EricDraven wrote:First the cancellation of E-dition magazine, now the closing of the EM forum NL. Two [of a dwindling] source for EM information vanished without warning within months. Now the only remainig EM forums are this one, the "TD fan forum" and [sadly hardly any activity] "Big Moogs".
And add the closing of Quantum, it's also becoming harder to actually purchase some EM. Good case and point, the latest TD releases, no one except Eastgate and Groove are stocking them.
I just recently bought "Blue Dawn" from Groove as I waited for Synth Music Direct [who refuse to stock current TD, as Dave Law says "no one wants them"] or Eurock to offer them, but nothing.
So, is the scene coming to a crashing end? It certainly doesn't bode well for the future.
Nice to see that Dave has his finger on the pulse there!
Seriously though there's nothing on SMD's site or catalogue (at the moment) to make me even bother to checkout their site, they've created a niche within a very small niche...which is something of a daft thing to do, if you wanna sell CDs. CDS seem to be quite quiet as well.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some of these companies go to the wall over the next 5 years (the manager of Sisterray, a record shop in London rang into BBC Radio 5 the other day and said he thought the high street record shop business would go into melt down...his exact word were 'blood bath', due to the ever increasing pressure from the likes of Amazon, Play etc). Now if mainstream shops ( as in sells millions and millions of records...like HMV which sold roughly the same amount of CDs as the previous year, but due actually made a loss for the first time ever) can't make a go of it, what chance has a small EM company, and that would be a shame as I've been buying stuff from mail order companies for years.
As for forums....form your own, it's not hard. Over to BM for techie info. It just needs to be different to the one already running.
Ps. what about the Yahoo Tadream forum? messy as hell...but still worth a laugh