My wife was interviewed for an hour or so and met with another Numero person to supply material for an from the first four albums by Happy Rhodes They really do deep research for their compilations.Here's something I posted on the thread about the Happy Rhodes collection:Checking out Numero's Facebook page, I found. The title Within The Context Of All Contexts: The Rewiring Of Our Relationship To Music, and some of the verbiage, is fatuous ('Sir, put down the semiotics book and back away!' ) but the interviews with Numero heads Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier are quite interesting. Apparently, the majority of their income is in placing songs in movies and TV shows. 'Ten years ago, it didn't take any effort to sell 5 to 10,000 CDs,' Shipley told me. 'Now you're lucky if you can sell 3,000.'

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Just recently, as they noticed in their last round of royalty statements, Numero has started to sell more LPs than CDs. And though there has been a gradual rise in the sales of LPs, the few small (actual) stores that sell them, as Shipley explained, prioritize LPs that young people are actually going to buy. The Beatles' Abbey Road, Metallica's Kill 'Em All, and so on. There may not be room in the bin for obscure soul records after that. The LP revival does not lift all boats.Not long ago, they realized the vastness of their interests was outpacing the market.

They'd been great at the game of reframing the past, and have been nominated for multiple Grammys for that work, but were now sitting on dead stock. As a consequence, they are putting out far fewer records now, a fifth as many as they did four years ago. And their priority, increasingly, is to be able to administer the 'sync rights' (synchronization rights, for songs to be used in movies or TV or in ads) themselves. They've negotiated for songs — mostly American music from the '60s and '70s — in many movies: The Circle, The Trust, Loving — lots and lots. Take my word for it. If you don't talk about music while pointing at the ceiling in bars, perhaps you are doing it while pointing at the television.

You are pointing at the means of production. Secondary use.' Our business is changing away from being a record company to being a copyright company, which is kind of ugly,' Shipley said.

From primary to secondary. 'But: You make these records, they're really beautiful, and the record audience is actually really minimal. I don't care who you talk to' — here he named four other pre-eminent 'reissue' labels — 'Light in the Attic, Ace, Rhino, Now Again. Physical business is not the business any more, it can't survive on selling CDs and LPs. It's not a sustainable way of thinking about copyrights. The sustainable way is to figure out: One, how can you get something to stream as many times as possible?

Two, how can you put it in a film, television show, or advertisement? Those are the two avenues for historical music that are available to finance it.'

As Shipley suggested, I spoke to Matt Sullivan, of Light in the Attic, founded in 2002. 'The sync world. To be frank, it's one of the last bastions of making a living in music,' he said. His label, he explained, had hired one person to work on licensing ten years ago — now it has three.

'There are more original TV shows,' he said, 'and a lot of supervisors now — this has been building for the last 15 or 20 years — come from a college radio or record-store background. Master of None, or Fargo, these shows have phenomenal music. They're almost the new form of college radio, in terms of a discovery tool.'

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This seems true. You want to know about new hip-hop and R&B? Watch Insecure.

You want to see music used with subtlety as a mood, or as an extension of the character? Watch the shows Sullivan mentioned, or Transparent, or Big Little Lies, whose music supervisor, Susan Jacobs, very recently won the first-ever Emmy for music supervision.​.but the part that made me most happy was this. 'I don't think any music goes beyond its intention,' he told me. 'And a lot of music that is being passed my way as a supervisor has a commercial intent. A lot of reasons got us to this point, but I can detect it right away. My interest in finding these old things is to find music that was made for the sake of making music,' he said. 'Music-making has changed so much since the era of everything's-available, to where I hear more direct derivativeness than ever before.

I get pitched stuff all day: 'Imagine Kate Bush fronting Kraftwerk!' Well, the reason I love Kate Bush and I love Kraftwerk is because they never wanted to be anything other than themselves.' Click to expand.I saw a movie that was pretty good, but the music in it. I certainly waited till the credits to find out these soul tracks I'd never heard a single one of. Sure enough every song credit said curtesy of numero group.The movie is called person to person from 2017. It's like a very indie comedy about intertwining lives in the city.

It has Michael Cera and abbey from broad city. One of the plot threads is about a record collector who chases after someone who sold him a fugazi rare Charlie Parker lp!Numero should release the soundtrack it's like a hits comp of their comps!

I'll see if I can find a tracklist but watch the movie for the great soundtrack!Sorry for the big essay- I don't have nearly enough of their records but sitting in the park is my favorite so far. Just had one of those moments where I wanted to play a certain album, only to find I didn't actually own it (in this case, The Way Out Label). So I ordered it, and being in a Numero-kind of mood, I ordered several more. And since there was at least one title that I thought I owned, I thought I'd better take stock of what I actually do have, for my own damn reference.The.

indicates one of the titles that haven't arrived (or shipped for that matter), though I may have heard the Amazon Autorip files.The format (CD, LP, etc) is shorthand. Many cases are mixed media.001 Eccentric Soul: Cap Soul (CD)006 Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (CD).007 Eccentric Soul: Deep City (CD)009 Eccentric Soul: Big Mack Label (CD)010 Good God!

A Gospel Funk Hymnal (CD)011 Eccentric Soul: Mighty Mike Lenaburg (CD)013 Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation (CD)014 Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (LP).015 Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label (CD)020 Eccentric Soul: The Targar and Note Labels (CD)023 Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples (CD)026 Local Customs: Downriver Revival (CD)027 Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace (CD)030 Good God! Born Again Funk (CD)031 Celestial Naviations: The Short Films of Al Jarrow (DVD)032 Syl Johnson: Complte Mythology (LP)033 Light: On the South Side (LP+Book)035 Boddie Recording Company (CD)036 Eccentric Seoul: The Dynamic Label (CD).037 Father's Children: Who's Gonna Save the World (CD)038 Willie Wright: Telling the Truth (CD)039 Eccentric Soul: The Nickel and Penny Label (CD)040 Good God! Click to expand.Nice. Here's mine:001 Eccentric Soul: Cap Soul (CD)002 Antena: Camino del Soul (CD)003 Eccentric Soul: Bandit Label (CD)004 Yellow Pills: Prefill (CD)008 Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon (LP)010 Good God!

A Gospel Funk Hymnal (CD)013 Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation (CD)014 Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (CD)015 Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label (CD)016 Eccentric Soul: The ABCs of Kid Soul (CD)018 Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli (LP)021 Good God: Soul Messages from Dimona (LP)022 Final Solution: Brotherman OST (CD)024 Titan: It's All Pop! (CD)028 Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes (CD)030 Good God! Born Again Funk (LP)032 Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology (CD)034 Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands (LP)035 Boddie Recording Company (CD)036 Cult Cargo: Salsa Boricua de Chicago (CD)038 Willie Wright: Telling the Truth (LP & CD & 7')039 Eccentric Soul: The Nickel and Penny Label (CD)040 Good God!

Click to expand.It turns out Any Other Way is missing two of her early recordings, both of which only appear on a 1965 Pickwick LP. Numero's reasoning:'We opted not to include Slave For You Baby and Chickadee because they're early efforts obviously not on the same level as the rest of Jackie's output.' After listening to both songs for myself, I agree that neither song is remarkable but I still wish they were included for completeness's sake. Both are blues/R&B tunes with unfittingly subdued vocals and typical (although oddly quiet) backing. 'Chickadee' could be a solid rocker were Shane belting instead of crooning, while 'Slave for You Baby' is pretty tepid in all regards.

I had to buy the record to find this out, but both tracks have since appeared online. Click to expand.Yes, that is odd.And it's a minor thing, but the full track listing is presented exactly once on each product, not in the main booklet so when I'm reading the notes I have to look somewhere else to see what track is playing next. And it doesn't follow the order they're presented in in the liner notes, so it's like: put down the liner notes, look and see what the next track is, go back to the liners, find the write-up regarding that track and then read it.

And then do that for each track.Minor, but there is a bit of a jigsaw element to the process. Click to expand.I just picked up Technicolor Paradise after I Shazam-ed one of my favorite Surfing Sound tunes ('Blue Castaway' by The Shelltones) and learned that it appears on the aforementioned compilation, which was released just this past May. Then, finding more than a dozen other tunes I equally love as part of the track-list, but which I possess only in poor quality needle-drops, together with the lure of detailed liner notes, pictures of record sleeves, and sumptuous artwork, I had no problem pulling the trigger on purchasing the CD.

With one exception ('Sound of Mecca' by The Blazers), every track I already had was easily surpassed in sound quality by the version present here. No clicks, pops, hiss or the like. Plus many of the tracks new to me turned out to be true finds that I will be adding to my various playlists. Having said that, I have a few nits to pick.A major attraction of this type of release is accurate recording info: who recorded it, where was it recorded, on what label was it released, and on what date, where some or all of these answers are known. Both the Liner Notes and the numerical order listing of the tracks are spotty in that regard.

Especially frustrating is the fact that they didn't present the commentary in the same order as the track listing, so you have to continually page back and forth to find the artist/song you are particularly interested in. They could have simplified things by adding the page number to the numerical listing at the end of the Booklet, while release date and Catalog Numbers and the like could also have been added there quite easily, so that those of us who care about such things could find the information at a glance. Still, all and all, a great bargain.One more point. In reading reviews online, one of the compilers says they have plans to release a followup volume called Jungle Juice sometime next year. I also hope they turn their attention to the Surf Instrumental style, which has its own trove of obscurities and rarities deserving of the same treatment.

I saw a movie that was pretty good, but the music in it. I certainly waited till the credits to find out these soul tracks I'd never heard a single one of. Sure enough every song credit said curtesy of numero group.The movie is called person to person from 2017.

It's like a very indie comedy about intertwining lives in the city. It has Michael Cera and abbey from broad city. One of the plot threads is about a record collector who chases after someone who sold him a fugazi rare Charlie Parker lp!Numero should release the soundtrack it's like a hits comp of their comps!

I'll see if I can find a tracklist but watch the movie for the great soundtrack!Sorry for the big essay- I don't have nearly enough of their records but sitting in the park is my favorite so far. Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label is a real mixed bag in terms of both style and quality. One of those compilations where nobody is going to enjoy every single track, but everyone is bound to get a kick out of at least a few.

Brill Building-style girl pop, garage rock, psychedelia, pseudo-Ventures instrumentals, R&B workouts, and a bit of bubblegum. What really saves the collection in my opinion are the engrossing liner notes. I'd love to read an entire book about Cleopatra Records owner Tommy Falcone.This one sounds like kind of like Gary Lewis & The Playboys, if Gary were holding his head underwater. Click to expand.I saw a little tweet or something from Kurt vile that was very well said about this. Someone has complained they were disappointed when they saw kurts song 'baby's arms' in a Bank of America commercial. Kurt explained that he has a wife and kid and is very far from being rich.

It probably paid more than a whole tour of him busting his hump. Unfortunately even the most respected current bands can barely make a living w music, much less get rich like they might have in the 70s. So yeah you're right! Sorry for the detour. I saw a little tweet or something from Kurt vile that was very well said about this.

Someone has complained they were disappointed when they saw kurts song 'baby's arms' in a Bank of America commercial. Kurt explained that he has a wife and kid and is very far from being rich. It probably paid more than a whole tour of him busting his hump.

Unfortunately even the most respected current bands can barely make a living w music, much less get rich like they might have in the 70s. So yeah you're right! Sorry for the detour.