good call with regards to marking up the sleeves, anx! I must admit to doing that meself, and going even one further by jotting down some notes about the A and the B. MaxMin as a label is certainly not about the big obvious hook; musically it does not give anything away for free. We deck techincians have to work a little bit in our own studios by putting in the time to really give those releases a good hard listen. There have been a more than a few whereupon first listen I would think, "not much happening in this track" only to give it another go some days later (maybe just in headphones) and see something really clever in it. Still it is damn hard to keep all the MaxMin sorted, hence the resort to scrawing all over the sleeves...

Despite the super high-quality output that MaxMin is capable of, they have distributed their fair share of filler. Bleep bleep Bloop cranka chinka chunka for eight minutes on and no plot resolution really pisses me off as imports are not cheap here in the States. Glad to see that others have noted the rapidity in which MM has put out tracks and resultant quality control problems. Chris Lib seems like a "from the gut and heart" kind of guy so I don't think its about trying to gouge collectors. Any ideas on this score from any of you who have worked at labels? What goes?

As for MM "not being dacefloor stuff" by and large I have to agree, but don't really mind: I think its great that there is a label that is not preoccupied with making music solely for people to dance to *gasp*! (not to worry, there's plenty of that about). Ta for making some tracks for the heads and thanks for the trippy bangers that you can plunk down on an unsuspecting club that is just coming up...

out,
kangxi