The Whole IP Story (my side)...

A year ago I released my fourth album "ROBOEMPIRE" on Welcome Beauty Sounds. Now WBS is the label I've been under since the start of my vaporwave career and I've maintained a well-established relationship with them ever since. So when the album came out, I was speaking with Rob, the head of WBS and saying how much the cover art of "ROBOEMPIRE" would be cool to use on a physical tape and he agreed as well. He tells me that Illuminated Paths would be able to handle making a tape out of the album as they have done another album from Welcome Beauty Sounds on tape (Sun Don't Stay With Me by Video Ezy). So I get in contact with the person behind IP, and they liked the album agreed to put it up on tape. While I was going back and forth with Rob on the J-Card that was going to be used, I tried to keep constant communication with IP as much as possible. I was mainly asking how the status of the tapes were and I was promised they would be out by the weekend of December 13th, 2015 after submitting two bonus tracks for the album. I received the copy I had asked to hold throughout our email discussions and i was a little let down by how they looked. Even Rob wasn't too happy about it either, but I didn't really care as I would hope the tapes would sound good. On a skype call with COMMODORE 64, He played his copy to make sure it worked and it sounded for the most part pretty good in terms of sound quality. Fast forward to 3 months later, I get a tweet from Commercial Dreams Ltd. saying that some of the ROBOEMPIRE tapes we're unlistenable and that most of the tapes didn't even look complete. This spouted me being extremely upset as I felt like I had robbed those who had bought the tape. Which I will say over and over again, I am deeply sorry for the quality of those tapes. The release was beyond my control and the big red flag was when they didn't provide any photos of what the tape looked like on their bandcamp page. I haven't received any of the money I have gotten from the tapes and don't bother trying to get it now because IP removed it from their bandcamp. Classy. I encourage everyone who enjoyed the album or those who are looking for it, it's on Welcome Beauty Sounds digitally. I'm currently messaging other labels for a possible re-release of the album.



I would never ever try to rob you guys out of anything. I make my music for those who enjoy the ongoing concept of the ROBOUTOPIA throughout my albums. And to clarify I'm not upset that a copy was smashed to bits (you had the right to do that), I'm more pissed that I basically got bent over and screwed. I'm never going to release with Illuminated Paths ever again. Our working relationship is over. For now, I have another tape on the way of my album "THE_HUNTED" on Lost in Lucid Dreams. Stay away from IP as much as you can, you're only going to get trouble in the future.



Cheers and thanks to those who stand by me,

RØBØTAISEN

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