sized labels who use EFA as
their primary distributor, since they are all most likely owed a lot of
money that they will never see.
Here is a list of some of the labels that EFA distibutes, many of them
exclusively:
Accession, Alfa Matrix, Amöbenklang, Andromeda, Anticon, Apocalyptic
Vision, Apollyon, Apricot, Atatak, Audiosphere, Ausfahrt, B Series,
Barraka, Beau Monde, Between The Lines, Blaou Sounds, Blickpunkt Pop,
BluNoise, Buback, Buckyball, Capriola, Century, Ceraton, Chicks On Speed,
Classic Hits, CMP, Cold Meat Industry, Constellation, Costbar, Crammed,
Crippled Dick Hot Wax, Daft, Danse Macabre, DC Recordings, Deaf Shepherd,
Dessous, Different Drummer, Dischord, Disko B, Disorient, Doxa, Dröönland,
Dune Records, EA80, Easy Star, Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, Empty,
Etage, Exile On Mainstream, Fanboy, Fatal, Fidel Bastro, Flittchen, Force
Inc., Force Tracks, Frenchkiss, Freude-am-Tanzen, Frontline, Fuzelicious
Morsels, Gigolo, Globe, Gramavision, Guidance, Heartbeat, Hot Wire,
hrMedia, Impact, In Extremo, Inkanish, Insolation, Intim Recordings,
Ipecac, italic, ITN, Jazzsick Records, Jungle, Junk Food, K2O, Kanzleramt,
Kein & Aber, Keys Of Life, Kinderzimmer Productions, Klang, Klangbad,
Kodex, Konkurrel, Kudos, Kurbel, Lieblingslied, Lion & Roots, (Lion &
Roots), Lolo, Make Up, Make Up Your World, Manifesto, Mantis, Marina,
Mercurochrome, Metalimbo, Metropolis, Mighty Sound, Mille Plateaux,
Minifunk, Minor 7 Flat 5, Moll, Moll-Selekta, Moonstorm, Mosquito, Moving
Shadow, Mr. Bongo, Musical Tragedies, MZEE, NMC, Nonplace, nrk, Ongaku,
On-U Sound, Pandaimonium, Payola, Perlon, Pica, Piranha, Plastic Bomb,
Playhouse, Plug Research, Plus, Poker Flat, Popup, Pork, Pork Pie, Position
Chrome, Pro-Jex, Provocateur, PUU, Quatermass, RAS, Rekord Rekords,
Rephlex, Rent A Dog, ReR, Rewika, Rise Robots Rise, Ritornell, Saddle
Creek, Sähkö, Scape, Select Cuts, Sense, Shifty Disco, Shitkatapult,
Shockwave, Sino, Six Degrees, So Dens, Some, Source, Southern, Southern
Lord, Spiritual Life, Spirit Zone, SSR, Stars In The Dark, Stir 15,
Sturmhöhe, SubRosa, Sub Static, Sub Up, Subvoice, Superstition, Supremat,
Svek, TDI, Technasia, Tehnika, Tension, Thirsty Ear, Thrill Jockey,
Tolotta, Tomato, Touch, Touch &Go, Transient, Tresor, Trisol,
Tritt, Turbulent, Twisted, Übersee, Universal Egg, Version, Viamas,
Vielklang, Voiceprint, Ware, Weisser Herbst, Wellington & Sons, Wichita,
Wonder, WordSound, World's Best, Zenit, Ziriguiboom, Zoë and Zoomshot.
It's already been mentioned on the IDM list that Force Inc./Mille Plateaux
& associated labels have been in financial difficulty for the past while,
so they will probably be amongst the first labels to fall. Expect many more
to follow.
This is a very sad day for independent electronic music, folks... :(
Greg
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