Talk:The Cryptic Corporation

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Notes From Ralph

"We here at Ralph Records and The Cryptic Corporation support The Residents and their point of view concerning the sorry state of affairs of this culture. We further feel that it’s necessary to take certain supportive action to ensure that The Residents, as well as other artists like them, are able to exist and to function in this culture which will, in turn, ensure that the culture has a future, rather than having only a past."

- Jay Clem, The Residents Radio Special, 1977

Cosmichobo1 _(Admin) (talk) 16:39, February 18 2023

"I'm the person who has historically done not all of their graphics, but 90 to 95 percent of it. And so[...], Cherry Red Records, which is now a 25 percent owner of The Cryptic Corporation. You know, I had a partner, Hardy Fox, who unfortunately passed away about three and a half years ago... but he actually retired two years before that... I had no desire to retire, I was enjoying what I was doing. So it took me a while to enable his retirement along with enabling my own career, but the outcome of that was two companies, MVD... and Cherry Red... each buying Hardy's half, so I retain fifty percent, and each of them 25 percent. Cherry Red has done a phenomenal job of creating this amazing reissue series... It's great to have that stuff out there, nobody's complaining about the income."

"I have mixed emotions and feelings around [Hardy Fox's retirement]. To be completely honest, he was the best friend I ever had. So you don't replace relationships like that. But at the same time he was kind of done with The Residents, and had grown increasingly distant over time, both physically and emotionally. You know, we used to go into the same office every day for, I don't know, thirty years or something like that. It reached a point where we saw each other once every month or two. I mean we would exchange emails and phone calls or whatever... and with that physical distance came emotional distance too... Once again, you know, you don't replace the friendship, but, you know, I have been able to replace his work, you know, his position. Basically, you know, I'm a good collaborator, and so the fact that he was gone has made room for a lot of other people to get involved to collaborate, so in a lot of ways, there's almost been a certain renaissance or resurrection. And with him having become distant before that, his departure before he died kind of made room for that. And from my perspective, that's been a good thing."

"The thing that I think is most interesting about the music business now, you know, it used to be there were all these gatekeepers. Labels, primarily. But you know, you could also put radio stations in that same category to some extent. And if your music didn't fit within a certain category, or appeal to a certain demographic, there was no way you was ever gonna go anywhere. And you know, the internet has enabled access to everything. And also too, the tools have become so accessible at this point, you can make an album on a phone... But the flipside of that is that... you can now be a needle in the haystack, but the haystack is the size of the sun, you know? So, how you get your stuff heard, seen, noticed, becomes a totally different challenge."

- Homer Flynn, Industry Tactics with Friendly Rich, "Ep. 145 - Homer Flynn", February 13th 2022

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 09:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)