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We Started With Over 100 Members - an audiological guide to the music of Dundee (Twentieth Anniversary Remaster)

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Nikita - Honest & Earnest 03:35
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Cain's Film - The Distillation Effect 06:26
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Mercury Tilt Switch - Heaven Left Me Where I'm Standing 04:06
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Fat Dumpling Shark - Submerged Harold 02:07
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Voigt Kampf - Murum 04:59
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Saz - Aftershock 03:46
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Laeto - 4 Track Fun With... 02:47
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Magnetic North Pole - Sleepy Girl 03:19
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The Duke of Portland - King of Self Pity 06:48
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Asuka - Space is Not Too Far From Here 04:14
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[BOX] - Gene Fault 05:28
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Fungicide - I Am Satan 03:10
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Venetian Love Triangle - Twist 02:04
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Gerils - It's Not Nice 06:33
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Infernal - Untitled 02:34
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Hamper - Comfort Cake 07:44

about

This was released in 2000 on my N.Pole Sound Lab Recordings label and I can’t believe it's twenty years old. I can’t believe this little compilation of Dundee bands from the turn of the millennium has been out in the world for two decades. It all seems so recent to me; I only have to close my eyes and I can see myself sitting at my desk at Voyager Media, drawing the sleeve art. I was in a hurry to get it out, so the mastering was non-existent and the levels were all over the place. Everything was rushed.

Now I’m not in a hurry, now I feel it’s a good idea to finally master the record properly and re-release it as it should have always sounded. This is the best it's ever sounded.

I had the idea to create a compilation of Dundee bands when I first heard of Rick White of Eric’s Trip’s ‘The Stareoscopic Scary Show’ [sic], a comp of Moncton NB bands he’d put together a few years earlier. I stole the subtitle for my record from the subtitle of his ‘An Audiological Guide to the Music of…’, thinking they might form parts of a whole.

I approached the local council with my idea and, after several conversations with the Music Development Officer, got a Millennium lottery grant of £1000. I used £600 to get the records made, and the rest went on a trip to Canada…. I hope no-one minds.

The bands were picked from people I knew, plus a few other bands from Dundee. There are some notable acts missing - why didn’t I put Spare Snare, Candystore Prophets, Stoor, Condition Blue on? Some I felt were doing ok for publicity (The Snare, for example) while there were some I left off due to not liking the people in the band (sorry, Candystore Prophets, that was childish of me). Peter Moug decided he didn’t want to be on the record for reasons known only to himself, so I thanked him on the sleeve instead.

Through a few contacts I managed to get Cargo Distribution to take it across the UK, with the strict instruction that it should sell for no more than £1.99, any profits were to go to charity. I also got it into all the Dundee record shops, even taking a second box to Virgin when they sold out. I can see some people are selling this for more than £10 on Amazon - if you really want a physical copy drop me a line and I’ll see if I can find one for you, you can have it for the cost of the postage.

I first uploaded this several years ago to Archive.org. That version had the original unmastered audio and new sleeve design. For this release, I’ve restored the original artwork and sleeve notes.

The late 90s were a magical time in Dundee, and I wish I’d realised just how special they were when I was living through them.

Alex Botten, 22nd of April, 2020








If you want to have a look at an ancient website, go here - web.archive.org/web/20031229124510/http://surf.to/npole

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released April 22, 2020

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