I know such topics may exist elsewhere, but neat special, preferably hand made and unique packagings. Feel free to post!
There still is certain amount of special packaging happening, but more often it appears crappily made, somehow half finished. Like finding some sort of box, and just throwing things in. Or some sort of plastic bag or some sort of "library case".
I look for examples of any medium, and approaches can be either examples of careful craftmanship or even something goofy. It can be over the top luxury or just something handmade and unique.
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MK9 evidence series. Tape packaged in large box with tons of inserts.
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Taint tape attached to pig ear.
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Sickness 3x bizcard cdr in leather pouch with lots of cards and other things.
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Richard Ramirez double tape sealed in hand made case, both tapes in black/white shells.
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Prurient tape with inserts and woman blond hair
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Prurient double tape with gloves and inserts.
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Pain Jerk split tape with weird sand wrapping.
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more MK9 evidence series, CDR sealed in bag with broken glass.
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Milovan of Smell & Quim with funniest packaging on Kadef label (who made packaging).
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classy rubber packaging by GROSS for Masonna double tape.
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Halo Manash limited special edition CD. Bone attached on wood plates.
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tin can of Grey Wolves. Includes lots of inserts thrown inside.
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double tape compilation on GROSS label with very neat and compact packaging.
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Death Squad cdr attached to wooden cross.
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Death Squad tape in painted box with inserts and sticks.
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Crack Fierce tape between wooden blocks with burned titles on top.
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Con-Dom altar to keep your sermons! Includes all 8 sermons with some of them with altered covers (like golden lettering) and lyric booklet. It's hard object to take images what really do justice for the piece.
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Bastard Noise / Diagram A in light weight but nicely done packaging.
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Mikko Aspa / John Olson split tape from.. was it 1996 or so.. 16 copies done, but I think with slightly varied size of woodblock and plaster.
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Special edition of Aeoga CD in modified old book covers.
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that's all for now. More later when more free time to take shots..
You don't need to own items if you just find good images to link!
First unique one that comes to mind is Pulse Emitter - Vent. Used to have it, but got rid of it.
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=636134 (http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=636134)
Pretty much anything from Wounded Wolf Private Press has elaborate high quality packaging.
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"Package comes shrouded with a special kind of paper which is infused with wildflower seeds and does actually grow once planted. The package contains a spare piece of the paper so one might not have to destroy or plant the actual album but wants to try it out.
List of wildflowers contained within;
Meadow Foxtail
Corn Chamomile
Wild Carrot
Meadowsweet
Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil
Selfheal
Red Campion
Yarrow
Common Poppy
Oxeye Daisy"
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"Different Editions
Yuzen Chiyogami Edition - SOLD OUT - Outer paper is hand-silkreened in Japan on machine made Japanese paper. Inner card and outer text printed on handmade Kizuki Kozo Natural Paper. CD (Taiyo Yuden) comes a white heavy vinyl like sleeve.
Since each one of these are unique please note which one do you want.
Moriki Kozo Edition - SOLD OUT - Printed on handmade Kizuki Kozo Natural Paper and shrouded in handmade Moriki Kozo paper. Comes signed and dedicated to the recipent with golden ink.
Plum Colour - SOLD OUT
Forest Green - SOLD OUT
Momi Kyoseishi Edition - SOLD OUT - Inner card is printed on Kizuki Kozo Natural Paper shrouded in dark blue handmade Momi Kyoseishi paper. CDs come in FSC certified thick sleeve with a perforated thumb cut which can be took out if desired. It lastly it is put into a plastic bag which is exactly the same with the Japanese Vinyl Replica CDs, imported from Japan."
Also anything from Simple Box Construction / A Death Cinematic.
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=4422909 (http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=4422909)
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1671251 (http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1671251)
http://www.discogs.com/A-Death-Cinematic-The-New-World/release/3539771 (http://www.discogs.com/A-Death-Cinematic-The-New-World/release/3539771)
That Halo Manash with the bone is awesome!
I was moving around boxes the other day and wondered why one was particularly heavy. I'd hate to think how much it would cost to ship this now. It weighs 6-8LBs. It errored out my small digital scale that limits at 6LBs.
Scot Jenerik - E=hv
Label: Jenerik Audio
Format: Cassette
Country: US
Released: 1990
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Interpretations of theoretical and quantum physics through sonic frequencies, noise and rhythms. The tape comes encased in a cast cement brick with a steel plate lid which bolts to the top. The steel has acid etched physics diagrams upon the inside surface. Numbered edition of 555.
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Encephalophonic "Beauty/Death" C20+Anti-cassette
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Knurl "Metasynogen" C62
Thanks a ton for these pics! I would like to submit one of my personal favorites, 15 yrs of BU:
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K2 - We Destroyed Barcelona C46
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V/A Artificial Nerve (Xerxes)
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Macrotaint k7
Recent Yellow Eyes box set release is stunning. I nabbed one of these.
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Kata Sarka - Crucible of Misanthropy on Auris Apothecary
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Black Mountain Transmitter - Playing With Dead Things (Auris Apothecary)
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V/A Zyklon B
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The Four Shrines 4xC40(G.R.O.S.S.)
Quote from: audiodissection on August 06, 2013, 09:45:02 PM
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V/A Zyklon B
No one tops the king!
Slogun b cards series looks great!
What do current postal prices mean for this kind of thing from now on? Costs too prohibitive? Or just soldier on and charge more?
Seems like special packaging started to slow down a few+ years ago. Europe had higher postage rates long before the U.S. (we've finally caught up) but it still seems special packaging was slowing down but it could have been just me not paying attention.
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Atrax Morgue - Catch My Agony k7
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Incapacitants - El Shambara Therminosis - k7
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MSBR - Spherical Nerve System - k7
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Pain Jerk - Exhibition Of Electro-Disease - k7 G.R.O.S.S.
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Pain Jerk - Great Invisible Crushing - k7
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K2 - Iron Kulture 7"+Destruction For Modern Citizens k7 Special Edition Self Abuse Records
Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on August 07, 2013, 01:19:07 AM
What do current postal prices mean for this kind of thing from now on? Costs too prohibitive? Or just soldier on and charge more?
It really (obviously) depends on what the packaging is. I'm bored with cases and have begun packaging most new cassette releases in something alternative, but have kept in mind the aspiration of keeping weight/size relatively unchanged so that postage is unaffected. obviously sending a wooden altar is a bit more expensive than sending a pile of 7"s, but for (for example) the GROSS tapes any postage difference would I think be minimal. It's more about the effort and outcome.
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Taint - Victimology k7
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Taint - Victimology I+II CD+AntiCDr Freak Animal
Death In June - Symbols And Clouds 2xcd in stone box with 4 round cards, 4 silver runes and 1 cloth patch.
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Death In June - The World That Summer 2xcd in carved soapstone box
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I don't own this jewels but I will get soon The World That Summer stone box from my friend.
Cloama - Lernaean Catacomb Complex cassette - Although I originally complained about the packaging in my SI review, once the concept of the packaging was explained to me I have to admit I like it a lot more. The discogs picture doesn't do it justice because once the whole thing is taken apart the lyrics are printed on several different transparent plastic sheets which combine together to form new images.
http://www.discogs.com/Cloama-Lernaean-Catacomb-Complex/release/1744308
and most releases on EST have quite sumptuous packaging, like the aforementioned BU boxset.
lest we forget NIL BY MOUTH..
HALTHAN - Corrupt
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EN NIHIL/GNAWED - Fall of Humanity
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CLIMAX DENIAL - Desire for Disease
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ICHOROUS - Drift of Sanity
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AZOIKUM - Human Maggot Scum
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I guess all releases clear...
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Also have to mention the SNUFF 2xtape that came out in 2009. 2 tapes in a black plastic case, smeared with bodily fluids and lube, stuffed with ripped porno pages, sealed in a black plastic bag. The package literally stank like menstrual blood when I opened it. Delicious.
http://www.discogs.com/Snuff-Untitled/release/1697486 (http://www.discogs.com/Snuff-Untitled/release/1697486)
I don't remember anything about the Snuff 2xtape. Sounds like it deserves a reissue with photos of the slimy packaging & art.
I had all of the SHF tapes. I seem to recall a S&Q tape with a bondage Barbie Doll & a Richard Ramirez tape with a spike or something? The pig's ear in my copies of the taint cassette are turning to dust..
I manufactured those boxes locally and then found no use to them. Sold some to F&V for that tape. Still got HUNDREDS of those boxes in basement... Used few for V/A "Gender with..." tape special edition.
That snuff double tape was re-issued already on longer one tape edition.
QuoteI had all of the SHF tapes. I seem to recall a S&Q tape with a bondage Barbie Doll
They also had one one Bandaged Hand with a 'used' condom, didn't they?
Quote from: burdizzo on August 18, 2013, 11:43:12 PM
QuoteI had all of the SHF tapes. I seem to recall a S&Q tape with a bondage Barbie Doll
They also had one one Bandaged Hand with a 'used' condom, didn't they?
Spermathlon. I gave almost all of my Smell & Quim special packages to Russian uberfan Monopolka, but still kept my copy of 'Cosmic Bondage'.
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Also worth a mention is the special edition of Smell & Quim/Merzbow "Seven Inches Inside Vagina" 7" which came tied to a grotesque plastic mould of female genitalia with apparently real pubic hair attached. The split with Macronympha from those days came with a profusely illustrated booklet of sex changes, quite startling to see in pre-internet days.
Yeah. Due quite easy porn supply over here, S&Q/Macro 7" didn't look that mind boggling, but was good. It's good reminder of times when most of shemales looked BRUTAL. These days with advanced surgeries and neat make up... barely differences, but in times of "men with tits" with little lipstick.. aarrgh! True sleaze.
What brings me on topic of very limited (12) Forza Albino double tape:
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Special edition of The Rita / Mania split, where additional inserts, CDR package in cover decorated by shooting with shotgun.
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Early Hospital Productions compilation with silkscreened bag, large folded color insert and pair of "medical tools"
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Not the first or last time when couple of bolts keep wire mesh envelope over a release. Neat nevertheless.
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Early Prurient special editions. Tape package in something what looks like melting plastic garbage?!? Light weight, yet oversized and unpractical.
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deterge:"Studies of the light-independent Calvin Cycle in plant life. Special package comes with mason jar and a packet of seeds"
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A few of my own bizarre packaging/smell bombs:
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Mutant Love/Coco & Fiend Friend - "Fuck" C6
Came with a smashed and signed boiled egg, limited to 6 copies if I'm not mistaken.
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Splinter Vs Stalin - "Pasta Electronics II" CDr
Housed in a cardboard pasta box, filled with cooked food and rubbish - everything was completely rotten and moldy by the time people got it in their mailbox.
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Splinter Vs Stalin - "Fantasy '92" c40
With melted vinyl "sculptures"
I can't find the images now but I released a Frozen Corpse tape that came with a chicken foot, at least one Fecalove tape that came with a bunch of my pubic hair, a Fecalove / Ekunhaashaashtack split 3" CDr that came with a piece of cooked beef, and a Coco & Fiend Friend-labeled bag simply filled with (dried) cum.
That's what I can remember on the top of my head, but I'm sure there's more.
Melbourne avant-performance-sound mob The Hi-God People worked out that, with Bandcamp download codes, the actual physical format of a release could be either tape, cdr, vinyl, or what have you, and decided it didn't even have to be a recordable format at all. Hence, one of their releases was a batch of home-made biscuits. Each came in a plastic bag with a copy of the download code and a script explaining the concept.
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Flutwacht versus le Fensch Industrial Orkestra (http://www.forges-alliees.org/?p=1118)
Good topic.
Too bad some of the pictures are no longer available.
Here is an interesting packaged release +33° 58' 41.85", -117° 49' 13.74" (The Oak Tree) by Clint Heidorn
https://clintheidorn.bandcamp.com/album/33-58-4185-117-49-1374-the-oak-tree
Some copies were free but were buried and had to be searched for and dug up in secret locations
http://clintheidorn.blogspot.ie
Lots of awesome stuff in here.
Thanks!
These guy`s have eye for great looking packages and may be one of reasons i start to dig up deeper to swamp of harsher stuff back in the day.. ear starts to meet the eye more or less.
http://www.erraticsporadicism.org/ (http://www.erraticsporadicism.org/)
if some one is willing to trade/sell MAIM "The Gift of Fury" C35 i`m interested to get it.
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Muckrackers_Compositions Dynamiques Destructrices Agitées (http://www.forges-alliees.org/?p=1095)
Time to get this thread moving forward.
This should be an album known to most of you - if not all. Visual presentation covered on all fronts from æstethics, concept, materiality and execution. Usually I just see two first as checked these days....
Genocide Organ – Save Our Slaves
Boxset in ed of 350 containing 1 x Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM + 1 x Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM. 18 of this ed were housed in a steel/concrete box sealed w a chain. Included was also one video and a t-shirt.
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Maybe there is some fanatic here w one of these copies?? If so, it would be interesting to see more photos of this release.
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GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ - COCOON - DVD/CD
bizarre edition with puppet
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Muckrackers (harsh punk) versus Skullwall (power electronics) (http://www.forges-alliees.org/?p=1225)
well... latest UMPIO box I have received is defintely a piece of art in term of sounds and packaging...
Quote from: tiny_tove on February 26, 2015, 10:11:30 AM
well... latest UMPIO box I have received is defintely a piece of art in term of sounds and packaging...
Maybe a tape packaged in a sort of green & white stone?