New from the DFA...

Yeah, that is well nice, CJV.

Thank you! Glad you all like it.

https://pitchfork.com/news/james-murphy-ousted-dfa-records-co-founder-jonathan-galkin-last-year-what-happened/

Murphy did change the locks on Galkin and says

He specifically challenged Galkin’s claim that the label was “self-sustaining”: “It had an insane burn rate and regularly needed injections of cash that were supposed to be temporary loans that never were loans,” Murphy said. “Which was all fine—I knew what we signed up for to a certain degree.” Murphy also expressed concern that the label “was going to collapse,” and that DFA was “not fulfilling what [he] believe[s] are its ethical duties to its artists.

Murphy’s explanation for not being involved in the label over the years- that he was busy touring and that he didn’t like the focus on records rather than parties , is uh interesting. He makes it sound like he was constantly on tour . At times they were but not sure that’s accurate for the whole period at issue

murphy doesn't come across particularly well, there's obviously more to the story he doesn't want to share, but if it did just come down to financial difficulties that doesn't really justify the way he went about things

Yeah, some very weird comments. Hard to see why he would care about Holy Ghost leaving the label when he didn’t actively do anything for the label for years.

It would have been a blow to the label to lose long standing band like Holy Ghost regardless of how involved he was.

I enjoyed how snarky each got about the other. Galkin getting in how he didn't even like American Dream and Murphy about coffee mugs and tee weekly emails. haha both are accurate for me.

I am really interested in hearing what Galkin puts out on FourFour.

It's a shame James was so hands off for such a long time and that Tim Goldsworthy didn't stick around. It seems like DFA has been in a tailspin since he left regardless.

i can see how murphy finding out holy ghost had left might have been a big sign to him that something was going wrong and made him pay attention to the label for the first time in a decade

with goldsworthy it sounds like he was just as hands off with the label as murphy from 2007 onwards and then stopped working as a production duo with murphy from around 2009 before they completely fell out sometime around 2013. so them stopping working together in 2009 just left dfa as murphy & the label operating with little to do with each other

Seems like Murphy was trying to say without saying that Holy Ghost was asking for their masters back because they weren't getting paid vs. Galkin framing it as a labor of love situation?

idk that it's possible to read that much into it, i didn't get the impression from either of them that the finances were quite that bad at that point

i searched to see what holy ghost had to say about leaving dfa and they just said they knew they didn't want to stay with dfa and reached out to a friend at bmg about reviving west end records bc that was their "dream label" and got a deal very easily. they said "we wanted to get a jump", idk if that just means they wanted a boost in profile or resources that dfa couldn't give them, or what

enjoyed how snarky each got about the other. Galkin getting in how he didn't even like American Dream and Murphy about coffee mugs and tee weekly emails. haha both are accurate for me.

yeah they coulda just done these interviews two years earlier and carried on as usual, without raising the slightest controversy

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hoping that ilm'r stirmonster knocks it out of the park and really wish i could be there for the xx party.