On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 07:26:35 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 8 lines The current mo wax releases might bring the artists to>The current mo wax releases might bring the artists to
>attention of people who simply would not otherwise have heard
>their material , but there are scores of labels who just get ignnored
>in the meantime , buying product just because it is on a certain
>label is still the rule of the thumb these days - point in case Mark
>Broom's Sympletic release on Warp , if the same music had
>been on Ifach,Pure Plastic it would have sold a tenth of what the
>Warp release has ,
This is totally untrue. Singles like this for whatever reason sell in
small numbers whatever label it's on.
quoted 2 lines it must be hard for these small labels to be>it must be hard for these small labels to be
>endlessly doing the groundwork for somebody else to cash in on.
Hmm, this was a bad example as it was Mark who came to us with this
release and it's Mark who helps run those labels.