From: brian@mel.dit.csiro.au (Brian May)
Subject: Re: 
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 04:49:57 GMT


In article <1992Sep9.030209.19312@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>, richard@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Stop That Pigeon!!!) writes:
|> brian@mel.dit.csiro.au (Brian May) writes:
|> 
|> >Best of luck mate.  You might want to contact Ben Cox who is just about to
|> >press a CD of the same type (well, 2 CDs) made of submissions from techno
|> 								    ^^^^^^
|> 								    arrggh
|> 
|> MAJOR CORRECTION: INDUSTRIAL. Didn't the name ``The rec.music.industrial CD''
|> tip you off for God's sake? 

Sorry to offend with the wrong (lazy) label.  Here's the FULL blurb on the CDs
which aren't simply 'industrial' either (and I defy anyone to start defining
'industrial' or 'alternative' or 'the sound of one hand clapping' again ;-)

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|> ADVANCE orders are still being taken for a CD compilation of
|> industrial music made by musicians with access to USENET.
|> 
|> PLEASE NOTE that these are ADVANCE orders: the discs have not been
|> pressed yet.  I will press the discs when I am certain that I won't
|> lose a fortune on them -- I don't have the money to press until I get
|> enough orders.  If I don't get enough orders to press the disc, you
|> will receive a 100% refund of your money -- and I will pay the postage
|> on the refund.
|> 
|> Most of the THIRTY-ONE bands represented have email and/or news access,
|> and were recruited from the rec.music.industrial, rec.music.synth,
|> rec.music.makers (and other) newsgroups and the nm-list mailing list.
|> 
|> The compilation will be available as a 2-CD set, with discs entitled
|> "Mind" and "Body".  The "Mind" CD will have traditional and ambient
|> industrial music, the "Body" CD will have industrial dance music.  The
|> pieces were selected by a panel of reviewers from the net (the panel
|> did not contain any of the artists) (or me, for that matter).
|> 
|> 
|> PRICING on the CD set (all prices in US dollars):
|> 
|>     CD set itself: $8.00
|> 
|>     Shipping:           first copy      additional copies
|>         USA:                $3.00             $1.50
|>         Canada/Mexico:      $3.50             $1.75
|>         Outside N. America: $6.00             $3.00
|> 
|> 
|> HOW TO ORDER: Send the appropriate amount (from the above table) to
|> me, along with an address to which the CDs are to shipped.  The CD
|> sets will be PRESSED around the end of August, IF enough orders come
|> in, so choose your address appropriately.  Checks should be made
|> payable to me (Ben Cox), and should be drawn in US funds from a US
|> bank.  If you are outside the US, an International Money Order or cash
|> (if you rust your mail) are appropriate.
|> 
|> My NEW!!!! address is:
|> 
|>     Ben Cox
|>     RMI CD Project
|>     1007 W. Kirby
|>     Champaign, IL  61821
|>     USA
|> 
|> 
|> THANKS FOR YOUR ORDER!
|> 
|> 
|> Following is a list of the tracks that will appear on the CDs:
|> 
|> Disc "Mind:"
|> 
|> ARTIST                                  TITLE
|> Andrew Crowell                          The Fall of Shartoa
|> Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers     The Star-Spangled Banner
|> CLCH                                    The Whales And Dolphins
|> Crazy Ivan                              My Ass Is Ivory
|> John Eichenseer                         Down At The Blue Cafe
|> John Grigsby                            Sequence
|> KILLED by a BLOW in the HEAD            mysteries of pakistan (for phil)
|> Macronympha                             masturbation mantra
|> SPEAKEASY                               One of Woody's Women
|> The Unit Circle                         Constant Bit Select of a Vector Net
|> Total Harmonic Distortion               The Messiah
|> Trance                                  Vicious Circle
|> Urban Ambience                          Drug Dilemma
|> grae*com                                New Age Love Song
|> 
|> Disc "Body:"
|> 
|> ARTIST                                  TITLE
|> Acme Disco Machines                     Piss Christ
|> BLACKMAN                                Solace
|> Dresden                                 detraction
|> Evolution Control Committee             The Industrial Polka
|> INSULT                                  GEE
|> Mary On Trial                           success
|> Naram Sin                               Nighthammer
|> SLUR                                    SINGULAR
|> SNOG                                    BORN TO BE MILD
|> Scott Lukas                             Revolution In My Mind
|> Six Sigma                               Killer Bees
|> Smothered Hope                          Bloodletting
|> Soma Holiday                            Burning Chrome
|> Surgery Tomorrow                        Shit All Over You
|> Thad Donovan                            DOGMA
|> Users of the Wicked Gravity             You Shall Not Decay
|> Who Mournes                             Holiday
|> 
|> --
|> Ben Cox
|> thoth@uiuc.edu
|> 
|> (this very same information is available via
|> "finger btc30679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | more")
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