>i know from talking to a couple Detroit house cats that their >records are all pressed at one place and that theres pretty much a >long line to get stuff pressed up. stuff seems to be selling out >pretty quick too. so who knows. > >tom >
Just visiting Vinyl Junkies in London yesterday (yes, literally just visiting - no purchases!) I was as usual struck by the sheer ENORMITY of releases - mostly house. Most of the volumes would be relatively small I guess (relative to most volumes in music products) ranging from 500 to again, I imagine, the low 1000s (not all at the same outlet of course). Within that you get the names we all know, the Claussells, the Planet Es (check that "Chune" thing by Mr. Marks if you haven't already btw) the Chandler's. Then follow the decidedly dimmer-on-the-radar-screen-but-still-vageuly-recognisable artists/labels, etc: Versatile records, Needs, Mantis records, Scott Ferguson, et al. Then finally, on a sliding scale down, but not implying any comment on the quality, you get the printer-label-stuck-on-a-white-label brigade, which you only pick up off the stack on the floor if you know exactly what it is already and how it sounds! But believe me those things sell. And eventually they sell out! It all points to a sector in reasonable health with successes and failures just like any other. Once again, I make the comparison with the 'Underground Music' sector and book publishing. Both are specialist, both deal in small margins (of error if you like, between breakeven, loss or profit) both garner little external interest, and both are kept going by people who are driven more by the love of the subject matter than anything else. >-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:42 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: (313) dying business? [was: RE: Nu Era on Twisted Funk] > > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Pleased to see that it's clearly going to be popular (judging >from the >>responses I got and the number of places which are going to stock >it - >>around the world). Is this *really* a dying business?! > >i know from talking to a couple Detroit house cats that their >records are all pressed at one place and that there are pretty much a >long line to get stuff pressed up. stuff seems to be selling out >pretty quick too. so who knows. > >tom > >________________________________________________________________ >andythepooh.com > > > > >
