Some great records just slip through the cracks. It can happen for any number of reasons, but the most common comes down to marketing, or the lack thereof. Often, labels blanch at something that can’t be easily categorized and targeted at a specific audience, and as a result, the music ends up on an excruciatingly limited press-run, or it gets delegated to a tiny label with little or no distribution reach.
Other times, it’s the fault of the artist, who for one reason or another, chooses to release a record in relative obscurity. Gescom and alot of the other folks on Skam are notorious for this, and the side-effect (intentional or not) is that these records become immensely valuable in their scarcity.
Common sense would dictate that if they were the least bit proud of their work, then the artist would seek wider distribution for it, but that’s not always the case. Continued...