j sparrow - posts some interesting revealing things

mIrReN · Post by **mIrReN** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:30 pm

best of luck! and thank you for the incredible tunes

hope to see some author anyway, one of the more nicest collabs in dubstep imho
hope to catch either one of u live some day, (or together!)

garethom · Post by **garethom** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:07 pm

cloaked_up wrote:
knell wrote:if the label broke the contract they could throw their songs up on bandcamp for a few dollars... all of the publicity from the fiasco might push it around the interwebs enough to get a decent return
dunno i just cant help but think that bandcamp is wack. the name irritates me, the homemade stuff you have to associate with on there...
it just seems fake to me. author music deserves a better outlet than that.
hold out for another proper label tbh

With a bit of effort, Bandcamp could kill it. At the moment, it's so hard to find stuff you'll want unless you're directly linked to it. If you as a user could create a custom shop (follow artists, labels, specific bandcamps, etc.) and have a homepage that updates with new stuff, label news, that'd be sick. Maybe you can do something of the sort already, but I know that if somebody's selling something on bandcamp rather than through a shop, I'll bag it off there, get more of the $$$ to the label/artist directly.

Do agree there is a tonne of shit on there though.

grillis · Post by **grillis** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:17 am

i see the mp3s for the album available on chemical records right now

antipode · Post by **antipode** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:12 am

jack sparrow1 wrote:Hey

just to set it straight...

Black Box set out with the best of intentions I'm sure for our album.
We have had an apology of sorts from Thinking and I can't go into any detail about the reasons why everything ended up the way it did.

We don't hold grudges and let bitterness eat us up which is why we are just going to forget this and move on.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you don't and its just unlucky that 2 out of 3 album didn't see the proper light of day.

There will be vinyl of the latest album and I am quite sure that Tectonic may repress the first album if they see enough demand.

We/I am not exclusive to any labels and just send out music when I have made it to labels and it goes from there and some people like and some don't.

I have given dubstep a lot of my time and neglected a lot of things in my personal life to keep pushing my music and keep trying to deliver quality products.

Comes a time when the cosmos just says "no" and deals a bad card.

luck of the draw!

Thank you to those that have continued to follow the sounds over the years and its only right people know what's going on that have had vested interests and built us up to what we have become.

Our goal with Author was to no be a product of the system and rattle around from magazine to magazine and mix to mix gaining hype. It was about an organic growth and not influencing passive listener and hyping it to the point where people didn't have a choice.

The Author stuff is really not for everyone and nor should it be and that's not elitist that's me being real.

I do hope we can release again in the future and bring something to the table but for now we will retreat and focus on playing the shows and waiting in vein for inspiration for the next project.

Real talk. All the best for the future mate! Peaks n troughs innit.

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:16 am

Good on you for clearing everything up Mr Sparrow and best of luck to you and Ruckspin.

Riddles · Post by **Riddles** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:16 pm

Looks like Gantz is having the same issues with his black box release

shame about this

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:47 pm

Riddles wrote:Looks like Gantz is having the same issues with his black box release shame about this

Sad to hear this going on from such a large label in the scene.

antipode · Post by **antipode** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:41 pm

paging dr thinking

sort it out

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:55 pm

Riddles wrote:Looks like Gantz is having the same issues with his black box release shame about this

yeh verry shit, to be honest i dont blame the label i blame shitty distribution companies and mp3's, theres no value in tunes any more....especially when i can post free albums on sc for nothing. wich is what gnatz is doing.....

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:00 pm

also would like to say bandcamp and sound cloud has devalued music, i dont think its bad for music, the listeners perception of music has changed over the last 5 or so years. music has become more expendable.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:11 pm

Actually I'd say soundcloud and bandcamp have put the value of music directly into the hands of the artists rather than traditional labels, publishers and retailers.
Now if you want to point a finger at something devaluing music I'd say the large streaming services like pandora, spotify etc have.

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:22 am

well you have a point but i was basically saying the fact that people have music at there finger tips they loose appreciation for it, just listen to the 1 minute clip on sc for free rather then buy it on viny. got a copy off my mate on a usb rather then have my own copy. shit like that. vinyl made the world go round everyone was happy

garethom · Post by **garethom** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:32 am

travis baker wrote: just listen to the 1 minute clip on sc for free rather then buy it on viny.

Do people actually do this though? Like, people that were even considering buying vinyl, would they just listen to a clip on soundcloud over and over rather than get the full product?

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:50 am

garethom wrote:
travis baker wrote: just listen to the 1 minute clip on sc for free rather then buy it on viny.
Do people actually do this though? Like, people that were even considering buying vinyl, would they just listen to a clip on soundcloud over and over rather than get the full product?

i have proof of it mate

garethom · Post by **garethom** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:51 am

Raa, bizarre choice then. Why would that person even buy vinyl in the first place?!

Lye_Form · Post by **Lye_Form** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:52 am

garethom wrote:Raa, bizarre choice then. Why would that person even buy vinyl in the first place?!

only the first 1 min is ever interesting tbh, all about the anticipation of whats going to happen innit.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:03 am

Maybe if they didn't push those couple of awful - disposable artists they have/had Black Box would be financially stable to actually put out good music.

That is my opinion anyways, everyone else seems to be bum off Kahn, Biome, Gants, Killwatt.. Those big releases all stopped me from contributing towards their future, their latest output is getting better but still haven't over come the destruction those guys did to their label.

Vinyl don't work anymore really either..

TopManLurka · Post by **TopManLurka** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:22 am

the cluekid release hardly got any promo either btw, less even than anything mentioned itt.

Lye_Form · Post by **Lye_Form** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:23 am

legend4ry wrote:Maybe if they didn't push those couple of awful - disposable artists they have/had Black Box would be financially stable to actually put out good music.

Wait are you saying Kahn, Biome, Gants, Killwatt are all awful - disposable artists?

murky21 · Post by **murky21** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:28 am

you're entitled to you're opinion Legendary obviously but i think thats a complete load of shit

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