Witch - Lazy Bones reissue
Mjukis
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I really dig this album and would like it on vinyl - but the reissue is damn pricey (43 bucks from DG).Are Now Again going to release a Witch anthology on vinyl? If so I'd rather wait for that...
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Is this part of the the anthology? Anything other than the two LPs?
Haha. Awesome! Exactly what I was thinking
Look for more Zamrock heat from them, too. I think they will be doing a Rikki Ililonga anthology also. I have his 'Zambia' Lp and it's sick.
I know nothing about the company but what's the deal with pressing 300 copies of this and charging that price? Shouldn't they be able to move 1000? Isn't afrorock hip in '10?
wow they had 5 albums?!? holy cow.
It seems like the Zambian rock scene was pretty deep, but the mortality rate for the OG vinyl (and the musicians themselves) was frightfully high. Finding originals is next to impossible and even if you do the vinyl is often the worst of the worst.
I've been fortunate enough to audition the master tapes and I can say that the Shadoks release isn't a bad pressing. It's lost a little in transition, but the Lazy Bones Shadoks put out came from a NM copy, so the sound isn't far off. They didn't need to use a lot of noise suppression or reduction etc...
That's part of the Shadoks appeal. When you buy Shadoks, there's a decent chance you're making an investment. Speed, Glue Shinki sells for $450 on Shadoks now. Beauregard Ajax is around $150 again. Simla Beat goes for $150, Victoria $150 etc... WITCH "Lazy Bones" (black vinyl) was selling $250 until Shadoks re-pressed it as a 2nd pressing on Blue vinyl, as they did with AMANAZ (which IMO is better then Witch) on yellow vinyl. Granted not all release go up in value, but they've created a boutique label and it seems to be keeping them in business.
Hey, every record label should do what works for them. Me personally though, I'd prefer to just be able to buy a reasonably priced reissue and not necessarily a Future Collectors Item. But I guess that's the way you stay in business selling reissues of obscure albums to the collectro market.
What irks me about them is that many of their early releases (until the recent ones) have fairly poor sound quality. Also, several of them are boots when licensing the material would have been easy (BLO, for example).
Yeah, when I say "works" and "stay in business" I mean "break even", basically.
But that's kind of weak - when you pay extra for a reissue you expect sound quality and legality (well, at least I do).
True. i hope they don't screw up their O Bando & O Terco reissues, but i've heard they've hit a brick wall with those in terms of licensing them. $45 is actually a pretty decent price for Shadoks reissues, in continental Europe some shops charge up to ?45 for their in print releases.