Neuton Insolvency (Page 1 of 3)

Oh man. I just heard the rumour some weeks ago. Now it`s official. Shit. It is/was our main distribution and they owe us a lot of money...

Thanks elec. Now it is clearer. If they don`t get back to a normal level, they will be dead in march 2009, right? mmh.

btw, your post shows some parts of the letter in double.

@captain
dont hope to much. finding an investor for vinyl will not ne easy. but that they pay as much dues they have (also yours) will happen, THATS why they do that...

@x-bobo
its really bad to see one gone after the other...

...but what came first ?
...or is it like
a) capitalistic industry actually is a bankrupt machine
b) christian vogel is finally right and all music came to an end
c) everything will be tired out quite soon

who is christian vogel?

i found a cristian vogel on myspace but i'm not sold.

yeah that sounds bad, they're dropping like flies
at least there are many small labels that are very charming and true to the game,
that's the good side of today's business
(no it's not always about biz)
but if the advantages of some major distributors aren't available anymore it's getting
really hard..

stop talking and support vinyl .

whhooah, 500 releases for a major distributor, that's insane and shows today's reality.
in comparison, in the beginning of the 90s even primitive techno releases had issues of 10.000 and more;
and some of us are not alone with "release problems".

but while private pressings are far more flexible to handle, it's totally clear that
a big distributor/record company can't go on with average quantities of 500-2000..

anyway, none of these facts will ever convince me of "collecting" or "disc"jockeying mp3..

there will definitely be a time when vinyl manufacturing stops. Hopefully it's a long way off, but these are bad times for lots of industries.

"When young adult music beginners are forced to resort to acts such as Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams or the Rolling Stones, in other words the music that their fathers or grandfathers were listening to in their youth, this says a lot about the absence of innovation. As a result, interest in music as a whole is continuing to decline," says Kai Fraeger, adding that this is being exacerbated by some companies' insufficient capital resources, amateurish management qualities and dubious business models.

this paragraph seems to sum things up, but also seems like it might have been a cyclicle thing. If labels/ distributoirs whatver took more risks, things would be better?

yes, who knows. i have no clue what is coming. Combination of small vinyl editions and some mp3 sales might work for a while. Although it is harder without distro and everything goes slower, the do-it-yourself thing has the advantage that no further unit makes profit between label and recordstore and label and recordstores and record-collectors are in direct touch. But we can't handle more than 1 release per year this way, but that is fine with us anyway.

Btw, in our city and in Munich the biggest 2nd hand vinyl stores got more and more customers lately and had to move to a bigger shop. So, it is not a death on all fronts for vinyl.

also in Denmark there has been quite a media interest in vinyl lately. Like broadcasts from record fairs in the news and famous musician talks about there passion for vinyl etc. etc. I have a little hope that the trend of buying a physical product will raise in the future.