03 07 04 + 5 - 8 sat 3 july
cds at last..........
so finally we have some cds ..north peckham skyline ...its such a personal record ,feels like someones reading my diary(i dont keep a diary........)..i slipped in a couple of extra tracks...you will have to listen or ..maybe visit the north peckham skyline page .........i think putting the art work plus extras..recording stuff etc on the web site is such a great idea .......it means we can sell the cd ..cheap....the covers ,booklets etc etc all add to the cost ....... we can give that away free ..for. the home recordings series.....im already thinking about the next project ..ralph and derek came over on friday to have a chat about it ....lots of ideas ,dereks going to get the DVD idea up and running ...i gave him a box of videos ,and marcus video 8 recordings .........also we have a tape of the oppositions "lost album " recorded in 1980 .........not sure what condition its in ,dereks getting it transfered onto cd ..........and then theres storyville ..........oh yeah and the juke box idea .........the juke box idea is kind of itunes free ...........ie each month we will put say 5 unrealeased songs on the web site free ...........simple (i hope )....must go .........got to pick my daughter up from another birthday party................ive had a couple of complaints about my dots (these things).................................well its me thinking ....................................bye
seven comments, already:
Hello Mark …
Really great great great ideas.
I hope we’ll have access to all this music one day. Free or not !
Some ideas :
please avoid MP3 for music on the site. If you have enought web space please post either shorten or flac files (compressed but lossless). MP3 is a real crap (imho).
on the CD side, I wouldn’t care if you’d send them in a simple cardboard box, even without jewel case. We can almost all print our artwork and jewels cases are really cheap to buy afterward. If you can cut the cost and release more stuff, cut as much as you can.
and if quantities are not enought to be commercially viable, why not make simple CDr releases ? Blanks are for nothing nowdays and you’d only have to burn the necessary quantities. This would allow a better stock management (no deleted items, available on request, fast delivery …
and if you can get enought money from these little releases to set up a new gig for the band, nothing better could happen.
take care
shine on.
Jean-Manuel
Jm Esnault () (link) - 06 07 04 - 10:46
How about Ogg Vorbis? I’ve seen in tests that it does very well in sound quality. We could always put several different filetypes up for different bandwidth situations. We don’t have endless bandwidth ourselves but we could see how it went.
Derek () (link) - 08 07 04 - 09:19
less of the techno wank and a little more emotion please
tirza - 08 07 04 - 19:23
sorry – I mean the messages not the cd…
tirza - 08 07 04 - 19:24
You’ve not heard the cd yet!!
Derek - 08 07 04 - 21:55
Oh yes I have!
tirza - 25 07 04 - 20:56
Mark,
what “lost album” from 1980 are you referring to? Any more details, please?!
Btw, the NPS CD is just playing in my CD. I found it today in my mailbox when I returned home from from my vacation (NYPP was there as well 
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Great albums – great thanks!
Pawel Bilinski () - 16 08 04 - 20:39