The MP3, weighing in at 4:39 and around 10mb, will be accompanied by a minisite dedicated to finding out who was responsible for this obscene piece of smooth jazz from 1984. I figure a good way of finding out who's responsible is to release it myself and wait for someone to claim copyright. It's certainly worth a shot.

The release will also contain artwork and instructions on how to make (and distribute) your own CD-R singles, so you can join in on the mystery.

(Some of you may have heard me play this during sound checks at Mixo gigs in the past…)

http://www.digitalvomit.com/dvr064

All further information on this release can be found on the above page, or in the earlier forum thread.

http://www.digitalvomit.com/dvr052

Rules: the submitted track should be exclusive for this album

Submissions to brianvanderbiest at hotmail dot com
Please mention your artistname, tracktitle as well as contact info in your mail
Tracks should be MP3/320kbps

*title is still pending, ideas are welcome through mail*

anyways, i suggest we eliminate that disclaimer. assuming we don't start piling expletives and pictures of diseased genitalia in our posts, i think we'll be fine. as it stands, the "no swearing" rule makes us look like quakers or something.

just a thought…

Basically, it would be fairly cheap for us to put out CD-rs, either as collaborations or splits to spread the expense. The costs would be pretty low. I know I can get 50 run off in plastic sleeves with a single sided insert for about £60. If you wanted to do the artwork yourselves, or work out some packaging, then the cost would be even lower. I've also got a lightscribe-enabled laptop so I could burn off the CDs myself and print them as well, reducing costs even more. Or failing that, I could always use the old underground stand-by of spray-painting them, although I've heard rumours that the paint can eat into the CD and render them unplayable.

(At this point, I will insert the disclaimer that, although my laptop is lightscribe-enabled, I don't have any software to run it and I don't know how much it will cost, if anything. There is also the small matter of each CD taking about 20 minutes to burn)

So, is there any interest in this or has anybody anything to add?

Thanks to Mattie for hosting this. Hope you all enjoy it.

Details

Release date: 10 December 2009 TBC
Pressing: DVR666 - free bonus download with purchase of VVMT666 / DVR666X - 50 CD-Rs
Original written and performed by S. Falkstaff, B. Stricken, P. Florente & S. Scorpio

DOWNLOAD THE VOCALS HERE (just under 20mb)

PRE ORDER THE 7" AND DOWNLOAD NOW FOR £3 + FREE P+P
FIRST FIFTY PRE-ORDERS GET A FREE "SECRET" CD-R - DVR666X

"Mutant Yorkshire Poodle Machine Def Leppard mullet bad Tattoo ROCK"

Although the Lady boys are moving out in a few different directions now with their Bubblegunner Recordings roster/label (not to mention the long-overdue criminal proceedings brought by the Metropolitan Police upon serial murderer Scorpio Scorpio), there's still life yet in the re-retro electro V/Vm Test Records pioneers of the New NEW Wave of British Heavy Metal. Along with a brand new EP to be released on another label in the not too distant future, I'm delighted to announce that after tough negotiations with both enigmatic lead singer Sebastian Falkstaff and band manager, impresario, raconteur and shit Tony Swain, Digital Vomit is set to release a collection of remixes of their 2007 single on V/Vm Test, 'Love Dictator'.

Next week I will be obtaining the much sought-after vocal tracks from the single, and these will be made available for free download for YOU to remix and twist into aural slices of electrock heaven, along with full instructions on where to send them (either to Bubblegunner or, more likely, to me). The finest remixes will be appearing on the compilation, along with a copy of the video you see above this very text, and will be available as a bonus free download to anyone purchasing the original VVMT666 7" single at what I can assure you will be a very reasonable price. (Don't worry if you already have a copy, we'll sort you out too.)

The Second Coming is almost here, and the Lady are ready to bequeath metallic genius unto the rockosphere once again… only this time they want you on board too. Believe the hype.

http://www.bubblegunner.com
http://www.myspace.com/fastlady

PS. Their debut album 'The Money Shot' is still available to buy from V/Vm for £8.

Download now.

7 tracks of hardcore industrial sample action from the darkest recesses of Ipswich. Available as both a high-quality MP3 and full-quality FLAC download, both with full artwork. Enjoy.

http://www.digitalvomit.com/nestrogen

Go get it!

Yes, this is a vanity project, but it's one I'm very interested to see completed. If you want a point of reference, this is basically the same issue that V/Vm had getting projects like Theoretically Pure… and There Was A Fish… into a physical format. The pre-orders will fund the entire project, with really minimal profit going my way. We are talking something like the equivalent of a fairly average night out in London. I'd like to guage interest in who would be interested in buying this, so if you are, either reply here or email me at lee.ashcroft hat hotmail.co.uk with DVR062 in the subject line. I'm hoping to have a list of artists on board set in stone at the very least within the next month or so, so maybe you'll want to wait until then. Like I say though, the ones I have lined up are fantastic.

Why 8-track? In lieu of a real answer, I would urge you to track down the film So Wrong They're Right if you can (if you're in the UK, it's on Sky Arts 1 every so often). The love and affection these tapes have amongst an admittedly small percentage of music lovers is, to my mind, incomparable to any other format, even vinyl, and this is obvious in the film. As Cheap Trick have proved, there is still a demand for 8-track tapes, despite their technical drawbacks. Maybe not amongst you guys (particularly those outside America), but there undoubtedly is somewhere. And with the music industry moving ever closer towards 100% digital distribution, people deserve to be reminded of the joy that can be had from putting a tape in a deck, or a stylus on a record, when the process of buying a music download takes pretty much all the soul out of buying music. When I buy something, I want to own it. I want to be able to hold it. When you buy a track from iTunes, you're lucky if you ever actually find the file on your hard drive. And if you do, what do you have? A load of metaphysical bits that don't actually exist. As impractical as an 8-track tape is in 2009, I'd rather have that than a joyless, DRM-laden AAC file that frankly sounds just as bad as a battered 8-track tape in its own way. (Even if I didn't have a player I'd be tempted to buy a DigiVom tape anyway, just for the novelty.) The difference being you can't hold the AAC file. I realise I'm perhaps preaching to the converted here, but even we seem to have all but given up on physical product. In fact the only one we've had this year was Uncivilized and Beytah's CD-R (which I still want a copy of, incidentally Brian…). Let's enjoy some physical audio action again.

Actually, maybe that is a real answer. Still, go watch that film if you can. Here endeth the post.

If you were wondering what DVR048 was going to be, well, here you are…

Realicide

Mission of Anarcho Gabber Punk 2009

A live set by Realicide, last heard on DV as the opening track on Aaaaargh!

So if that left you wanting more…

Go get it!

i have started something thats quite different for the breakorish stuff i normally do,its a dark ambient kind of music,and i would like to release it here on digital vomit
so i will need a release number:)

i can have it ready for release in about 2-3 weeks

Just to let you know I'm taking DVR048 for something, so if you want a catalogue number you can now have from 049 and up. No one else has 48 do they? Cheers all :)

i'd think 50-100 members is a reasonable estimate…

what do you think? or does it even really matter?