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after reading the list recently i have noticed everyone is confused about these 2 releases. here is what i know: the v/vm christmas 7" was limited to 300 worldwide. i got 50 copies in, and none of mine had any tinsel inside. i dont think i have the time to take all of the tinsel out, so the idea that the distributors or shops did that seems a bit off base. i think the v/vm guys probably hand distributed some, and did the tinsel bit to those shops who got them straight off the label the boards 7" is not out yet. i have at least 2 sources i can get them from and one told me it was pushed back, and the other in the uk approached me for pre-orders yesterday. it looks like it will be down to the wire to get them out before christmas. the new skam single is in the same situation i do believe. dont know much about it yet. same goes for mask 3. i was also asked how many i would want yesterday, so it is near the shipping date i would think the mealtime comp is a bit of a mystery. no-one stateside knows anything about it. i called astralwerks and they are not putting it out either, so the export ban concept seems unlikely. got my feelers out, and i expect to know something soon see ya - pj np: the sound of the little voices inside my head and those new dot records too -- pj>the exalted grand puba of mail order modern music 1018 north charles st, baltimore, md. 21201 fon: 410.625 9390 fax: 410.625 9359 http://www.modernmusic.com password for website is: gogo

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, pj dorsey wrote:

quoted 3 lines the mealtime comp is a bit of a mystery. no-one stateside knows anything

> the mealtime comp is a bit of a mystery. no-one stateside knows anything > about it. i called astralwerks and they are not putting it out either, > so the export ban concept seems unlikely.

More like impossible since I've seen copies of this comp at two different shops in Toronto, and suppliers in the UK usually apply US export bans to Canadian customers as well. Greg

boards of canada _aquarius_ [500 copies only] is out on 5 th january. i've just had a fax from vital dist. in the uk

You wrote:

quoted 5 lines after reading the list recently i have noticed everyone is confused

> >after reading the list recently i have noticed everyone is confused >about these 2 releases. here is what i know: > >the v/vm christmas 7" was limited to 300 worldwide. i got 50 copies

in,

quoted 1 line and none of mine had any tinsel inside. i dont think i have the time

>and none of mine had any tinsel inside. i dont think i have the time

to

quoted 1 line take all of the tinsel out, so the idea that the distributors or shops

>take all of the tinsel out, so the idea that the distributors or shops

quoted 3 lines did that seems a bit off base. i think the v/vm guys probably hand

>did that seems a bit off base. i think the v/vm guys probably hand >distributed some, and did the tinsel bit to those shops who got them >straight off the label

i called up piccadilly records about four weeks ago after finding out that they'll have all the vvm stuff. i ordered VVMT-0001, which is a 12" called soundscapes, it came with five pieces of paper with more vvm weirdness, must have been a small pressing because four out of five of the sheets of paper were actually printed out on somebodies laser printer. i also ordered one copy of the christmas 12". for some strange reason they sent me three copies, all with a tinsel glued to extended hand of the "person?" on the sleeve of the 7". on the other side of the sleeve there is a picture of a large man's face (along with other things), on one sleeve his eyes are blue, on another they are yellow, and on another they don't look colored. and it was definitely done by hand, looks like a sharpie...all five tracks on the 7" sound like dark ambient christmas songs gone very very wrong, they all have a very im-spending-christmas-with-my-bottle-of-scotch-and-santa's-gonna-kill-me feeling to them. if anybody wants to trade anything, for one of my extra vvm x-mas 7"s then get in touch. V\Vm making christmas a fun time for all the family^^^^^* << -kiya np:nav katze-never mind the distortion 2 (qunk mix dub autechre)