Morphine generally do generous/effectively unlimited pressings so this
is a bit of a surprise. the 500 copies didn't show up anywhere I
usually shop, either. A shame.
Andrew
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM, fran...@thatamazingthing
<fran...@thatamazingthing.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew
>
> Thanks for the help. I can see you've been rinsing this one with it
> appearing in 8 shows! Unfortunately only one mix still appears
> to be available (I presume the presence of a link indicates this) but I can't
> get that one to go ("Object not found") either.
>
> But no worries as there are 2 alternatives for me:
>
> 1. The record is available at a shop - in which case I can check clips there
>
> 2. It isn't - in which case I probably don't want to hear it as if I do like
> it I will then get frustrated at not being able to get
> it and it will join the list of records I want but missed. So transitory has
> the nature of vinyl become, with people only daring to
> do small runs, that things get on this list all to easily now. The list is
> getting big and I find it healthier just to rip it up
> and not spend daft amounts of time ferreting out things I might want but
> missed at the time.
>
> As it is Shake was kind enough to drop me a line to say that it looks like
> those copies weren't promos, the label only wanted to do
> 500, they're gone and that looks like the end of it.
>
> The shame is I can totally understand a label doing small runs with seemingly
> diminishing sales, they've got to keep viable (this
> isn't meant to ignite a "is vinyl dead?" / "no, indie bands are selling loads
> of 7s!" debate) but observing how things run at my
> local shop it's obvious that it works 2 ways and all the limited runs are
> part responsible for the diminution - sometimes they could
> sell many times over what they get. I'll go in for a record and it's like
> "no, you missed that one" when I am right on watching
> their website for new stuff and live just round the corner.
>
> In times past when there wasn't such a through-put of material I reckon a
> record could be shipped in, sit on the shelf for a while,
> have people gradually hear it out and about and rate it / hear about how good
> it was and then it would slowly get picked up - a
> "sleeper". What chance of that now?
>
> Francis
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Duke [mailto:and...@andrew-duke.com]
> > Sent: 15 April 2009 17:43
> > To: 313@hyperreal.org
> > Subject: Re: (313) Shake : Levitate Venice EP on Morphine Records
> >
> > fran...@thatamazingthing wrote:
> > > This came out in Feb?
> > >
> > > I didn't hear about it, did I miss it on here?
> > >
> > > Somebody tell me about it - maybe including where there might be clips
> > > and I can buy it from?
> > >
> > > Mr. Shakir?
> > >
> > Hi, Francis.
> > Promos have been out for awhile, but it is not officially available till
> > later this month.
> > I've been playing the heck out of it on my mixshow (charted it, too)
> > since I got the promo;
> > just checked, and it is featured in some of the mixshows that are
> > *still* available online here:
> > http://cognitionaudioworks.com/AndrewDukeInTheMix.html
>
