Output is gone...

spectrum (rip 1999)
pagan (rip 2001)
transfusion (rip 2002)
nuphonic (rip 2002)
discfunction (rip 2003)

people who sign to minor/underground labels, then wake up one day and their face is all over music magazines and fashion magazines and lifestyle magazines, and they're like "fuck, i should've signed to a matador" and then they want to get paid and they're not going to take excuses / late checks from a bedroom label the way an artist like K.I.M. or poni hoax or even morgan geist might...

i am sure maurice + idjuts are still on great terms but that label was a good five years before its time

I'm pretty curious now, wasn't really aware of all that. Did they really fuck them over, or just inept, or missed communications?

i'm biting my tongue even harder than galkin was on sept. 14th.

but fails miserably

grrr.

oh hang on ..

when they started the label they were totally inexperienced at running a label. the guy who handled the business side had a somewhat abrasive personality, was very difficult to work with and was not 100% on the case. i personally had several raging screaming matches down the phone with him, but we remain on civil terms to this day. from what i can gather, maurice felt he had been totally disrespectful to him and decided he couldn't work with them any more. i also don't think tigersushi had the cash flow to pay them right away. the long and the short of it was there was a very, very, very bad scene, hence the 'tigerbastard' song.

abrasive french guy has subsequently left tigersushi and the label is slowly getting it together with joakim and his brother handling everything. i definitely intend to work with them again as i know their aims are true. if i ever run into MU, i make a point of avoiding the subject.

x post.

fopp are selling off the back cat cds for £3 each :

colder (cd/dvd, dead combo, mu, circlesquare, dempsey, black strobe ep, and channel 3

oh, and the playgroup reissue double cd with remixes.

lovely.

final tracks in crappy 128 kbps format.

peter coyle/lotus eaters track is very nice i must say ..

rumours abound that Output is back.
anyone know more ?

There's a compilation coming out in October called I Hate Music, a Jackson-curated 2xCD+DVD "best of," but I haven't heard of anything past that...

supposedly someone has picked up the back cat, and will be reissuing it.
oh, and there is also the Kings of Electro set that Trev has sorted out with Alter Ego on BBE, but thats not really Output related so doesn't provide any real insight into the Output story

Fantastic news if true- I've been driving myself crazy trying to find a replacement for the copy of Afro Finger & Gel I lost.

Word from distro here is he's bringing his label back to life with new releases scheduled etc.

Holy shit, even better!

that Mu record was on tigersushi

unless Output licensed it or something

Output released it in the UK, and for a while it was the only version in print. If it's ever coming back into print, Output is the most likely candidate, given how their relationship with Tigersushi ended up.

oh, and there is also the Kings of Electro set that Trev has sorted out with Alter Ego on BBE

wow

wow

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output is indeed back.
as far as i know, trevor not involved this time around though
first release is a compilation :
http://www.outputrecordings.com/opr100.php
a few remixes are out there - i'm seriously loving the remix by Optimo of To The Music by Colder.

You sure it's not just a posthumous roundup type thing? Pretty good listen for the most part but I've not seen anything saying they're back for good

(other than mutterings above)

yup, they're just back for some reissues. no trevor involvement whatsoever.

i stand corrected. a reissue campaign type of thing it is then.

well, the reissue thing never really happened did it.

the people behind the process label (the current Output catalogue owners) tried to run with it, the excellent rebotini (ie. black strobe) release would have been a perfect fit for Output, as well as the pretty fine Toob album, but i lost interest after those.