seems a lot of distributors are going under huh?
minto and i were talking a little bit about why music business seems so
lackluster lately the other day. not really thinking too much about it, but
my feeling is that it has a lot to do with world politics, the general
climate of life in usa & europe past few years. is that being too
reductive/simplistic and looking for too much meaning where there is little?
cus i kinda think its true. but maybe i just pay too much attention to the
news etc. but it's kinda hard to get in the party spirit and lose yourself
in music when jobs are few and far between and you have these idiots in
charge spinning your place of residence (and those of others) into a
ditch...etc etc. a lot of worries and disillusionment and lack of direction
clouding things..ahhh well. i'm sure there's lots of factors...of course
techno and house were born in the reagan era, but still, i think there is a
much more distinct morose feeling these days..after all the 80's were still
partytime..or is it just me? :P i'm not really THAT old so i'd be curious to
hear what some older list members make of things.
http://www.undercity-072.com/ud/
definitely!!! passionate people who work themselves to exhaustion...huge
potential...wonderful, wonderful people.
so, there's a huge gap in the market for a 'deep' techno distributor eh?
well cant be that huge, since there's not much deep techno...right?
also of course is baked goods, rushhour and black hole too.
i dont mean anything personal, they may have their reasons, but i'd say
avoid baked goods for the moment -- they're having trouble paying their
bills
rush hour is 2nd to none. i dont know what ability they have to keep picking
up more labels, but they are the only distributor who has always been
completely on the level in my experience, they are so passionate about music
without subscribing to any particular genre, they have a brilliant business
sense and a vision. they deserve so much more props than they will probably
ever get. just spent the weekend hanging out with the 2 founders of rh in
dallas and had such a great time, didnt even talk about music much -- more
down-to-earth real people you just dont find in this business.
blackhole is promising too -- helping to bring better coverage between euro
mainland and uk, why is this connection so difficult?
yeah. and you think you ramble alex! i'm not even hungover
jt
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