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Beat Delete to wind down

By | Published on Monday 19 October 2015

Beat Delete

The people behind Beat Delete, the Ninja Tune-founded website that crowd-sourced the re-pressing of out-of-print singles and albums, have announced that they are calling it a day.

The initiative recognised that most music-based crowd-sourcing campaigns on sites like Pledge and Kickstarter are for new material, but that the same approach could be applied to re-releases, if there were enough fans eager to get a new physical copy of an old record to make it worth the label’s while to re-press.

But the site’s operators say that, after many successfully crowd-funded re-presses, interest has now waned a little, making it less viable to put time into running the venture. An email to users reads: “Regretfully we have decided to close down the Beat Delete site in the coming weeks as unfortunately orders have slowed down and it’s become less viable to put in the time that running the service requires”.

It goes on: “All paid orders for records that have hit their target and are being manufactured will be fulfilled by the respective label. Finally, thank you for being a part of the Beat Delete process, together we’ve got a lot of great records re-pressed!”



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