Introducing White Sleeve Collective (Page 1 of 2)

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"North East of England"

Please tell me you're from Newcastle. A Geordie chiptune group just seems funny to me.

Nice initiative! Best luck to you guys!

Man, forget about Geordie Shore. You guys should be England's new reality show.

Cool guys!  Keep it up!

I think it's a great concept, but I also think that you're missing the point a bit by putting out a limited number of copies of any one release. I read that you've limited your own album release to 10 copies, but why? Surely what you're doing is creating a way to avoid paying for expensive high-number print runs and pass on those savings to your customers, in order to get the word out about the artists in your collective in an interesting and equally cost-efficient manner. Limiting your print runs, which are designed to be produced easily at home, seems non-sensical.

I fully support what you're trying to do, but I think you've yet to realise the true brilliance behind your own concept.

I have no affiliation with White Sleeve Collective, but I belong to a similar collective where we do really small print runs of our music (10-30 copies on average) because, honestly, it's a pain in the ass to insure quality and consistency in numbers larger than that.  Especially when it's a hobby project like a collective and not a business.  Things like printing inserts, ordering paper for inserts, mixing inks and matching colors for silkscreening/letterpressing, and overall material costs are much more manageable when you only need to make twenty copies. A lot of these things can be done in batches as needed if you're not specifying an edition number for the release, but it's tough to make sure the finished product is consistent in quality compared to earlier batches when you're doing a DIY setup.

Not to mention the overall drive to just make a physical release and have it done, then move on to making something else.