It's funny that the same people that argued the limited nature of Hospital releases with such a high demand get upset when the runs are increased and the packaging is standardized. Obviously when dealing with 13 releases, each an edition of 200, the packaging can not be homemade. However, the design of each of the tapes is great. It seems like more of a progression from the earlier designwork than a compromise. People who argue this just have a style preference. Dom may have some design that looks like 'rubbish' but it's obviously intentional. That contrasted with the fact that he's willing to invest in color prints when there's only a dot of red in an almost-entirely black and white design shows that the design isn't cutting corners.
I'm pretty sure Dom gets his tapes pro-dubbed now. I've never heard a Hospital tape pre-2008 that sounded great - the shitty dubs would sometimes work in favor of the material on the release, but most of the time you could tell that the material suffered from shitty dubbing. Now, every tape is guaranteed to sound amazing. It's no longer 'scattered all over the place' like it was in 2004 or even 2007.
Also, Hospital still does special/homemade packaging for some releases...
Anyway,
To get back to the subject at hand, I picked up the Dilloway, K.P., and Alberich tapes. I've listened to the Climax Denial and FFH ones as well.
All of them range from very good to amazing... Nothing groundbreaking but worlds better than what most labels are putting out these days.
If these were put out in 2004-2005 as Cathartic Process suggested... I may of came all over the unique packaging because of how special it felt in my hands, but afterwards I would probably sell them because of how terrible they sounded.
It's funny that the people who pontificate about the nature of Hospital Productions on these boards always have releases for sale in the Hospital Store... the beauty of capitalism and democracy
