Vol. 5 – Asura Revolver / Flag Day Recordings / Dead Definition

Vol. 6 – Sara Laughs / Third Kind / Muzai Records

Vol. 7 – Bricolage / Tye Die Tapes / Moone Records

Vol. 8 – Chant Records / Wormhole World / AnalogueTrash

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Vol. 1 – Community Radio Tapes / WarHen Records / Blue Tapes

Vol. 2 – Arachnidiscs / Disintegration State / Bad Cake Records

Vol. 3 – Tymbal Tapes / Full Spectrum Records / Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere

Vol. 4 – Whited Sepulchre Records / Crafted Sounds / Tor Johnson Records

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Reckless Yes is an independent record label working ethically and collaboratively with artists to make great things for our membership and other music fans.

We release internationally across all formats, and look for options which have the least negative impact on the environment. Our membership directly support our roster of artists through offsetting the costs of release, and in return get early access to all our releases plus a host of other benefits.

RECKLESS YES CLASS OF 2020

1. Liines – Sorry (7″ single, released 6 Nov 2020, RY059)
2. Eilis Frawley – Stats (taken from the CD and digital EP ‘Adult Life’ released 23 October 2020 RY070)
3. Duck – R*ck St*r (taken from the vinly LP ‘There Are No Normal Conversations Anymore, released 20 November 2020, RY063)
4. Captain Handsome – I wish I had a Dog (Taken from the CD EP ‘I Am Not An Animal’ released 31 January 2020, RY041)
5. Dactylion – Stutter (Digital single, released 24 January 2020, RY051)
6. Bugeye – When the Light Go Out (taken from the vinyl and CD LP ‘Ready, Steady, Bang’ released 19 June 2020, RY052)
7. GodNo! – Hulk (Taken from the CD EP ‘Too Much Future’ released 7 August 2020, RY050)
8. Grawl!x – Epicene (Taken from the digital album ‘Peeps’ released 14 February 2020, RY048)
9. Order of the Toad – Lady’s Mantle (Taken from the vinyl LP and CD ‘Re-Order of the Toad’, released 2 October 2020, RY061)
10. Hearts Beating In Time – Simone’s (Digital Single, released 30 October 2020, RY076)
11. Fightmilk – I’m Starting To Think You Don’t Even Want To Go To Space (Digital Single, released 20 March, 2020, RY058)
12. Nervous Twitch – Keeping Faith In Something (Digital Single, released 9 October 2020, RY072)

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Expect some overlaps with our previous lists…and as usual, if we missed a label, feel free to sound off in the  comments!

Label

Tridroid Records

Exotic Fever

Hidden Bay Records

Crystalline Morphologies

Minimal Wave

Den Tapes

Never Normal Records

Peach Discs

Xylem Records

sofiarecords

Thrilling Living

Oris

Thrill Jockey

Arrowhawk Records

Dog Park Records

Spinster

Run By

Christine Kelly

Katy Otto

Manon Raupp

Gabie Strong

Veronica Vasicka

Mama Kay (co-founder)

Suzi Analog

Shanti Celeste (co-founder)

Norah Lorway

Nataliya Beylis

Grace Ambrose

n/a

Bettina Richards

Alyssa DeHayes

Furchick

Sally Anne Morgan

Emily Hilliard

Suggested By

Matthew Elliot

Matthew Elliot

Self

hal

Rrose Eaux

Mama Kay / Self

Jess

Big Nick D

Seth Werkheiser

Trouble in Mind

Self

bizogramma

The Soft Pink Truth

Lydia Pudzianowski

Self

ther_ther_ther

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Expect some overlaps with our previous lists…and as usual, if we missed a label, feel free to sound off in the  comments!

Label

Paralaxe Editions
Get Better Records
Alien Jams
Flaming Pines
Arc Light Editions
Embalming Lately
Jacktone Records
Eat Dis
Sovereign State
Tape Cassettes
Trouble in Mind
Objects Limited
Patch Bae Records
Shelter Press

Run By

Dania Shahib
Ally Einbinder / Jenna Pup
Chloe Frieda
Kate Carr
Jennifer Allan (Co-Founder)
Axine M
Doc Sleep (Co-Founder)
DJ Girl (Co-Founder)
n/a
Jacqueline
Lisa Roe (Co-Founder)
Lara Rix Martin
Hattie Cooke
Bartolomé Sanson
Felicia Atkinson

Suggested By

Come Away with EMD
Nate Holdren
Blue Tapes UK
Blue Tapes UK
Blue Tapes UK
Glorbis
Glorbis
Glorbis
Glorbis
Self
Self
Backspin Promo
Self
Blue Tapes UK
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Reading

Blue Mountain School

Nearest Truth

philspicks

popoptica

Bandcloud

Stationary Travels

Blurt

Brighton Dome

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Pt. 2 / 2020

Pt. 3 / 2021

plus

Clay Pipe Music (suggested by Rupert Lally)

Decaying Spheres (co-run by Elisabeth Crompton)

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Pt. 1

The Black Editions Group, Personal Archives, Spare No Expanse, Hello Sir Records, Audiobulb, Subexotic Records, Finders Keepers Records, Spun Out of Control, Burning Witches Records, International Anthem, Brownswood Recordings

Pt. 2

Spartan Records, Wormhole World, Crafted Sounds, Reckless Yes, Fallen Moon Recordings, Fluid Audio, King Pizza Records, Rum Bar Records, Slovenly Recordings, Wild Honey Records, F.O.A.D. Records, Buzzhowl Records, Hominid Sounds, Cruel Nature Records

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American Dreams Records

Trouble in Mind Records

Electric Cowbell

Atlantic Rhythms

Deathbomb Arc

via Come Away with EMD

Drunken Sailor Records

Feel It Records

Ever/Never Records

Anti Fade Records

via Smashin’ with Dale

Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records

New West Records

Omnivore Recordings

Kill Rock Stars

Mississippi Records

1972

via Vanessa Briscoe Hay

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Bad Cake Records

Our own pick! Out of Minnesota comes this misfit, non-elitist cassette label whose first two releases knocked us off of our feet (Witness to an Execution by The Eternal / Majick by The Triangle Man). 

Bad Cake was rather quiet over the last year, but now they’re back in action. 

The Black Editions Group 

Has to be @AllBlackEdition for their work with the PSF back catalogue. The couple I’ve bought sound stunning and look beautiful.

Label group including Black Editions, VDSQ and Thin Wrist Recordings. Based in L.A. presenting new worlds of sound and music both on record and in performance.

Label Roster – 75 Dollar Bill / Chris Brokaw / Acid Mothers Temple / Wendy Eisenberg and more

via Vogon Laundromat

Personal Archives 

Spare No Expanse

It’s in your head, between your ears

PA is run by Bob Bucko Jr. and put out many of his own records + material from Adderall Canyonly (aka Oxykitten), Cop Funeral (Joshua Tabbia from Already Dead Tapes) and others. 

SNE is a private press cassette label specializing in minimalism & avant-garde composition run by leaaves. They put out material by Lost Trail Family Shibe (aka Nonconnah), among others. 

via The Orchid Show

Hello Sir Records

Hello Sir is an independent record label based out of Athens, Georgia. It was formed by the members of the band Cinemechanica as a means to release their own material, and that of their peers. They have put out releases by bands such as Maserati, We Versus The Shark, Ahleuchatistas, The Mercury Program, Ho-Ag, Serka, So Many Dynamos, Tiger Bear Wolf, Antarctic, The Bronzed Chorus, and A.Armada.

via Radiomancy Museum

Audiobulb 

Exploratory music label releasing albums, audio projects, creative software and hardware.

Put out releases by Distant Fires Burning (Belgium), Tomotsugu Nakamura (Japan) and more. 

via Neuro…No Neuro

Subexotic Records

Spun Out of Control

Burning Witches Records

Finders Keepers Records

International Anthem

Brownswood Recordings 

Subexotic Records was formed in 2010 in London and manufactures all its packaging, vinyl cuts & cassette dubs in-house. SR put out records by Simon Klee, Blank Disco and more. 

Spun Out of Control and Burning Witches are UK labels specializing in synth/electronic music and imaginary soundtracks.

Finders Keepers was formed by Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve Records) and Doug Shipton (Cherry Red) with an eye towards reintroducing vintage records to a new audience. Think Suzanne Ciani, Jean-Claude Vannier, Andrzej Korzyński and more. 

International Anthem is one label whose name we keep seeing again and again in different guest mixes (i.e. here and here). And for a good reason – IA seem to be absolutely relentless in their search for new and adventurous music, particularly that written by black composers/artists. 

Last, but not least – Brownswood Recordings, label formed by DJ, record collector and broadcaster Gilles Peterson in 2006.  Much like IA, they specialize in putting out eclectic music from all over the globe – most recently, Songs of an Unknown Tongue by Jamaican artist Zara McFarlane. 

 
via David Soulscorch

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Riot Season is a UK based independent record label. we don’t have a set style and we don’t have any cool friends. we’re an old fashioned label doing whatever we feel like when something interesting turns up. you wont find us releasing a record every five minutes, and you wont find us in the yellow pages. you will find is here though : www.riotseason.com

Tracklist

Familia de Lobos – Todo Lo Que Brilla (from S/T)

Familia De Lobos (translates to Family Of Wolves) are a psychedelic rock band formed in 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“This sounds like the soundtrack to a South American spaghetti western”

A dense and mantric sound spits from Familia de Lobos, their first album, recorded in early 2016. A sound formed by the mix of valve amps and pre-columbian instruments, from the southern region of Latin America.

Orchestra of Constant Distress – Quite a Lot (from Distress Test)

Members with such experiences from The Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions, Brainbombs and No Balls are joined in assemblage of catatonic sounds, obstinate riffs and rigid rhythms.

“Just when you think something is about to happen, it doesn’t.” Review of debut album.

Blown Out – Void Sucker / Comacozer – BinBeal (from In Search Of Highs Vol 1)

Blown Out do heavy space jams better than anyone and though split into three parts their side all flows magically. “Hook up the Telepath” is so in the zone you suspect the band may well be telepathic.

Henry Blacker – Cag Mag (from The Making Of Junior Bonner)

Somerset trio HENRY BLACKER return with their third album ‘The Making Of Junior Bonner’ on April 6th.

The follow up to 2013’s Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings and 2015’s Summer Tombs will once again be released on Riot Season on vinyl and as a download.

Henry Blacker formed because there’s nothing to do in Somerset. Henry Blacker formed because the other band they do (Hey Colossus) rehearse in London and they wanted a band they didn’t need to travel the width of the country to jam with.

Hey Colossus – Warmer the Belter (New Born) (from RRR)

Hey Colossus are the closest thing the UK has to the inheritors of the crown of the Butthole Surfers – which is not a criticism, just in case you were wondering… quite, quite the opposite. And if 2009’s ace Hey Colossus And The Van Halen Time Capsule Present Eurogrumble Vol. 1 was their Hairway To Steven then RRR – an altogether more considered, threatening and psychedelic affair – is somewhere between their Rembrandt Pussy Horse and Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis. – The Quietus

Dead Otter – Eye Elevator (from Bridge of Weird)

Dead Otter are an exploratory rock outfit based in Glasgow, crafting out there jams since rock music was invented in 1995.

No otters were harmed in the making of this record, respect the otters!

Black Helium – Curtains at the Mausoleum (from Primitive Fuck)

An absolutely epic fucking performance from Black Helium who were heavy as fuck and destroyed my already fragile mind with their Flying V twin attack sounding like Sabbath, Black Angels, Hawkwind and The Sweet battling in a monster riff shop. – Spencer Hickman – Death Waltz Records / Transmission Record

Earthling Society – Inauguration in the Buddha Dome (from Mo – The Demon)

Mo – The Demon was recorded at Leeds college of music between November 2017 – February 2018. The basis of the album was to record an imaginary soundtrack to the Shaw Brothers batshit psychedicrazy Kung Fu horror ‘The Boxer’s Omen’ aka MO or demon.

Taking inspiration from all the things musical that have inspired us over the years. Berlin era Bowie, Prime Magazine circa ‘Correct Use Of Soap’, Electric Funk Miles, ‘Caravanserai’ Santana, Embryo and god knows what else (it doesn’t really matter as it all ends up Earthling Society), we think we’ve made a groovy as fuck concept.

Perhaps – The Number of the Priest (Pt. 1) (from Hexagon)

The bands success is hardly put to question as all members have been front runners in the experimental recreation of natural principles through musical methods, and rarely come out empty handed. It has been confirmed core members and frequent contributors have returned with the making of Hexagon: (Jim Haney, Sean McDermott, David Khoshtinat, Ricky Petraglia, Ben Talmi, Tom Weeks). As well as appearances from long-time collaborators Makoto Kawabata and Tabata Mitsuru of the Japanese psychedelic-juggernaut group Acid Mothers Temple…

Workin’ Man Noise Unit – Become the Scum (from It’s Not Nothin’)

Reading’s own noiseniks, Workin’ Man Noise Unit infuse the whole fucking thing with a love of Albini, Jesus Lizard, and Fugazi. They are agitated from start to finish as they pour their entire bodily fluids into new long-player, the aptly titled Play Loud. This is agitated, cathartic rock played at a nihilistic intensity – Soundblab

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Dark Star Blues (from Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe)

Twenty four years into their existence, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. have circled the globe at least a few dozen times, released over 100 albums in their various guises and played thousands of shows.

In recent years, they’ve experienced seismic line up changes which has given them yet another new lease of life … or a rebirth if you will. Original members Kawabata Makoto (guitar, speed guru) and Higashi Hiroshi (synthesizer, noodle god) are now joined by Jyonson Tsu (vocal, midnight whistler), Satoshima Nani (drums, another dimension) and Wolf (bass, space & time) and as anyone that has seen the new line up live will testify, things have gone even more cosmic …

‘Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe’ sees the band return to their old label Riot Season for the first time since 2012’s ‘IAO Chant From The Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out’ (CD still available). Both label and band have gone on some wonderful journeys during that time apart but both felt the stars were finally correctly realigned to renew their partnership in all things weird.

Orchestra of Constant Distress – Discard (from Abandon / Seasonal Disorder / 2018)

Taken from ORCHESTRA OF CONSTANT DISTRESS ‘Abandon’ catalogue # SMR16 Tape on sister label SWAP MEAT only available as a limited package with the ‘Distress Test’ LP. Released February 2018

Blown Out – Sun Rot (Part 1) (from Sun Rot)

Like many of Vest’s other releases, the Blown Out record was also originally intended for tape; mastered and released by Stephen Bishop of Opal Tapes, who also happens to have played with Vest in Skull Mansions, Ultrashitinferno, and Drunk In Hell. Almost lo-fi, Bishop gets things done in their raw, live state; precisely what the band want. But what do they want? I mean except from technicality of it all. There’re no lyrics, and obviously no expressions. The title, as with Vest’s brand of guitar playing remains fairly minimal. There you have it: Sun Rot. It’s the impression that makes it mark for you. The abyss. The devouring of sun. Brilliantly executed by Anthony Downie comes the artwork, capping it beyond compare. – CVLT Nation

Further Reading

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