1
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Pages: [1]
2
THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: are record labels relevant anymore?
« on: November 11, 2010, 01:05:55 pm »
rene, believe me i hear you. the problem i've run into is that those distributors you mentioned will not answer emails from lowly newly-formed labels and, i believe, get all of their inventory from big-name distributors. it's too much trouble to deal with each and every label, accounting for invoices and sales, etc. is way too much trouble. i've tried a-musik and boomkat numerous times and i don't know why i don't get any responses. they aren't the only ones that do this; there are quite a few US distributors guilty of the same crime. experimedia, though, is a sort of god-send for new and smaller labels that get the cold shoulder from all the other big distributors. will it be enough? i don't know. but i will continue to send emails to the smaller distributors and online mail-order companies because something's got to give.
3
THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: are record labels relevant anymore?
« on: November 11, 2010, 08:34:16 am »
in regards to the comments orphax made and taylor's response...getting distribution has proven to be very difficult, but, the problem has run a little deeper. this big worldwide distributor that i was referring to took on the first release from my label, shopped to, i believe, any and all of the smaller online distributors and stores, and the reception was very cold. so cold in fact, that this big worldwide distributor couldn't take any copies of the first release and told to me to get back in touch for the next release. this seems to me to be the beginnings of a vicious circle. what i've learned here is that it isn't the reluctance of the big-time distributors, but the smaller ones that must in turn take on the risk of buying copies of LPs they aren't sure will sell. maybe the big time distributors recognize this and are being a bit more selective with what they would like to offer.
4
THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: CDs are dead (almost)
« on: November 10, 2010, 12:47:11 pm »
rupske, you have to understand that, especially with this kind of music, labels are always at the brink of collapsing. every time someone illegally downloads an album, it's a push one step closer to the edge of the cliff. with a new label, such in mine, we're starting up on the edge of the cliff. i think you're aware of the implications, it's just that you choose not to acknowledge it. illegally downloading albums is just too easy; everything is there for the taking. the websites that offer a free download while urging you to buy the LP (yes, pray god live, take the album down please) are not helping the matter by making listeners aware, i think they're just cheapening the product and making it disposable.
5
THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: CDs are dead (almost)
« on: November 10, 2010, 11:17:49 am »
taylor, from my perspective your model works fine, as it has for some time now. what would a drastic shift do for 12k, which has spent so many years presenting music as an ideal cd artifact?
when i started my label, i began with the intention of never releasing cds and simply focusing on vinyl. did this, or should it have, sealed my fate? does a label have some sort of obligation to continue to present material in the way it always has? i never liked the model of releasing an album on both cd and vinyl. maybe depending on the album/context/aesthetic value of the artwork, one medium should be the focus.
when i started my label, i began with the intention of never releasing cds and simply focusing on vinyl. did this, or should it have, sealed my fate? does a label have some sort of obligation to continue to present material in the way it always has? i never liked the model of releasing an album on both cd and vinyl. maybe depending on the album/context/aesthetic value of the artwork, one medium should be the focus.
6
THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: are record labels relevant anymore?
« on: November 10, 2010, 11:12:23 am »
As a newbie label owner and curator, I'm hoping labels are not dead. My experience so far, though, has made me skeptical about just how vital "our" role is anymore. Could be the fact the label is quite new or the first release is challenging(?), but things have been slow going. I use a well-known worldwide distributor and they couldn't manage to garner enough interest from stores and distributors to justify taking on copies of the LP. Many of the well-known stores and online distributors are so inundated with an over-whelming amount of labels soliciting their new releases that I don't blame them for not getting back in touch, even if I will continue to be persistent in getting them to respond to me. Should I feel like a nuisance?
Part of the reason might be artists using their own resources to release their own music, thus eliminating the middle man. Either way, music deserves to be heard and paid for.
Part of the reason might be artists using their own resources to release their own music, thus eliminating the middle man. Either way, music deserves to be heard and paid for.
Pages: [1]