Re: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit
Sadly, due to rising costs, poor US market, and poor US distributors, the brutal truth is that most of the best new Detroit records are now ONLY available in Europe; basically, although I live in Chicago, when I want new Detroit music, I order from Juno, Boomkat and Hardwax. I don't even bother checking US stores anymore if I am looking for specific records, though of course I do shop at Gramaphone here in Chicago from time to time as well. It seems that the whole EDM popularity over here has not helped with the US vinyl market for underground house and techno at all. I had hoped that increasing vinyl sales would help things, but I can only assume that the rising popularity of vinyl is limited more to indie rock type music, here in the US... ~David On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Richard Hester gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Unless you happen to be in Berlin, sad to say...
RE: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit
One exception is certainly Detroit Threads. I know that folks like Huckaby, Theo, Kyle Hall, BMG and Juan Atkins personally walk their new releases into the store. These are some of the names the owner of Threads has mentioned to me and I am sure there are many others. They usually get about $5 cash for each 12 before it is sold for a few bucks more on the floor. If you are there at the right time you will see definitely see new Detroit records before they pop up on places like Juno. Then there are the records that are released by Detroit labels for the festival. Many labels have historically timed their new releases to coincide with the festival. You get those in Detroit first. Some of these are also exclusive to Detroit, such as Theo's spray painted Skteches, Deepchord DEMF editions, etc. And then on top of that you have people like KDJ who pull out a box full of mint copies of Shades of Jae and JAN to sell at the festival. When it comes to this time of year, I agree with Darnistle's comment that Detroit is the best place to shop for Detroit techno (and house for me). There is a bunch of new stuff I have been holding out on because I know it can be had there. Cheers,John Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:27:55 -0500 From: cybo...@gmail.com To: gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net CC: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit Sadly, due to rising costs, poor US market, and poor US distributors, the brutal truth is that most of the best new Detroit records are now ONLY available in Europe; basically, although I live in Chicago, when I want new Detroit music, I order from Juno, Boomkat and Hardwax. I don't even bother checking US stores anymore if I am looking for specific records, though of course I do shop at Gramaphone here in Chicago from time to time as well. It seems that the whole EDM popularity over here has not helped with the US vinyl market for underground house and techno at all. I had hoped that increasing vinyl sales would help things, but I can only assume that the rising popularity of vinyl is limited more to indie rock type music, here in the US... ~David On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Richard Hester gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Unless you happen to be in Berlin, sad to say...
Re: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit
Plus buying a record in a certain place gives you additional associations when you listen to it in the future! cheers Jason On 10 May 2013 20:40, John Sokolowski jrsokolow...@hotmail.com wrote: One exception is certainly Detroit Threads. I know that folks like Huckaby, Theo, Kyle Hall, BMG and Juan Atkins personally walk their new releases into the store. These are some of the names the owner of Threads has mentioned to me and I am sure there are many others. They usually get about $5 cash for each 12 before it is sold for a few bucks more on the floor. If you are there at the right time you will see definitely see new Detroit records before they pop up on places like Juno. Then there are the records that are released by Detroit labels for the festival. Many labels have historically timed their new releases to coincide with the festival. You get those in Detroit first. Some of these are also exclusive to Detroit, such as Theo's spray painted Skteches, Deepchord DEMF editions, etc. And then on top of that you have people like KDJ who pull out a box full of mint copies of Shades of Jae and JAN to sell at the festival. When it comes to this time of year, I agree with Darnistle's comment that Detroit is the best place to shop for Detroit techno (and house for me). There is a bunch of new stuff I have been holding out on because I know it can be had there. Cheers, John Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:27:55 -0500 From: cybo...@gmail.com To: gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net CC: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit Sadly, due to rising costs, poor US market, and poor US distributors, the brutal truth is that most of the best new Detroit records are now ONLY available in Europe; basically, although I live in Chicago, when I want new Detroit music, I order from Juno, Boomkat and Hardwax. I don't even bother checking US stores anymore if I am looking for specific records, though of course I do shop at Gramaphone here in Chicago from time to time as well. It seems that the whole EDM popularity over here has not helped with the US vinyl market for underground house and techno at all. I had hoped that increasing vinyl sales would help things, but I can only assume that the rising popularity of vinyl is limited more to indie rock type music, here in the US... ~David On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Richard Hester gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Unless you happen to be in Berlin, sad to say...
Re: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit
Of course there's the S.I.D. series only available to those who actually show up at Submerge. I got three of the series when I was in the D for the Metroplex 10th Anniversary do (I hauled away two boxes of records/CDs from Submerge, 7th City, and Record Time). I still cherish those SID discs, and you'll hear bits from two of them tonight on my show... ja...@iridite.com wrote: Plus buying a record in a certain place gives you additional associations when you listen to it in the future! cheers Jason On 10 May 2013 20:40, John Sokolowski jrsokolow...@hotmail.com mailto:jrsokolow...@hotmail.com wrote: One exception is certainly Detroit Threads. I know that folks like Huckaby, Theo, Kyle Hall, BMG and Juan Atkins personally walk their new releases into the store. These are some of the names the owner of Threads has mentioned to me and I am sure there are many others. They usually get about $5 cash for each 12 before it is sold for a few bucks more on the floor. If you are there at the right time you will see definitely see new Detroit records before they pop up on places like Juno. Then there are the records that are released by Detroit labels for the festival. Many labels have historically timed their new releases to coincide with the festival. You get those in Detroit first. Some of these are also exclusive to Detroit, such as Theo's spray painted Skteches, Deepchord DEMF editions, etc. And then on top of that you have people like KDJ who pull out a box full of mint copies of Shades of Jae and JAN to sell at the festival. When it comes to this time of year, I agree with Darnistle's comment that Detroit is the best place to shop for Detroit techno (and house for me). There is a bunch of new stuff I have been holding out on because I know it can be had there. Cheers, John Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:27:55 -0500 From: cybo...@gmail.com mailto:cybo...@gmail.com To: gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net mailto:gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net CC: 313@hyperreal.org mailto:313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Movement, Music and Detroit Sadly, due to rising costs, poor US market, and poor US distributors, the brutal truth is that most of the best new Detroit records are now ONLY available in Europe; basically, although I live in Chicago, when I want new Detroit music, I order from Juno, Boomkat and Hardwax. I don't even bother checking US stores anymore if I am looking for specific records, though of course I do shop at Gramaphone here in Chicago from time to time as well. It seems that the whole EDM popularity over here has not helped with the US vinyl market for underground house and techno at all. I had hoped that increasing vinyl sales would help things, but I can only assume that the rising popularity of vinyl is limited more to indie rock type music, here in the US... ~David On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Richard Hester gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net mailto:gwrenc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Unless you happen to be in Berlin, sad to say...
