midnightminustwo label sampler / 30min freebie

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Hi.

This is a 30minute sampler of tracks forthcoming on our label, midnightminustwo (mmii).



Tracklisting
James Fox - Imagine That
OG - The Seeker
Clodhoppa - The Drop
James Fox - Xylophone
OG - Drc
Clodhoppa - Long Grass (feat. Miss T)

download / inc. artwork

Manifesto
Yes, we have a manifesto. It makes us feel all important and stuff.

It’s the digital age, there’s no getting away from it. It’s egalitarian, it’s liberating, it’s opened the floodgates, along with technology that turned the spare bedroom in every 3rd house into a studio. In the age of free downloads, p2p sharing and the whole social networking thing, where everyone can be the next Lily Allen, we still believe that there is room for a traditional ‘record’ company to exist, so long as it follows some basic rules. So, we use modern media and classic ideas. Releasing in digital, but making sure that the listener gets the same feeling you get unwrapping a new cd; cohesive releases spanning genres, quality artwork to print and keep, stringent quality control and sticking to our guns when it comes to what we want to release. We know it when we hear it. So will you.

Any label’s lifeblood is (or at least should be) its artists. Apart from the obvious fact that without them you’d have nothing to release, artist development and involvement is crucial at this grass roots level. It’s as much about attitude as it is chord progression, good music always has been. Put it this way, if you’d rather listen to Johnny Cash playing one chord, or a whole Katie Melua concert, which would you pick? (by the way, if the answer’s a Katie Melua concert, sorry for wasting your time, you can probably stop reading now). We sign people we believe in, people with passion, and people who believe in our passion too.

Patience is a virtue, and we’re not in the business of providing you with fast food. mmii’s main concern is releases with longevity, releases you want to phone people up and talk about, releases that you pick up again in a year and hear new things for the first time.

Links
mmii / myspace / mmii on Twitter / mmii on Soundcloud / mmii on last.fm / mmii mailing list

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Whoops, direct download link is here