I understand their loss in sales due to compilation albums, but honestly if these were well managed businesses they would find other ways to deal with their financial status. They signed too many artists in the first place and didn't do a good job of market research before they released a lot of their songs. If they realized their CD sales were down, they should've cut back on costs of producing CDs and put the money towards promotions. Etc...

And Rakoon also made a good point. Those who never bought vinyl in the first place and are downloading mp3s are doing nothing to hurt the record companies' vinyl sales. Face it guys, some people can't afford to spend $1000+ on tables and a mixer. And you criticize these people for trying to pursue a genre they love simply because they don't have some disposable income?

And then there are those who didn't by vinyls before, but developed a vested interest in the music and, from hearing the tracks on mp3, started buying vinyls (such as myself). I wanted to start supporting the artists.

I think in the end, mp3s only helped, and it is a sad cop-out to blame their problems on them.

label smabel... plenty of labels out there.. music will keep on coming...

The point is, what really matters here is PRODUCERS/DJs & not the label.
I know that title -BONZAI- means quality but nobody need all the fucking sublables ?!
We only need the best producers & only one label
I sure that Airwave & M.I.K.E will open their own labels or together one label, that all we need

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Originally posted by cluBBer The point is, what really matters here is PRODUCERS/DJs & not the label. I know that title -BONZAI- means quality but nobody need all the fucking sublables ?! We only need the best producers & only one label I sure that Airwave & M.I.K.E will open their own labels or together one label, that all we need

airwave has his own label

i'm crying....a part of me will die...i want a rope...

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Originally posted by trancedfarmer airwave has his own label

Green Martian is another sub label from lightning..

MP3 Downloads - not an excuse.

No MP3 = Less international (particularly North American) exposure, less international demand, less international sales. More local sales since there's less piracy.

MP3 = International exposure, demand & a few more sales; a few less local sales due to piracy. (I'm not counting foreign piracy in this case because if the "foreigns" didn't become familiar with the works via MP3 piracy, none of them would buy it anyway. Download alone = no money, no download+no sale = no money; same thing)

Both situations probably amount to about the same sales levels.


Compilations - not an excuse.

Lost money from low compilation sales vs vinyl? Go to a store, look how much an entire compilation costs, then look how expensive ONE VINYL WITH TWO SONGS ON IT is. More money from compilations? WTF??? "But the vinyl is only bought by DJs. The comps are what the general public buy." Given the awful commercial dance crap on the radio these days, if you're Joe Public, would YOU take a chance on Super Trance Volume 5??


I have a theory that Lightning were doing deals with organized crime. One party screwed the other party out of $$$ or someone slept with the wrong chick; then five big gun-toting guys in pin striped suits came busting into the head office and said, "All right you trance ******s, this rave is over! WE'RE SHUTTING YOU DOWN!"

Then again, I could be just blowing chunks.

Last edited by Taz on Mar-06-2003 at 18:51

Damn ! This is one of the best labels in the world , it's so sad to see them go ...

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