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Hello everyone,<br>
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(my apologies if you receive this more than once)<br>
To get a head start on an upcoming fundraising campaign to
(finally) start re-issuing<br>
early and/OAR CDR releases on CD, I have marked down most of the
items in the <br>
Diffusion Shop. Please note that customers outside of the USA
can contact me <br>
and ask about getting a price reduction on their postage (if
they order more than <br>
$30 worth of items). If you have a PayPal account, then we can
bypass the shop <br>
and conduct the transaction directly. Otherwise, as has been the
case since<br>
2001, shipping in the USA is free with a purchase.<br>
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Some items will only be marked down until September 20th and the
rest will be <br>
marked down until the end of September. Most non-and/OAR items
in the shop <br>
are down to only 1 or 2 copies; so get them while you can at
these prices, because <br>
once they're gone, they're gone. Over the past few years, I've
been focusing less <br>
and less on distributing other label releases, due in large part
to working with a <br>
drastically reduced budget than in previous years. In fact, no
releases were issued<br>
in 2013 due to a major lack of sales or other financial support.
This was the first <br>
time in the label's 13 year history that this occurred, and
hopefully the only time!<br>
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So, if you know people who might enjoy the releases and the
prices, please tell them <br>
about the sale and point them to the shop. I would greatly
appreciate it.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.and-oar.org/store"
target="_blank" style="color: #336699;font-weight:
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Next, I want to talk more about the planned CD re-issues.<br>
As mentioned, I've been busy planning the next "crowdfunding"
campaign to cover <br>
the costs of finally re-issuing a number of older out-of-print
CDR releases on CD. <br>
I don't intend to re-issue all of the CDR releases, but I will
start with the most <br>
requested titles first, and work my way backward from there. Due
to lower demand<br>
than in the past, most of the a/O CD re-issues will be very
limited in number in <br>
order to preserve the works on a longer lasting physical format
for the sake of <br>
posterity and for collectors (such as myself!). One copy of each
re-issue will also<br>
be sent to the British Library Sound Archive (who already has a
number of a/O<br>
field recording releases in their collection).<br>
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Among the re-issues pondered are the Phonography.org field
recording compilations.<br>
This project will require its own fundraising campaign, plus
support from those whose <br>
tracks are featured on the releases. However, instead of a
straight-ahead re-issue, <br>
the idea would be to release a revised boxed CD set containing
most of the tracks, <br>
and maybe some new ones along with liner notes. Any tracks that
have since been<br>
released elsewhere will not be included in the set. Also, if I
cannot contact certain <br>
people, their tracks might end up being replaced as well. As
with the other re-issues,<br>
these editions will be very limited. Since it is now possible
to have smaller numbers<br>
of glass-mastered replicated CDs made, the need for using CDRs
to publish work<br>
has drastically been reduced. More discussion about this project
can be done on<br>
the Phonography forum.<br>
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Thanks very much for your time and support!<br>
Dale<br>
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and/OAR<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.and-oar.org">www.and-oar.org</a><br>
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