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ive noticed a lot of people on here seem to be quite upset with Warp Records... what have they done? why r they such "assholes"? sorry, ull have to excuse my ignorance on the topic... |
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Aphex Twin doesn't like them and isn't releasing anything else on them. I think []pusher feels the same way. |
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but why? do they treat the artists badly or something? ....dont respect artistic integrity or something like that? |
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they want the money! :) |
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afx said he doesn't like any of the warp artists outside himself and squarpusher. |
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I think it's a money issue and that the artists feel that too much money goes into promotion so it becomes too commercial instead of fun... |
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Well we (consumers) don't get to have that funny anyway so fuckit, I'm going to support anybody who produces good music no matter how "commercial" they get. |
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warp has been very important for good music...but really i dont know about the problem with afx or sp... i ll have to inform myself... anyway i just want afx to release something no matter where |
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I agree, Warp is still one of my favourite recordlabels. But for artists, I can imagine that the promotion can become very tiresome after a while... |
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Warp isn't all that commercial anyway, they have been a very good balance between being a record label that actually gets music distributed, while not being too big or so small very few could hear the music... what the hell do you want? ... so what is the reasoning, if you are any good, you are not aloud to make any money at all... this argument is bizarre |
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I don't care about record labels. I don't care how ''commercial'' they are, how they promote their artists. As long as the artists put out good stuff, I couldn't care less. Of course, I'm not on a record label, and I'm not an artist, so I don't know what goes on behind the scenes... RDJ must have his reasons for wanting out. I wonder how his new label is going to do... and when that bastard is going to put out some new AFX on it! |
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Warp's got too much good stuff and too many good artists on to just ditch..heck their back catalogue should keep me happy for years.. |
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i hold no grudge against Warp, who, in fact, signed my favorite artists. i'm not up to date on their attitudes, tho. i wonder how Nothing is doing. |
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but the thing is, why judge artists for their record labels and vice versa, unless you've had personal experience with that industry? it also seems silly ImO when bands/artists convey their message based on the label to which their signed to; No Limit, for example. |
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i think Nothing is pretty much a dead label now... |
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it may simply be a case of rdj getting arrogant. |
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I got nothing against warp...except their website has too much technology. |
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well well my little twiglets, you seem to have missed a major point: aphex is a famed lier/ manipulator of the press: he is usually taking the piss by critisizing warp and stuff: if he really didn't like them he would've released drukqs fuckin years ago (remember the old memo on the warp site that said we should expect a new aphex double-album before THE MILLENIUM!!! even then it was a delayed release, having being pencilled in for ages before that) and pissed off. he still has one more album for warp under the terms of his contract so he doesn't seem in too much of a hurry. if you actually read the interviews with more credible publications, which are a lot harder to find on the net you would see that he admitted that he has no problem with warp cos he has total control. if you believed everything that aphex said you would believe that he is squarepusher (made that claim), that mike p is a twisted pervert, that all the voices on the girl/boy ep are computer generated, that he has a 2 foot cock and that he owns part of elephant and castle underground station. take his words with a large pinch of salt, but just for the record squarepusher has never said he hated warp but has said that he isn't into most of their current artists except for afx, boc (cos their music exists in its own little world outside of time and reality, or something like that, and ae cos it is the"music of the future". he loves frequencies by lfo as we all know. aphex says that he really likes boc but he doesn't get excited by them: that is why he didn't sign them to rephlex when he had the chance,which he said is his biggest musical regret. i don't think there could be hate for warp when the are so artist orientated jingle |
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btw the disgruntled fans bit is mainly cos their output is not as good as it once was (97 is a golden year and if you take a look at the last couple of years in comparison you'll see what i mean). it is not that we are tired of warp, cos i will put the older stuff on every day but the newer releases generally aren't too good (notice the generally bit) especially with regards to their newer signings jingle |
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if it weren't for warp records, i would not even be purchasing music... i'd probably be reading more often or wasting my money on horror films i don't really care if afx likes the label. its just a label. it isn't a nation or satan. i'll still be buying shit from warp five years from now. |
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what i care mostly about are the artists themselves, because they are humans and implement talent, while record labels are profiting organizations. |
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I could care less if RDJ made the discs in his bastment (come to think of it... that would be pretty cool).... I would still buy them. I see know reason in likeing of dislikeing warp... there just the lable... The music is what im after. XD |
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my life revolves around the spherical orbit of earth and it ends forever with the miracle moment of birth!!!!!THE BARON HAS SPOKEN!!!!!! |
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I'd like to hear Tom and Richard do more music together. |
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i dont know if its sad to admit or what but i dont think ive bought much else from any other label than warp for the past year! |
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generally when you look at indie labels the good ones have a lifespan of about 10 yrs. so WARP seems to be just about do for their downfall. Now I'm not predicting anything but just judging from their last couple of signed artists (with the exception of Prefuse73 who roxors) they seem to have lost their ability to be effective talent scouts. I enjoyed the Brothomstates albums but, c'mon, that was just Autechre rehashed. Whereas we've got Planet-Mu signing really great, innovative artists all the time. I just think they've lost their knack basically. I'll be surprised to see anyone worthwhile, besides the good artists already signed, to come out from warp. Not that I don't like them or anything cause they've had some great releases and some great artists on their label, they just seem like they've lost it for the most part. |
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Warp are pushing RDJ pretty much when it comes to promoting his music, right? |
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