PIAS DADC fire and what it means

Good man, and you're welcome.

I've just facebooked it as well.

I just realised that I hadn't FBed it, now put that right. Without wishing to be a pedant though, are Mute and One Little Indian still strictly independent? I thought they were EMI affiliates now? Don't get me wrong, I don't really care ultimately as they've gifted me with shitloads of superb music in the past whoever owns them, and both have a permanent place in my decrepit old heart.

They'll have to put on a japan disaster style concert and compilation album, for themselves !!

 

Also, bloody hell at the fire, that's annoying etc. (sincere, plz don't read as sarcasm osci)

  On 8/10/2011 at 1:18 AM, delet... said:

They'll have to put on a japan disaster style concert and compilation album, for themselves !!

 

Seriously, that wouldn't be the worst idea in the world, seeing as we've been having Record Store Days for a few years now. Across those labels likely to be affected it'd be quite something.

did they not have this stuff insured in some way?

First BATalsdr , now this shit

 

Well...I guess it's time to go digital for a min .

 

 

 

And the list goes on :

 

[PIAS] Recordings

[PIAS] Recordings Belgium

4AD

A Camp

Absynthe Minded

Accidental

AEI Music

Air Recordings

ALC Music

Alsation

Ambush Reality

Ancient & Modern

Angular Recording Corporation

Arcady Records

Ark Recordings

Asthmatic Kitty Records

Atlantic Jaxx Recordings

Bad Magic

Balling The Jack

Banquet Records

Battered Ornaments Records

Beggars Banquet

Best Before

Big Brother

Big Dada

Bird Records

blackmaps

Bloody Chamber

Blowout Music

Blue Chopsticks

Border Community

Borstal Beats

Boysnoize Records

BPM

Brainfeeder

Brassland

Bright Star Recordings

Brille

Broken Sound Music

Bronzerat

Brothers and Sisters

Brownswood Recordings

Buzzin' Fly

Cache Cache

Cadenza Records

Celluloid Records

Chalkmark / IE

Chemikal Underground Records

Cocoon

Control Tower

Counter Records

Dance To The Radio

Dead Oceans

Deceptive

Defenders Ent UK

DESOLAT

Dessous

Different

Dirtee Stank

Divine Comedy Records

Domino Records

Double Six Records

Drag City

Dreambrother

Drive Thru Records

Drowned In Sound

Dummy Records

Duophonic

Eat Sleep Records

Fabric Worldwide

Fake Diamonds

FantasyTrashcan

Fatcat Records

Fence

Feraltone

Finders Keepers Records

Flock Music

Flying Circus

Freerange Records

Friends Vs Records

Full Pupp

Full Time Hobby

Gang Of Four Recordings

Geographic

Ghost Ship

Glaze Recordings

Groenland Records

G-Unit

Hardly Art

Hassle Records

Helpless

Hem Hem Records

HFN Music

Immune

Independiente

Infant

Infectious

Jagjaguwar

Kartel

Kitchenware

Kitsune

KMS Records / Fabric

Laughing Stock

Lex Records

Lipservice

Little Sister Recordings

LO-MAX Records

Loose Music

Lovepump United

Low Life Records

Lucky Number Music

Lucky Seven Records

Mantra

Matador

Memphis Industries

Merok

Metric Music International

Metroline Limited

Model Citizen

Moikai

Motion Audio

MyMajorLabel Ltd

Nation

Ninja Tune

No Quarter

NovaMute

Nusic Sounds

One Four Seven Records Ltd

One Little Indian

Organs

Outcaste

OVNI

P.I.L.

Peartree Records

PeMa

People In The Sky

People Tree

Pirates Blend Records Inc

Planet Function

Play It Again Sam

Playlouder

Poker Flat

Polyvinyl Records

Poseidon Records

Post Present

Pschent

Raw Canvas

Red Cord Records

REK'D

Rekids

Rekords Rekords

Renaissance

Reveal Records

Riverman Records

Rock Action Records

Roots Records

Rough Trade Records

Rubyworks

Sea Note

Search and Destroy

Secretly Canadian

Setanta

Shape

SideOneDummy Records

Silva Screen

Slam Dunk Records

Smekkleysa

Soma

Sonic Cathedral

Soul Jazz Records

South Paw

Southern Fried Records

Stereo Bang Media

Stolen Recordings

Stranger Records

Streamline

Sub Pop

Suicide Squeeze

Sunday Best

Thrill Jockey

Tirk

Too Pure

Torque Records

Touch & Go Records

Transmission Recordings

Tri Tone

Trouble Records

True Panther

Try Harder

Turnstile

Twisted Nerve Recordings

Universal Sound

Victory Records

Wagram

Wall of Sound

Warp

Watergate

We Love You

Wiiija

Willkommen Records Ltd

Wonderfulsound

XL

Xtra Mile Recordings

Yaala Yaala

Young Turks

jesus

I guess I'll buy the Zomby record after all.

and preorder Scintilli, on whatever.

Wait a second, This is a Sony warehouse w/ insurance. Let them pay for that shit. Some label fool was going, we don't have riot insurance. Fuck that, it would be fire insurance and Sony would have it.

people talking about insurance have no clue.

Well educate them, instead of being a smart arse about it.

I would presume that the issue is around how quickly any insurance would pay out and how any payments would be calculated. There are going to be a metric ton of insurance claims as a result of the riots so there is likely to be a delay in money going to the record labels. So the big question is how the loss of the stock affects the cash flow into the business in the short term. If there is enough stock out at retailers to support the current levels of sales then they might be able to last until the insurance situation is sorted.

 

Weirdly, and depending on the exact nature of the policies, there is a chance that if a label can last until they get any insurance payments there is a potential for them to be in a better position. There could well be a surplus of back catalogue material they had which just hadn't or ever would sell in great numbers which when they're reimbursed for they could use to press up future releases or releases that they know will sell.

 

Anyway, that's just my view on it. I don't work in the insurance industry and I'm not Iggy Pop.

I heard that they're not insured if the damage occurred within a riot zone...?

The government said they will pay out compensation to any uninsured businesses who have been affected by the riots, they have 12 days to apply

We should all apply. Where's my fucking Plaid CD David Cameron?!

http://cognitvedissonancerecords.com/labellove/

friend of mine is putting this together, not sure exactly what they're gonna do but it's specifically for the smaller labels that can't really afford to wait on insurance/gov't payouts. i guess they're doing monetary donations and may well do a comp.

im genuinely happy about this particular incident.

burn the old world of hipster-faggotry consumerism of physical format, the music should have no physical form, record labels are a vile mutation of 20th century limitations.

 

HAIL FLAC !

Edited August 10, 2011 by eugene

you are such a cunt

  On 8/10/2011 at 3:56 PM, eugene said:

im genuinely happy about this particular incident.

burn the old world of hipster-faggotry consumerism of physical format, the music should have no physical form, record labels are a vile mutation of 20th century limitations.

 

HAIL FLAC !

 

lol, what a fucking nut sack you are.

  On 8/10/2011 at 3:56 PM, eugene said:

im genuinely happy about this particular incident.

 

seems you and SPD should hook up!

 

  On 8/9/2011 at 5:22 PM, SPD² said:

Burn bitch burn!

 

..cos you're both a couple of dicks, with nut sacks for brains!

Edited August 10, 2011 by sirch

soulless pricks that enjoy what happened, this could be the end for a lot of these independent labels as far as i can tell.

sad sad. :(

All of Warp's UK stock appears to have been lost in the fire. The Sony DADC warehouse also acted as our international distribution hub and so this has affected our ability to supply our overseas partners.

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