[Af_List] Wire

[rosy parlane]

sigma editions was actually contacted by the wire once to see if we
wanted to advertise in an issue where they were reviewing 3 of our
releases.

we didn't take out an ad,  and the reviews were never published.

curious...

rp


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> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:21:57 +1300
> From: PseudoArcana <p-arcana at paradise.net.nz>
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> The Wire has to balance books like everyone else.
> The review that Stephen posted of the Stumps album is an interesting case.
> I stayed with Chris Moon, the guy who runs Last Visible Dog when I was in
> the US. He had recently paid several hundred US dollars to place an ad in
> the Wire. He had done this because he was perplexed that no one was
> reviewing the cds he was posting them.
> Someone tipped him off that if he paid for an ad this might change.
> Since doing this practically all the CDs he has released since then have
> been reviewed.
>
> I should add that I got exactly the same story from the people who run the
> twothousandand label...
>
> I still consider The Wire a great zine (despite the fact that they haven't
> reviewed any professionally pressed PseudoArcana CD I've sent them besides
> the Peter Wright one... (thanks Jon)), but yeah- they necessarily run
> according to an all too familiar business model. I guess something to bear
> in mind is that without incentivising the advertising they probably wouldn't
> have the money to publish at all.
>
> Antony Milton/ PseudoArcana
> PO Box 24409
> Wellington 6142
> New Zealand
> pseudoarcana.com
> myspace.com/pseudoarcana
> myspace.com/antonymilton
>
> New releases.
> The Stumps. -'The Black Wood'. (CD. Last Visible Dog).
> A.M- 'Orla'. (CD. Ikiusuus).
> Antony Milton.- 'The End of this Short Road'. (CD. Deserted Village)
> Mrtyu.- 'Blood Tantra'. (2CD. 20 Buck Spin).
> The Stumps.- 'Split Fleet Dodge'. (LP. Palindrone).
>
> PseudoArcana:
> Aan. -'Ajaton Vie'. CDR/Book
> Glory Fckn Sun. -'Vision Scorched' CD/72pp Book.
> Dialing In. -'Cows in Lye' CD.
> The Lost Domain. - 'Palace' CD.
> CJA.- 'Pink Metal' 2xCDR in full colour book.