ESD was a great label for a period of time. Steve Daly was one of the
two guys over there that ran it. His tastes were pop/rock/Americana (not
to mention he was a hellova nice guy as well). The other guy was way
into things like The Residents and Henry Cow. Daly ended up splitting
and ESD pretty much then only released albums on the more esoteric side
and most of the catalog was cut out.

Before ESD, Steve used to run the excellent Coyote label out of NJ.

-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Bill Silvers
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:59 AM
To: audities@smoe.org; audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Shake Some Action



Michael Coxe replied:

>Holmes Online wrote:
>> Sub thread - how far down the list did you get before a gap? I had
the 
>> top 38...and not only don't I have #39 but it sounds like something I

>> should have been blasting for years! But good luck finding anything
on 
>> East Side Digital...if you do it will be pricey (that one is over $44
on 
>> Amazon).
>
>When ESD was dumping their stock back in the 90's (per mention here at
>the time), I bought a pile of cds from them dirt cheap - Heidi, extra 
>copies of Set To Pop, The Sneakers, Brooklyn Side/Bottle Rockets, Blood
>Oranges, Walk to Delphi (Schramms), the great East Side Story comp.

Yup, me too. I just wish that Jimmy Silva had even been on my radar at
that time.
The ESD stuff was going for something not far from cost at that time,
and I bought everything that I thought I'd have any interest in. Sigh.

I couldn't help but wonder, leafing through the book, about what effect
the book was going to have on the eBay market for the titles like Mr.
Sliva's that are far OOP. If some sort of informal distribution (like
mp3 blog?) system is unfair to anyone concerned, it could maybe be a
great place for somebody to start reissuing some of the titles? 

>Amazingly, as I just discovered, ESD still exists mostly to reissue
>Wendy Carlos recordings, tho "Bottle Rockets" remains in the catalog.
>I didn't know this till tonight, but it appears East Side Digital
>was one of the 1st American *cd* distributors & labels, starting in
>the early 80's.

Quite a few "Nordic" and new age titles there, too.

b.s. who's bought maybe six copies of SET TO POP over the years


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