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blue oyster cunt wrote:

Nice name, sir!

blue oyster cunt wrote:I think the old tapes are officially mentioned in the biography text of the campire headphase.
what might seems strange are the "square" (like cd) artworks for those old releases.
i bet that the original cassette art for "catalog 3" must have been different of the cd reissue.

Anyway, in case someone from the hexagon sun HQ read this: please include skimming stones in forthcoming archives material.

what biography text do you mean?
anyway, ive always thought the artwork for the old tapes was a bit peculiar as well since they are clearly cd-sized.. i wonder what they looked like before they were CDs.

blue oyster cunt wrote:I think the old tapes are officially mentioned in the biography text of the campire headphase.
what might seems strange are the "square" (like cd) artworks for those old releases.
i bet that the original cassette art for "catalog 3" must have been different of the cd reissue.

Anyway, in case someone from the hexagon sun HQ read this: please include skimming stones in forthcoming archives material.

try changing the aspect ratio

certainly to me the covers for acid memories, play by numbers, twoism & hooper bay look like the have been re-shaped from rectangles to squares

Hmm... I dunno. Now they look totally stretched.

novayshun wrote:

blue oyster cunt wrote:I think the old tapes are officially mentioned in the biography text of the campire headphase.
what might seems strange are the "square" (like cd) artworks for those old releases.
i bet that the original cassette art for "catalog 3" must have been different of the cd reissue.

Anyway, in case someone from the hexagon sun HQ read this: please include skimming stones in forthcoming archives material.

try changing the aspect ratio

certainly to me the covers for acid memories, play by numbers, twoism & hooper bay look like the have been re-shaped from rectangles to squares

haha oh yeah.......duh..

its true with hopper bay but acid memories, catalog3 & close volume1 artworks do not seems stretched (from rectangle to cd) at all!

also, it must have been difficult to do some computer graphics artwork before like 1994, i pretty sure thoses acid memories & catalog3 "square cd" artworks were done for the reissue & the original tapes must have some black&white stuff like "a few old tunes".

anyway, would love to hear a box set!

novayshun wrote:

blue oyster cunt wrote:I think the old tapes are officially mentioned in the biography text of the campire headphase.
what might seems strange are the "square" (like cd) artworks for those old releases.
i bet that the original cassette art for "catalog 3" must have been different of the cd reissue.

Anyway, in case someone from the hexagon sun HQ read this: please include skimming stones in forthcoming archives material.

try changing the aspect ratio

certainly to me the covers for acid memories, play by numbers, twoism & hooper bay look like the have been re-shaped from rectangles to squares

ahah, Never really looked at it that way... I thought the stretched image was just a "boc" thing.

this is my best guess on how the tapes should look.

tapes shapes shmapes

Moebius wrote:this is my best guess on how the tapes should look.

actually i think you have it right, all that is missing is twoism.

How could I ever miss this thread??
I guess I was on holiday back then.
So is there any news on this subject??
Wow, sounds all exciting..

And it would be even better if the old stuff would be brought out, as I am a big fan of them!!
There glimpses a little hope on the-BoC-release-something-horizon.

nice topic to resurrect..
i would love mdg to get involved in this.

Would this be why the artwork for the Twoism LP is just two rectangles on a sleeve?

So page 4 huh? Did i miss anything?

Frank wrote:So page 4 huh? Did i miss anything?

nope

I really hope this box set of early material happens. I think I might be even more excited for this than the new album. A box set of old BoC tracks ripped and remastered from cassette tapes. It sounds like a fantasy! This was posted in 2008, but I think it is mentioned somewhere that this would be released after the new album, with a '99%' probability. Anyone have different thoughts on this now 2 years later?

Stry Craty Bya wrote:I really hope this box set of early material happens. I think I might be even more excited for this than the new album. A box set of old BoC tracks ripped and remastered from cassette tapes. It sounds like a fantasy! This was posted in 2008, but I think it is mentioned somewhere that this would be released after the new album, with a '99%' probability. Anyone have different thoughts on this now 2 years later?

well, I still think it will be awesome and I have faith that it will happen eventually
will be amazing even if purely for finding out what lies behind those awesome track titles!

From when was this topic? Since I totally missed it!

Was it really necessary to bump a year old topic?

portiss wrote:From when was this topic? Since I totally missed it!

nick47 wrote:Was it really necessary to bump a year old topic?

Well, it seems necessary because some people here obviously missed it and I wanted to know what you guys thought of them releasing old material in juxtaposition to a new album. That's the point of a forum. To discuss things and share opinions.


Anyway, MDG I think also mentioned somewhere that it would be packaged with all new album artwork and whatnot, that seems pretty awesome. But I think what makes this so intriguing is that it is a 'box set'. That sounds quite hefty, I suppose a lot of material. I wonder if it would come with complete early albums like Hooper Bay, Acid Memories, Closes Vol. 1, etc. or if it would be a collection of a few tracks from each? Not that this information is available but, I don't know, just thinking out loud...