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| quote: | Originally posted by Surfmorworkless
Shouldn't this be in music discussions? |
Actually, I'd say this should be in marketing discussions. A friend of mine used to work at Kinetic Records, the label that put out the Tranceport series, which Oakey did the first of. My buddy is talking to him just before they're ready to go to press with the cd inlays, and asks him "so what's the tracklisting?". Oakey says "I dunno". The album had been mixed & mastered, but he didn't know a single track on it... he had nothing to do with it. They just took the best selling trance tracks at Satellite records at the time, mixed them together, and slapped his name on it. The guy set the foundation of a lot of what we know as clubland today, don't get me wrong, but he's a brand name now.
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