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PMW were devastated to hear the announcement by Darrel Fitton / BOLA that he was retiring from the music business. We have left this profile and sampler on-line for posterity, and highly recommend that any interested parties purchase all the releases mentioned below, as well as his final masterwork KROUNGRINE. -------------------------------- He's my favourite after autechre :( |
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That is indeed a real shame. He is one of my favourite musicians too and although I do think the quality of his albums has been slowly on the decline since Voile, he has produced some absolutely timeless music over the years. Soup and Fyuti are still incredible. Maybe he is just retiring the Bola name. We still need a autechre/gescom + fitton colaboration to happen! |
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that's beat. he's up there as one of my favorites, but really just his first two albums. it's from november of last year. odd that skam didn't announce it, so perhaps he won't be gone completely. could contribute to gescom and/or do mastering for skam artists. |
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thats fucking terrible. i like really all of his albums.. but soup is the album that really stands highest for me. i had many nights playing a shadowrun mud to that album, its forever etched into my brain as the perfect shadowrun album. gnayse is my second favorite. it really is an amazing album as well. i wonder why he decided to do this though, but either way i wish him well, and he should know his music is timeless to me and an eternal favorite. goddamnit though |
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Hooray to free downloading |
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you think thats why>? |
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Nah, it's probably more complex than that, but free downloading doesn't help and hasn't helped smaller labels like Skam. |
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yeah, its not good i guess |
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yeah let's all blame it on p2p software. |
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I might as well add, before someone bites my nob off, that much of Skam's back catalogue was hard to get, and i understand people who missed out to want to download stuff they didn't manage to buy. Now you can Buy them in MP3 form. I also think many big names aren't harmed as much by downloading. I download stuff on slsk too. I just think it's bad for certain artists, like Bola. How many people downloaded his latest album? Loads i'm sure. These guys have families and rents to pay. Food on the table. I don't think that you can be as good and productive when you have a full time job on the side. I'm sure we'd all rather some of our fave artists had nothing but music to do, no other obligations (well apart from looking after your family of course) |
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:( :( :( |
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It surely doesn't help that he rarely played live either. |
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Playing live is where the money is at these days if you are a musician. |
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Yeah absolutely. I never got to seem him play live, had a few occasions. It was a real shame he couldn't play at Ae's ATP.(he had a perfectly good reason though) i'm all for the idea of free music. When bakers and lawyers will work for free, then yes, maybe the concept that all music should be free will work. |
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Maybe when everything is free is more like it. |
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? Can't you read? |
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Sorry, didn't want to come across agressive btw. You playing live these days? |
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Yes, just felt the need to clarify. |
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I thought i was clear enough. I'm spending too much time in this thread i think. |
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Not to worry... Anyway to stop this confusion. Yes, I do play out. I did so on friday. Unfortunately for me nobody really knows who I am so I getting money for it is out of the question. I am just happy to be playing somewhere. |
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Nice one. : ) All the best! |
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Thanks, sorry for the confusion and thread hijack. |
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bola hype2008, maybe, look for a triple albumin 2009... as for free d/l, it helps people get into bands, but people arnt buying why they used to either..... RIP is its a true Bola statement, :( |
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i don't buy it! how do you 'quit' writing music! i don't get it. even if you DO have a day job, the thought of being able to make physical releases on Skam would be mad awesome! and not only that, you make music because you have to! im not saying that bola is quitting due to fanancial reasons, i just think that he might take a break, and then that desire will re-amerge.... i love bola too much for him to quit... own nearly all of his records, and i fucking adore kroungrine and gnayse... was just cranking the shit out of Urenforpuren... what a fucking track! fuck. |
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yeah, you're right. it does seem weird to be so definite about it. also, brisk suggested he might just be retiring the bola name, but the announcement seems to be that darrel is retiring (not bola...) |
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He's probably been offered an Assistant Manager's position at the local pizza parlour, and couldn't resist the offer. |
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Hah, very funny. : ) Teapot: I still hope we'll see more Bola. I can't see him never making music again. Things just aren't as easy as you all seem to think. |
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bump been crying all night and im ready to let go, MAYBE |
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sad news :( |
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:( |
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I guess it's funnier for artists like Bola and Arovane to put out records when they are in their 20s selling 5.000-10.000 copies, than when they are 35, selling almost nothing. But I guess they never started to make music because of the money, so it's strange that they retire completely. At least put out some limited vinyl ep's now and then for fudges sake! |
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i dont get it really.. it may sound naive but it should never be about the money. i dont think it was for bola, but i cant know for certain. it should be about wanting to create something and share it so others can enjoy it, and fulfill personal goals in the meantime. if he felt he didnt have anything to offer anymore then fine, but thats weird too. hes been consistently brilliant through most of his creations, it doesnt make any sense to stop now.. :p |
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"5x wrestling champion of healy bridge..... Undefeated..... Considers retirement..... Shock rumour!! He won't will he ? " skam came back |
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this is some sad fucking news. i came into this thread hoping to learn about some forthcoming ep or some other good news about bola. this is kind of a shocker. waiting for the next bola material was similar to waiting for the next ae output. his music production will seriously be missed :( |
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From the skamshop (http://shop.skam.co.uk/index.html): "Bola 5x wrestling champion of healy bridge..... Undefeated..... Considers retirement..... Shock rumour!! He won't will he ?" ... |
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AHHH what the hell does that mean?? |
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i should dig into his catalog if he's that great, but even though i don't know his music, a parting musician is never to be fun :( |
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is there an echo in here? |
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