HW: Final Word on Voiceprint

[K Henderson]

Hi there...

Well, if you may remember, 'round Christmastime I put in a 6-CD order
(doubling up on their 3-fer-25UKP deal) to Voiceprint for a number of
HW-related and other interesting items.  They sent four quickly, then
another drifted in after another six weeks or so.  Last week, I finally
wrote to them and enquired about the Gong est Mort CD, and they wrote right
back and said that it had *just* come in from the plant or whatever, and
sure 'nuff, it came yesterday.  And they never did charge me the shipping
costs (and they sent three overseas airmail packages in the end!), so I
truly did get 6 CDs for 50 quid, or about $75, which is darn reasonable!
And I'm patient enough not to care about the delay, and I don't really care
much that they charged me all of it at the outset when only four of them had
been ready to go out the door at the time.

They sent a new catalog that is very similar in appearance.  It still says
UKP9.99 per item and 3-for-25UKP, so it looks like their regular offer
actually.  I can tell that there are a few new items listed, like Here 'n'
Now's Give and Take CD, that I think may have gone OOP in the recent past,
because I was bidding on a copy on Ebay not long ago and it went way higher
than I was thinking.  So perhaps this is a new reissue?  They actually list
all the labels and sublabels that these releases are on, and some of them
look to be outside of the Voiceprint family (the Gong est Mort for instance
is actually on Celluloid in France) so I guess they are doing some
distribution of similar things.  This Here 'n' Now release is on something
called Tin Toy which I've never heard of.

Anyway, so I'm thinking about doing another 3CD order for this one and the
new Lloyd-Langton (Chain Reaction) and maybe the Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
CD that people are telling me is way different and much better than the
early 80s stuff of theirs that can't be anything but horrible.  Especially
with that name!  This one is supposedly proto-post-rock material a la Bark
Psychosis.

Grakkl (FAA)

P.S.  The Weird Tapes listings have changed...Weird #1-6 are now listed (I
guess No. 6 is back in print, as was suggested here earlier I believe), but
now #7 isn't listed (is that now oop?).  That's the Brock solo one, right?
It's listed on the earlier catalog, though there it says Weird 107 as they
were originally known on cassette.  And wasn't there a Weird 108, and if so,
why is there no #8 CD?  I'm sure this has been answered before, but I've
forgotten what the deal was.