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...written in capital letters, cca 1st half 2008...

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NEW CLOCK DVA RELEASES 2008 /2009 AFTER 2 YEARS OF EXTENSIVE WORK BY ADI AND JANE NEWTON ON NEW DESIGNS AND AUDIO RE MASTERING,THE MUTE RECORDS BOX SET OF ALL THE CLOCKDVA BACKCATALOG IS FINALY REACHING COMPLETION AND WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE IN THE AUTUMN OF 2008. BOX EDITION WILL INCLUDE EXTENSIVE 100 PAGE BOOK. THE BACK CATALOG WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AS INDIVIDUAL CD,S A NEW CLOCKDVA ALBUM IS CURRENTLY IN PROCESS SCHEDULED FOR A 2009...

Well, among other things:

1. Adi Newton is completely crazy;
2. He's particularly unhappy with the sound of his post-Buried Dreams work, so reissues will supposedly require a major remastering job;
3. Some record-label weirdness, and Newton's deep (and justified) suspicion of record labels in general;
4. Problems with some former Clock DVA members;
5. Problems with finances at Mute, which especially hurts this project because...
6. ...of the 114 Clock DVA fans in the world, most of us have, and are happy with, the Contempo reissues.

Mostly I think it's #1, but #5 is a major problem too. I remember rumors about Mute reissuing their catalog in the 90s; it's the Chinese Democracy of reissue projects.

Well, maybe we can count on Ms Jane Radion Newton, if she's not in "category" 1. About Mute, enough said. Obviously they are very similar and remind me on "Some Bizzare".