About Rafe

IN THE BIZ…
By the mid 80s, Gomez felt that he had accumulated enough knowledge about playing records to take a shot at creating them. He launched a record label out of his apartment that specialized in club music. “I played, produced, promoted, and sold all of my releases, which were mainly in the house music genre. I would’ve loved to make funky jazz records, but the cost of doing those kinds of productions was way out of my budget. There also wasn’t as much of an outlet for them as there was the house stuff, which was big in the States and absolutely massive overseas.”

… AND OUT
After almost 10 years in business and 100 records released, Gomez folded his label. “I felt it was time for several reasons,“ Gomez says. “For one thing, new recording technologies were making it easier for labels to open up and toss out records. With more records being released, all of us were grabbing for a shrinking slice of an already tiny pie. Also, there were dozens of new genres and sub-genres of house music emerging each week, which meant that the shelf life of a record was almost instantaneous. But most importantly, I got bored with the sound, the scene, and the lack of spontaneity of the music. When I thought about the kind of music that I was making and the kind of music that I loved listening to, there was a real disconnect. So I had no problem moving on.”

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