4AD Tape Chains Vol I: RareOne

In the late 80s/early 90s, there was a mailing list dedicated to the record label 4AD. It was called *drum roll* 4ad-l. Lots of fannish activity happened on the list — there were various fanzines (the one with the largest reach was probably Dewdrops) and there was even a CD of 4AD covers called Thurtene. I used to have a recurring dream about going home and looking in the drawers of my desk and finding letters intended for my 4AD fanzine, so that I could put the fanzine together and publish it — even though it’s now years later. But that never happened! I never had a fanzine on the go! A fake dream! Who has heard of such a thing! (At least I think so… but writing this now, I’m starting to wonder. If anybody remembers, let me know!) I did, however, arrange several tape chains. That is, people sent me tapes with various rarities, and I edited them down to one tape “master”, and then I made a copy of that, printed out a list of everybody on the chain, and finally sent it out to the first…

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