The owner of The Omega Productions (French genre soundtracks) contacted me to say they are closing their operations and asking me to delete all of his posts.
I have refused, explaining that those posts are part of the public record, and should remain available to collectors interested in the titles.
Even though I regret very much the closing of yet another specialized label, I'm not surprised.
Omega was offering titles too obscure or avant-garde, many of their releases were plagued with dialogue and sound effects, not to mention their poor art design. Nothing appealing to score fans.
So I presume their sales must have been close to none.
Never even heard of this label before, but looking at the thread linked to in Lukas' post, I must say it's quite an impressive output. I actually like the cover art on many of those. I see they released MARTYRS too, which was a phenomenal film.
But I don't understand why he would want the thread and comments removed. Just because you disband a label, doesn't mean you delete it from existence. Maybe there's something there I don't know.
They have deleted all their posts on the French forum Underscores.
If you have the links to the forum pages, there might be cached pages saved of them (if it's a closed forum where you need to log in to see things I guess it won't work though)
There are also other archive websites like archive.org (AKA: The Way Way Back Machine). If anybody archived them. It's gonna drive him nuts though. Good luck getting archive websites to remove it, Omega.
Even though I regret very much the closing of yet another specialized label, I'm not surprised.
Omega was offering titles too obscure or avant-garde, many of their releases were plagued with dialogue and sound effects, not to mention their poor art design. Nothing appealing to score fans.
So I presume their sales must have been close to none.
After surveying I bought some of those titles the music is grand & overwhelming - I didn't know some of the composers that is the real insight - also the art-liner notes are as good as any boutique job, i'm pretty pissed too that there's no more ltd-pressings that is a rare feature today! Thanks for all those OP!
Maybe it was the lack of film-fans interest that certainly suxs - i'd say most missed the boat not being courageous enuff, this is probably the EU barnacle that's unsavoury, - with what other labels have done changing tariffs! Either-way its bad-news!
...many of their releases were plagued with dialogue and sound effects, not to mention their poor art design. Nothing appealing to score fans.
Maybe he ran afoul of copyright infringement if he was copying movie audio. Regardless, the closing of a company issuing fake soundtracks is a good thing, but I'm sure he'll be back under "Acme Inc."
Even though I regret very much the closing of yet another specialized label, I'm not surprised.
Omega was offering titles too obscure or avant-garde, many of their releases were plagued with dialogue and sound effects, not to mention their poor art design. Nothing appealing to score fans.
That's incorrect. A few of their CDs for cult horror films were very well done. High quality music + production.
Maybe he ran afoul of copyright infringement if he was copying movie audio. Regardless, the closing of a company issuing fake soundtracks is a good thing, but I'm sure he'll be back under "Acme Inc."
Yeah, for sure seems a bit suspect if they want to wipe their existence like that.
Sorry to see them go I thought they had released some very interesting titles. Think they went the wrong way when the decision to focus mostly on just releasing LPs only.
The picture I get is the one of a captain willing to scuttle with his ship! A pity they have to stop their business because they once announced they would release scores from TV series on CD and I really wonder what these titles would have been. I have four of five of their CD's including two by Daniel White and do enjoy them.
