From AeOtaku Sent Sat, Sep 25th 1999, 18:28
From AeOtaku Sent Sat, Sep 25th 1999, 18:28
no. i think it's a fair assumption that most of these records weren't sold in stores and those that were never left scotland. acid memories is ten years old and probably limited to like a dozen hand made copies. On the "Hooper Bay" 12"... Until 1999 NOBODY mentioned this existed, it didn't appear in any official discographies, etc. Suddenly it appears, tracklisting, limited to 200 copies, etc. Somebody would've known about a copy. IDM may be a pretentious worldwide cabal, but it is a cabal nonetheless. Re: Q-Chastic This is a fake. No way a record goes hidden from everybody for seven years. PLUS there is no real way to tell if they don't just press them now and claim they came out seven years ago. Not hard. > don't lie to yourself. most people on the list get their rare records from > the internet or a few select stores. i doubt too many people would have > the masks if it weren't for the work of xx@x://kimo and xxx@xxx world (now > diskono).. These are the same people who the original poster references. > yeah, i'm sure that he made up the track times and catalog numbers just to > get some internet suckers to buy more current music. explain to me again > what the BOC site owner would have to gain from doing this? this is the > same guy who personally dug up copies of 'twoism' to sell to list members. > maybe BOC are giving him a cut of these huge profits they're pulling in ;-) Hey, somebody sell me a copy of Twoism, I'm Scottish. But... Creating a phantom record is easy. Boards of Canada: Skylark 01. Song of the Hills (4.56) 02. Algorhythm (7.02) 03. Zanzibar (5.24) 04. Rorschach (9.11) Limited to five 12"s. What would he gain from this? Hey, this whole scene is scenester music made by isolated individuals who in general seem intentionally obtuse and obscure. It might be gloating as some suggested or just strange humor. Another note on these being potentially fake releases is the Cosmic Crofter's harsh denial of tape requests due to lack of time. I'm a full time student and a full time employee (I don't have a day with nothing to do) and I can make plenty of tapes. Time is no excuse for people who have time to make websites and post to mailing lists. Not caring is a much better and more realistic one. (however, an interesting aside: I was playing some IDM the other day and a friend's roommate [opera major, future Julliard grad student] commented [in very technical terminology that I probably can't replicate] favorably on Autechre but found our beloved Boards so droning and simplistic that he was shouting to turn it off) Regardless, it's irrelevant, but if I had to gamble I'd say the pre-Twoism 12" is a fake. It was Rollins who blasted people for believing everything they read, and for once, he might actually be right. B. Hardcore Trainspotter (which sucks)