I like regular releases because of the record sleeve artwork. Plus it has the records' information. Also it would be a big headache looking through your crate and all the records being white labels.

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange does it really matter?

Not really, no.

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Only if the promo has something special about it, like extra tracks, uncleared samples that didn't make it to the full release, etc.

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I agree with the posts above.

Sometimes promos will have versions that differ from commercial release, and I'll sacrifice sleeve art and credits for the sake of those ones. (Hemstock & Jennings' "Reverence" is a good example, where the release, well, sucked compared to the promotional version)

Last edited by Cobalt on Mar-19-2006 at 20:48

i don't really care if it's a promo, but i don't like to buy represses...

only if it has something special the full release doesn't have... special mix or something...

if the ONLY difference is that it came out 2 months before the full release, then no... not really... but you can always "argue" that there are "fewer" promos than full releases...

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Originally posted by Floorfiller i don't really care if it's a promo, but i don't like to buy represses...

I have to disagree here, simply because there are some tracks which people want to own, and the only way they can own them is via a repress. If the track was very hard to find, then I think it's ok, but if it's just a repress of something that wasn't really hard to get before, it sucks. Some tracks are changed as mentioned from promo to full release, for example Ferry corsten watered down East vs West - the love i lost, and I'd kill for a promo IF it featured the version that oozed energy.

^you may disagree from the point of view that more people still want the track.... but if you're a collector and you've paid good money for a track in part because it's very limited and then bam all of a sudden it's repressed that sucks!

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Originally posted by keithos27 ^you may disagree from the point of view that more people still want the track.... but if you're a collector and you've paid good money for a track in part because it's very limited and then bam all of a sudden it's repressed that sucks!

Does that make the music worse somehow?

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^that sucks from a collector's point of view, not from a musical taste point of view...

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Originally posted by waxHead Only if the promo has something special about it, like extra tracks, uncleared samples that didn't make it to the full release, etc.

+1 ... otherwise; regular with (sometimes) cool artwork sleeves!

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Quoting Lucien Foort House was ooit house. Een gevoel, een scene, een stroming die recalcitrant was. Waar je 's middags in Outland Records, Basic Beat, Hotsound of Kareltje netjes op je beurt wachtte om platen te scoren die je in de nacht ging horen. Waar als Roderick & Anne Fleur gingen hockeyen, Jack stoer verklaarde: “Laat er house zijn en housemuziek werd geboren”. Waar ongelovigen toch predikten “God made me funky, and I’m glad He blessed me this way”.