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Long time lurker / rare poster here to flog my wares :) 4 track EP featuring dayglo UK Funky / loose House / broken UKG / jazzy 150 bpm Electro(?) https://www.junodownload.com/products/wascal-t-t-k-k-006/5067703-02/

This is amazing - cheers

For the next few days everything on http://wascal.bandcamp.com is free / name your own price :) 31 tracks of Bristol bass breaks and bleeps featuring tracks played by Machinedrum, MaryAnne Hobbs, Phaeleh, Oris Jay, Kid606, Grievous Angel, Si Begg, Tom Shorterz and many more. Fill your boots ;)

All about Duvet Vous in Easton for house in Bristol tbh.

Nice ;)

Looks like Chemical Records may be going down or at least restucturing: http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=276191&start=20

Latest update - so the couple of plants I've spoken to today have strongly advised against the 7" bass heavy dance idea. Fine for reggae, shit for beatmixing appears to be the consensus so 10"s it is. As for samples, still getting things together at the moment but once the remixes come in then...

@ Idle rich - for 10"s I was thinking about using Curved. I think the cost includes mastering by Lawrie Immersion of acid techno squat rave fame: http://curvedpressings.com/offers/12inch-10inch-vinyl/

Yep, I'm pretty sold on the concept of pressing 7"s, and the fact that both producers and listeners would have to work around its limitations. No reason not to apply these ideas to 10"s I suppose. One of these ideas, in some shape or form, coming to a blog / tumblr near you shortly...

I've only ever owned 2 - one from the Oink comic (home of Charlie Brooker's first writing gig) and a Manic Street Preachers album sampler from the NME in the early 90s. Both got trashed by poor attempts at scratching on my parents hifi standardly.

To be honest, I'd only be trying to change how 100 people DJ, and thats if I manage to sell them all ;) I've looked up costs for 10"s and its not that much more than a run of 7"s. I'm expecting to make a slight loss on pressing these anyway and will hopefully break even on the digital long...

It looks like there are still people out there who can: http://thewire.co.uk/news/23158/get-on-down-releasing-double-flexi-disc-dedicated-to-the-tr-909

I think thats a good call - 10"s it is then. Cheers for the input, its easy to go round in circles overthinking these things ;)

Thats true about the track lengths / volumes. The main reason I've been thinking about going for 7"s is that the 4 minute track time would force producers to cut the crap and concentrate their tunes to the essentials. So no 3 minute drum loop intro's, no pointless 2nd drops, no 128 bar...

The general plan for the label is to release quality underground tunes that just come in, do their thing once spectacularly and then end within 4 minutes. I'm hoping the time constraints could make for some interesting / unusual / very direct tracks, and the format could make people take notice...