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 harmonium.ro wrote:

 snobb wrote:

Another related question - don't believe it wasn't asked before, but I possibly just missed it. 
Was there any ideas about release of so,me PA music CD's , rarities re-release,limited editions,etc? There are huge amount of members and we have perfect market research (using voting, album rating,etc). I believe that it will be interesting for many members just to have some interesting rare musical releases,released by PA.
I am in business development around 20 yrs, may be it is a reason why I am asking such kind of question. Technical part is not a problem, don't believe there are not specialists in that are between PA-people. ( My friends own small idependent label, so I know all their kitchen as well - not a big deal). If this idea will be interesting for site Team, I believe it is not a big problem just to prepare some blueprint for realisation.

This is a very good question; I've also thought about this. The main problem is that by trying to promote various bands (with PA compilations for example) means dealing with materials whose copyright is owned by various companies/persons etc.; it's very complicated, it can be done, but a team is necessary (plenty of lawyers and accountants especially). The costs in this kind of strategy are way too high for PA.

Re-releasing rarities and out of print albums would be a better strategy. In this case you deal with less copyright owners (probably just one for each album). The problem is here that someone still has to invest quite a lot before with the hope that the money will return; pre-orders would be a good idea (who wouldn't have preordered a reissue of Anglagard's Hybris a year ago, for example? BTW it's been re-released in the meantime). One other problem would be that most likely many such materials would need remastering, which I suppose is expensive.

Signing new bands is the most difficult strategy, because this implies investing a lot in the production of the material (which is not already recorded like in the case above) and marketing (because the band would not be already known, like in the case above). In our case we have a niche market so this makes things a bit easier, but provides lesser incomes.

I have some experience (not direct) in this field. One of interesting thing is just release of some live recordings of interesting known bands. For sure, there are some legal things as well, but generally it is more easy way. And for sure there is no need to do it with well known albums/bands, just no reason at all. But some limited edition releases of live shows could be released without big legal problems and at low costs ( again have some experience,if someone will be interested in). 

I think this idea could be discussed in principal level: if it is interesting at all, there could be the team formed who can work on it. If it isn't - so no reson to speak about. 