Goya Distribution Calls It A Day
A random visit to the Beyondjazz site had one of its headlines calling out…
Goyamusic is shutting down. Big thanks to the whole Goya family for their past 10 years or so…RIP
A visit to the relatively new online community Coopr8 (so-named by the Bugz in the Attic crew) has a posting on one of its forums with further details…
Last week our good friends & partners Goya Music Distribution ltd filed
for liquidation. Along with Amato Distribution, yet another great vinyl
dance music distributor spanning a decade or more has folded in the
last few weeks due to the ever declining sales of vinyl.Goya Music, formed back in 1997 by Mike Slocombe and Spencer Weekes,
distributed mainly Broken Beat, Future Soul, and House music. The Goya
catalog included labels and releases such as their own People Records
& Main Squeeze imprints, 2000Black, Bitasweet, Twisted funk &
Omniverse, Dubsided, Eskimo Recordings, Oblong/Plank, Ubiquity,V2, BBE,
and hundreds more other music and artists.We at this point, still in shock by the sudden departure would just
like to offer our condolence & gratitude to Mike, Spence, Nick
& everyone else at Goya in recognition of all the great times &
music we’ve enjoyed together over the last 10 years.We are gonna miss them & GM Headquarters but as they say …
“Ain’t no good at writing about us - sorry, the past is the past
anyways……and the future ain’t the same so…move on back to the
music..”Goya music - RIP 1997 - 2007
As one of the stalwarts for ensuring that such unique music reaches worldwide, this is a true loss. But the music community in of itself marches on.
Sources: Beyondjazz and Coopr8
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