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Hi Greg (and Folks), Thanks for the info and the questions answered.

quoted 5 lines 2. Did anything other than Pulp get released on 'Gift'?

> >2. Did anything other than Pulp get released on 'Gift'? > > yes. 'V' and 'Various Vegetables'. warp-net is a warp site not a gift > site. I believe their is a gift dicog floating around somewhere, why > don't you find it.

Don't get prickly! Gift was part of Warp so its not unreasonable to try the Warp site first as a source of info. The second most reliable source of info on Warp (and related) is the IDM list. I was only asking.

quoted 4 lines and how many 10"s of 'Outa

> >and how many 10"s of 'Outa > >Space' will be available? > > as many as you want.

I'll only want one. Is it *not* a limited edition then?

quoted 7 lines 5. NME reckoned that Global Goon had sold more copies than the

> >5. NME reckoned that Global Goon had sold more copies than the > >'Richard D. James LP'. Can this be the case or is it the usual inkie > >bullshit? > > i think it's unlikely, but who knows and more to the point cares. > sales don't affect the music on a record. which is not to say the > reverse is not true.

I couldn't give a shit about how many records by these artists get sold. It has no bearing on whether I like them or not. I just thought it was a peculiar thing for NME to have claimed. Again, who else am I going to ask but the IDM list (with its official representatives of both labels as subscribers)? I'm just idly curious... <Warpnet moans>

quoted 6 lines No release dates, artist credits or track times in the

> >No release dates, artist credits or track times in the > >discography. > > the site puter togetherer decided no one in the real world would be > anal enough to want all those details. we will probably put up release > dates but I have never really figured out a use for track times.

Ha, ha! This had me chuckling. Have you seen Fresh's discogs?!? There are *many* people on this list anal enough to be concerned about these things! Me for one! I admit that track times might be taking it a little far but asking for artist credits and release dates isn't unreasonable given the amount of interest shown in the label by this list. The other day a friend of mine played me a promo of the Symplectic single. I liked it and wondered when it came out, who was behind it, whether they'd done anything else under different names. Nothing too anal. I looked it up on Warpnet, clicked on the little picture of the sleeve and got... a big picture of the sleeve with a tracklisting I'd already seen. Hmmm.

quoted 3 lines No way of printing off a discography.

> >No way of printing off a discography. > > we are going to produce an ascii version.

Cheers. That will be much appreciated.

quoted 6 lines No info on the

> >No info on the > >numbers available of the recent limited editions (this matters 'cos > >if its only a few I'll order something, if its over a thousand > > nothings ever less than a thousand apart from maybe that one sided > sabres 7"

Yeah, but you just said that there were only 500 Jimi Tenor 7" singles *in the UK* which effectively means to me only 500 available, despite knowing that there are a thousand in total. This is the sort of occasion where I would like to know in order to secure a copy. By the way, any list members in my area (Leeds, UK): Way Ahead had a couple of copies of it left yesterday.

quoted 9 lines Its no use to the

> >Its no use to the > >trainspotter. Its too specific > > ???? > > >and too full of in jokes to be of > >casual interest. > > ????

What I meant was that its not specific and detailed enough to satiate the trainspotter (see Fresh's discogs for an example of how to do that) but its still full of Designers Republic/Warp in-jokes. Its like walking into Eastern Bloc: obviously cool and well designed but unless you know the guys behind the counter its not going to make much sense and going to feel excluding.

quoted 3 lines Who is it for?

> >Who is it for? > > probably the hundreds of people who say they like it.

Fair enough. To torture the metaphor a little more: Eastern Bloc sells a lot of records. It's certainly refereshingly different to other officially sanctioned commercial sites: its good.

quoted 7 lines content is something I will be building up over the next few

> content is something I will be building up over the next few > months/years these things don't happen overnight I probably devote <2% > of my work time to it at the moment. things to expect over the next > few months are a working live chat by end of next week, lot's of > sound, news, artist contributions, a threaded message post so it will > be useful etc etc. we are planning to have full details and samples of > each new release up on the site a week before the release date.

All sounds great. I'll be visiting frequently I'm sure. I *do* appreciate the work that goes into these things. Grumpy Rob ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------- 'Drum Machines - hell, you just programme the motherfucker, press a button, you got that "bim, bam, boom" twenty four hours a day if you want it. You want it to stop? Press another button! Synthesizers too. I love 'em!' - Miles Davis, 1986