Hello.

We (the Internet Gazette) would be interested in publishing a story about your scene. If you have an interest, please write.

Thanks.

Here is some general information. We can send you promo copies if you wish, please give or feel free to ask more questions ... would be glad to help in anyway. I have been involved with this with some of the greatest minds in the music, since 1988.

RAS DVA (PO Box 92575, Milwaukee, WI. 53202-0575, Fax: 414 271-2173) was started by Ric Laciak nearly 4 years ago as the fan club called G.A.W.M. U 2ES for the label ZOTH OMMOG and the band Leather Strip. The fan club has since turned into a label releasing and searching for rare and interesting music.

FIRST RELEASE:
Benestrophe is the brain child of Mentallo & The Fixer. There are over 75 minutes of digitally re-mastered music. The first 1000 CDs are in a limited version format numbered 0001 to 1000.

UP COMING:
Leather Strip is releasing a CD entitled "Getting Away With Murder." It will contain studio out- takes, all un-released and early pre-Leather Strip projects. This CD will come in a limited numbered mini body-bag, and an actual full-sized body-bag.

The long anticipated first compilation from RAS DVA is planned to be a Quadruple CD Compilation "THERE IS NO TIME" for the price of a single import CD $24.95 (RETAIL). The label will not make any profit with this release, it is a promotion for all the bands and labels that appear on it. Such band= s as Leather Strip, Benestrophe, DIVE, Mentallo & The Fixer, NUMB, Violet Arcana as well as un-signed bands and much more. Nearly 5 hours!

All new recordings from Benestrophe, Volume II.

PROMOTIONS:
RAS DVA advertises in Alternative Press, Industrial Nation and a variety of other magazines, sends news letters to a mailing list of 9000+ fans, and frequently posts to rec.music.industrial. (A popular news group on the internet information super highway which is directed at thousands of fans around the world.)

HISTORY:
RAS DVA was un-officially started over 3 years ago as the fan club for the ZOTH OMMOG band Leather Strip by Ric Laciak, radio DJ turned writer for Industrial Nation. Promoting ZOTH OMMOG and other bands, the fan club grew into a CD label with the first release on October 25th, 1994.

INVOLVEMENTS:
WMSE 91.7FM Radio DJ : 1991-1992
Industrial Nation Staff: 1992-Present
ZOTH OMMOG Leather Strip Fanbase: 1992-Present
ZOTH OMMOG Assistant Label Manager: 1993
NEW MUSIC SEMINAR: 1993
Alternative Press + Zoth Ommog Compilation Contest Author: 1994
Armageddon Dildos "LOST" CD Recording Coordinator for Sire Records/Zoth Ommog: 1994
Contracted Chicago Trax Recording Studio hired Fluffy as Executive Producer

Thanks. I hope to have time to work on it today. Do you have any sights or sounds we can add?

ps Does AOL support a web browser yet?

AOL has no such thing for WWW or HTTP whatever that is...

They plan on getting it soon, with FTP and TELNET.

OK ... too bad.

I have an account with AOL, but haven't logged in there in a coupla weeks, so please keep me posted.

If you want to switch over to another provider with full internet access, let me know. Maybe i can help set you up w/ shareware, etc. (We run a local internet access company in Pennsylvania and would be glad to help get you "up and running.")

Thanks, but then I have the problem with this address being well known.

Wish they could forward messages as to the new address if I move for a year.

Rats!

What I have done is kept my shity Prodigy account, just for that reason. But for the extra $10-20 a month, it is well worth it.

Anyway, AOL is rumored to start www service any day.