To: Trent Reznor, CEO, Nothing Records
From: Alex Reynolds, Concerned Listener
Re: Autechre "EP7", lack of "bonus track", loss of trust
Mr Reznor,
After waiting a full month after the official release of Autechre's "EP7",
I was so overjoyed to hear that the North American ("domestic") version of
the release -- put out under license by your label -- would lack the
"secret track" from the Warp original.
So what is it? Ignorance? Malice? Crack cocaine and whip-its? All of the above?
Are you now as jaded as your music, that you don't give a shit about what
your label spits out? Did you not bother to think that, maybe, patient fans
living in the States would want a chance to listen to same music as the
rest of the world? (And concurrently, perhaps?)
In some fifth-dimensional parallel universe somewhere, I guess it is
possible that Warp put you up to this, but that is a possibility too
horrifying to consider. (I hope that's not what happened.) I suppose it's
also possible that Autechre intended their release published this way --
which would be a pretty fucking weird gesture on their part -- but as they
are Artistes they would have an excuse.
With the irresponsible way in which Nothing has handled licensed releases
in the past, though, I really don't think that's what happened.
If Nothing is going to shoot itself in the foot like this, it will bleed
for awhile. Certainly, your label won't see any money coming from my
direction any time soon. If I'm after a domestic Warp release -- which I
will have to think twice about from now on -- in the future I'll go right
to the source, export restrictions be damned.
Yours,
Alex
P.S.: The video to "A Perfect Drug" sucked. Please shave before the next
single.
cc: IDM mailing list;
Greg Eden, CEO, Warp Records;
Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate
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