Dear All,

You may have heard that our distributor, Amato Distribution Ltd, filed bankruptcy on 19th of November. This is a crushing blow for dance music in general and as one of Amato's biggest labels, Anjunabeats has taken a huge financial hit. We are still assessing the damage but we also understand that you are probably wondering what this means for the future of Anjunabeats.

The harsh reality is that we may not be paid on some or all of the records sold by Amato over the last 6 months. We are in the process of recovering any stock held by Amato and are doing everything possible to minimize the damage to Anjunabeats and our artists.

Over the long term Anjunabeats will withstand this blow and will continue its operations as usual. We are already in advanced discussions with one of the industry's best distributors and are hopeful of having a new agreement in place over the next week or two, enabling us to resume our physical release schedule asap. We are still re-assessing our vinyl situation, but it is currently our intention to continue to release vinyl whenever possible, and we will keep you posted on this.

With your help and support, Anjunabeats will bounce back fully from this, so please continue to support the music (especially through our own webstore at www.cdjshop.com) and here's to a fantastic 2008 and beyond.

James, Jono, Tony, Paavo, Soraya

Too bad.

Hope this won't affect them a lot.

just go all digital, sell lossless track with no drm and promote burning your own anjunabeats albums
fuck distribution
vinyl fans would be farked tho

this is sucky.  very very bad news.  Vinyl really seems to be dying unfortunately.

FOr me I have not been able to buy vinyl for quite some time now.  With all the local shops closed, and the falling dollar, ordering from the UK and europe has gotten ridiculous.

Last order I did was about 12 vinyls and it cost me about $260

Compaered to what I could get for $260 from digital, I have been pushed to Digital downloads for now.