A Quick Friday Update....
Hi Everyone,
A quick-ish blog post for me today!
So firstly, those of you following FB and on the mailing list will know that the KF230/DAR30 Moondance Box Set FINALLY arrived on Monday! Hooray!
What most of you wont know is that one of the worst stomach bugs I have ever had also arrived at about 9pm on Sunday night.
It then proceeded to wreak absolute havoc with me for 48 hours, and Monday and Tuesday were basically spent...let's say "close to a bathroom at all times". How did I move all the box sets in that unexpectedly arrived early Monday afternoon? Slowly, and carefully, and with plenty of rest periods, before collapsing into bed.
On the whole, it was unpleasant. Over that period I at 3 pieces of toast, and a pot noodle, and lived basically off of Gatorade and sleep.
On Wednesday morning I took Wilder and Phoenix to school, and Wilder got out of the car and threw up all over the pavement in four huge puddles of disgusting. So he got congratulated for not doing it in the car, and then he came home...
Lets Talk About Acen!
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Its an exciting day. So let me bore you with reams of text lol...haha its really not boring I hope. Its a bit of recent Acen history....lets go...
Back in 2019, Acen and I had been working together for a little while. We had talked and released Play 2092 on vinyl, closely followed by the excellent Thrilla EP, and he had mentioned here and there about his older releases. Obviously I was interested in releasing those classics from the past, but my main focus and biggest thing was (and remains) new music. We had touched on the possibility of maybe doing Close Your Eyes or something, but nothing had been agreed upon.
Then, out of the blue, Acen sent me a new version of Trip To The Moon.
I have a terrible memory. And frankly, I do not dwell on the past or even think about it much. So while of course I have some epic memories of the various happenings in my musical life, you might be surprised at what I remember and what I do not. Hearing Sesames Treet on the radio in my mums kitchen? Clear as a bell. Performing on...
The Traditionally Extensive Monday Blog Post Extravaganza....
Hello Everyone,
Its Monday, and its been a week or two, so I guess I better update you on the 50 billion things that have happened since my last blog lol...
The most exciting news is that I no longer have to update you about KF186-190 Dj Force & The Evolution Box Set, because it is here, it has been sent out, and it is beautiful. You can get your copy right now if you have not already:
KF186-190 - Dj Force & The Evolution - The Perfect Dream
So now we only have one more long overdue box set that people are waiting for:
KF203-233 Moondance - Together 2022
I am expecting this one any day. I know it went on the press late last week, so I would imagine it will be here this week or next week. And I cannot wait. A time will come soon where we can mail all of those orders out to customers, and do all the current orders in the store that day...and then for the first time in nearly 2 years, my store will have NO overdue orders. I may...
Another long blog post for a Monday Morning...
Hello everyone,
Its Monday morning, we are all miserable, so lets get Blogging. Oooh!
Okay, so first up - and by jimni, I will be so pleased when these aren't first up lol - but first up: Moondance and Dj Force & The Evolution box set updates.
These are still expected this month. The pressing plant is running a little late - and I know your patience is as thin as mine right now - but try to remember that our new pressing plant is actually doing very well.
MPO is the cause of this delay. We did not get the metalwork back from MPO until late November. We put the order in with the new plant as soon as that metalwork arrived. The new plant is working now at roughly a 12 weeks turnaround. So December, January, February...if they come at the end of February that is actually still on time for the plant.
They did say they would do their best to get them for end of Jan / Early feb - closer to 9-10 weeks. I probably should not have made that public as I know better than anyone...
Lets talk about The Criminal Minds...
Hello,
You know, for me, the last 18 months in this industry was a bit like slowly gathering a great number of exciting objects, all different shapes and sizes, and holding them carefully so you dont drop them, as you walk up a very steep hill towards a table to put them on. The aim being to share with everyone all these glorious things, and show how wonderful they are...But just as I was about to put them down, the table would vanish and reappear another five hundred feet further up the hill. So I would just have to keep walking. A few times, a little shelf or table would appear and I could point out one or two of the amazing things, but mostly, the majority of what I was carrying just had to keep on being carried.
Im bored of this analogy. Lets move on lol...
Simply put: A lot of exciting things didn't happen last year, even though they totally should have. And some of those exciting things didn't even get mentioned because I was so busy playing "don't drop everything" lol. One of the most exciting things which got very little attention...
Not Xmas, Not New year, Info dump lol
Hello everyone,
I wrote this as an email, and it sort of turned into a blog, so I am posting it here too...
I wanted to bring you up to date on all the current things!
KF192/KF193 House Crew Box Set: We are packing and sending the orders on this as fast as we can. I hope to have the vast majority of these out by the end of the week!
REC35 Jimmy J & Cru-l-t Box Set: We have 35 copies left at the time of writing, so I am certain this will sell out. So I am going to wait until the J&C set has sold out, then Cindy and I will do a random number generator thing for the winner of the 10 Vinyl Luna-C Fractured Box Set. Once that is done, we will pack and send this one, along with the Ramos and Renegade Bob Ross EPs.
Unlike other box sets, we do not have a 5 vinyl version of "In Effect" to release after this 7 vinyl version is all gone. It is possible we will reorder on the 5 vinyl version sometime in the new year, but for...
Updates and Updates and Updates....
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Well, it has been a few weeks since the last blog, and I haven't really had time to even think about what to write. And this last week, my whole family and myself have been very ill with some sort of flu like virus (not covid, we checked) and it has been proper horrible. But to bring you up to speed...
On Friday last week, we received 3 HUGE pallets of outer boxes for the House Crew, Jimmy J & Cru-l-t, and Ray Keith 21st Century Junglist Box Sets. Normally these go to the pressing plant and they pack them, but to speed things up, I had them come to me to pack. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but then...over the weekend we started to get ill. By Monday, I was so sick I could barely stand, but of course that was the day that we received SEVEN pallets of records (The House Crew Box Set vinyl, The Jimmy J & Cru-l-t Box Set vinyl).
So Monday and Tuesday I was standing in our storage area, freezing cos its the coldest day of the ever, packing box sets while being basically...
So much news, OMG, brain melt...
Hello Everyone,
Initially this was a small blog update. And then I wrote it. Its...not small (Thats what she said! fnar fnar)...But it is full of important information...So lets jump right in!
There is actually, finally, some good, concrete, news...quite a lot of it in fact! Gonna throw things at you as i think of 'em...Randomly, first of all, keep your eyes peeled on the Kniteforce FB page for...
The House Crew Dubplate Competition:
More info on that on Monday when the competition launches...next on the agenda...
We will be at Clashmouth on the 26th of November:
We have some exclusive stuff for sale, including a long gestating but finally arriving project with my good friend Jay Cunning...but also a load of vinyl and USBs...Unfortunately, I cant say exactly what will get here, as we are still awaiting a lot of deliveries - will they come in time? Who knows? But this has landed already...
And we are expecting this one as well as it has been pressed too apparently...
And we will have some of the extra single...
Info Dump Of The Week!!! Updates and more...
Hello,
Another day another blog...but i do have a fair number of important updates about all sorts of things, so I thought I would do one!
Okay, but where to start? Lets go with the general pressing situation.
KF159 - Ray Keith. The 4th record is pressed, the 5th is pressing 2nd of November, so the finished set should be here the first week of Novemeber, and then we will immediately get the box sets packed and shipped. All of tthose who already paid and waited so long will be getting a number of extra goodies to go with it!
Other than that, we have moved (or are in the process of moving) EVERY 12" vinyl release and box set from MPO to our new plant. A huge amount of the releases will be here late this week I am told. We then have to sort through what they have sent because we do not know what parts we will get.
It all gets a little technical, but in a nutshell, either what we get will be immediately useable so we can press some of the delayed records as soon as...
Changes, Dj Solo, Updates, and a small green bowler hat.
Hello Everyone,
I thought I ought to update you because there is a huge amount happening, and some of it is due to me deciding to shake up and change my entire business model. Wow, that sounded boringly corporate. But to quote Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
"Cause people often talk about being scared of change, but for me, Im more afraid of things staying the same, cause the game is never won, by standing in any one place, for too long..."
I think most of you will enjoy the changes anyway, because it makes life more interesting.
So the first thing is something I have wanted to do for a long time but am finally doing. I am going to expand the KF store to stock a LOT more music from outside of the Kniteforce labels. This week, I would hope you will see stock on the store from labels that I know and admire or work with, including Amen brother, Blue Skinned Badger, Deep Jungle, Try Unity, Cantina Cuts and others.
I have also pulled a bunch of stock back from my distributor, including some of the early Remix Records releases, and maybe...