Unknown Artists - Withhold Series

I'm sure most of you will have got the email about this. Any thoughts as to the artists?

https://bleep.com/who-series-withold

I have an idea who is behind WHO06 because it's a very distinctive style. Personally, that was the only one I was interested in buying.

It's probably brainwaltzera, lol.

  On 3/17/2020 at 5:43 PM, d-a-m-o said:

It's probably brainwaltzera, lol.

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haha, actually none of them sound like brainwaltz.

yeah was just joking, a bit fed up with blerp trying to sell me some super exclusive unknown artists Ep bundle.

Limited vinyl only releases by "unknown artists"? 

If they were available, I only kinda want to buy them. While the idea of “mystery” artist seems intriguing, the most important thing for me is the music must be really, really good. I only found about two-thirds of it worth it.

Sold out?

lame concept. didn’t even bother checking the tunes. 

  On 3/17/2020 at 10:21 PM, JS6791MC said:

If they were available, I only kinda want to buy them. While the idea of “mystery” artist seems intriguing, the most important thing for me is the music must be really, really good. I only found about two-thirds of it worth it.

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  On 3/17/2020 at 11:00 PM, species8472 said:

lame concept. didn’t even bother checking the tunes. 

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was only cool 20 years ago when SKAM did it

  On 3/17/2020 at 11:50 PM, auxien said:

was only cool 20 years ago when SKAM did it

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My thoughts exactly.

Yeah, WHO06 is lush...

Several tracks were uploaded to this channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ballacid/
 

Some good ones, but exclusive vinyl only labels can fuck right off. bunch of gatekeeping hipster horseshit

Plz I need this burger

http://youtu.be/0drH4yYehSQ

https://www.store.subwaxbcn.com/product/withhold-01-06-bundle/

I did a poor job of avoiding these. All six are quite lush.

  On 5/9/2020 at 10:07 PM, whosebrian said:

I did a poor job of avoiding these. All six are quite lush.

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Indeed they are.

clone.nl had them in stock very recently, look there they might be a few left.

i apologise for my previous comments on this label, didnt mean to be such a prick but i sure made that happen 

there's a whole load of belters on this series 

  On 5/25/2020 at 12:04 AM, mause said:

i apologise for my previous comments on this label, didnt mean to be such a prick but i sure made that happen 

there's a whole load of belters on this series 

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They're not getting any apologies from me. Hey 'WHO' or whatever the feck your label is called: release digitals or piss off!

  On 5/25/2020 at 12:04 AM, mause said:

i apologise for my previous comments on this label, didnt mean to be such a prick but i sure made that happen 

there's a whole load of belters on this series 

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EDIT: you know what, I'm removing that comment as well, I just don't want the hassle of stirring stuff up.

  On 5/25/2020 at 12:18 PM, gated said:

yeah we got contacted by someone connected with the label criticising our previous comments saying we were "jealous" that the releases had sold out. Normally I'd be inclined to publicly post some angry reply but I don't think it would get us anywhere. No point starting a fight in such a niche scene, so I never replied to the person. As it happens I wasn't jealous but genuinely curious how they'd managed to sell out so quickly.

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Cringe. Yeah, we are all just jealous. That’s it.

withhold my beer

Pretty much, you have a handful of rabid fans of an incredibly niche genre who are always hungry for new stuff, and you're gatekeeping it behind exorbitantly expensive physical media that degrades with use. Why would you withhold (lol) music from such a dedicated fanbase, and intentionally limit exposure like that? For all the shit he catches on watmm, flahbub/benn has the right idea, making his music as readily available as possible and even uploading his own releases to torrent sites to ensure that everyone who wants to listen is able to. Vinyl only limited releases smacks of elitism and cynical exploitation of a passionate, limited, audience.

If you must, do your limited release, then make it available digital after a period of exclusivity, so that collectors can have their wank over their exclusive physical media, and the rest of us can actually enjoy the music. It's not like the vinyls aren't going to sell out anyways.