I Preferred The Earlier Stuff (A Uk-Indie List Compilation), by Various Artists

I Preferred The Earlier Stuff (A Uk-Indie List Compilation)

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All surviving artwork and a scan of the actual minidisc, plus the photo of Steve, Mark and Rob at the launch gig in Oxford at The Point on Sunday May 24th

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1.	Intro 01:03	info	buy track
2.	The Bigger The God - When Martin Met Martine 04:06	info	buy track
3.	MJ Hibbett - I Come From The Fens 01:29	info	buy track
4.	Szeki Kurva - Happy Shopper 04:15	info	buy track
5.	Vision - Regardless 04:22	info	buy track
6.	Japanese Fighting Girls - Theme From JFG 01:50	info	buy track
7.	Sienna - Trust Him 03:39	info	buy track
8.	MiLK PLUS - This Is Kitsch Beat 04:54	info	buy track
9.	Voon - Rectal Seeds 02:28	info	buy track
10.	Motorcade One - Evil Jukebox #1 03:12	info	buy track
11.	The Bigger The God - French Films 01:36	info	buy track
12.	MJ Hibbett - Billy Jones Is Dead 02:49	info	buy track
13.	Szeki Kurva - Ramraid 04:00	info	buy track
14.	Vision - Tell The Truth 03:46	info	buy track
15.	Japanese Fighting Girls - Elvis Loves You 04:37	info	buy track
16.	Sienna - Charlie Boy 03:26	info	buy track
17.	MiLK PLUS - Shout All You Like 06:36	info	buy track
18.	Airport Girl - (I'm A) Social Retard 01:51	info	buy track
19.	Motorcade One - Evil Jukebox #3 03:25	info	buy track
20.	Outro 01:14	info	buy track

about

Although this wasn't an AAS release at the time, it's where it all started. The idea of doing a label that just put out stuff by chums with no pretensions towards success or reward.

The Uk-Indie List was a good old-fashioned Listserv (or mailing list to you youngsters) from before web forums were a thing. You subscribed and then had group conversations by email. Back when you didn't get that many emails, this was a revelation to everyone involved. It got a mention in the small print of one of the weekly music papers and suddenly it became quite popular. Well, I say *quite*. I've no idea how many members there were at its peak but enough for us to come up with the idea of a compilation tape/minidisc (the new THANG baby!) featuring people on the list. Because weirdly, MOST people on the list were also in bands and wanted to get a bit more widely known than their 3 mates in the local pub.

This is how Rob and Mark met, and within 12 months had carried this momentum into starting AAS, along with Mat who was a friend of the band Airport Girl featured here.

It wasn't just a UK endeavour either. Javi, who did the artwork was in Finland. Rich AKA MiLK PLUS was in Berlin and Stasia who ran the listserv was in the US. The idea that we could communicate in near real time with each other was mind-blowing.

Copies were sent (did I mention that it was free?) all over the world.

The credits are a mad mix of old email addresses, weirdly complex and long web addresses, or simply nothing but a snailmail address. The world was evolving at a frightening pace.

I've tried where possible to include WaybackMachine links to websites where they exist, in the individual track credits

Sadly the Wayback Machine didn't crawl the original UK-Indie website which was at http:///www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/UK-Indie but that site was run by Steve Proctor, who was also involved in staging the launch gig for the tape in Oxford at The Point on Sunday May 24th 1998

A very drunken photo of Steve, Mark and Rob is bundled in the downloads

The only other evidence that remains is the 1997 End Of Year Poll that the UK-Indie mailing list members voted for. A snapshot of musical history
pastebin.com/ReJ7ZVnq

credits

released May 24, 1998

Artwork by Jani Juvonen web.archive.org/web/19970807082452/http://www.sci.fi/~bloke/index.htm

Mastered at Satya Studios by Jyoti Mishra
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Big thanks to all who took part and encouraged. Even Shag Frenzy

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