cichlisuite Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 i hope this hasn't been posted yet hello all.... first mail out of 2009! A new year, a new round with new chances. And a good moment for some fresh ideas and make some changes... * Closure of the Clone record label* After running the label since 1993/ 94 we recently noticed that we were going to repeat ourselves. We started as a label influenced by the first wave of techno and house labels who were just releasing music for the sake of good and personal music (we cloned what they did... by just having fun and release music which we enjoyed ourselves). We have started very immature and without having an idea in mind that we we're going to make this a business... At that moment we were exploring the field of minimalish techno and acid. Then our attention slowly moved to electro, post Detroit techno and the new sonic territories with modern electronica. We've had the return of disco in the late 90's and the nu-disco thing and a fusi on of styles in the early '00. Simultaneously we've released dark electro techno, campy nu-disco ,advanced modern electronica and personal favorites in the rebound. Artists developed into different directions and there is not much we haven't touched in our field... from very 'obscure' records to 'underground' dance floor hits that got big festival crowds and balearic holiday ravers moving. So what is there left to do? Basically there is no challenge at this moment... we can continue releasing everything we like (from people we like) without a marketing strategy and without a potential buyers in mind as we used to do... but we already did so for many years. At this moment we don't understand the popularity of many artists and releases....or... actually we do!. We do, to a certain level, because we've tried many things when we just started our journey into music when we were teenagers and when we started the label +/- 15 years ago! By now we do understan d the tricks and formulas of dance music and the different users. However using these tricks and formulas just to ensure maximum effect would be betrayal to our own musical ethics because our goal with Clone records is to entertain ourself with the music we release (and to be clear... with the music...and not the side effects). Somehow we feel we've had an almost complete life cycle of personal evolution in dance music and thats also how we developed the label into a versatile label which is releasing different styles of dance music for different purposes. Its a difficult decision because the label is doing very well and we get warm reactions from the strangest places in this world and we could do this for another 10 years! But in order to remain passioned about what we do, we feel we should not continue the label as it is.. so we won't. but no worries.. there will be new things coming, but its just not exactly clear what, how (and when). More news on th at in a few weeks time! There will be to two remaining releases (scheduled for Februari.) C#55 - I-f ft Fred Ventura/ Ajello - I cut my heart out (Craig Richards edit)/ I'm ready C#56 - Marco Bernardi - Mystery Of Nazerus (plus a limited Marcus Bernardi rmx 12") then it will be quiet on the label... oh.. and Clone Clasic Cuts still has some releases lined up (incl a Unit Moebius CD release), so for now we don't know what will happen with that.. but most likely we will continue with the Classic Cuts Series. anyway.....back to business as usual... :-)" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 fuck it. first transient force, now clone. who's next? rephlex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 music is dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 fuck it. first transient force, now clone. who's next? rephlex? ITS NOT OVER. WE WILL BE BACK IN 09!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, it doesn't really say in that letter from Clone that they are calling it quits. It seems more like they are just changing things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 that email makes sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 anyway, rephlex died the day they signed wispman lolololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 who the fuck is wispman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 you don't know wispman? dude, you're like, so not cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
posture Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 fuck it. first transient force wow, I didn't even realize that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest boo Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hmm. It could have been a lie or I imagined it but i thought someone here (Impakt?) was going to have something out on Clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hmm. It could have been a lie or I imagined it but i thought someone here (Impakt?) was going to have something out on Clone. no, EOD was about to release something that would get distributed by clone. if i got it right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hmm. It could have been a lie or I imagined it but i thought someone here (Impakt?) was going to have something out on Clone. no, EOD was about to release something that would get distributed by clone. if i got it right i think EOD has a Lp coming out on marguerita maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boo Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 ah yea. so it would probably be on DUB Recordings I guess. Hmm. It could have been a lie or I imagined it but i thought someone here (Impakt?) was going to have something out on Clone. no, EOD was about to release something that would get distributed by clone. if i got it right i think EOD has a Lp coming out on marguerita maybe would make sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 you don't know wispman? dude, you're like, so not cool I must be horrifically uncool because I have no idea who wispman is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 no, it's gonna be on Batcock Records™ i'm told you don't know wispman? dude, you're like, so not cool I must be horrifically uncool because I have no idea who wispman is. wisp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 oh yeah i get it now if you take the last 3 letters away from wispman you get wisp wow neat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moo duck Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 what's bad? they are more like distribution & shop giving lifecycle to a lot of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berk Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 facep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tidbit Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 dang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 LOL @ record labels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 no, it's gonna be on Batcock Records™ i'm told you don't know wispman? dude, you're like, so not cool I must be horrifically uncool because I have no idea who wispman is. wisp Ohhhh that guy. I think he has an album coming out on Rephlex soon. I can't remember the name of it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 shimmering glower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 shimmering glower That sounds about right. When is that supposed to come out again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Super lurker ultra V12 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 25th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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