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Single pricing.
by Alan Evil 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

A few years back Tower Records adopted an almost zero profit price point for cd singles to help push the format. I think they were "making" about ten or fifteen cents over wholesale. This was, of course, predicated by an actual price reduction from the record companies so they really were able to make a little bit on them. Mostly they considered it a way to help artists on the charts and pull customers into the store. 45rpm singles were similarly priced back in the day. Someone somewhere is still making some cash on these things. Once you get over 5000 copies a fully wrapped cd with a nice booklet costs about a dollar to produce. I can betcha the artists are getting less than ten cents per single... I wonder who's getting the money. I was thinking about buying a new copy of Chill Out the other day and found a copy... for $14.99!!! It's criminal. I bet in real dollars artists are getting less money per cd than they were getting for lps at the end of their life. Remember those days? A brand new release was full price of about $10. Now since 1991 or so I really don't think the value of the dollar has dropped by half yet a new release is $20. That's insane. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to press a cd is than an lp. In the event that any of you get offered a recording contract, get a good lawyer. Don't sign ANYTHING until you've spent hours pouring over it with a good entertainment lawyer. This is especially true of major labels but even a lot of the little guys are as bad are worse. One item that often appears even now is a "new media royalty reduction"... for cds! This is often more than a 15% reduction in the royalties paid to artists, even though more likely than not cd is the ONLY format their album will be released on. There is also a zero royalties clause for samplers. Rounder records is notorious for their use of this clause. They sell tens of thousands of samplers at super cheap rates and none of the artists make a penny. Admittedly the exposure is good and the money allows the company to expand but I think the artists would be better served if their cds were priced lower and the compilations were priced a little higher and they got paid for all of it. Rounder doesn't produce any electronic music so I'm getting way offbase here. Most electronic labels are started with compilations the songs for which they pay standard mechanical royalties so artists do make some money. Your favorite windbag, Alan Evil p.s. I'd like to apologize to both of you that asked about the lack of live shows this weekend. I've been remastering some material from the 80's (not mine but still a huge project) and fighting with the internet in trying to get a mailing list up and running and such. I promise I'll do a new show this weekend. I'm leaving to work now but I've got the ShoutCast thing running if you'd like to hear stuff from the last three months, over six hours of live mixes: www.ifpr.homestead.com/ifprradio.html Institute for Psychic Reform Change your Mind www.psychicreform.com

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Starecase
by bytesizenun＠netscape.net 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

If I remember correctly, the Starecase Mix was an online only 'release' for some time. I suppose they got permission to release it on the DMC release a short while later. http://arizona.rave.victoria.bc.ca/starecase.html ------------------------------------ m a r t Â l e p p i k Â - Â floor115 ------------------------------------ __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Pink Floyd Remixes
by Felix Atagong 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

And Guy Pratt is married with Gala Wright, the daughter of Pink Floyd's keyboard player Richard (Rick) Wright (if he hasn't divorced of course). And LX did the very excellent remix of a solo track of Rick Wright. (Well, a track from his solo album Broken China actually, but in fact it was composed by another bloke, can't remember the name though, can't look it up either as my PC blew up that had all my musical references, downloads, etc... including those of The Orb! - 't will be a long Xmas season trying to find everything back on the net, Cydonia v1, FFWD, etc...) Reg Felix

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Pink Floyd Remixes
by daniel gilbride 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Somebody back me up here: Those so-called Orb Pink Floyd remixes are TOTALLY fake shit, right? Tell me I'm not crazy! I mean, GOD!!! They make me want to puke! _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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once more?
by patrick.gariup＠sympatico.ca 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

There's been a lot of dumping on of late on one of my favorite tunes off of Cydonia [Once More]. The green single with "Mark's Steamroller Mix" is quite pleasureable to listen to if you have 2 copies and just bounce them off each other.Sorry can't xplain just give it a whirl.......! Pat

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Re: [Orb] AHEGB - darren emerson mix?
by Audiopimp . 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

I've had this mp3 for a while too,(Starecase Mix) early 2000 actually. I got it from a website for remixes and stuff... the site no longer has free mp3's (can't think of the site name anyway) The remix band is Starecase and they've done a couple other band remixes... I remember now, the nameless site also had a Once More Dubish remix just before the webmaster ran out of money and discontinued the downloads. I'll see if I can figure out more info... >hi smiley > >i've had this starecase version on my HD for a while now and >wondered from where it came - thanks for the pointer :) > >having just compared the two - the darren emerson cd, as >matt pointed out, seems to include a standard no frills version >of AHEGB.... > >cheers'n'peace > >orbscureDDJ > >++ KDX Server - Tranquility Bass @ orbscureddj.dyndns.org ++ >++ Soulseek room - The Orb ++ > >n/p - groovin with you (intergalactic harbour mix) by the gentle people > > > ...i did recently pick up a DMC dj-only 12", which is > > part of their "House Nation" series - this one is > > "House Nation 205" (they're currently up to no.239), > > and the a-side is: > > > > AHEG: STARECASE REMIX (135 bpm) > > > > ...which is a fairly uptempo mix, with no vocals. > > > > could be this one?? then again... > > >_______________________________________________ >Orb mailing list >Orb(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re: [Orb] AHEGB - darren emerson mix?
by Smiley 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

mr matt wrote: > Nah, it's a pretty "normal" mix...doesn't sound like > a new mix or anything....can't remember which one it > is though. i haven't heard this, so can't tell, but... ...i did recently pick up a DMC dj-only 12", which is part of their "House Nation" series - this one is "House Nation 205" (they're currently up to no.239), and the a-side is: AHEG: STARECASE REMIX (135 bpm) ...which is a fairly uptempo mix, with no vocals. could be this one?? then again... --- Smiley __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: [Orb] (no subject)
by Dunferorb＠aol.com 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

orb is nowhere

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AHEGB - darren emerson mix?
by Orbscure 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

hi all... can anybody confirm if the "up-tempo remix of the orb's a huge ever growing brain.." (AMG website description, not mine) on the "global underground uruguary" cd mixed by darren emerson is any different that other versions floating about? tia'n'peace, orbscureDDJ ++ KDX Server - Tranquility Bass @ orbscureddj.dyndns,org ++ ++ Soulseek channel - #the orb ++ n/p outta space (accordion department mix) by jimi tenor

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Freaky Laughter
by Jason Hicks 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

that sta(r)ted with freaky laughter (forgot the name) Yeah, Freely Wheely, great track and it beats the hell out of the likes of Centuries which occupies about the same spot in the finished album. O.K., I'm done whining about a year old album now! Jason Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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