From Gary Hendershot Sent Thu, Dec 4th 1997, 19:52
From Gary Hendershot Sent Thu, Dec 4th 1997, 19:52
Noah wrote: >> Speaking of FAX re-issues in general ... (Charles are you listening?) >> This begats the obvious question - and I hope it doesn't open a can of >> worms - why isn't there a re-issue of, say, Tetso Inoue's "Ambiant >> Otaku"? I keep hearing about this thing. How prices are really high >> for it, how it's limited edition, one of the better FAX issues, >> etc. etc. and that's why it goes for so much, blah blah ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I definitely agree with you on the issue of putting music up on > the net, especially for hard-to-find/limited releases that are > nowhere to be found. I think someone already has Otaku on their > website, actually. I think it was at www.nethead.com.au/fax/ > but i just checked it and only Namlook XII, Dark Side of the Moog > VI, From Within III, Air III, Psychonavigation III, 2350 III, > Create, and Organic Cloud excerpts are up there, so i could be wrong. > I know i saw it somewhere. There was a big hullaballoo a while > back on the ambient list about reissuing Otaku on ambient world, > so searching the archives might also be helpful. ======================================================================== There was a student at Michigan State U. or U. Michigan a few weeks ago with some excerpts of "Ambiant Otaku" in Real Audio format on a webpage. If FAX was going to reissue "Ambiant Otaku," they would have done so by now. It looks like the next best chance for it to become available again will be sometime in 1999 or later, since FAX has rights to "Ambiant Otaku" for five years. At that point, the album's rights will revert to Tetsu Inoue. He could re-release it on a label like Asphodel or on his own private label or even on FAX again. A nice time for FAX to have reissued "Ambiant Otaku" would have been this past summer during their unprecedented lull. One of the album's better cuts "Holy Dance" is on "The Ambient Cookbook" 4-CD set as well as on one of the two "FAX Compilation" 2-CD anthologies from Instinct. But that still leaves four other cuts "Karmic Light," "Low Of Vibration," "Ambiant Otaku," and "Magnetic Field" unavailable until a reissue of the full album. The FAX albums "Shades Of Orion 1" and "I.F. 1" are also good candidates for Ambient World reissues. -Gary H- xxxxxxxx@xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx.xxx Houston, TX USA