For those of you who wanna know, some insight:
Blaze : 25 years later / 1992/Motown
Track listing
Street Corner Get Up
The Prayer So Special
The Fight Miss My Love
You Don't Really Love Me
Street Walker Any Thing For Yo
The Dream We All Must Live Tog
The Window I Wonder
The Bombing Gonna Make It Work
Confessions All That I Should
Missing You
The Acceptance Lover Man
The Cab Love Is Forever
Broad & Market NWK
The Conclusion The Hope Song
The album didn't sell, because was included in their contrat no promo- no
marketing, artists will, that lead to one member of the group Chris Herbert
leaving ( he was not agree on the strategy of Kevin and Josh)! From the
horse's mouth of Timmy (a Dj resident at Shelter) don't know if it's true
or
not but Timmy knows Kevin for sure, as Kevin is the boss of Shelter , I
know
also that some so called well known journalits :-) have tried for ages to
interview them, no chance... ......All in all for what I heard Blaze are
now
in the process of deciding to enter into the field of becoming a music
distribution company, where they will give music producers of today a
better
deal as regards to promotion, publishing rights and their own record label.
But we'll have to wait ........but another issue for them in New-York is
MAW...! they got their mafia, clique there too :-)..!
And the nightmare still goes on...! do you know that ? remixes of their
songs are starting to multiply. Last year we had Farley and Heller via the
group called Fire Island, UK remixed and revamp an old classic their's
called "If I should need a friend". Another old classic of their's is
"Moonwalk" which has been given the same treatment by the group called
Nuphonic. And finally we saw the Deep Dish Boys take the original Blaze
song
"Hideaway" and made it into probably the biggest dance (garage ?) track of
last year !
|-----Original Message-----
|From: laura gavoor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:49 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
|Subject: [313] Post-disco major label artists
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|That's too bad about Motown, cuz Blaze is a totally mass marketable
|commodity IMO. And it most certainly HAD been done well at Motown
|for many
|a year. Again, Tata Vega, Teena Marie, The Originals were all on Motown
|releasing dance singles and now Blaze....which I wasn't aware of.
|
|curious to know what the problem was..more than likely lack of
|radio play to
|substantiate? What might you've heard Otto??
|
|Also, I was just reminded that Lil Louis, released on Epic dance,
|came just
|after Inner City's success. Does anyone know how well his products
|performed or his history with Epic?
|
|What about Fantasy Records, which dance artists have they signed/released
|since Cybotron ?? C'mon playas...let's get on down with this
|discussion.......
|
|
|>From: Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|>To: 313 <[email protected]>
|>Subject: Re: [313] House / techno popularity
|>Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 20:00:35 +0100
|>
|>laura gavoor wrote:
|>
|> > Giles...you read my mind!!!!!!! I stil CANNOT fathom why ALLLL the
|>fabulous
|> > Blaze tracks from "Funky People" to "Another Dae" to Can You Dance to
|>My
|> > Beat and on and on.......allllll song based house compositions COULD
|>NOT,
|> > WOULD NOT be considered commerically viable in America.......they MUST
|>be
|> > black and independently based, eh?
|> >
|> > No one can tell me that there haven't been innumerable house anthems
to
|> > follow up Good Life and Big Fun that could've garnered a fat label
deal
|> > (providing the artist didn't want to sign to a major as an artist) or
|>artist
|> > deal....and sold millions.
|>
|>Well, at one point Blaze were signed to Motown, but I don't know why
|>that didn't take off as it should have.
|>
|>All I know is that as a contender for best house/garage track ever,
|>'Elevation' is pretty hard to beat.
|>
|>Otto
|>
|>
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