Sounds of Subterrania

Please wait on the records and write this after you received the stuff, so then you can write this! And then i hope, people write nice words about this. best

no fear! the first records are send this week! i have all orders and is no problem with sending. best wishes

tml-7 no problem! write me an email on [email protected] and we clear all details. bobbyhotephe send the right answer. A lasercuter etched artwork for artwork. here an example:

how long? So i can safe you copies. best wishes

yes, i understand. So you can see what we pay, when we order in the US our records! I try my best and I'm sure thats, when you see the originals then you are more then happy. This sleeves are the first recordsleeves in the world with engraving. One machine need for all records 8 weeks. The paper from the sleeve is a special paper from a manufacture in bavaria in a special procedure. I can't wait on your feedback!

Hello, first sorry. when people wait longer on an answer, but i received tons of emails and need time sending to each person an answer. Also i think, waiting seven hours for an answer is not long, specially when is in germany sunday night. For your understanding. I have also a big mailorder shop and in this way, i can't make an automatic pay system. So i send each person an email, this need time. And i have also on this day a releaseparty with Action Beat and i was sick. So all this points bring this small delay. By the end. I really happy thats you support the band and order this record. I can't wait thats you hold this in your hand. I work on each record 25 Minutes ( only the machine works 22 Minutes). So please see, is not an standart industry product. Too the price. The biggest part is the shipping to US. 3 records are more then 1kg. The artwork is real special. special paper and a special design. All this costs money and is handmade in a high end quality. i make no profit with this release, but i really happy thats i can released this in this way. When you received the records you understand. Please feel free, sending me all your questions and i will help. best wishes and thanks for your support! Gregor

great artwork!

from the wooden box we made 210 copies in moment!

First i will introduced myself. I'm Gregor and I'm the owner of Sound of Subterrania a DIY-label from germany. I really like making special editions and maybe people in this forum like my work too: here the link for seeing "live": http://youtu.be/NbDsp-OzTJU You can contemplate a lot about/around/on a Special Edition. Nowadays, it is often enough, to change the colour of the vinyl to add surplus value to the sound carrier. Artificial scarcity to create additional demand apparently works out excellent – but it just symbolises a petty capitalist bourgeois way of life. Anyway, in my opinion it should be a matter of much, much more. For my share, do-it-yourself as such means to cut a better figure than the mainstream: to develop ideas, to realise dreams, to create something that has added value in its active approach, but first and foremost: not to get co-opted. And that’s just the way, this record was created. From the germ of the idea right up to the finished record, it was a long and arduous, but at the same time beautiful journey which I’d never have completed without the hands-on aid of Matthias, Mark, Bauer and Adolf. A tremendous “thank you” to all of you! I don’t want to bore you with all the details (cover artwork as a 15-piece sliding puzzle with negative-3D-CNC-milled woodcarving, applied materials, about 47m² three-layer multilaminar birch veneer with a black melamine resin laminated panel, 26580 lines of CNC-program to mill the artwork, engraved back-cover-artwork, about 200 hours of manual time, ca. 6.5 km of toolpaths and 1.1 km of slots plus 2300 units of stainless steel 3x16 Torx screws), but it’s precisely this attention to detail which makes all the difference. To me, the work on the Special Edition substitutionary stands for the work of all the people who actively shape the so-called subculture, thus who consistently organise concerts, cook food for the bands, clean the scruffy toilets afterwards, yadda-yadda-yadda… It was never about mere records, but rather it was always about the idea. DIY actually means “do-it-yourself” and not “let others do the work for you”. Do-it-yourself is my attempt to overcome structures which already established themselves in our milieu. To me, the Monsters – with the Beat-Man leading the way – were one initial momentum to think about music and the coherent business the way I think about it now. The unconditional commitment to a cause which means “Trash” to most people, but basically is the birth of free thought in modern culture, touched, riveted and motivated me to seek my own way. Therefore I thank the Beat-Man, the Monsters and all those, who jointly tread this path along with me. Gregor