S/D -- The Numero Group

hah that is a serious slap in the face to the people who bought the 7" box set

"oh guess what, we're reissuing this six months later with two extra tracks"

ha, yeah, with a huge book included too! so the feelies 7-inch is the only added music?
i will be getting this version of the set. the music is pretty great.

hah that is a serious slap in the face to the people who bought the 7" box set

that seems par for the course these days, sadly.

have they +/- abandoned their cult cargo series?

So they're preparing a White Zombie box set.

(I am not kidding.)

https://twitter.com/chunklet/status/625757798643691520

Grayson Currin mentioned the other day he's already sent in his liner notes for it.

ooh that's cool

http://www.networkedinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fonz_shark.jpg

hey you may laugh but I can't afford vinyl copies of those excellent albums and Soul Crusher has been oop for 30 years

I would love to have the early stuff actually. Like up to and including Make Them Die Slowly which is an interesting, if Laswellianly flawed, album.

What do y'all think of the Ork Records set? First listen is pretty damn fun, familiar bands great not often heard singles mixed with forgotten chancers. Great proto-punk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/arts/music/terry-orks-punk-rock-time-capsule-celebrates-a-nihilistic-niche.html

interesting background info

Does anyone have a Numero POX - like a dream mixtape of their most essential tunes?

still so many of their releases i haven't gotten to... haven't really been disappointed yet, though.
Ork set is pretty incredible (the book might be even better than the music!).

bought this in a charity shop in Lewes for a couple of quid http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/38942?ev=rb

Last Sold: 17 Sep 15
Lowest: £17.93
Median: £29.13
Highest: £74.45

sorry, wrong thread

damn, this new wayfaring strangers comp is the shit!

Is that the Cosmic American Music one?

yes! i don't know a whole lot about country rock, but i love this.

One of my blind spots, too, I'll have to check that comp out.

i mean i know the byrds, burrito brothers, beau brummels, buffalo springfield ... hmm ... a lot of "b" bands ... and some country soul / southern rock comps, but this one is so deep, sounds like there's a whole galaxy of stuff out there waiting to be discovered

The remastering on the White Zombie set (everything they did before signing to Geffen) is great. They did't remix Make Them Die Slowly or release the earlier version (produced by Wharton Tiers, not Bill Laswell, IIRC), but it still sounds better.

Whoa, I never knew there was an earlier version. Have you heard it? Wonder if I can find that...

I like MTDS a lot despite the Laswell production. Ditto Orgasmatron.

I am deriving way more enjoyment from the Los Alamos Grind comp than I expected from a buncha rockabilly/surf revival (I think? Stuff certainly doesn't sound like it's from the 50's) sampler.

Anyone signed up for Project Twelve? So far it seems to be mostly albums by artists who feature in the compilations...

they're on bandcamp now

but why is the yellow pills powerpop compilation not on spotify or on their bandcamp? i feel like there was some weirdness with it before, leading to the addition of "prefill" to the name, but i wish it was streaming bc there are some killer songs on it

apparently it's on spotify as "buttons: starter kit" for some reason

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/pain-pills-the-heated-copyright-debate-over-a-st-louisans-power-pop-compilation/Content?oid=2501994#

thanks. now i vaguely remember reading that before.

rip 'physical' media i guess?

idgi

Numero's liquidating their pre-2017 CD stock on their website and claiming their getting out of the CD business.

2nd one should be "they're" and of course this happens on a broke weekend.

The reality is a little less dramatic (and you can tell Shipley is behind the THIS IS IT WE ARE DONE DO YOU FOOLS NOT UNDERSTAND press releases): they've been overproducing cds in the past and are going to make far fewer of them per release. It's a combination of not wanting to deal with the backstock and a prediction that another format will be here within three years that will end cds.

Whatever their doing, it finally got me to order that Purple Snow set. $10!

lots of talk in Stereophile magazine about a new hi-res technique called MQA that doesn't require as much storage as standard hi-res formats but is better and permits streaming. tidal streams hi-res via MQA. you apparently need something to decode it though.

Supposedly, they'll only be pressing 2000 copies of future CD releases. Which means the upcoming (pre-SST, but still) Hüsker Dü set will sell out in a day.

But they're not doing the same with vinyl, right? So RIP CD, sure, not RIP physical media.

We'll take our chances with streaming. Vinyl is a dead end as well.

— Numero Group (@numerogroup) July 21, 2017

Future of the CD is limited edition, high quality, jacked up prices. Prepare.

— Numero Group (@numerogroup) July 21, 2017

:/

idk maybe they're right. they're great cds and i considered buying everything they have and i don't, but i just don't know what i would do with a bunch more cds i'll rip and never listen to.

Pretty much you're buying them for the liner notes.

Anyway I figured there were a few things worth getting, so I did -- I'll take that Scientists set for $20, sure!

Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles 2lp set and board game is on sale for $50. I admire crazy projects like that, hope they'll continue to bring the ambition with the box sets (when is that Huskers coming?).

I can see the "vinyl is a dead end" angle -- it's prohibitively expensive, and quality control from most pressing plants is iffy -- for about a week, my fb feed was dominated by "I have to return this one LP in the Unwound set," which must've been a colossal headache for Numero.

And the Hüskers set is supposedly out in September, but no date has been announced yet.

The Darkscorch set is a ridiculously hilarious indulgence. (I mean this as approval -- we're definitely not giving up ours here.)

disappointed the unwound box isn't on sale.. it says it's pre-2017?

yeah i was hoping that would be on sale too. getting the bedhead set for 20 bucks was sweet tho

most of the stuff i would have bought is stuff i already have but i couldn't help it -- i got 4 things
if your $5 is burning a hole in your pocket, i have listened to the bahamas and belize cult cargo comps so many times since i bought them years ago that they're permanently imprinted on my brain -- totally worth your $5!!

sold out of the Bahamas one :(