The Worst Artist Or Record Label Decisions Ever Made

  On 8/4/2011 at 1:11 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

iK7 promising a Burial DJ Kicks mix and getting all the sleeves printed up but apparently not checking with Burial that he was actually going to do it

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'two lone swordsmen' stopped releasing musics on the warp in the styles of 'stay down'', 'a virus with shoes', 'a bag of blue sparks' and 'tiny reminders'

  On 8/4/2011 at 2:46 PM, o00o said:

Quaristice Versions and Quadrange not released on vinyl

6 sides dedicated to Perlence subrange 6-36, eh?

  On 8/4/2011 at 1:21 AM, sirch said:

  On 8/4/2011 at 1:15 AM, Awepittance said:

Autechre not putting out a live album, which would be phenomenal

 

DVD of them + Gescom, DJ's, friends, etc. when they're out on one of their tours would be better. following them throughout the whole thing - playing live aswell as behind the scenes shit and tour bus shenanigans.

 

Roadtrip with Autechre.

Autechre are too boring for a DVD. They play in a pitch black environment, and don't move much. Though audio would be perfect.

How about those f'tards burning a million quid (I forget who it was)

J.M.Jarre fucking off Sony out of contract was a classic fail of a huge ego! He blamed them for bad promotion rather than admitting he'd made a shit album i.e. Metamorphosis. Apparently Sony (who previously did a perfectley good promoing of Oxygene 7-13) had planned to use clips from the millennium egypt concert for promotion but Jarre wasn't happy with the footage due to technical issues with the entire event so they had nothing to work with.

In this fued with Dreyfus/Sony (Dreyfus being a long standing friend and supporter previously under Polydor) he lost the copyrights to all his major albums that were on Dreyfus who was bought by Sony in '97.

Not owning the copyrights to his major albums he did a shitty rehashed compilation 'Aero' in 2005 then the pop atrocity 'Teo & Tea' which got him thrown off Warner.

He then joined EMI and did a dubious 30th anniversary re-recording of Oxygene which Dreyfus/Sony took to court as parts of the original album were used but this wasn't before he'd given this re done Oxygene away free with a local newspaper which made EMI want back the half million advance they'd given him on grounds of copyright fraud.

Luckly by the skin of his teeth he won the court battle but EMI didn't want anything to do with him anymore so now he makes money soley playing his back catalogue to 40somethings (or geeks like me) and if you have a few million spare he is also avalible for weddings like Royal monaco thing a few weeks back.

  On 8/4/2011 at 6:53 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

How about those f'tards burning a million quid (I forget who it was)

KLF

  On 8/4/2011 at 7:05 PM, beerwolf said:

  On 8/4/2011 at 6:53 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

How about those f'tards burning a million quid (I forget who it was)

 

 

KLF

or just burnt about 10k then hid the rest and sold the ashes for 15k or something to an arts gallery

  On 8/4/2011 at 8:01 AM, Xyrofen said:

Sublight made a pretty bad decision when they died, in my opinion. :<

 

 

the label imprint was also sold off to Flashbulb...

Uhhhhhh, Ceephax bothering to come to the United States of American and then not playing any one of it's three largest cities where most of his fans would be.

when puff daddy discovered ibiza and released that god awful track called lets get ill...

This pathed the way for hundreds more shit rap/dance crossover tracks, cleared the path for dizzee rascal to go dance and also swedish house mafia etc... Every attempt at this crossover has been poop!

poop

  On 8/4/2011 at 3:42 PM, hardcode said:

axl rose's attempted comeback at the MTV awards a few years ago

yeah but BUCKETHEAD

  On 8/4/2011 at 10:06 AM, modey said:

  On 8/4/2011 at 9:54 AM, ghOsty said:

Why does Trent Reznor insist on calling quits to NIN and making soundtracks that all essentially sound like outtakes from the Ghosts I-IV album? (Some of the tracks done for "The Social Network" were literally tracks taken off of Ghosts, or remixes of those tracks)

Because he eventually realised that he can't make anything better than The Fragile?

You know.. you may be right, considering the Fragile is pretty damn brilliant IMO

  On 8/4/2011 at 6:17 PM, troon said:

  On 8/4/2011 at 1:11 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

iK7 promising a Burial DJ Kicks mix and getting all the sleeves printed up but apparently not checking with Burial that he was actually going to do it

 

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'two lone swordsmen' stopped releasing musics on the warp in the styles of 'stay down'', 'a virus with shoes', 'a bag of blue sparks' and 'tiny reminders'

this. I hate their new stuff as much as I liked their old

  On 8/4/2011 at 6:39 PM, Marked x 0ne said:

  On 8/4/2011 at 2:46 PM, o00o said:

Quaristice Versions and Quadrange not released on vinyl

 

6 sides dedicated to Perlence subrange 6-36, eh?

Perlence subrange 6-36 could be the bonus CD in the binder

Photek new direction.

  On 8/5/2011 at 12:55 PM, Adam Beker said:

Photek new direction.

I remember looking at the artwork but not listening to the release. Is it that bad?

yes

http://soundcloud.com/photek/slowburn-download-free-at-www-photek-fm

lol thats not even drum & bass anymore is it? lol

Oh God why did I click play?

The Future Sound of London putting out six archive albums all jumbled up, instead of fine tuning them and doing one archive album for each era (Lifeforms Archive, ISDN Archive, Dead Cities Archive, 1997 Scrapped Album). I should probably just make my own.

  On 8/4/2011 at 6:56 PM, soundwave said:

J.M.Jarre fucking off Sony out of contract was a classic fail of a huge ego! He blamed them for bad promotion rather than admitting he'd made a shit album i.e. Metamorphosis. Apparently Sony (who previously did a perfectley good promoing of Oxygene 7-13) had planned to use clips from the millennium egypt concert for promotion but Jarre wasn't happy with the footage due to technical issues with the entire event so they had nothing to work with.

In this fued with Dreyfus/Sony (Dreyfus being a long standing friend and supporter previously under Polydor) he lost the copyrights to all his major albums that were on Dreyfus who was bought by Sony in '97.

Not owning the copyrights to his major albums he did a shitty rehashed compilation 'Aero' in 2005 then the pop atrocity 'Teo & Tea' which got him thrown off Warner.

He then joined EMI and did a dubious 30th anniversary re-recording of Oxygene which Dreyfus/Sony took to court as parts of the original album were used but this wasn't before he'd given this re done Oxygene away free with a local newspaper which made EMI want back the half million advance they'd given him on grounds of copyright fraud.

Luckly by the skin of his teeth he won the court battle but EMI didn't want anything to do with him anymore so now he makes money soley playing his back catalogue to 40somethings (or geeks like me) and if you have a few million spare he is also avalible for weddings like Royal monaco thing a few weeks back.

that sounds really fucked up.

  On 8/4/2011 at 9:11 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 8/4/2011 at 8:01 AM, Xyrofen said:

Sublight made a pretty bad decision when they died, in my opinion. :<

 

 

 

the label imprint was also sold off to Flashbulb...

Oh boy!

Really though, I would totally buy Eyelicker if I ever saw that album in a music shop. It'll never happen though.

  On 8/4/2011 at 1:07 AM, troon said:

for instance, i can think of three straight away..

 

why would 'merck records' close shop at the height of their fame?

because sustaining a small record label—especially releasing in a genre of music that was getting less popular over time—is not a good financial option for sole income. note

I think that's the biggest misconception: a lot of these electronic labels never really made much money, and some of the ones now that people think have so much money to throw around are actually just struggling to break even.

  On 8/5/2011 at 6:05 PM, patternoverlap said:

I think that's the biggest misconception: a lot of these electronic labels never really made much money, and some of the ones now that people think have so much money to throw around are actually just struggling to break even.

who actually has that misconception? i thought the advent of mp3 sharing made side-effects on small labels like this especially apparent to the music-listening public.

  On 8/5/2011 at 6:36 PM, KY said:

  On 8/5/2011 at 6:05 PM, patternoverlap said:

I think that's the biggest misconception: a lot of these electronic labels never really made much money, and some of the ones now that people think have so much money to throw around are actually just struggling to break even.

who actually has that misconception? i thought the advent of mp3 sharing made side-effects on small labels like this especially apparent to the music-listening public.

I can't recall any specific examples, more just general comments made in various threads about labels like Rephlex having lots of cash to throw around and actually having a big staff of people running the label. Or maybe all of those comments were in jest. Hard to tell sometimes.