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Posted: 11 February 2010 10:54 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]  
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Sorry but I won’t let you off the hook here, mate.

If you are trying to make a point on a public forum you must also be ready to defend it.  :wink:

I agree that you can use certain more or less “objective” criteria like drummers not being able to drum in sync, guitar players with butter fingers or singers that are just not cut out for singing - which then results in something that can be labelled as “bad music”. Now if that type of stuff didn’t get released 30 years ago, I didn’t necessarily get “better” in the meantime just like “bad wine” doesn’t improve in taste with age.

But again, if you don’t know what Chevalier actually wants to release, it is just impossible to make any kind of judgement.

And does a release have to be “essential” to the world at large? Again, people who make a release always think that it is essential because that’s their starting point. You should know about these things.  8)

So why worry about other people’s releases beforehand? It’s not exactly that there’s a quota for them and that the few that can be done therefore need to be “good” or “essential”....

 
Posted: 11 February 2010 08:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]  
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I can only say that what I’m going to release is the best of Belgian Wave and it came only out on tape!

 
Posted: 11 February 2010 08:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]  
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Great name, Falck!

Coming soon on Hommage Records:

The Irrelevant Tapes vol 1.


A double LP, featuring, oh well, let’s be honest - stuff that was reissued before, which you didn’t really like that much the last time it was out, alongside some stuff that is still available in its original format, due to lack of interest.

This time with bad remastering - overcompression, de-hiss to the point where some of the music is muted out, you know the kind - and in a sleeve bizarrely influenced by the Madchester rave style of the early nineties.

Limited to 1500 copies worldwide, pressed on 120 g lo-quality recycled vinyl, this set is a sure-fire fiasco, guaranteed to give the Hommage label manager plenty of time in the future to watch tv or argue with his family and friends.

 

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Posted: 11 February 2010 09:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]  
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Hurr hurr,

You almost got it right man, apart from the fact that the medium should be 17 gr CDr rejects with photocopied b/w artwork stolen from other releases or drawings of a 3-year-old of your choice.

Taking pre-orders yet?  :wink:

 
Posted: 11 February 2010 11:01 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]  
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When the compilation comes out we will see if it’s relevant yes or no.

 
Posted: 11 February 2010 11:22 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]  
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All I can say is that it sounds pretty exciting so far….just don’t do it the Reactorlgtn way…. :wink:

 
Posted: 12 February 2010 12:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]  
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yeah, sorry chev, my little rant there was nothing to do with your forthcoming comp (or any comp for that matter!), I just liked the idea when Falck mentioned the title.

Tape releases by Belgian bands eh? Looking forward to that, there’s such a lot of great stuff there. Best of luck!

 
Posted: 12 February 2010 02:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 23 ]  
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Yes, there’s a lot of good music that hasn’t been discovered yet, especially on these tapes from the eighties. I have a lot of stuff I want to release, so I will start with this compilation. Soon more news about that!

 
Posted: 13 February 2010 09:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 24 ]  
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A lot of these “geographical” compilations suggest a national or international scene that wasn’t there back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It’s revisionist. One might just as well do a CR78 or Arp Odyssey compilation.  Or a whole series: MS-10, MS-20, MS-50, MS-2000….
Now there’s a thought.  LOL

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Posted: 13 February 2010 10:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 25 ]  
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[quote author=“AirCrashBureau”]A lot of these “geographical” compilations suggest a national or international scene that wasn’t there back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It’s revisionist. One might just as well do a CR78 or Arp Odyssey compilation.  Or a whole series: MS-10, MS-20, MS-50, MS-2000….
Now there’s a thought.  LOL

that’s an interesting point. on one hand, i completely agree. on the other hand, i would argue that even contemporary compilations of underground music often fall prey to such revisionism - the wierd records compilations, for instance, group together many acts from different countries, many of whom are unacquainted and, at least on the surface, entirely unrelated. the same holds for many synth compilations from the 80’s.
making a compilation, even one with contemporary acts, is a curatorial artform, not purely historical documentation.

 
Posted: 13 February 2010 10:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 26 ]  
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I don’t know

 
Posted: 13 February 2010 08:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 27 ]  
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what i had the chance to listen to at a few occasions in the last years was absolutely stunning. can’t wait for this comp to be released, and i am 100% sure it will be a milestone just like maskindans was smile

i think for sure there was a lot of crap on tapes in the 80s, but not everything that is unknown or “forgotten” and was never released on a “proper format” or sold in the 80s must be irrelevant, overrated oder simply bad. sometimes maybe the artists just didn’t follow the way consequently, considered themselves not “worth it”, had no money or found no label, or whatever…

remember oppenheimer analysis…
irrelevant ? absolutely not !
and ? it took like 25 years to be “officially” released

so, waiting for this baby as well as several other comps and (re)releases smile

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Posted: 14 February 2010 12:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 28 ]  
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[quote author=“Mike1334”]what i had the chance to listen to at a few occasions in the last years was absolutely stunning. can’t wait for this comp to be released, and i am 100% sure it will be a milestone just like maskindans was smile

‘cause u dont have Danza, asshole wink

 
Posted: 14 February 2010 02:16 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 29 ]  
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[quote author=“Mike1334”]what i had the chance to listen to at a few occasions in the last years was absolutely stunning. can’t wait for this comp to be released, and i am 100% sure it will be a milestone just like maskindans was smile

i think for sure there was a lot of crap on tapes in the 80s, but not everything that is unknown or “forgotten” and was never released on a “proper format” or sold in the 80s must be irrelevant, overrated oder simply bad. sometimes maybe the artists just didn’t follow the way consequently, considered themselves not “worth it”, had no money or found no label, or whatever…

remember oppenheimer analysis…
irrelevant ? absolutely not !
and ? it took like 25 years to be “officially” released

so, waiting for this baby as well as several other comps and (re)releases smile

Yes, I think you know what will be on it :wink: (I think I love you Mike)
I also have another surprise you will like I think, I’m waiting for their “accord”

 
Posted: 14 February 2010 06:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 30 ]  
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[quote author=“peter_m”][quote author=“Mike1334”]what i had the chance to listen to at a few occasions in the last years was absolutely stunning. can’t wait for this comp to be released, and i am 100% sure it will be a milestone just like maskindans was smile

‘cause u dont have Danza, asshole wink

Sorry but I fail to see the joke or the irony here.

It’s bad enough that this thread seems to be the equavilent of a teenage girls’ “whose nose is the prettiest contest” for label owners, but if a potential client gets called asshole because he does not call Danza Meccanica a milestone, well, I’m sorry, but you’ve lost it, mate.

I bought Danza and also the Newclear Waves Split 7” (which is also great), but with a behaviour like that you will go on my personal blacklist no matter what you will release in the future.

 
   
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