Underground Resistance coming to Bandcamp

From FACT Magazine:

A new Facebook post from Somewhere in Detroit details the real life stopgaps of running a truly independent label.

A message to customers of Somewhere in Detroit and Submerge Distro, the hub for Underground Resistance, Red Planet and other definitive Detroit techno creators, about delays in order shipments has shed a light on some of the barriers independent labels and other original vinyl peddlers are facing in midst of the vinyl boom.

“If you love vinyl you already understand and value that sometimes you will have to wait on it (pressing/plating) turn around times now average 6 months due to the new found popularity of vinyl,” the post reads. The requirement of more security clearances for air-shipped packages, as well as major labels cashing in on re-pressing classic albums on vinyl and labels “that can financially survive a nine month turnaround” getting serviced first, have also contributed to the delays.

It continues: “All this extra manufacturing combined with still only a handful of places to manufacture has created a traffic jam at the Pressing Plants. The plants obviously get to the smaller orders last (re-pressings) and service those who pay upfront first or larger runs (cant blame em on that)!!

“In addition with Distributor payment time at minimum 90 days (that makes NINE MONTHS before anybody gets paid for that record!!) as opposed to the 30 to 90 day turnaround on everything in the 80’s, 90’s & early 2000’s when only the American inner cities were pressing most of the vinyl records being made here in the USA.

“Ultimately this reality makes it extremely difficult for real urban inner city labels here in Detroit. As we cannot afford to float money over a 9 month period. We realize in order to survive we will have to adapt to remain in the Olympic Stadium of Electronic Music we helped build.”

As such, Underground Resistance and Red Planet will soon be offering music via Bandcamp, noting that every release they will offer digitally will be available at “sonic levels unmatched by any other site on the web” as mastered by DJ Skurge of UR. The post also notes: “All UR & RP stuff on the web now are low res or copied from vinyl records and almost all are illegal!!!”

http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/10/underground-resistance-red-planet-bandcamp/

As a fan of UR and digitals this is excite!

Great! (as a musicfan who all to often still has to buy vinyl to get the best music, I am really looking forward to this. Vinyl is SoundCloud as matter. Bandcamp is so good, I have bought tons of stuff from BC this year. Even a cassette-release just to get the downloads and then I didn't care to actually fill in the adress to get the tape, the label can keep it, I'm in it for the music.)

Buy digital discography (% OFF) option, please.

Have to make some financial reservations for that one.. great news though. Although my wallet... but great nevertheless! :)

i have an errection

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(In case anyone here hasn't seen that whole documentary yet, well worth any WATMMer's time by the way.)

Was already thinking, they've been saying this for like a year or more. That article linked is from January 2017... There might already even be a thread on this?

https://undergroundresistance.bandcamp.com/

LOL, excellent.

Please repost in 7 months so I can feel this excitement again, 't was good.