This is almost a complete list of every CD I have ever made for my own purposes. I never bothered to number anything at first, and it wasn’t until I had made a few dozen projects that it occurred to give my projects catalog numbers. Packaging was minimal in those carefree days as well. I turned a corner with the Simple Minds boxed sets. Those were amazing, and following that, I took making a cover much more seriously than making a one-sided insert, but that was all I could afford to print on a sheet of inkjet photo paper. It also helped that I got access to a sweet color laser. From that point on, booklets became possible. Sometimes, elaborate booklets. And booklets beget liner notes and discography details. And so forth and so on.

The point where it occurred to me to number my projects was when I was making the Client CD of “The Rotherham Sessions.” These were demos that Client had posted to their website for download. The year was 2006; seven years into this hobby, and I took a wild stab at what number the CD should be. I picked 038 out of the blue. Then I went backwards, trying to remember what I had done and assign a REVO catalog number to each one. So the order here is completely haphazard. I can state that the numbers from 056 and higher are pretty bulletproof, though 068 and 075 seem to be missing! That’s because I don’t have a resource to consult and I would sometimes lose track of where I was supposed to be. Hence, this new catalog page which now becomes canonical law; errors and all.. That way I can give a project the right number going forward.

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I first got a CD burner in 1999 when the software company I was working for had bought a 2x SCSI external burner the size of a small VCR five years earlier for a prototype product that never sold. I asked them if I could have it and they said no problem. It worked fine [as long as I used high quality gold CD-R media] with my second computer at the time, a Macintosh Quadra 840AV. My friend JT set me up with a used Digidesign sound card. The Quadra was seven years old and was getting long in tooth so I moved to a [used] Macintosh G3 450 in 2000. That was my main production computer for another five years. The digidesign card moved to that. I got an external SCSI burner that was 8x and a big step up. Much smaller, too.

My next move was to a G5 Mac Pro 2×1.8 GHz. This gave me entry to DVD mastering as well. For a few years, Apple’s DVD solutions, even at the low end, were amazing. I made DVDs with elaborate extras and animated menus. Some of my music projects also came bundled with DVDs. This lasted for three years until the power supply died in that one, leaving me to buy an entry level iMac in 2008 while I was hip deep in a freelance project that demanded a working computer. Though the iMac was entry level, it has been a workhorse for my various projects for almost a decade now. I only needed a new computer in 2017 because any browser that works on it was EOL. When I got a new 2017 iMac, I  kept the old iMac for DVD making. Apple’s horrific disc-free world of Steve Jobs is not for me! All my life I dreamed of making CDs and laserdiscs and for a few years there, Apple saw fit to enable this like no one else.

So between 2017 and 2019, I managed to buy new hardware and software. The modern iMacs lack DVD+R drives. I also needed a new disc printer as my old one had clogged heads from disuse. No amount of cleaning techniques obtained from the Internet [it must be true!] made much of a difference. Epson still make one! But the pickings are slim. It’s a 5-color [CMYK+photogray] so the quality is a far cry from the [brief] glory days of hexachrome color that the older Epson had. The discs I print now look like they are missing 20% of the old gamut at least!

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Most of my early projects were consolidating lots of CD singles into tighter compilations. Occasionally, there would be local bands I worked on CDs of. My friend Mr. Ware had a New Wave cover band, The Pragmatix, and though I did not master the audio, I designed it, so that is what I came to call REVO 001. The name REVO came from “Revolt Into Style,” my wife’s name for her antique business at the time which she did on the side. Yes, it’s taken from Bill Nelson. I soon moved into making CDs of albums that were not on CD and non-LP rare tracks assembled into Boxed Sets Of God® were a particular buzz for me.

MASTER LIST OF REVO CD PROJECTS

 

 

 

REVO 001 The Pragmatix: Live @ Frogger’s – 1998	REVO 002 The Hate Bombs: Odd Bombs – 1999	REVO 003 The Bassments/November Charlie: Last Call At The Laughing Academy – 1999
REVO 004 Depeche Mode: Mixmaster 1-12 – 1999	REVO 005 Shakespear’s Sister: The CD Singles – 1999	REVO 006 Nitzer Ebb: Nitzerebbprodukt1234 – 1999
REVO 007 VARIOUS: The Berlin Sources – 1999	REVO 008 The Tourists – 1999	REVO 009 The Tourists: Reality Effect – 1999
REVO 010 Ultravox!: Rare Vol. 0 – 1999	REVO 011 Tin Machine: Tin Machine III – 2000	REVO 012 Marc Almond: Curtain Call – 2000
REVO 013 Dr. Calculus: Designer Beatnik – 1999	REVO 014 Duran Duran: Working For The Skin Trade OST – 1999	REVO 015 Associates: Perhaps + – 1999
REVO 016 Basia: Rarities – 1999	REVO 017 Level 42: Rarities – 2001	REVO 018 Everything But The Girl: Old School – 2000
REVO 019 Frazier Chorus: Elaine – 2009	REVO A19 Frazier Chorus: Elaine [for dilletantes] – 2009	REVO 020 Transvision Vamp: Pop Rocks – 2000
REVO 021 Charles Martin: Genius Under Glass – 2000	REVO 022 OMD: Optical Musical Data Phase 1 – 2001	REVO 023 OMD: Optical Musical Data Phase 2 – 2001
REVO 024 Tom Tom Club: Close To The Bone + – 2001	REVO 025 Chris Isaak + Silvertone: Live @ San Juan Capistrano ’90 – 2001	REVO 026 Jesus + Mary Chain: A Handful Of Rust/An Earful Of Glass – 2002
REVO 027 New Order: Hard Drive – 2002	REVO 028 Simple Minds: Act One – 2003	REVO 029 Simple Minds: Act Two – 2003
REVO 030 Bryan Ferry: Trilogy – 2003	REVO 031A Claudia Brücken – Comprehension Vol. 1 – 2004/2020	REVO 032 Black: Box Recordings – 2004
REVO 033 The Voice Of The Beehive: The Vault Of The Beehive – 2004	REVO 034 Thomas Dolby: Gold Standard – 2004	REVO 035 Fiction Factory: Ephemeral – 2006
REVO 036 Freur|Underworkd mk. I: Stainless Steel tears – 2006	REVO 037 Peter Gabriel: Trilogy – 2006	REVO 038 Client: The Rotherham Sessions – 2006
REVO 039 Heaven 17: Civil Defence Box – 2006/2009	REVO 040 Gardening By Moonlight: Method To The Madness + – 2007	REVO 041 John Foxx: Fast Forward Flashback – 2007
REVo 042 China Crisis: Docklands – 2007	REVO 043 Klark Kent: Komplete Klassiks – 2007	REVO 044 Mari Wilson: Showpeople Footlights Edition – 2008
REVO 045 Spandau Ballet: Canon – 2009	REVO 046 Berlin Blondes: Building On The Sands + – 2009	REVO 047 Brian Eno: Rarities + Collaborations – 2007
REVO 048 Wendy James: I Started The Lie – 2002	REVO 049 Nina Hagen: Modern Selection – 2000	REVO 050 Holly + The Italians: The Right To Be Italian [U.S. mix] – 1999
REVO 051 Gary Numan: Numacomp 1 – 2002	REVO 052 The Exotic Aarontones: Bucket O’Slop – 1999	REVO 053 Annie Lennox: Diva Supplement – 2000
REVO 054 Pet Shop Boys: Pet Shop Box 123456	REVO 055 Pet Shop Boys: Pet Shop Box 789101112	REVO 056 The Nits: Les Nuits Live @ Paradisio – 2009
REVO 057 Peter Godwin: Torch Songs + Heroics – 2009/2020	REVO 058 Various: Songs Of The Open Road – 2009	REVO 059 Torch Song: Wish Thing – 2009
REVO 060 Torch Song: Ecstasy – 2009	REVO 061 JAPAN: Live @ Hammersmith ’81 – 2009	REVO 062 Howard Devoto: Devoto Companion – 2010
REVO 063 JAPAN: Bento – 2010	REVO 064 Colin Vearncombe: The Given + – 2010	REVO 065 Metro: New Love – 2010
REVO 066 Peter Godwin: Correspondence – 2010	REVO 067 OMD: Live @ The Mermaid|BBC ’11 – 2011	REVO 068 ?
REVO 069 Smashing Time: OST – 2011	REVO 070 Berlin: Information + – 2011	REVO 071 DEVO: New Traditionalists Live In Seattle ’81 – 2012
REVO 072 NME: Mighty Reel – 2012	REVO 073 Figures On A Beach: Paradise + Other Four Letter Words – 2014	REVO 074 Jacqui Brookes: Sob Stories + – 2014
REVO 075 ?	REVO 076 Various: Methods Of Dance Vol. 1 – 2015	REVO 077 Various: Methods Of Dance Vol. 1 – 2015
REVO 078 Hot Chocolate: Every 1’s A Winner – 2015	REVO 079 Victorian Parents – Silence Follows + – 2015	REVO 080 Real Life: Heartland + – 2016
REVO 081Annabel Lamb: Once Bitten + – 2016	REVO 082November Group – 2016	REVO 083Rezillos: A Case Of Rezillomania – 2017
REVO 084Jo Callis: Citizen Callis – Agent Of P.O.P. – 2017	REVO 085Visage: Fade To Grey – Dance Mix Album – 2017	REVO 086Robert Fripp: The League Of Gentlemen + – 2017
REVO 087 The Three O’Clock: Live @ The Old Waldorf – 2018	REVO 088 Ultravox – A Young Person’s Guide To Ultravox – 2018	REVO 089 Visage: Beat Boy Special Cassette Remix + – 2019
REVO 090 Visage – Beat Boy Supplement – 2019	REVO 091 Ure, Cross, Langdown – The Bloodied Sword – 2019	REVO 092 David Werner – Whizz Kid – 2020
REVO 093 David Werner – Imagination Quota – 2020	REVO 094 David Werner – David Werner/Live – 2020	REVO 095 Slow Children: Slow Children + – 2020
REVO 096 Slow Children – Mad About Town + – 2020	REVO 097 Various: Terpsichore [Silly Not To] – 2021	REVO 098 Various: Blitz – 2021
REVO 099 TVLKING HEVDS: The Warner Bros. Music Show – 2021	REVO 100 Midge Ure: The 1980 Tour- 2021	REVO 101 Masami Tsuchiya: Rice Music – 2021