I got it from a mate who grovelled with someone via email to burn him some copies.
Been thinking about this, and I'm willing to do a few copies for people here, but not too many! If I do some for mms, appleblim, kabut and baboon, perhaps they can do some for anyone else who wants them. I'm only going to do CDs though, you lots can download your own covers. Plus, I on;y have CDs 1-12, although they apparently are the best ones.
Now, let's talk about the music. As regards mms' question about what are the highlights and why, there really aren't any names I can pick out of there as being better than the rest. It's all pretty good, and some of it is amazing, but there's no real differences of approach that I can spot. Wizz Jones wasn't a track I particularly loved- it had a bit of a rambling quality to it, too many chord changes and fancy rhymes.
I guess that suggests what's good about the other stuff on the compilation (a couple of highlights being Owen Hand's The Garden and Broselmaschine's Godanken - who knows who these guys are...)- it's very succinct, understated folk music with just the slight touch of weirdness/wyrdness. So you get long, fluent songs with just a slight electric bass underneath, or a distorted guitar, or an echoed flute or whatnot. But the performers are really INTO the folkyness of it, chanting along and emoting weirdly, it's utterly atmospheric and beautiful. You get the sense that all these artists had gone into communes and given up on rock music, but created something really mature in the process. Well wrought wyrdness.
Hold tight for these compilations for those that requested them.