Recommended (origins)
For the first time, we did everything ourselves: mastering, cover design, cutting, pressing, manufacture - and found out how easy it was.
via ccutler.com
There's just a great amount of understatement in that sentence, part of Chris Cutler's reminiscences on his musical collaborations through his career. It's an obvious foreshadow of the formation of Recommended and Re Records, but imagine if more people in general had realised this at the time, rather than thirty years later, when digital technology made it both unavoidable and necessary.
