Re: (idm) Autechre Ban is Bullshit & DMX issue

From Lance C McGannon
Sent Fri, Jul 17th 1998, 04:17

At 09:13 PM 7/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>        Went to my favorite record shop today in Houston, Texas (yup,
>that's in America) and picked up a nice brand new copy of the new
>Autechre for 21 bucks.  To my surprise, I asked the clerk how they
>procured this release when there is an import ban, and they looked at me
>like I was sick in the head.  They pulled up their list of distributors
>in front of me on the computer and showed that there were several in the
>US that were supplying the album.  Does anyone know where this idea of a
>ban started? or if it is from a reliable source, just how the ban was
>going to be implemented cause it sure didn't work for H-town.
>

The import ban may not be holding up well but there is,
indeed, one in place according to several of the largest
US electronic & experimental music distributers.

obIDM: got some outstanding idm releases this week:
. Andrea Parker: Ballbreaker/Some Other Level 10" (MoWax)
. Vendor Refill: Evil WEevil 12" (Nature)
. Jega: Spectrum cd (Planet =B5)
. Highways Over Gardens comp cd (Carpet Bomb)
. Autechre: untitled cd (Warp)

Tons of reviews coming this weekend...


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