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- From: pet@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (paul eng-yi tan)
- Subject: Re: bloody record companies( was Re: Headless Chickens support Poppies!
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:25:58 GMT
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- hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) writes:
- >(Polydor), Frente (Mushroom), Def FX (EMI), etc etc etc...
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- >Take the case of Def FX in particular; a band that, while ostensibly
- >signed to an independant and releasing EPs through MDS, was all the
- >while actually signed to EMI, who happily paid all recording and
- >promotional costs while the band gained "indie cred" by not sharing
- >record labels with Slim Dusty. The album then appears and all of a
- >sudden in interviews Fiona Horne is happily announcing that since
- >signing to EMI she's found that there IS artistic freedom at the
- >majors...! :-)
-
- Well, I guess that the Def FX packaging was therefore planned by the EMI pepl.
- However, you have to admit that the overall image/sound is interesting as
- opposed to the homogeneous Major female vocalist thing: Melissa, Teen Queens,
- Frente, . Urlich, etc...
- Paul
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