BYE BYE VINYL
February 7th, 2010
As from catalogue number Man 044, Man Recordings will no longer manufacture vinyl records. It´s a sad decision, but the recent bankruptcy of our distribution agent MDM and the increasingly difficult taks of making a profit from selling records we decided: No more vinyls!
This comes with mixed feelings: I adore vinyl for its sound, it´s cover artwork culture, it´s longevity. There´s no better thing to dig in your own record collection and find a long-forgotton vinyl that still sounds dope today. But nevertheless: Vinyl for dance music is increasingly less wanted, the average of sales figures for a dance music 12″ is nowadays 250-400 copies sold – worlwide. And this is not only concering Man Recordings releases but rumours say that even hyped up labels like Edbanger dont break the 500 vinyl barrier.
When you continously dont sell enough product to break even, you have to switch to a format that is easy to manufacture and distribute: Digital. And finally, let´s face it: No one plays vinyls in clubs anymore, except for disco or minimal DJs. No big sorrows please, vinyl has to go. So we can still continue to put out good music in the future.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
sad sad news !
February 7th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Shit man – dark times.
February 7th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
:_( sad sad decision….but about your cit “No one plays vinyls in clubs anymore, except for disco or minimal DJs” i want to add two excepions: dubstep & dnb…all the people i know in the underground scene of Torino like so much vinyl sound!!!
anyway good work daniel…
peace&dub
nhertz_kappy
February 7th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
very, very said strory, you released the best (not only sound) quality ghettotech music worldwide
but we’ll still love you for what you do
February 8th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Quality of output is of the utmost importance don’t you think?
February 8th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Oh come on, don’t be nostalgic y’all! To be honest, apart from all the glorification due to its past central role in club culture, vinyl as a medium pretty much sucked anyway: It’s heavy, large, contains a small quantity of music with a fading qualitiy of sound, produces high delivery expenses and intense environmental consequences… Today it’s nothing more than a decadent status symbol for disco yuppies.
At the end of the day, I don’t care if you sell your music on vinyl, as mp3 or as a sounding transdermal plaster, as long as you keep dropping great tunes!
February 8th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I totally agree. There´s so many more advantages not making vinyl anymore, just the fact that in Germany you have to pay GEMA (=the German collecting society) for every record manufactured is a pain in the ass – especially if the records wont sell as expected and you sit on 750 returned vinyls. And of course not to mention the hassle with pressing plants, cutting studios, incompetent vinyl distributors, etc. etc!
February 9th, 2010 at 8:17 am
baaaad news….
February 11th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Oh man, very sad news for me and the vinyl business. Just when I got the vinyl bug. Have to rush to get the records from MAN I wanted on vinyl now.
February 19th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
hey daniel,
no worries!! thx for the partnership over the years! we were and are still proud to present the hole man recordings stuff in our shop! and u know – we still have a big backstock of this shiiiiiiit!!
stay tuned MAN !!!
greetings
markus
oye reocord store berlin
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:52 pm
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