the whole kdj catalog is being repressed right now, all limited (isn't everything, though?)
----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "313" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [313] Save the vinyl info > Shades of Jae, and a large number of other Moodymann titles have been > repressed at least twice (last summer for sure, and once before that in > recent memory). > > Let's face facts: > 1. Record pressing plants want to make money > ergo > they press the records people pay them to press. > 2. One man's trash is another man's treasure. > > Cheers > todd > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee Herrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:28 PM > Subject: RE: [313] Save the vinyl info > > > > ....you know I have always wondered what keeps some artists from having > > their "classic" work repressed. I would love to be able to stop by Bent > > Crayon and pick up early Metamorphic, or KDJ EP's. For whatever reason > > after the first 800-3000 copies are distributed and sold that's it. The > > Peacefrog label even has a compilation series called "deletions" [a > > collection of long out-of-print vinyl titles]. > > I caught an earful of "shades of jae" the other week. Intrigued, I > > attempted to locate a merchant or distributor that carried a copy. No > luck. > > Perhaps the artists or labels do not feel there is enough demand to > justify > > the cost of a second issue. Makes you wish you could go back in time. > > > > save the vinyl > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Kim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:08 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [313] Save the vinyl info > > > > >From: "jim proffit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: [email protected] > > >Subject: Re: [313] Save the vinyl info > > >Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:10:27 > > > > > >fabrice Lig: > > > > > >>>I talked several times to some people from Vinyl pressing factories and > > >>>eachone told me that they are really really busy and always too much > > >>>records to press. > > > > > >Michael Kim: > > > > > >>how about cutting down the number of bad releases instead? ;) > > > > well i was just kidding (notice the wink sign), but i'll continue this > > discussion for the hell of it... read on > > > > >I think cutting down the number of releases would eventually be > > >catastrophic > > >for this music scene. > > > > > >Factories would have to close down their businesses when there wouldn't > be > > >enough work (records to make) and thus cause the pressing prices go > higher > > >and higher, making it useless to release this music on vinyl when at the > > >end > > >a record could cost you twice as much as it does now. > > > > > >Only the strongest pressing plants would survive, and eventually there'd > be > > >only 2 or 3 pressing plants IN THE WHOLE WORLD. > > >Not much choice there. > > > > > >I think this effect is already showing the way average record price has > > >been > > >steadily rising in the last 15 years, and the amount of new dance > releases > > >per month should now be higher that ever? > > > > i think that's mostly due to inflation. i mean, nobody claims the reason > > for higher burger prices is due to mad cow disease, right? higher cost of > > operation, higher prices to the consumer. price of a Big Mac combo meal > 15 > > years ago sure wasn't over $4. > > > > i also don't think it would be that big a deal. i'm no economics expert, > so > > maybe my opinion isn't as valid as yours, but there are so many horrible > > records coming out and so few pressings of good ones in comparison. why > not > > just make MORE copies of good records? i don't think you'll have problems > > selling reissues of classics, look how fast Cybotron - Clear went. > > > > okay, maybe it might take a little bit of creativity out of the equation > if > > everybody has the same records, but i've seen horrible records sit in > > shelves for years. a pressing plant may be pressing it, but if nobody > buys > > it, somebody's got to pay for that. > > > > also, look at how many Swedish imitation records come out. they sound the > > same, no new ideas, more than half of the Swedish sounding records are > > garbage. i mean, do these records really need to be released constantly? > > if you miss one, you can find twenty others the next week that sound just > > like it. on a big system, it's REALLY hard to differentiate between two > > tracks a lot of the time because they're so similar. > > > > (note: i'm not trying to say all Swedish techno sounds bad, a lot of it is > > quite good, but you all know the imitations i'm talking about) > > > > i really wish record pressing plants would concentrate on making more > copies > > of good records, and reissuing good older records and classics that they > > KNOW will sell, rather than pressing the latest record that nobody will > > remember or care about two weeks after its release. because people who > are > > relatively new to record buying, like me, can find the good stuff and buy > > the classics up on sight. > > > > >It's a sort of Amazon jungle this "dance" music business; you have to > have > > >as many species as possible in order to keep the ecological balance. > > > > yeah, but how many other people here are sick of listening to 50 bad > records > > to find 1 good one? bad not as in missed the boat, but bad as in copycat > > bullsh*t records that you can't imagine anybody (with any reasonable > amount > > of taste) buying? > > > > Fabrice Lig mentioned record pressing plants having way too many records > to > > press. i think the constant onslaught of garbage records has something to > > do with that. > > > > Mike > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
