The Black Editions label has been doing great work keeping the legacy of famed Japanese experimental label P.S.F. alive thanks to their reissues of absolutely essential albums by Keiji Haino, High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Acid Mothers Temple, Go Hirano, Mikami Kan and more.

However, in their half-decade of operation, they have ignored the humble CD buyer. The snobbish, speculative, snake-oily tulipmania around the LP "revival" means it's assured business for Black Editions to bring these albums directly to wax, turning once-accessible albums into bulky fetish objects. 

Look, I love and collect vinyl too. But it's not how I want to hear the searing silences of Haino's 'Watashi Dake' or the drone-like jet-engine purge of High Rise. I don't want the 31-minute non-stop extended-technique mind-bend of Kawashima Makoto broken up by flipping a record. '

In short, give me a CD like they would in Actual Fucking Japan, you clowns!

Anyway, I ran into Steve Lowenthal last night and he's not convinced that there's enough people who would buy these on CD. He told me if he could be sure they'd sell 500 copies, then it might convince him.

So, anyway, sign this and promise you'll buy a CD copy of BE-000, Keiji Haino's "Watashi Dake?" "meticulously remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters" if Black Editions would be kind enough to print one up.

We will not stand idly by to let Steve Hoffman Forums weirdos and Endless Boogie bros dictate the contents of our record collections!