Jason², Congratulations on the new Gig!!

[wiota]

NEW YORK, November 10, 2005-Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) announced today the launch of Cordless Recordings, the newest member of the company's family of labels.
Designed to discover and develop new recording artists in a supportive, lower-risk environment, Cordless will aggressively utilize the latest digital products, formats and online and mobile technologies. Cordless will make use of these digital resources to implement innovative marketing programs to promote its roster of artists.
Rather than exclusively releasing music in the traditional album or single configuration, every few months, the label will release "clusters" - three or more songs - by an artist. By doing so, the label will increase the interaction between an artist and their fan base via a continuous flow of new music. In addition, Cordless will have the ability to draw upon the resources of WMG's Atlantic Records Group and Warner Bros. Records on select releases.

Cordless Recordings is the brainchild of legendary music executive, Jac Holzman, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer and creative head of WMG's Elektra and Nonesuch Records. Jason Fiber, the founder of Superfecta Recordings and The Ideal Copy, has been named President of Cordless Recordings.
"When we started to think about Cordless, certain lessons from the past kept returning to me," said Holzman. "The close, creative relationship with artists and their fan base by frequent release of records, keeping costs low and having a methodology that would let us use our medium to introduce our material to more fans. Cordless is a community intended to give new artists their chance, and a process that connects an audience to our artists' creativity. This is who we are and that is what we have pledged to do."
Fiber said, "As a lifelong music fan and a self-proclaimed computer geek, I've always been drawn to the intersection of music and technology. With the Cordless label, the Warner Music Group is experimenting with a new approach to introducing tomorrow's great artists while offering a home for established musicians who want to make the most of today's online world. It's an exciting venture and one that is unique in the industry. I'm honored to be part of the team."

In addition to promoting its artists through online and offline marketing, traditional and lifestyle marketing, touring and radio promotion (college, specialty commercial, satellite and online radio), Cordless artists' music will also be available on a variety of online music services, as well as through the leading wireless carriers. Cordless content will also be distributed on legal peer-to-peer networks.

Artists releasing the first clusters on Cordless include:

Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers Breakup Breakdown Dangerous Muse Nozzle Koishii & Hush Humanwine For more information about these artists, visit www.cordless.com.

Over his 55-year career, Holzman has worked with artists including Judy Collins, The Doors, Bread, Love, Iggy Pop, Butterfield Blues Band, Carly Simon, Harry Chapin and Queen. Until 1970, Holzman was a top executive at Warner Communications, Inc., where he helped establish both the WEA distribution group and WEA International. Later, Holzman became a director of Pioneer Electronics, contributing to the development of CD technology. In 1982, Holzman became the Chairman of Panavision, Inc.

Fiber will oversee the label's A&R, sales and marketing, and general management functions. Before assuming his current position, Fiber enjoyed a long career in both the music and technology industries. In 2001, Fiber founded Superfecta Recordings, an independent record label based in Los Angeles focused on reissuing out of print music titles from alternative artists. Fiber also founded The Ideal Copy, an online music retail website specializing in rare and hard to find CDs. Previously, Fiber worked at Wherehouse Music, a leader in entertainment retailing, where he spearheaded the creation and expansion of the company's digital retail business. Fiber is a founding member of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers' (NARM) Online Retailing Committee.

[IWantMyMTV]

WOW!
You go boy...[:D]
Congrats Jason!

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[SwampThing]

Good luck Jason! Sounds exciting. I checked out the site and I like the concept. Here's to you discovering the next Interpol!!!!!

BTW - Hopefully this doesn't mean the end of The Ideal Copy/Superfecta Recordings. [:D]

[2Nu]

[quote][i]Originally posted by SwampThing[/i]
<br>Good luck Jason! Sounds exciting. I checked out the site and I like the concept. Here's to you discovering the next Interpol!!!!!

BTW - Hopefully this doesn't mean the end of The Ideal Copy/Superfecta Recordings. [:D]
[/quote]Same Here, hopefully Jason will clue us all in on how all this will play out. CONGRATS DUDE!! [:D][8D][^]

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[Frau_Blucher]

Way to go dude. Freaking sweet! How the hell did you find time to play NTT?! Now where's your post to the Forum Pet Peeves thread? I hate people that claim their "too busy", whah, whah, whah. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[waukena]

Nice goin jason...give em' hell!

[design_femme]

fantastic news!!!!!!

congrats jfiber, wherever you are (I'm sure you are super busy right now [:D][:D][:D])

[Jason²]

Holy cow - how did you guys hear about this? I was gonna post something (and link you to some music) but you've beaten me to the punch *shakes fist at the internet*!!

Well, thanks It's been a trip - literally - as I moved from my most favorite city on the planet (that'd be Los Angeles for you new knowing me) to New York - which I like and all - but when it's 40 degrees below zero and everyone back home is gloating how they're running around in shorts and a t-shirt it's going to get ugly!

The Ideal Copy is still going strong - my partner Chris has been manning the store all this time and I've been watching what's going on and helping out as I can. Superfecta has sort of been in mothballs since the Thompson Twins/A Flock Of Segaulls releases - it turns out you can't actually make any money doing reissues the way that we were doing them - so we've decided to focus on The Ideal Copy in the meantime. The long term vision is to grow the customer base for TIC to the point where we could reissue something through Superfecta and then sell it exclusively via TIC - but in order to do that we need to have a larger base of shoppers and right now the store basically pays all of its bills each month but doesn't have enough growth to start investing. But worry not - we'll get there.

In the meantime - check out www.cordless.com - the new eLabel that I'm involved with here in NYC. I SERIOUSLY suggest you check out Dangerous Muse - I'd be shocked if everyone on this board didn't fall in love with them. You should also give the others a listen - I think you'll start to hear some interesting sounds. A quick overview of the bands:

Dangerous Muse - 2 guys from NYC heavily influenced by Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys, New Order and others. Right now it's at #2 on the iTunes dance chart - what an amazing story to tell if we can get this to #1!!!

Nozzle - Dave Blomberg and Michael Dean from New Model Army and Tony from All About Eve - certainly there's an NMA influence there but you hear obvious echos of Oasis, Midnight Oil, Dreams So Real and others

The Break-Up (in the process of changing their name to BREAKUP BREAKDOWN) - take a dash of ? And The Mysterions, add a pinch of The John Spencer Blues Explosion, a sprinkling of Jet and a whopping dollop of The Cure and you get BREAKUP BREAKDOWN

Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers - not telling you nuthin. Give it a listen... it may sound just a WEE bit familiar

and

KOISHII & HUSH!!! You know that Alex fella that produces those Retro Active CDs? Well, that's HUSH! I'm sure you've all heard their reinvention of When In Rome's "The Promise" (featuring Clive from When In Rome - who not only sings it but wrote a brand new verse just for this verion) - but if you haven't - now is the time! They've also released an original entitled "Flow Through Me" featuring the sultry spoken word of Merideth Salenger.

I encourage you to visit iTunes and get these initial releases - they're only $1.99 each for THREE songs and you'd help a fellow New Wave obsessive with a new venture that is working to make a difference.

Jason

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Jason²[/i]
<br>Dangerous Muse - 2 guys from NYC heavily influenced by Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys, New Order and others. Right now it's at #2 on the iTunes dance chart - what an amazing story to tell if we can get this to #1!!!
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Marvy just schpoogied his shorts! I'm checking 'em all out ASAP.

Just a comment on the web site. The Flash player on the top of your pages works great on both my PC and Mac platforms. The "Listen" function within each artist page doesn't function on my Mac:

"The page “cordless Media Player” has content of MIME type “application/x-mplayer2”. Because you don’t have a plug-in installed for this MIME type, this content can’t be displayed."

I supposed you can ignore us affluent yuppy lemmings with disposable incomes or... [:D]

Also, the iTune link doesn't take us right to the artist in iTunes but rather just to the vanilla iPod+iTunes web site. There's a link mechanism that will open iTunes and take you right to the artist that might be more effective. Just my 2 cents.

Sincerely, best of luck. I've already bought the three Muse tracks. Really enamored with them!

[wiota]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Jason²[/i]
<br>Holy cow - how did you guys hear about this? I was gonna post something (and link you to some music) but you've beaten me to the punch *shakes fist at the internet*!![/quote]

Sorry Jason![:I]

I was reading a recording studio engineer forum I hangout in and someone posted the news release about Cordless Recordings. So I'm sitting there reading it, all the while thinking "yeah, yeah, just another bunch of mindless major label wankers", when I got to your name. Whoa!! I nearly fell out of my chair!! I can't think of anyone better qualified to run a label than you. All of a sudden visions of you ascending to the top of the company filled my head, I pictured the Warner vaults opening and all of the lost gems being released (to Superfecta). [:D]

I sincerely hope that you can make this work and that you can make a difference in the music business. I read the "About Us" page on the Cordless website and that is the absolute best business model and label blueprint that I have ever encountered.

Again, good luck and know that I will support Cordless Recordings because there's one of us running it.

[2Nu]

Um Jason, ya still have some splainin to do about <a href="http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8923" target="blank">this</a>[:I]

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[Jason²]

[quote][i]Originally posted by 2Nu[/i]
<br>Um Jason, ya still have some splainin to do about <a href="http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8923" target="blank">this</a>[:I]

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I heard that song at a club the other night and it lingered in my head for the next day and I thought "hmmm... that's one of them guilty pleasures that I should just have" and off to iTunes I went... only to find it's not only not available for download. And then I thought, hey my NWOutpost friends have no shame, surely someone's got it!! And viola!

[DJ Wave]

Nice...I knew you were headed this way...just did not know what you were up to.

I actually heard the KOISHII & HUSH single the other day on itunes...things that make you go hmmm....did not know that was Alex...you two sure are sneaky!

Once you get settled...how bout Dinner with some of the FA crew? [;)]

Congrats And Best of Luck!! [8D]

[bruiser]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Jason²[/i]
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Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers - not telling you nuthin. Give it a listen... it may sound just a WEE bit familiar

Jason
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hmmm. i'm going to say gerald v. casale in full-crank mode. ha ha ha!

[MikeP]

A big congrats Jason! I'm looking forward to hearing more from your new endeavor and I'm going to check out your suggestions on iTunes right now. Hope the move went smoothly ... too bad your going to have to exchange sunny SoCal for cold and gray NYC this winter. Glad to hear that the Ideal Copy's still going strong. If I wasn't so broke doing home remodeling, I'd be spending all my $$$ there and Amoeba![8D]

BTW, my fiancee and I are going to be in NYC next month over the Holidays. I'd love to meet up and have drinks with any of the NWO locals. We should plan on a get together in Manhattan -- that would be a blast!