some more (late) comments on this, I thought Stewart's comments were
among the most insightful on this debate, got my miniscule mental gears
churnin anyway
On Apr 15, 2004, at 1:05 AM, Stewart Caig wrote:
I guess I have slightly less of a problem with Planet E
than I do the Peacefrog Privte Pressings, at least Carl Craig is
selling
this record based on it being an established great record, but the
Private
Pressings arent even that great, certainly not to the point of them
ever
really becoming clasics in thier own right IMO, they certainly dont
have the
judos of already being a classic to justify the price tag.
I'd agree w. you about charging more is kind of weird when it's not a
proven winner. The Charles Webster remixes one (the Private Pressing)
was kinda good but not a must-have any any stretch. But the Moodymann
'shattered dreams' one is AS GOOD (and IMHO even better than) most
tracks on the 2xLP. that's the exception to your statement. That
track is genius!! Spooky, the essence of a good deep KDJ track...
among the best of his last few years of work, anyway. (Still the
1-sided J.A.N. with the Mojo interview smokes them all, and that was
repressed for $6.00 or whatever!)
I LOVE the robert hood one, his best work in years IMHO, but not
because it's a Private Pressing, because it's along, gorgeous building
swooning synthy detroit techno track. I mean, it's a really great
track! I never was able to find a copy of the album (there was one?
or no..) so I can't compare it to album tracks. But if the album
tracks are better than that single??
They are being sold and marketed in a way that directly
plugs into the record collectors mentality.
Very true, they are numbered, limited, advance, etc. But hasn't
Peacefrog always kind of done that by deleting older records in their
catalog, so if you got it at the time it was originally released, you
got it. But if you didn't, you will likely never see it again ? (or
so they'd have you believe). I just kind of that that was always
their m.o...
Theres loads of better records coming out that are better and
much better value for money from a pure musical point of view that are
struggling to even sell 500 copies, so it kinda smacks of arrogance
from
Peacefrog to release 500 and then use the numbers to justify the price.
Great point.
peace
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Matt MacQueen
http://SonicSunset.com
