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A one of a kind signed polaroid image of the entire band, au revoir era. But for a huge price

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And I thought I found the holy grail when I got myself Eve of Destiny's "Nervous and Innocence".
Finding that was easy compared to E-Typ or Velvet Eden demotapes. Damn.
 

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I'm looking for the two E-TYP and late VELVET EDEN demo tapes for a long time too. No luck yet. Maybe 100 or less copies made of E-TYP.
 

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I wonder if anyone has tried emailing the musicians themselves. They must have some extra copies lying around... Probably not.

I once emailed a small Japanese record label and asked them if they had any leftover copies of one out of print album. I got a reply pretty fast and written in surprisingly good English that they do in fact have a copy and they can send it to me if I pay them with paypal. However, that album was still relatively new and not some 25 year old rare demo tape that's been hidden inside some Egyptian crypt and guarded by a secret brotherhood so that no gaijins can get a hold of it.

Another time I sent an email to a band's official email address and asked them if they could sell me an album of theirs I was missing. I was surprised when the band's singer himself sent me a reply saying "yeah, I know. I don't have that album myself. I just borrow it from someone when I need to remember how to play those songs before gigs." What the hell!?
 

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I wonder if anyone has tried emailing the musicians themselves. They must have some extra copies lying around... Probably not.
A million years ago someone emailed the ISOLA email address and actually got a response... amounting to "Look man, we're closed" XD
 

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Lmao. Did Isola release anything else other than the Egoiste Butterfly single? That's the only one I own/ am aware of.

I get the feeling Kaya doesn't like to talk about his older bands, because when I asked him if he's ever going to bring back his older projects, he simply said; "there's no older bands than Schwarz Stein." Okay, if you say so, bro.
I'm pretty sure that the Meties re-release happened soon after, so whatever.

I don't know how I would feel if I had a small band 10- 20 years ago and then I got an email from an overseas fan. Happy? Flattered? Maybe a bit bitter if I'd already killed my dreams, cried, sold my record collection, smashed my guitar, cried some more and was currently working as a salaryman.
 

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Did Isola release anything else other than the Egoiste Butterfly single? That's the only one I own/ am aware of.
There was also a one-track demo tape with the song "OVER..." but nobody's ever seen it. The MP3 of it out there on the internet just came from a file-sharing service back in the day.
 
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