---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Tom Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>It's not the price so much as the fact that there's not much music on the >record - Mahigani releases are priced the same as normal US imports here but >spending £8 on one short, average track isn't something all of us are happy >to do unless the track is really amazing... i suppose that is true. its not very often that i buy a record where im definitely going to listen to or play more than one or two tracks anyway, so cutting out filler doesnt necessarily bother me. >Well, they're both in stock and available to buy at Rush Hour, for example - >none of the stuff seems too hard to track down yet... didnt look on rush hour, but i know i havent seen the andres anywhere on distro lists in the US since the week it came out. id actually like to have another copy of that one. >> well i cant disagree with you more on the AM. thats gotta be one >> of the hottest house tracks of the past few years... > >Fair enough - I thought it was stunningly average - but each to their own... even hiphop deejays i know dig that track. the NYC house squad in pgh who normally play mostly blaze/maw/etc type stuff even dig that one. >Here's a hypotherical question - would you have bought the Kai Alce record >if it had been released on a label other than Mahogani? well i already had his late night essentials and track mode releases. those are the only 2 releases he had previous to this according to discogs, and while hes not a "buy on sight" producer in my book, i do have every record by him that ive heard. so yeah i probably would have picked it up. >What if it was an >import from Europe on a label you'd never heard of, with no association to >KDJ whatsoever? I'm just curious as to what extent the fact that it has >KDJ's blessing would influence your decision to buy a record. considering the fact that i get my records for cost from working at a shop, id have probably picked it up no matter what as even imports are relatively cheap for me. if i had to pay full price, i cant guarantee what id do. im getting so used to getting domestics at cost that paying $11 for a single reguardless of how many tracks are on it seems almost silly. >Don't get me wrong, I'm a big KDJ fan too - I'm just not prepared to buy >records which sound average just because they're on his label. If you >genuinely like the record and would have bought it regardless then fine, I'm >not challenging you - just curious... im not taking it as a knock. i would say that i am definitely much more likely to pick up something associated with KDJ or theo parrish or rick wilhite if its just an average record. like i said, im pretty picky so i dont have too many filler records laying around. with the infrequency that those guys put out other peoples' stuff, id rather just pick it up and support them because they almost always put out much more excellent material than average. tom ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com
