From mltsnt Sent Sat, Sep 25th 1999, 17:17
From mltsnt Sent Sat, Sep 25th 1999, 17:17
At 09:39 AM 9/25/99 +0100, Wenger wrote: >Can I just ask, what with all this furore about the "lost" BOC records >(Hooper bay, play by numbers, acid memories) has anyone actually stopped and >thought that this could all be just a marketing ruse on the part of >Warp....BOC having a new album out soonish and all that. why is this so hard to believe? they are essentially demo tapes. probably half the tapes are still lying on the floor in the offices of random record labels (probably even warp!) or worse in their garbage cans and the rest were probably given out to friends who either forgot about them or just didn't care in the first place... you don't think RDJ or autechre put together demo tapes? just when BoC decide to list them on their website then rabid trainspotters start flipping out. >It does seem very >strange that these releases have only just surfaced now, dontchathink? 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. >I mean they must rank alongside AFX's Q-Chastic 7" (has anyone ever seen >that?) btw, what ever happend to the dude that was auctioning q-chastic here? who won? >Surely what >with all the informed DJs/record hunters/label owners etc etc someone would >have spotted or found these by now? 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).. >I had my doubts about Legofeet until Lance's >auction a while back. i used to have a lego feet. it exists. >It just seems to me that because IDM fans are some of >the most fervent "spotters" in musicville, there are some scrupulous people >out there willing to exploit that (namely BOC site owner..) and build up >fever pitch excitement on a few "unobtainable" releases. 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 ;-) maybe 10 years from now IDM-ers'll be like 'that damn skamography, i can't belive they're making up this mask series.. who would belive that bullshit? they just want me to buy the new Ska-42 12"'. i sure hope so ;-) np; outkast- 'liberation'