Highlight some notable 90s-early 00s CD only acts that are that much less likely to get re-discovered by crate diggers

Scott 4

Not the Walker album but rather the C&W/motorik outfit.

the 2nd ivy album

Sleepyhead’s best (IMO) releases — Communist Love Songs and Late Night Thinkin’ — were CD-only. (The band released a lot of other stuff on vinyl, though.)

I haven't heard those! Always liked Sleepyhead though.

Neither of Susanne Lewis’s Kissyfur albums (or her 2000 self-titled alb) were on vinyl; and looks like most of her Hail stuff w/ Bob Drake has also been CD-only.

xxp to myself -- just learned that Communist Love Songs was remastered & reissued on vinyl in 2018 (in a set with Starduster, an earlier LP):

https://www.drawingroomrecords.com/collections/all-products/products/future-exhibit-goes-here

Will rep for the two Containe albums - fantastic, edgy, compelling. If you like Versus, you'll love them.

The vast majority of stuff on Pete Namlook's FAX label was released on CD in limited quantities only, and to makes things more complicated Namlook is dead and Tetsu Inoue has vanished. Furthermore I have the impression the contracts for all those "Pete Namlook plus someone else" albums - there were loads - must be hard to work out. Some of them are on iTunes but only a minority.

Didn't Ambient World reissue some of those?

I think I have more Fax stuff on my wantlist than any other label

indeed.
i have already put my FAX cd collection into a specific box and told my lads NOT to hand these over to the local charity shop once my time is up.

that reminds me that a friend of mine had basically a full FAX CD collection left behind by her husband who sadly died in a really tragic way (suicide by cop). She asked me once if there was somewhere in particular she could auction it off for charity. but then I never heard what she did with it.

Bumping because I forgot this thread existed. Seeing younger collectors focusing more on CDs these days (was somewhat inevitable), therefore some regained hope for obscurity discovery

Screen Prints!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoG-ZEdVYw

i listen to this album quite a bit. suntan. on kimchee. 2003. good gaze. never on vinul. never reissued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaG-o2U9cbo

i like this too. on sonic unyon. 2003. cd only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzSG0I3tsdU