Apart from Submerge, the only people I'd recommend in the US (partly 'cause I know of few others) are these guys:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/ >From what I've heard, they make no bones that it's about making money, but they seem to behave in a businesslike (i.e. organized, and smart and true to their word) and decent attitude. They also distribute some labels who we here can respect. Max Ernst comes to mind (at least they did up to Max Ernst 13, just to be strict on my facts. I haven't checked since then.) Sorry if you all knew this... Read a little about Jimmy Johnson (founder I think) here: http://www.fuzzlogic.com/hni/mag-fe.htm K Ken Odeluga Editor, Markets - Market Talk Dow Jones Newswires [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2005 17:46 To: J.T.; Matt Chester; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (313) distributors in US I could probably personally sell 5-10 of your records in Chicago ;) It is really frustrating when good records aren't sitting there in the record store for me to buy... I can't bring myself to do mail order somehow... ~David ---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: (313) distributors in US Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:04:49 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: "J.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matt Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] hey matt...we're even in the u.s., and we currently have zero US distribution. the u.s. is very bad for most techno things i think. we've never sold more than 200 copies of anything via a u.s. distributor (who has to deal exclusively with north america, mind). we left syntax last year and sales were hardly breaking 30 copies, 100-150 used to be the norm. maybe is just us. submerge seems to do pretty good with us retail tho. there are/were a few distribs out of chicago as well...but i havent had any coffee so systems are down -----Original Message----- From: Matt Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 14, 2005 11:46 AM To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (313) distributors in US How about Rhythmic, are they still going? There was a company called Nemesis too, IIRC - though I think everyone said they were crap! On this topic, how are other labels here finding US distribution? It's been all but impossible for us to get anything other than tiny exports over there, none of the big companies seem to be taking imports at the moment (probably because of the weak dollar I guess...) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: (313) distributors in US > > > > > compiling a list of distributors in the US for someone in the UK > > major ones - Watts, Submerge, Syntax, Forced Exposure.... > > and who else? > > looking for independent distributors who specialize or who have large > electronic dance music catalogs > > thanks > > MEK >
