Minimal Wave Records

Hello,

after 28 years the first “Nine Circles” concert is now available on CDR. It’s called “Live in Queekhoven 1982” and can be purchased from the usual mail orders or directly through our new website at
http://www.minimal-elektronik.de/ninecircles.

Love,
Lidia The Rose

I don’t want to start a flame and i have a deep respect for nine circles but why did you chose to put out your music on cd-r?!? I had a terrible experience with cd-rs, i had to buy from trumpett the cdr reissues of some of their classics (The Actor and Colonial Vipers compilation are some of the best stuff ever released) In 3 or 4 years i had to throw 8 cdrs on the trash bin and downloaded the mp3s.

After this amazing compilation published on cdr : http://www.discogs.com/Various-Somewhere-Outside/release/2263871 - here we have a live from Nine Circles that i won’t ever listen.
Too bad :(

(I hope you’ll seel so many cdr that the reissue will be on a vinyl, a proper cd or, why not, a cassette )

Movement:Minimaal - 07 July 2011 04:57 AM

I don’t want to start a flame and i have a deep respect for nine circles but why did you chose to put out your music on cd-r?!? I had a terrible experience with cd-rs, i had to buy from trumpett the cdr reissues of some of their classics (The Actor and Colonial Vipers compilation are some of the best stuff ever released) In 3 or 4 years i had to throw 8 cdrs on the trash bin and downloaded the mp3s.

After this amazing compilation published on cdr : http://www.discogs.com/Various-Somewhere-Outside/release/2263871 - here we have a live from Nine Circles that i won’t ever listen.
Too bad :(

(I hope you’ll seel so many cdr that the reissue will be on a vinyl, a proper cd or, why not, a cassette )

I’m surprised you had troubles with the trumpett cd-r’s, I have bought a pile of them without problems. Time to rip me some safety copies, then, thanks for the tip

reactorlgtn - 07 July 2011 07:52 AM

I’m surprised you had troubles with the trumpett cd-r’s, I have bought a pile of them without problems. Time to rip me some safety copies, then, thanks for the tip

Maybe mine was a faulty batch, i don’t know. What i do know is that one canno’t buy a media that can “deteriorate” from one day to another staying in your shelve. I can’t even think about thinking of making backup copies of my records to save them…
Sorry, but i’m still angry for throwing in the garbage that Actors masterpiece.

Some time ago i almost had a fight with an “artist” that deals with synths but is not related to minimal synth, and sells her whole discography on cdr and at a high price (12 euros each)... she told me that her pressing plants use to make “FACTORY PRESSED CDR” for editions of less than 500. And the fact that a factory pressed cdr is way better than a home burnt cdr.
Bollocks!

The Nine Circles live tracks were planned to be released on ET… but they have only survived as mp3’s… mp3’s cannot be made into a good vinyl pressing… at least not good enough for ET standards… on cd it sounds good enough though…

Movement:Minimaal - 07 July 2011 04:57 AM

I don’t want to start a flame and i have a deep respect for nine circles but why did you chose to put out your music on cd-r?!?

Because at every concert we were asked whether we have some music to sell and a CD-R is an easy and fast way to publish music on your own.

I had a terrible experience with cd-rs, i had to buy from trumpett the cdr reissues of some of their classics (The Actor and Colonial Vipers compilation are some of the best stuff ever released) In 3 or 4 years i had to throw 8 cdrs on the trash bin and downloaded the mp3s.

Yes, I know that a CD-R is not for eternity, but hopefully our CD-R will last longer than the Trumpett CD-Rs, because in contrast to those CD-Rs we didn’t glue a sticker on it (which can buckle over the years), but used a solvent-free CD marker instead.

I hope you’ll seel so many cdr that the reissue will be on a vinyl, a proper cd or, why not, a cassette

We’re indeed planning to release some of the stuff on vinyl, but that may still take some months.

Love,
Lidia The Rose