RUMOUR: Amato have gone bust

[theledge]

As for other techno labels - there are many people who are regularly selling out of 500+ presses.

Unfortunately 500 releases doesn't even cover the cost of pressing the record in the first place, as I'm sure you're well aware. It's peanuts sales - even if a lot of labels run at a slight loss, I'm not remotely surprised distributors are going under left right and centre when 500 copies is considered a success.

Continuing with vinyl just means that most labels are even more unwilling than usual to risk putting out music which is different, goes against the grain, might not sell....and at the moment that means everything is minimal. I agree with dirty bass on this, most of it doesn't feel much like techno to me either...

I love vinyl, and I love playing it, but the future is with us already and there's very little doubt its digital...

[davethedrummer]

of course the future is digital
there's no competition for it's sheer accessability

but vinyl is special

also you must remember that amato were selling a lot of different types of music
mainly house and commercial really

so if they've gone down after " shaking hands with the man "

what does that say to us?