A Brief History of Pressing Issues

Once upon a time….

Ok, so it’s not like that. But we do have a cool story, and for those that are new, we want you to really see how this label started.

It all started with a post by boomnoise on dubstepforum.com.  The post went something like this:

pressing issues start

Discussion picked up and went on for a total of 9 pages, spawning numerous ideas and debates.

Some major issues quickly arose, including

  • How will we select what to release?
  • Who will be involved?
  • How will we brand the label?
  • Will we make money from this?
  • Who will press and distribute the records?

Each of those questions was solved by the members of dubstepforum.com.

Highlights

It was decided almost immediately to keep this label about the community.  Yes, it takes time, and no, it’s not easy to manage (it’s not meant to be…), but we strongly felt (and still feel) that the community made this project happen, so naturally all proceeds should be reinvested into the community.

Numerous forum members suggested that we look at ST Holdings for the P&D side of things, so we did and inked a contract shortly thereafter.  We’re working with them again on ISSUE 003 and ISSUE004, and we hope many more after that to come.

The community came up with the idea for this label.

The community chose the committee.

The community voted on the logo.

The community donated some start-up funds to pay for things like web hosting.

The community voted on the releases.

The community bought the records.

The community did it all again for ISSUE002.

In chronological order, here are the posts:

As you can see above, EVERYTHING was decided on by the community.

Watch, listen, vote, comment, participate, and support us as we move towards releasing ISSUE003.

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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 History, ISSUE001, ISSUE002, ISSUE003, News, Releases

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