For those posting about reissues earlier in the thread, I am really not holding my breath on seeing anything from FFH on Hospital reissued in the future, solely based on the two simple facts that A) It hasn't been done yet: There are no Hospital reissues of any FFH material ever, other than the Silenced Whore tape which appears to have been his very first release, and just been a simple case of "oh we should have made more copies a few months ago, here are a few more C-10s in a vinyl clasp case" and that was 15 years ago... B) Richard and Dom seem to not be friends anymore from what I am gathering, not sure they would want to work together again on something like that. I see FFH as a Hospital artist through and through... I know he has put out work on other labels so that might sound dumb but I think about that project as part of the classic Hospital roster. Over 70% of his output is on that label. Reissues would look strange in my eyes on another label without that Dom touch on the art and shit.
That said, I am not the most well versed when it comes to how labels / artists operate in the noise scene where everything is an operation of a much smaller magnitude than say some big label with 80,000 copies of a record. Doesn't some sort of licensing still have to take place? Like where a label has to agree and sign off on different label releasing music that they originally put out? Or does the artist have complete control? Or maybe it varies with each artist-label relationship? Like I said, I don't really have a frame of reference for this stuff when it comes to noise, can anyone offer me any insight?
Make Them Understand is a monolith and I cherish my physical copy dearly. Gonna give it a spin this evening.
