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From: "Christian Mehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Brainbug & Funky Green Dogs
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:12:34 -0500
>>And by not releasing anything commerically in the States that hurts their
>>chances of
>>getting bigger here. I like having them "to myself" so to speak, musical
>>taste of the general public in this country is puke, but I would like them
>>to be exposed to more people, the people who like this kind of stuff they
>>just don't know about it because it doesn't get played.
--This is for the dance fans in this list--
Hi,
it's not just Faithless - many artists who have great hits
don't sell many of them because they are usually club hits
and are just not always the way commercial club music
is supposed to be.
In Germany, there is a radio station that plays future
dance hits first because they have DJs from the M>1 (Mach 1),
one of south Germany's best clubs working there.
They played Insomnia about 7 months (!) before it was
released commercially, people loved it, wanted to
buy it, but it wasn't available at that time because
the record company just didn't get it that there was
great success possible. 5 months later, Insomnia
had success in German Dance Charts (DDC) and was
realeased commercially. It was #2 in Germany and one
of the two biggest house hits of the 90s.
But if they had released it earlier when Hit Radio N1
played it first, I'm certain that they would have
had even more success and had become number one.
The same thing happened to two more songs. Not exactly
the same, because these songs never had any commercial success.
But they could have had with a little promotion by their
record companies.
In 1997 the Funky Green Dogs had their first song (forgot the title).
Unfortunately, it was just a hit in M>1 and Hit Radio N1.
Every house fan loved it from the start. After about 5 months
of playing in N1 it was released commercially without any
promotion. No success. Now they have "Body", a track that's
way not as good as the other one, but has success in Billboard
Club Charts and is played in my local US Radio Station in NY State.
It had a good promotion.
In 1998, Brainbug had "The Eight Dwarf". It was a track of
a genius, just perfect dance music at that time. I have nothing
to do with any DJs but there was so much demand for it and
everyone wanted to have it so the only store that had the
Vinyl at that time in Nuremberg sold 50 copies in 15 minutes,
I was one of the people standing in front of the store at
7am to get one. The Ministry of Sound is proud they sold
278 copies of their samples per hour on its first day.
278 copies per hour - all over England! I'm just talking
about ONE single shop! "The Eight Dwarf" was number one
in the Top 30 Dance Traxx, N1's dance charts, for at least
8-10 weeks, a huge party hall was filled when Brainbug came,
everone loved Brainbug - but noone could buy it because there
were only 50 vinyls coming from Italy every two weeks, no
single-cd, no charts entry. The cd-single was released LOCALLY
5 months later - few people bought it, because we wanted it
when it was number one - not 5 months later! I bought it
anyway. Brainbug now had success with his first single with
vocals, "Rain". I recommend buying it because it also contains
"Nightmare" and "Benedictus", great tracks and 12 (!) mixes.
Available at CDnow.
I'm upset about the record companies. There is great music
out there and people want it - but they can't get it.
My CD player must have an April fools' day, too:
Every track of the Cruel Intentions soundtrack plays great - but
it always skips Addictive! Just today!
Greetings from the webmaster of Europe's big music site
http://Chartsteam.de/ (sorry, just in German)
Christian
