who now owns the Wax Trax! Catalogue? TVT Did own the Wax Trax! catalogue didn’t they? does it get auctioned off? If so, when will it be auctioned, who generally buys that stuff?
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I wanna say that the TVT catalog that wasn’t purchased by other entities was acquired by Prudential as part of their bankruptcy.
I think that a majority of it was owned by TVT, yes, therefore why there were re-issues/remasters of the material in 1993/1994 when the buyout occurred.
That does not mean necessarily every release was bought out, the biggest example being Lead Into Gold (which has not re-issued). I am sure other artists owned their own material and did not grant re-issues, which is probably why people like Front 242 finally granted their remasters a few years ago on their own label.
Pretty sure that means it’s relative to the contract each act signed. Someone in another thread mentioned “Buried Dreams” by Clock DVA needing a treatment – that might be another good example.
Plus I think Epic bought out the 242 catalogue in '90 or '91 when they reissued all those albums. The rights probably reverted back to 242 after that. It would be sad if the future of some of those releases were in limbo due to some bankruptcy buyout.
Yeah, most of the notable artists either got cherry-picked by other major labels or purchased their backcatalogs themselves. 242 was bought by Epic in 1992, TKK’s Sexplosion was bought by Interscope, everything else somehow got liscensed to Rykodisc a few years back, Al bought al the Luxa/Pan stuff in 2004, Sacha appears to own all the KMFDM stuff and is repressing it all, etc. I think the only things left for the Prudential settlement were the rerleases no one else thought they could profit from.
I highly doubt we’ll see a deluxe edition Cyberaktif re-release with singles from Subcon anytime soon like the Doubting Thomas 2 disc last year. The first Noise Unit would be nice to see again though, my copy (along with the rest of my collection) got stolen 16 years ago in a house robbery. I don’t feel like paying the secondary market prices I’ve seen on that one though.
I think the first Noise Unit is the best thing Leeb’s done, though “Gashed Senses” takes a close second. My interest in anything Leeby these days starts and ends with those two albums and a few random singles.
I enjoy Leeb’s Wax Trax! stuff a lot actually. Convergence (Corrosion + Disorder) is one of my favorite discs, and sounds nothing like the rest of his output. Gashed Senses & Crossfire is good too for the last thing Michael Balch did with them before jumping ship to Ministry and the Cocks.