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For you Coil fans, the new Ape Of Naples/New Backwards 4LP box set can be preordered from Important Records now. 1500 copies, 300 on red vinyl apparently. A hefty $80 price tag, with shipping at $37 to Europe!! God only knows what it would cost to get one to Australia. I'm doing my darndest not to order one, but it's hard, it's a nice looking set. It also looks like there will be a future CD edition.

For Nurse With Wound fans (if any!!), the new book/CD thingy, Images/Zero Mix is also out, a deluxe version with a bonus album, limited to 400, and a regular edition without the bonus album and in less nice packaging limited to 1500. Deluxe is $65 and normal is $30. There's a bit of uproar over this one as Zero Mix was originally released on vinyl, limited to 400, and the label swore blind it would never be reissued on CD. Pissed off a few people. The book contains images of the painted sleeves Stapleton did for the art editions of Angry Eelectric Finger.

End of record nerd collector geek update!

Member Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 285 Location: Philly

If you read the blurb in the news section on the Important website it says the Backwards material is "currently" not available elsewhere, a sure sign that it possibly will be available in the future.

I'm betting that Backwards will e available sooner or later on CD. I don't think Peter has any reason not to do this. Some it i great stuff btw Smile

Blipseed wrote

Here's the direct link.

http://www.importantrecords.com/releases/174_coil_backwards_order.html

I'm tempted, seriously tempted!!!

Hey Blip, don't tempt th poor guy!. He's got mouths to feed now, instead of spending every cent on those collectibles..

ordered mine monday the second i got the email announcing it. $90 after shipping sucks but it does look nice. but i've bought 3 or 4 lp sets for well under $50 before. Anyone know how much the etchings add to the cost of production as 3 of the 4 lps are etched in this case. not that i'd think important would overcharge. But we all know coil would. regardless i can't imagine these will be available for too long. so buy one now so you don't have to pay some stupid price on ebay next year when u decide you need one.

$90 including shipping in the US, add about $30 to that for shipping to Europe, and probably more for elsewhere. Quite pricey. I'm officially retired from the expensive edition buying business, and I'm happy as long as I have the tunes. I'm sure the New Backwards stuff will crop up somewhere soon, or I can trade it with somebody, until the CD arrives.

I'm glad to see Important have a made it a 2-per-customer deal, with full shipping to be paid on each copy. That might prevent some of the eBay hawkers snapping up ten copies for future auctions.

In any case, I have to keep saving for Colour Sound Oblivion, the 10 DVD live set that will appear some time this century..... hopefully.

i'll be glad to rip the new backwards assuming i have my new record player by then.

Member Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

ach, I want this so bad, but because of my current job situation I can't.

hopefully a/some version will be available through Thresholdhouse sooner or later.

More good news! Peter Chrisyopherson is realeasing new material as a free download in March:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=101566922&blogID=349995674

Heretic Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 9422

That new project sounds rad! Ivan Panlov is great. I love Coh. Looking forward to this.

Aye, good to see Sleazy still coming up with the goods....

Member Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

tour dates in Europe later this year, eh. Pretty spiffy!

Yay! More Coil news Smile

I allready ordered my copy....

http://greedbag.com/mailout/~thresholdhousenews003/

Member Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

so, anyone who's ordered it and recieved it up for a review?

Well here we go.

First of all, the CD comes in a simple plastic casing. It contains the actual CD, as well as a blank CD with the track titles printed on. Also, three pictures are included, they all look like close ups of organic tissue. One of the pictures has a hand written number on it, mine is 21, so I guess that's the copy number.

The recording is an 'official' bootleg of a show from portugal 2003, as it says on the homepage. John balance is not on here, so there's no vocals. Not necessarily a bad thing, as some of Coil's live recordings suffer from him not singing in tune (IMO of course). It is easy to hear that the sound doesn't come straight from the soundboard, and the audience is clearly heard. But apart from that, the quality is excellent.

Tracklisting:

Blue Rats (18:14)
Triple Sun (12:56)
Radio Westin (13:32)
Drip Drop (10:04)
The first five minutes after death (11:24)

Blue Rats opens with a long ambient intro, before slowly evolving into the track as we know it from 'Blacklight District'. No vocals though.
Triple Sun is yet another version of a now well known theme. It seems that Coil was changing this song continuously over the last few years (Two versions on '..and the ambulance died...' and one version on 'The Ape of Naples'). Compared to the studio version, this is much longer, has no Marimba but instead a lot of digital noises, loops and beeps.
Radio Westin is essentially the same as 'Wraiths and strays of Paris' from Black Antlers. Again no vocals, and the track doesn't go up in tempo in the end.
Drip Drop isn't really a song, more like a long row of noises well known from other albums. I recognized many elements from Musick To Play In The Dark.
The First Five Minutes After Death comes very close to the original from 'Horse Rotorvator', only with added ambience and digital coilishness.

Definately worth getting IMO, and it will get it's spins when I enter it into my random nice Coil playlist.

Yeah the Porto live album is pretty good. The reason there is no vocals on it is that Jhon Balance wasn't there.

Member Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

how about the tracks from 'The New Backwards'?

thanks for the review, I'm so close to pressing the 'order' button... :p

the new backwards is supposed to start shipping in around a month last i heard. also important are about to be done with the pre-orders so give in now if you haven't.

again, i'll gladly rip it when i get it. but i doubt my rip will sound great.

Is the Porto bootleg a soundboard recording? I've had the boot for a few years now, wonder if it's the same recording....

Just got my copy of this on red vinyl this morning. $80 was steep but it is done up very nicely. i also ordered a new record player last week from amazon and will hopefully have it by this weekend. so if nobody posts the new backwards by then i will rip it.

D.A.R. Johnson Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 3034

Been listening to Scatology today, amazing ain't it!

There' a new Myspace site up for Soisong, Sleazy's new project with Ivan. I'm on the first song, and I LOVE it allready....

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=317275336

naughty mr fish' link removed!

Nice one, geezer.
You're probably about to be mod edited tho...
runaway

yeah, probably but if it was available on cd i wouldn't have put it up.

Thanks fish, much appreciated!

I promise that if it ever does come out on CD I'll delete the files and buy the disc. That should put those pesky mods off the scent!

Heretic Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 9422

Stellar! Fangs man!

Jesus! How good is The New Backwards!! Each track easily stands up to the quality of Ape Of Naples, and are pretty much up there with any Coil. Sleazy has done an unbelievable job, I'm one very happy chappy!