From thomas m weibrecht Sent Thu, Dec 4th 1997, 14:45
From thomas m weibrecht Sent Thu, Dec 4th 1997, 14:45
On Wed, 03 Dec 1997 14:22:39 -0800 Greg Earle <xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx> writes: >> Brett McCormick wrote: >>> >>> the rather interesting version of dreamfish is different than the >fax >>> "re-issue".. I like them both, although they're nothing >spectacular >>> or anything. >> >> Hmm! Re-issue of the Original Dreamfish or dreamfish2 on >> rather interesting, are you sure it's not the re-issue on >> AmbientWorld ? > >Speaking of FAX re-issues in general ... (Charles are you listening?) > >I was looking through Charles' recent post on what's still orderable >FAX-wise >and noticed this Ambient World re-issues stuff. (After I spent >several >minutes vainly trying to un-braindamage the layout.) > >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"? various arguments have been given: the artist is not really happy with it, theres no demand, etc, etc...personally, i believe it will happen....probably later than sooner... > >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 ... u could say its one of the fax "holy grails".... >Pardon my "Music wants to be Free" bent (guess all this MP3 collecting >has >gotten into my brain) but since there seems to be a lot of demand for >it, >and there are other titles in the FAX canon that have been re-issued, >why >not this one? I've half a mind to MP3-ize mine and put it up on the >Web >(a la the MASK 2 MP3 page that someone kindly put up), I mean sheesh >... someone offered to do this already and he was blown to high hell... >I really think the biggest problem in the IDM/experimental >techno/313/etc. >world is lack of availability. I read posts on these lists all the >time, and >thousands upon thousands of releases are mentioned (heck, just collect >about a >week's worth of Lance's postings and that's at least a hundred records >mentioned right there (-: ) that I - and I suspect most people - will >NEVER >get to hear even a small sliver of 'em. > >Personally, I think everything should be MP3'ized. "Home MP3'ing is >Killing >Music!" the labels cry. Bullshit. Yeah, like I really want to only >be able >to listen to music on my fucking computer with little powered >speakers? Also, >the only album I've downloaded from the Net in its entirety is CJ >Bolland's >"Analogue Theatre". Before that, I'd only heard "Sugar Is Sweeter" >and had >decided "Well, I guess I can skip this one". Gee, what do you know, >the >rest of it is *nothing* like "Sugar Is Sweeter" and you know what? >When I >saw it in a store, I bought the damned thing. So because I was able >to hear >it on the 'Net, CJ got a few more pennies in his pocket. > >OK, but not everyone has the same scruples as me, you protest. Maybe >so. >But the simple fact - in our genres, at least - is that this music >does >not get much distribution and it's damned hard to find, even though >there's >a LOT of it (Every week the Synaptics folks tell me there's 50, 75, up >to 150 >new releases they get in. How am I supposed to pick something to mail >order >from them when I have no way to hear any of it, a priori? So I don't. > But >I dropped $525 in Modern Music back in April, because I was there in >the >store and could *hear* stuff. Helllllooooo ... is anybody paying >attention?) > >I've been mumbling about Internet music distribution being the Future >Of Music >on these lists for several years now. (Not claiming prescience here, >just a >rather obvious pathway due to familiarity with the technology.) It's >about >time the music was MORE ubiquitous, not the other way around. FAX >titles >changing hands for over US $100 or whatever while there's re-issues of >other >titles just seems really silly to me in this day and age. > i agree with everything you say... tom w np: spring heel jack - busy curious thirsty ( am i the only one that likes this disc?)