That's too bad about Motown, cuz Blaze is a totally mass marketable
commodity IMO. And it most certainly HAD been done well at Motown for many
a year. Again, Tata Vega, Teena Marie, The Originals were all on Motown
releasing dance singles and now Blaze....which I wasn't aware of.
curious to know what the problem was..more than likely lack of radio play to
substantiate? What might you've heard Otto??
Also, I was just reminded that Lil Louis, released on Epic dance, came just
after Inner City's success. Does anyone know how well his products
performed or his history with Epic?
What about Fantasy Records, which dance artists have they signed/released
since Cybotron ?? C'mon playas...let's get on down with this
discussion.......
From: Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: [313] House / techno popularity
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 20:00:35 +0100
laura gavoor wrote:
> Giles...you read my mind!!!!!!! I stil CANNOT fathom why ALLLL the
fabulous
> Blaze tracks from "Funky People" to "Another Dae" to Can You Dance to
My
> Beat and on and on.......allllll song based house compositions COULD
NOT,
> WOULD NOT be considered commerically viable in America.......they MUST
be
> black and independently based, eh?
>
> No one can tell me that there haven't been innumerable house anthems to
> follow up Good Life and Big Fun that could've garnered a fat label deal
> (providing the artist didn't want to sign to a major as an artist) or
artist
> deal....and sold millions.
Well, at one point Blaze were signed to Motown, but I don't know why
that didn't take off as it should have.
All I know is that as a contender for best house/garage track ever,
'Elevation' is pretty hard to beat.
Otto
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