From jif Sent Sat, Feb 14th 1998, 14:37
From jif Sent Sat, Feb 14th 1998, 14:37
>Actually, Soup-Disk, Weed-beats, Shi-Ra, and other Soup-disk splinter is >all available in the US. It's all distributed by DEI, which means even >towers should have them. In fact, the one in boston has at least three >copies of each. Something like 25 titles so far, seems to be three new each >week. They're about $20 each. That's not too bad for Japanese CD's, which >cost about three times as much to manufacture as US ones. lucky u.s. people... i think the only place in the country that WANTS to carry it happens to be my local record store (which is a waste, for such a little town as ours) >>its not groundbreaking product, but well executed. > >Heavily understated. These artists are from japan. Big cultural gap. What >they translate as 'Avant-Garde' come far closer to said movement than the >'Avant-Gardism' thing. Really out there. thats what i wanted to post as an explanation, but im sure i would have lynched for reasons you can think about. i dont have your tact. my main exhibit was montage's mixology, which is nice, but basically amon tobin with an uninspiring name... anyways, the soup site doesnt seem to be updated to diligently, so do you know where i could find a complete discog? thanks, jif