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From | "Mike Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
Subject | Re: SOTT 21 Forming |
Date | Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:25:26 +0100 |
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Hi Bill,
I'm in.
Thanks for arranging,
Mike
>From: "Bill" <billm45s@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: SOTT 21 Forming
>Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:56:22 -0400
>
>Hello all,
>
>It is time for SOTT 21, which will be forming over the next week- 10 days
>- I already have some responses and John already has posted a set list!!!!
>
>For those that don't know, SOTT is a CDR tree that I periodically run,
>where you make a brilliant mix CDR (we started with tapes about 10 years
>ago).
>
>
>
>Once you make the mix CDR you dub a copy for everyone else in the
>group, mail all the copies to me, and once I get them all, you get a
>package containing one from everyone in the group. We have had about 150
>people join SOTT at one time or another from at least a dozen countries.
>
>If you are interested in participating in SOTT, please read the
>guideline/rules below and contact me at billm45s@verizon.net. If you want
>to join for the first time, please feel free - this truly is an open
>environment.
>
>
>
>The due date for my receipt of the completed CD-Rs for this round will be
>around October 21st
>- though earlier is OK. I will receive responses and may post an update on
>availability.
>I'd like to determine how many people are in this round by September 10th
>or so.
>
>IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE LET ME KNOW SOON
>
>The base rules and guidelines for SOTT are as follows:
>
>* Everyone in the group makes a brilliant mix CDR ( please use an 80
>minute CD)
>
>* The mix should be somewhat jangle, power pop/rock pop/pop related, but we
>all like to
>push the envelope, which is encouraged. I usually include some of my garage
>45s or an old rockabilly cut and this time I know I will be adding some
>more soul. Good songs in a good sequence is the key
>
>* The mix need not be all rare stuff. A lot of people use this as a
>consumer guide for stuff they don't know, so it shouldn't be real common
>either, but common is often different from one person to another. From my
>own take the best mixes have a variety of sounds and genres and mix rare
>things with newer things and older things and create a flow. Some
>perfectly good mixes lose it for me because they have too much of a
>sameness of sound and lack flow. Also, different people like different
>mixes - I am more on the Bill Lloyd jangle side or garage side of pop and
>lots of
>the progressive stuff just doesn't do it for me, others love that stuff -
>the openness and eclectic nature of SOTT is one of its best features.
>
>* Once you make the mix you dub a copy for everyone else in the group -
>last time we were about 35 people the time before almost 50, so there is a
>lot of dubbing.
>
>* Most of us post liners/set lists with comments to the other members -
>this is often fun and informative and is done both to the mailing list and
>to A SOTT group on Yahoo. The liners don't have to be elaborate
>but they raise anticipation levels and give a sense of the different
>directions people have taken, especially if you post liners early in the
>process.
>
>* Some people create elaborate and wonderful jewel case inserts, but for
>the
>less artistic among us (like me) a simple jewel case insert from one of the
>many programs available for download on the net is fine. Blank CDs or
>handwritten inserts are not fine - people have complained about both.
>Jewel cases need not be sent - but use an appropriate substitute if you
>don't send jewel cases - most people send thin-line cases/or envelopes,
>send what
>you want I adjust to make mailing easier and really like John's
>containers that he sends from the UK.
>
>* Once you finish all your dubs mail them to me hopefully in a box that I
>could reuse to send them back to you.
>
>* Include return postage and costs in an appropriate amount in American
>funds for
>our foreign participants. I prefer well hidden cash to checks.
>The amount will vary depending on the size of the SOTT and I'll give an
>approximation, which will also cover my limited expenses -
>tipping who picks up the boxes, packing materials, CD sleeves, etc. Please
>do not
>forget the return postage, I don't like to chase it.
>
>* Once I get everyone's mixes, I repackage and send everyone a package
>with all the dubs.
>
>* Please understand that SOTT is a commitment, a commitment that is a lot
>of fun, but a commitment nonetheless. A very very few people have been
>difficult in the past and made it harder than it need be and delayed the
>enjoyment for some others. 98%+++ of the people in SOTT have been great.
>But please if you want to join, do so only if you can make the commitment
>and get the CDs to me on time.
>
>* Remember you want to work on having the best sound quality possible on
>your master, because you will be using it to dub the copies for the group.
>
>* I strongly suggest that the creation of the CDR begin early to give
>you plenty of time to make dubs.
>
>So as I said, if you want in, email me at billm45s@verizon.com. If you
>have any additional questions just ask.
>
>I'd like to figure out whose in and whose not and send out a list to all
>participants within the next 10 days - so let me know soon.
>
>
>
>Bill
>
>
>
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