At 04:30 PM 4/28/2003 -0400, Andrea Kremer wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, kcronin wrote:
>
>> i mostly follow my nose to music i might
>> like, by following producers (like Brad Jones) or
>> families (like elephant 6) or band offshoots
>
>Wow, I thought *I* was the only one who followed producers. Brad Jones is
>one of my favorites as well, along with Q Division's Jon Lupfer and Mike
>Denneen (I follow labels, too.) :)

I got into both of these habits in junior high: for example, R.E.M.'s
MURMUR had extra legitimacy because it was on IRS, which was the Go-Go's
label.  Then, of course, anything produced by Mitch Easter had extra
legitimacy because of MURMUR, and so on and so on.  (The fact that the
first record I ever released bore the sainted legend "produced by Mitch
Easter" is one of the things I was proudest of about my label.)

Let's see, who else did I follow in those days?  I followed Trevor Horn's
production from ABC's THE LEXICON OF LOVE to Malcolm McLaren's DUCK ROCK to
the early Art of Noise.  Don Dixon was an offshoot of Mitch Easter courtesy
of MURMUR.  I forget where I first heard of Mike Thorne, but he was a TMQ
for a long while too.  And though it was fashionable to dislike them, Clive
Langer and Alan Winstanley made some fucking brilliant pop records!

Labels: IRS rarely steered me wrong, and there was a long stretch there
where there were simply NO bad records being released on Sire.  The design
geek in me always felt warmly towards 4AD and Factory/Factory
Benelux/Disques du Crepuscule, naturally.  Being signed to Epic was a
better bet than being signed to Columbia.  

S

NP: Vic Conrad and the First Third (psych-pop album of the year so far! Ice
Cream Hands fans take note: they sing backing vocals on two tracks)