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[Paulie_p]

Extact from djmag.com:


The loss of Intergroove is a major blow for vinyl lovers
Intergroove go bust

Words: Terry Church

Dance music labels, vinyl lovers, and record shops are today mourning the death of one of the world’s biggest dance music distributors.

Intergroove UK, a distribution company that specialised in dance music vinyl and CD distribution, has gone bust.

The distributor, based in north-west London, supplied record shops around the world with tunes from a massive plethora of dance labels including Finger Lickin’, TCR, Adrift, Baroque, Four Twenty, Cocoon, Get Physical, Sex On Wax and Silver Planet.
Major Cog
It was, by all accounts, a major cog in the dance music distribution wheel, especially for the genres of house, techno and breakbeat.

An industry source said: “This is a major blow for the dance music industry, especially for small independent record labels, which relied on the company to distribute their tunes. Intergroove going bust has left a lot of labels out in the cold.”

Some have suggested that Intergroove going bust is the final nail in the coffin for vinyl, with 12in sales having slumped due to the onset of digital downloading.

With Intergroove gone, the only major dance music distributors left in the UK are Amato and Unique who merged earlier this year.
Knock-on Effect

Abel Reynolds from Finger Lickin’, a major breakbeat label formerly distributed by Intergroove, said the closure of the company would have a knock-on effect.

“Intergroove has been very honourable in upholding their payments to labels,” said Abel.

“But as a result of the company closing, quite a few labels will go bust too, because they won’t receive payment for records distributed by Intergroove in the last couple of months.”
Breaks Labels
For example, Finger Lickin’ won’t receive any money for physical sales of their biggest record of the year – the D Ramirez remix of Plump DJs ‘Electric Disco’ - because Intergroove went bust before they could pay Finger Lickin’.

“The breakbeat scene will especially suffer, because lots of small breaks labels will go bust,” said Abel.


gotta say, ive been getting all my tunes online now for about a month...this doesnt come as so much of a surprise to me.....Is a shame tho.

[Reece Duncan]

yeah i read this article this morning, i don't buy new tunes on vinyl, i never have, i only have the early house tracks and chicago house stuff on vinyl but it's a shame for vinyl DJ's and lovers and a major blow to record shops and dealers, especially the smaller independant ones. Could finish off some of the shops that were already struggling to survive. Although maybe another distribution company will be formed, because surely one company can't cope with that much distribution, or maybe it just means ther'll be alot less new tunes out on vinyl now and more downloads

[tOM]

yeh this is really bad for the scene, problem with downloads is that a) producers make even less money out of them than they do vinyl. b) they're so easily shared around msn etc that a lot of people don't buy them they just nick them

so are we expecting producers to make tunes for naff all?? i sincerly hope not cause building a studio is an expensive business and writing good tunes takes a lot of time and we all know time = money

[Reece Duncan]

yup i agree

[Ben]

I agree, piracy is a proper killer on the industry, but the plus is that music can be sold easier and to a unlimited amount and anyone who wants it in the world

[littlepete]

Its quite gutting the fact that vynil is on its way out. I love spinnin the stuff

[tOM]

Originally Posted by Ben

I agree, piracy is a proper killer on the industry, but the plus is that music can be sold easier and to a unlimited amount and anyone who wants it in the world

the trouble is people don't buy it, they skank it

[Paulie_p]

yeah, if this had happened a year ago i would of been proper gutted!

but nearly all tunes are available to download now, and the competition between different companies drives the prices down, its just more ecomonic to download, and the fact you only have to buy the mixes you want from a release...no more un-used b sides!

Add that to the fact that cd players and mixing software is at superior functional level to the old turntable.

it makes sense really.

As you guys have said piracy is a problem with the new digital era, but in general prices can only come down for downloads, i believe more and more people are starting downloading legally.

[dj mikey]

i hate watching vinyl drift away

[tOM]

Originally Posted by Paulie_p

As you guys have said piracy is a problem with the new digital era, but in general prices can only come down for downloads, i believe more and more people are starting downloading legally.

which means producers will get even less - that's great news

[Paulie_p]

not if more people buy them

[tOM]

Originally Posted by Paulie_p

not if more people buy them

you obviously have more faith in people than me, i reckon if people can get em for free they will

[Reece Duncan]

sadly that's the case, i've had conversations with many people about downloading (legal and illegal) and the general opinion seems to be why pay for it if you can get it for free, and to be honest can you really blame them. I buy all my music legally though