Dear gang of many I mentioned the other day that I was starting my own CD label (for which I still haven't settled on a name) dedicated expressly to recording unknown and neglected music. Many of my friends already in the business think I am barmy (which may or may not be true), since they find it hard enough without a concentration on the obscure. There may be a way around that, and that's where I would like to canvass your opinion. I had the idea of starting a subscription scheme, where subscribers would be sent a copy of everything I do, at something akin to Naxos prices; I would hold the subscriber's credit-card number and simply debit the amount each time a CD came out. It would mean that subscribers would agree to buy a pig in a poke - they wouldn't know what was coming before it arrived. You lot, I imagine, are the kind of audience I am aiming at, so can I ask you whether -- once a track record had been established, with recordings of interesting composers (say, Rontgen, Gal, Reicha, Kaminski, Milford, Weinberg, Saar, Stevenson, Busch, Myslivecek - people like that) to judge the label by - a subscription scheme like this, with (again, say) four releases a month, would be something you would consider? If your responses are generally encouraging, I'll keep thinking about it; if you all tell me I must be joking, then I have to think again. Cheers Martin Anderson Toccata Press www.drakeint.co.uk/toccata-press