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offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-12-02 18:33 [#00465420]
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Okay I was out doing exciting stuff such as grocery
shopping Paying Bills etc in the Sweltering December Heat
and naturally I started thinking about Gantz Graf..and how
since Tri Repetae Autechre has been systematically
fragmenting and splitting it's fan base with each subsequent
release..alienating some while acquiring some new listeners
as well (I got on Board with Tri..stuff before that was just
secondary to Aphex in my book)...

But knowing what small fan bases IDM possess with artists
and labels contantaly woeing (is that a word?) about lack of
funds even to produce fully fledged booklets (thanks J_HOK
for that first hand insight)..how much splitting and
fragmenting can this small pool take?

Aphex on the other hands seems to have shrewdly acquired a
growing fan base with each release and done so without
resorting to the hippy dippy music of that Hippy Dippy band
with obvious mass appeals...

My point is..does anyone know like sales figures to indicate
how well or unwell the response to each of these Autechre
releases was..did they increase
decreas..flatlined..etc..etc..

and I just read on Monoid's thread about the next Autechre
being the most accessible...ahem

does inevitability beckon or what?

 

offline Toejam from Perth (Australia) on 2002-12-02 18:43 [#00465433]
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Too complicated...don't know enough about Autechre and
finance to answer your question.

Sorry! :(

 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-12-02 18:53 [#00465444]
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I think ae geniunely do not care. don't underestimate it -
sometimes it seems that the small fanbase that ae have is
stronger and more "devoted" than the so-called AFX fanbase.
with AFX, people drop in more easily and drop out just as
easily. with ae, once you're in, you are in.

or summit like that..

 

offline Iroel from Pisa (Italy) on 2002-12-02 19:08 [#00465464]
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I agree with qrter on the fan-base...

And sincerely I don`t believe the AE is that interested with
profit, they do what they like to do. Till now they have
never compromised their view for our tastes.

In an interview I read that they don`t even care to know how
many copies their album sold.


 

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