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That's bad news, but life goes on. |
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At least you'll be able to complete the collection from the record label. |
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I have little or no sympathy for a label so short sighted it never signed me. |
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no grudges there, i suppose |
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sad news, merck as a label is as good as SKAM |
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still got 19 releases to go though! |
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ilkae has a new album in the works; if they don't release it through m3rck and it's only available through their website, please support it.. this is pretty sad. |
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I wonder why they are quiting |
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well that's not hard to guess.. probably takes a lot of money time from the people comprising it, and they're just tired of it. I mean you can guess from the nature of the teardown that it wasn't insanely lucrative. |
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tim koch is also working on a full-length.. |
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sad... well, maybe its time to buy some cds from them, I was happy with my last merck purchase |
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Damn!!! I heard the fucking rumours and I hoped they were false :( M3rck is without any doubt my 2nd best label of the world, I even own 4 shirts of them, how sick is that... As things are now I own 11% of their catalogue and I hope to make it to at least 20%. I hope there will be a new Landau, Esem, Helios and Proem among the upcoming 19 releases. "We have many reasons for this" I wonder what reasons. |
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ESEM has a new/upcoming and FREE MP3 release coming out on 10/13 with Here's the press-release from KAHVI... ---------------------------------------------- Esem, acclaimed idm and electronica artist has been missed lately. Nothing new appearing on the numerous labels he's been associated with. No reviews on websites - apparently he's disappeared into the ether, never to be heard from again. Silence. Until now that is. Kahvi Collective can now excitedly reveal that Esem has something new up his sleeve. And this is something great ;) Yes, on October 13th, Kahvi Collective, pioneering netlabel, will release, completely free of charge, a new Esem album - consisting of 13 tracks of 100% new material, never before released and never before heard. The tracks will be available as a stream from the website from the 10th of October so you can whet your appetite, and then made available on the 13th as a podcast and ogg vorbis format direct download. For more information as it happens, subscribe to the Kahvi Collective RSS Feed on the website. http://www.kahvi.org ---------------------------------------------- |
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Hey, guys, they have at least another year to go before they call it quits. And they still have plans to finish off 50 vinyl and 50 cd, so there is a lot of stuff still to come. penexpers: Skam was never as good as merck. |
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Skam is a large amount better than Merck |
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at least they're getting with the times. |
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well, a most of the music which has surprised and pleased me recently (last few months) is from merck, so I have respect. in particular, merck mix 2 is fucking ridiculous, but I've already said that.. even JAroen recommends it, oooooohh |
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Okay, fine, I'll admit that I don't know Merck well enough to judge. All I know is Proem, Adam Johnson, and Ilkae. Ilkae I like. Adam Johnson, a couple good songs but overall I don't like. And I tried to listen to Proem but to me it sounded generic and boring. |
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if you have a chance get merck mix 2. Due to how much I liked that I also nabbed mix 3, which isn't as good, but still nice. Note that I still most prefer things that are primarily tonic and melodic, so I'm definitely not preaching that this is your most 'cutting edge idm', which is such a retarded term that it sounds like an insult, so I shouldn't have said it. but what I can say concretely is that that mix has lots of different flavors of that breed of electronica, and it doesn't get that boring. always finding new tracks I like in it. I'm going to make a HUGE fucking purchase from them soon, because honestly I've had a much higher signal/noise ratio with what of theirs I've checked out then anything in the last -two-years- (the last such music binge being when I found autechre.. which I sadly don't listen to very much these days). |
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I will listen to the mix, do you have it on soulseek? I'm getting into The Hafler Trio right now, it's great and he's got a lot of material. I'll probably spend much more time getting into than I have with autechre. |
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awww |
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it should be visible on slsk, I've seen it there.. to double check, it has 36 tracks, the last one being ilkae-elve. search for merck mix and maybe that'll get all the hits (it's not always labelled as #2) |
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Merck brought us Machine Drum, proswell, decepticon, jimmy edgar, ilkae, mr projectile, and landau. These are just the ones off the top of my head. Sure a lot of their stuff is derivative, but for the ammount of crap that most 'underground' electronic labels have produced, there is a much higher average of gold being released by Merck. I don't care what most people say about skam. About the only thing they have going for them is bola. |
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i cant belive it |
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too bad i already sold all of the garbage i bought from that shitty label, maybe i could have made a profit later on. |
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booooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
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ok, that was mean. i'm sorry, merck. |
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Stick to your guns mimi, they suXX0rZZZZZZZZ |
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No great loss for me. Other than Ilkae (who I'm not a massive fan of, but can see the appeal), there's no one on their roster I've ever been impressed by. |
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Fuck. Bad news |
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i wonder which IDM label will be next? |
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Sublight I expect. |
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about time too.. |
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You don't mean that, do you? |
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i feel a bit sory for the people working there, but i couldn't care less about the music :-) |
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You guys don't even get it. They were a consistent label that released a certain kind of music for a specific audience. Honestly, merck is the only "IDM" label that I have been regularly happy with. They were also one of the few labels that had the "download our music if you want, if you like it then throw us or the artist a couple dollars". That kind of an attitude is rare among established underground labels. They were also one of the few that made sure everything they put out was quality, from the art to the music. Even if you don't like the music (which is wrong, I don't see how people can be raving about sublight and dissing this label - I guess the people into IDM only want bullshit dsp antics without any soul which is why I am glad all the vanity labels aren't lasting), you at least have to respect the attitude. As well, this wasn't some vanity label that some half rate IDM icon threw together to saturate the scene like reflex, mu, skam, sublight, what have you. This was someone releasing music that they enjoyed. |
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i bought two samplers and found them boring..never had any interest in checking out their stuff..not my thing. |
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Fuck. off. you. whiny. git. |
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God, I love Hobbes. I'm no financial guru but the "download our music if you want, if you like it then throw us or the artist a couple dollars" policy, if that was really the case, probably didn't help matters. I really want to make a joke about a full length Koch, and how much I'd like to get my hands on it and shove it in my ears. |
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Whatever. Do you think that it made people more or less likely to downoad there music? Neither. It was just a cool attitude. The world needs more labels like that and some of you guys are stuck on dissing them. This scene sucks. Two of the more noticable messageboards are stuck spending the entire time dissing their members and eachother and waxing intelectual about their girlfriends first names and trying to piss of the moderators in an attempt to seem edgy. All the fans are confused and perpetually stuck in this vicious self indulgent 'me' phase, all the labels seem to be focused on releasing shitty immitations of whatever albums managed to sell 200 copies and all the artists that originally were praised for their innovations are now just releasing the same albums they did the year before. The soul is gone. Whatever. If you guys want me to fuck off, then I am going to fuck off. |
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IDM (or whatever you want to call it) is a niche interest. It's the Dungeons & Dragons of music. There's no winners in this game. |
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I was only using IDM to get girls. |
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Taxi- I'm actually feeling you on this one. Its one of the most solid, well constructed labels to grace us. And believe it or not, its not all just icey IDM shit. They spanned enough to keep it interesting AND their packaging is top notch. ie- Adam Johnson just for starters. As I said elsewhere, I hope this doesnt lead to a breakcore monopoly or anything. I really liked 98% of the stuff they released. I cant say the same for µ, warp, reflex, skam, sublight, neo ouija, or schematic. this really sucks. |
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I hope this doesnt lead to a breakcore monopoly or anything. Goddamn, m3rck's gone down, the last defender of Icy Glitch, now who the hell's gonna hold back those Breakcore mofos? Shit they're coming over the walls... AHGGGGHHH - That's right bitches, suck my cut up breeeaaakkkzzz!!!! Aggh, it's like 8-Bit gone mental!!!! Give 'em a taste of the Koch!!! |
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yea... i know a bit about the situation... although i haven't talked to gabe(merck, yea it's one person) in a long time. let's just put it this way... it's always been hard running m3rck, harder then other record labels, not because it doesn't sell well... but for other reasons which i don't feel is my right to explain here. anyways, merck was an era of my life that in many ways i'm still caught all up in... i'll be walking into a new class at the U of M and someone will say, "you're that dude from tiki obmar?" it's fucking hell. but i thank merck for the help anyways. |
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I first want to start by saying that yes that attitude is cool. It seems welcoming and is certainly a different approach. But your comment about these message boards i would like to address. If there was an outstanding output of IDM style music it would surely get discussed. Find the 80 trillion analord/untilted whatever threads and you'll see People are are in need of quality. That comes in two forms here. Music and Us. If the music scene isnt up to quality then that doesnt leave much to discuss. There are only a handful of superb artists that are worth discussion. As i learn more and grow in music i realize that it is not specifically IDM that i should pay attention to. In fact minimal dub and glitch (for example) hold some real gems. IDM can only go so far before it runs out of steam and perhaps we will see a revival of sorts but there are only a number of artists that are carrying this dying genre on its shoulders. |
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no need to throw a tibbar.. |
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whatever, it's HIS face. |
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