05-06-2016, 01:08 AM
So, for our non-Russian-speaking users:
This thread has been recently visited by Michael - the owner of the Angel's of Hell Records, who kindly shared most valuable information about the label's history, as well as answered some questions. The most important points (from the collector's perspective) are as follows:
1. Yellow tapes with a skull, as well as KPA, PIGGYmot, Flint Records etc. are not Angel's of Hell, neither were affiliated in any way. KPA and PIGGYmot were run by Michael's acquaintances, but they are not related to Angel's of Hell.
(For consistency we'll keep them in our catalogue file, though).
2. The history of Angel's of Hell began in 1992 (first releases were with b/w inserts, and later they became colour pro-printed) and ended in 2001. The year 1998 marked a crisis in the label's business, and although it was overcome, the decline of the MC format forced the activity to be eventually closed.
3. Catalogue numbers with "a" or "A" letters were just a re-use of existing numbers when the original stock got sold-out and the item was not as popular as to justify an additional print. So "A" items were issued in parallel with "non-A" items (and not sequentially after those, as we supposed), and "a" is effectively the same as "A".
4. Additional prints for commercially successful items were practiced. Due to a change in the Russian copyright law in mid-nineties, a statement about the "license agreement" began to be printed in inserts - both for new prints and for additional prints of old items.
5. Michael shared his catalogue of the Angel's of Hell releases (I will eventually incorporate it into our main XLS file). Unfortunately even his own catalogue is not full, e.g. it does not include older b/w releases, neither does it include all pro-printed releases. This means that our search continues, although with Michael's help we got a huge input.
This thread has been recently visited by Michael - the owner of the Angel's of Hell Records, who kindly shared most valuable information about the label's history, as well as answered some questions. The most important points (from the collector's perspective) are as follows:
1. Yellow tapes with a skull, as well as KPA, PIGGYmot, Flint Records etc. are not Angel's of Hell, neither were affiliated in any way. KPA and PIGGYmot were run by Michael's acquaintances, but they are not related to Angel's of Hell.
(For consistency we'll keep them in our catalogue file, though).
2. The history of Angel's of Hell began in 1992 (first releases were with b/w inserts, and later they became colour pro-printed) and ended in 2001. The year 1998 marked a crisis in the label's business, and although it was overcome, the decline of the MC format forced the activity to be eventually closed.
3. Catalogue numbers with "a" or "A" letters were just a re-use of existing numbers when the original stock got sold-out and the item was not as popular as to justify an additional print. So "A" items were issued in parallel with "non-A" items (and not sequentially after those, as we supposed), and "a" is effectively the same as "A".
4. Additional prints for commercially successful items were practiced. Due to a change in the Russian copyright law in mid-nineties, a statement about the "license agreement" began to be printed in inserts - both for new prints and for additional prints of old items.
5. Michael shared his catalogue of the Angel's of Hell releases (I will eventually incorporate it into our main XLS file). Unfortunately even his own catalogue is not full, e.g. it does not include older b/w releases, neither does it include all pro-printed releases. This means that our search continues, although with Michael's help we got a huge input.
It is lumber, man - all lumber! Throw it overboard.
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