Rapid Eye Electronics LtdThere should be a Music Strike for a year. No new music released, just promotion of old back catalogues / reprints to encourage further and deeper digging - also now this older music will have sunk in a bit & be able to reviewed afresh. This started off as a bit of a throwaway joke but… obviously I don’t mean #RecordStoreDay revamps of Pink Floyd or whatever but just albums that appeared, got good reviews and then sold less than a 1000 copies before sinking under the tide of the release schedule
The ‘sinking in’ bit is crucial & crucially missed; newness in all its forms is insidious & perhaps harmful; so many great little releases over past 20 years or so that just exploded & then almost immediately disappeared from view so only those very hip to the trends gained access.
So, a deep dive into #KemilliasetYstavat or #HackerFarm or #Ekoplekz or #sunburnedhandoftheman or early #Gabba or #Circle or even #Comus or #FourTet or #VenetianSnares etc - but mostly music that sneaks between the cracks, that should have sold by the 1000s but ended up getting wild reviews and selling to just 300 cool kids…
Blog Of The Pops@REEL There also has been music that was released between, say, 2006-2012 that's in danger of disappearing altogether, caught in a void between the decline in CD sales and the 'vinyl revival'. I know of a club tune that seems to have disappeared into thin air despite several searches; it got airplay on at least one radio station though physical sales must have been very low. This was on Spotify for a while but has now also vanished from there as far as I can tell. Discogs draws a blank as well.