Yeaaaaahhhhhh!!! I think I have left it long enough with these tapes now to slam a bit of straight-up self promotion into the stream!
Ruf Kutz came about because I had some edits I wanted to press up... originally they were gonna be for a project of my pal Silvio's called ANACONDA EDITS... the cuts had serpent-themed names: "Solid Snake" and "Under The Hood"... some time passed and the Anaconda remained dormant so I thought well I'm gonna do it myself. I had a couple of other edits I liked and so I pressed all four up - by way of continuity the man Silvio designed the Ruf Kutz logo and that was that - RK#1 was born...
I just did 250 of the first one I think - distributors weren't interested in talking to me unless I did 500 and no way was I going in that deep financially; sometimes ppl do limited runs cos they don't have much money, not because they are trying to be cool...
I hustled a bunch of shops with some copies of the test pressings, used a friend's connect to hook up some Japan distribution (word up JAZZY SPORT!!!!) and pretty much managed to ship out the full 250...
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| RIP Vinyl Junkies. Always smelled dead nice in there as well |
I made a point of only approaching shops I liked, and as much as possible places where I already shopped - one of the joints I targeted was the now sadly defunct Vinyl Junkies - a grrreat shop and also I knew all the heavy US DJs shopped there when they were in town... this proved to be the fuckin master of all master strokes cos sure enough RK#1 showed up in a Moodymann chart within about 6 weeks and I have basically been dining out on that ever since. (There's a lesson in here for all you budding label bosses and stuff but I cannot be assed spelling it out to you)
Anyway that was 3 and a bit years ago and now we just put out RK#8... the back catalogue is about a 50/50 split of edit-based and completely original material and some of them are worth a few quid on discogs these days...
So that's it, here's the mix... 100% Ruf Kutz records... it's the first time I've ever stacked a bunch of RK tunes up against one another exclusively... I quite like that it's certainly not just 45 mins of one straight groove... fair bit of variety in the old discography!!!
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