Re: Ninja Tune/Shadow records cash-in controversy

From: 21st century soul (emote@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 20:26:41 CET

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    > this brings up another good point....
    > Instinct, which I believe was a completely separate entity from Shadow,
    > introduced me to Compost Records (ala their domestically releasing of
    > Compost's Future Sound of Jazz comps). This opened the floodgates to so
    > much great music from that label (Beanfield being another personal fav)

    shadow and instinct are the same company.
    ahh, but this brings up even another good point, that instinct found the
    need to change tracklists/cover art for most of what they liscensed from
    ninja, compost, freerange, etc, for reasons completely unknown. why fuck
    with it?

    the worst part, as jeff ninja stated and shadow/instinct have been doing for
    years, is that they will license an album and then mine the tracks for
    compilation after compilation for years to come. go through their back
    catalogue and look how many of the same artists keep popping up (and in some
    cases the same damn tracks!). i will ALWAYS recommend the original import
    versions of most of those albums over their instinct versions.

    mikebee



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