who cares about where your music reachs?

[Dustin Zahn]

I'm speaking of a lot of stuff similar to Jaxx distribution and Pure Plastic distribution's catalogs. If they carry that stuff on a regular basis I'd be a fan.

[Joseph Isaac]

I think distributors need to drop about half their roster and focus on pushing their roster harder to more shops and people around the world. The reason the numbers are horrible is because you can't get half the shit except for in select areas.

Well put.

[DJPAUZE]

Sup lukas my man! I read the posts here and like you said Henry said it all down to the point. In my opinion to strive there you gotta buy online. Its the only way to survive. Thats what i was doing down there and thats what you will have to continue doing because Techno Records just won't cut it for ya.

Good Luck
Take Care
Frankie Pauze

PS: Lukas you ****in rock brotha, u can do shit with old records on three decks like no one else can. So keep your head up your time is coming!

[DJVirulent]

One thing that sort of peeves me off right now about US techno buyers in general is the fact that, despite rising costs, most shops still view domestic labels (and especially labels cut here) as "inferior". Unless it's shipped over and pressed/mastered/distributed in Europe, most people will not buy it...period. Even worse, those well-meaning souls here who DO ship their own labels across the pond for mastering/distribution can expect numerous problems (such as massive delays) simply due to the trans-Atlantic nature of the relationship. Two of the tracks I've had released on European-distributed US labels this year were both almost two years old by the time they were released!

I can understand there was a time when this was a logical argument, as for a few extra dollars you got a record that just sounded so much better...but times have changed. Right now Rhythmic is distributing a whole mess of quality labels such as Infrastructure, Pacific Technics, Azure, Enemy and (BSP alert) Beretta Music to name a few, and the mastering and cutting on most if not all of these labels is done by Tim Xavier who is by far one of the most naturally-talented pair of ears for that sort of thing. I think that US techno buyers need to give the hard-working artists and label owners in their own country a fair shake for once, and think twice before buying up everything coming out of ELP Medien while eschewing such domestic distributors.

As far as buying online, I agree. I live in a college town where the local record shop hasn't a clue about what real techno is, and as such their bins are full of the newest trance/DnB with the occasional year-old techno record from some bigger label. Therefore, if I want to stay current it's either I order online or go shopping in Chicago/Detroit...and even then I rarely find what I really want with the latter option. It's a necessary evil, I suppose.

[Dustin Zahn]

At the same time, while it's quite arguable...there was a whole lot of crap coming out of the U.S. for quite a while as well. Things are getting a lot better and there is a lot of cool labels popping up, but for a while there were only a couple non-ur/detroit related labels that carried the same quality rate as the european labels imo. Now that computer production is becoming the norm, we're starting to see solid producers popping up all over and I think the stereotyping on record orders is slowly begining to fade to black.

[jake]

ur music needs to reach the streets!!!!!

[ANDROID]

I'm with Dave the Drummer!!!!Lukas give me your adress i will mail you few promos and if i would live in Brasil i would use "FINAL SCRATCH" download for free play all brand new music all night + your own.

[Fabrizio]

Android, the matter is that some people dont see final scratch with very good eyes here, they kinda have a predigism against it bcs you´re not buying and paying for the records.

[Fabrizio]

Also forgot to mention that is kinda hard to get the all the latest and the not so popular tracks on the internet....

There was a campaign here called "Pro-Vinyl" wich had as a goal to end with the Vinyl import tax so they distributed some info, made a website and bottoms but that was all, they were supposed to make a document and deliver it to the government but they actually never did.... Very sad :cry: