The short answer would be : it's just me listening to/revisiting scores and watching movies and releasing whatever I WANT to release.
And that's no lie but I guess it's a bit more elaborated than that…
OWS has a very BROAD taste, this goes from Italian to slasher to cult, from the sixties to the present day… but it also has its limits. A classy thing like Philip Glass is totally fit for OWS but Lost Highway would be 'too' classy if that makes sense?
There are limits to the OWS concept and we imposed these limits on ourselves. It works both ways, some things are just too trashy/cheesy/low budget for OWS too. We're kinda in the middle of the spectrum.
I like a lot of non-horror soundtracks too. Things like say 'Watership Down'… but there is no way I could release that on OWS, if I want to expand to such releases I need to start a new label.
Mondo for example can do more things, they are even broader (from Jurassic Park to releases like The Beyond) … but then again I feel they might have restraints with the aesthetics of a certain title, they have to make that work somehow too. And that's no bad thing… that's just their thing and it works.
There was no plan or method when we started OWS, it kinda evolved the way it did. You have to understand that we pioneered this thing together with DW. That was almost 3 years ago, time flies. It was a search on how and what to do. Me and Spencer kinda put down the blue print for labels who are getting into this 'horror' 'cult' whatever soundtrack revival thing.
and I'm not saying this to get all 'elite' and stuff, it's just the truth…shops and distributors took chances with our releases and saw that it sold like hotcakes, so now new labels profit from us paving the way on the field of distribution, exposure, press, hype…whatever. Take this forum for example, me and Spencer started it up with a handful of posters and now a new label just has to post one thing here to reach thousands.
And that's all good ! Most of them are my friends and we even sell their releases. It's a good thing.
Just saying all this and pointing out the origins of OWS to the people on here who weren't with us from the start.
Hope this makes some sense, love to talk about these thingies
Seb
