Welcome to our new General Store!
This is the place for you to buy physical products and downloads of exclusive Coil material as well as other personal works of art, text and unique data.
We are commited to digital distribution via the Internet but will, at the same time, continue to make Special Editions of art projects and books, vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and so on, available for the collector via mail-order. Some of our material will continue to be available from some specialist retail outlets, though these are becoming increasingly hard to find.
From time to time this site will also host FREE downloads of concerts by Coil and other people, interviews, art projects and other special features.
We are pleased to announced we finally have some copies of Important Records slip-cased 4 disc vinyl edition of The Ape of Naples. Renowned for publishing high quality limited editions, this Boxset was designed by Ian A Johnstone who also designed the cd version of The Ape of Naples.
Important Records themselves have already sold out and are pressing us for permission to work on a new vinyl release.
The few copies we have are the only still available new in the world. The first three discs are single sided with engravings sepecially designed by Ian Johnstone on the reverse side, and contain original audio of The Ape of Naples, here cut onto heavy quality vinyl.
A fourth double sided disc called The New Backwards, contains material with the same pedigree as The Ape - In other words tracks that were originally recorded at Trent Reznor's New Orleans studio in the 90s and held back at the time for some reason not immediately clear, though the original roughs were available on the Net for years since. These remaining tracks - the last remaining major unreleased work by Coil, yet unused on The Ape, were reworked in Bangkok last year by Peter Christoperson & Danny Hyde.
For the convenience of purchasers we are supplying a free "listening copy" of the cd edition with the vinyl boxset. This contains 3 additional tracks we could not fit on the 12" vinyl disc iof The New Backwards included with the boxset.
The cd version is also available as a separate item HERE, both as cd and download in various formats.
WE CANNOT TAKE REQUESTS FOR SPECIFIC COLOURS WE HAVE BOTH BLACK AND RED VINYL SETS BUT YOU WILL ONLY FIND YOU WHICH YOU GET WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR PACKAGE - WE"RE REALLY REALLY SORRY ABOUT THIS
ORDERS ARE LIMITED TO TWO PER CUSTOMER
Shipping is made by AIRSURE / INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR / SPECIAL DELIVERY each set is insured and is tracked from the Threshold House to your House.
ITEMS ARE SECURELY PACKED AND MARKED FRAGILE / DELICATE
We have obtained a small number copies of this unusual Coil live CD - an "authorised bootleg" - of an unusual show Coil played in Porto, Portugal on June 21st, 2003 at the Casa da Musica Festival. Coil for that show were Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra & Ossian Brown (ie as with Mutek, in Montreal, Balance was too sick to attend, so the show has a one-of-a kind sound, inspired in part by the venue, which at that time was a half-completed shell of an extremely futuristic arts centre). These cds came in three variations of semi-transparent hand-made packaging. The run of each variation was quite limited and we believe these are the only new copies still available anywhere.
Here it is - the first major release of the year from Threshold House. This time round it is not Coil but the Threshold HouseBoys Choir that demands your attention.
A CD/DVD combined effort - which means more haunting tracks for you to enjoy plus a documentary film for you to become engrossed in.
That's our bit - now do yours - order it now.
P.S. Shipping NOW
Now Available Worldwide for 2008!
Just buy it as soon as you read the headline folks - this is going to sell as fast as if there was £1000,000 lurking inside that box you can see.
Now Available Worldwide!
Firstly, a heartfelt "thank you" to everyone that has already made an online purchase from us. It is very reassuring to know that people choose to continue to support Artists in this way. We promise to strive to improve and extend our services...
Over the next few months, we will be making the entire Coil catalogue available for download here.
Also, due to continuing demand, we have resumed pressing and selling actual cds of some of the more popular titles and are considering pressing others. Let us know if you have a particular favourite that is not currently stocked.
For the moment the following are available in either download or cd formats and some in both:
Finally, we did have some copies of the rare Russian cd "In Memoriam: Jhonn Balance - It Just Is" which was pressed for a show Sleazy played last Christmas in St. Petersburg. Amongst others, it featured tracks by Sleazy's new band The Threshold HouseBoys Choir and Thighpaulsandra (w/ Jhonn's vocals) - Unfortunately the cds are all totally out of print, but these tracks at least, are available as downloads here.
We also have managed to obtain a small number of copies of the following excellent titles by our friends, featuring some of Jhonn Balance's last vocal performances:
As well as accepting the standard forms of payment (Mastercard, Visa, Visa Delta, Switch and Maestro cards) we now accept payments via paypal. All of this is done from a secure server to make the transaction as safe as possible.
We are offering tracks in a choice of mp3 or AAC format, and a trial run of the FLAC's for new releases.
AAC is the i-Tunes native compression format which delivers files of about the same size that in our opinion sound better than mp3.
FLAC encodes are superior in sound quality to mp3 and AAC. The audio is compressed without any loss in quality (similar to how zip works but with better compression for audio files). This makes FLAC's the highest possible quality for digital downloads. The file sizes are however on average roughly four times the size of the mp3/AAC versions.
For both AAC and FLAC - check that your playback device is compatable before ordering.
For the moment no files from this site will have rights management or restriction.
Please do not take advantage of us by distributing files beyond your own use.
At present we are only selling complete albums, rather than track-by-track (although the actual file downloads are one track at a time). Let us know if you would rather buy individual tracks.
Also we do not think the conventional 45 second audio preview of individual tracks will offer any real indication of the content of the album. Instead we will try to offer our own descriptions of sounds and ideas, as well as reviews by others as a more useful and user-friendly guide to prospective purchasers.
When you have completed the payment sequence you will be given links to initiate the download process of the tracks to your computer. Depending on your system, you may have to click on or select "save to disk" when asked. You will also receive an email with the same links. Should you want to make the actual downloads later in the day, follow the links in the email, log in with the username and password you already gave us, and you will get to the download area. If a download fails or is interrupted for any reason you can just try again - your personal copies of the files will be available on our server for 24 hours from the time you order.
As a courtesy to our customers, you will be able to make TWO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED downloads of each song (maybe you have computers at two locations or your connection at work is better than at home) but ONLY YOU are licensed to log in using your name and password. Please do not pass these details on to anyone else.
On our 'cheapo' broadband connection at home, music files take about a third of their running time to download, depending on conditions, so an album lasting an hour takes about 20 minutes. Less time than the queue in Woolworths.
A 56k dial-up connection is approximately 10 times slower, so the same album might take 3 to 4 hours depending. Remember this is not one single download, but a series of smaller files of individual tracks, that can be more easily repeated if anything hiccups. Three to four hours downloading may seem like a long time, but on the other hand you'll have it today! If your connection is slower than 56k you might want to order the mail-order version!
We recommend the use of a program such as i-Tunes to manage, organise and play your files. i-Tunes simplifies the process of burning cds for your own use, as well as sharing with other computers and back up (though copies should be for your own use only).
As well as access to the audio files you can download a printable file of the cover.
In the future we will also be instigating a PRINT STORE where high resolution files of the images from the covers can be obtained for larger print and display purposes.
This site is being hosted by state51 - an amenable and generous internet music organism.
All this technology and this method of distribution is new to us - We appreciate any constructive feedback as to how we can enhance your shopping and listening pleasure.
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