August 12, 2008: Behold this, the new all-encompassing Label Group Overview Portal. Rebuilding, yes. The links above (oooh, mysterious) will actually work soon.
"Detailed" announcements will be posted on the blog of news from now on. Subscribe via RSS, maybe?
Issued today: Kowloon II "Cotton Candy Curtains" through A Beard of Snails and Prester "Prester and Friends" through d'Oorhinge Mandarine. Things have been going slowly as of late (financial woes, you know), but it looks like at least a couple more long awaited items will be able to be finished and released over the next few weeks. Shopping here would help us a lot.
Kowloon II "Cotton Candy Curtains" Seven "fake vintage synth" improvisations.
Cherry Creepage / Nufenen "Split" Riot-inducing no-fi raves and slow minimalist bovine rock.
6majik9 "Black Sattva" Freeform freakouts and druggy jams from the MYMWLY crew.
Monks of the Balhill / A Man & A Guitar "Beyond the Map" French desert-folk at its finest/weirdest.
AUGUST 26, 2008:
Uton + Dreamers Cloth + Kæzm
Literaturhaus, CPH
Click here for more Uton/Kulkija European tour dates 8/23/08 - 8/31/08
CD-Rs from Conger Eel, Mette Mareridt, Rough Ride of Crafts & Inhibitionists, We Wait for the Snow; more to be confirmed.
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MySpace
Prester "Prester and Friends" 3" CD-R A miniature machine park of experimental/tuneful bliss.
Le Panda Bleme et le Lolicocks "Clack Black" Idiosyncratic electronica/art - youthfully supersonic.
Konrad Korabiewski "Stateless" Avant electronic dance/pop music for techno-happy fiends and interstellar drone buffs alike.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008:
sfu·ma·to + many others
Århus Festuge, Somwhere in Århus
NOVEMBER 1, 2008:
Konrad Korabiewski + many others
Wundergrund Festival, Somewhere in CPH
CD-Rs from Land Equivalents and The Original Beekeepers; 3" CD-Rs from Funny Art Collective (feat. Bjørn Svin), Manipulator Alligator and Rimacona; late 2008-2009 will solely be devoted to vinyl releases (artists to be confirmed.)
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Younolovebunny "Albummet der ændrede verden" Charmingly eccentric and eclectic lo-fi rock/pop.
Body Lotion and the Bloody Hands "Screamfest" Humourous anti-twee horror-pop for bloody dancefloors.
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A CD-R reissue of the first EP from The Dear Elaines ("Sky Baby Conquest, Perhaps") as well as the "Don't Quit Your Holiday Job" 2 CD-R compilation. After the aforementioned centrepiece, WoH! will be release another 7 CD-Rs throughout 2008-2009, before taking a very long break, in order to assess our future...
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v/a: Vinyl Beards 12" LP feat. Sea Zombies, We Wait for the Snow / throuRoof, Cones, Family Battle Snake / Sarah's Charity, Donato Epiro / Vanessa Rossetto, Shiggajon, The End Springs / A Man & A Guitar, Fabio Orsi / Valerio Cosi
v/a: Vinyl Snails 12" LP feat. more fantasmic collaborations... we're psyched (again!)
Official site
v/a: "Au revoir, 3S3TA" A mini-collection of new material from the artists featured on the previous five 3S3TA discs. Dreamy, dark, psychedelic...
It's all over now, baby blue.
Some of you may know that The BSBTA Label Group crawled out of the womb of, and proceeded to slowly devour Bloated Sasquatch Beer Theatre Audio circa late 2006. (For those of you who don't know, Bloated Sasquatch Beer Theatre Audio was a record label that existed from early 2000 to late 2006, releasing 109 CDs and CD-Rs.)
The BSBTA Label Group itself is not a record label, but an umbrella organisation, distributor, and spiritual guide for a number of genre-specific and/or format-specific micro labels (see above.) And while the Label Group name and "concept" may carry corporate connotations, this is all very much underground. It is a common misconception that said labels are "BSBTA sub-labels". BSBTA itself is no longer a label (no shit, Shirley Locke); each label is independent, while, of course, retaining strong ties with their common roots. Or something like that.
Based out of Copenhagen, Denmark ("CPH" to hipsters), the Label Group and its labels are 99% of the time run by one person, often referred to as "us", "we" or "our" (bands often help with the packaging of their own releases.) Here is a "label" spotlight courtesy of the impeccable Foxy Digitalis e-zine.
If you wish to contact any of our labels, or The BSBTA Label Group in general, please do so by e-mailing bsbta at bsbta dot com
...I'll try to get back to you in two minutes or two months, or somewhere in between. Chances are I did receive your e-mail, and am beating myself up for not having answered you yet.
The BSBTA Label Group MySpace page is here, but I rarely log in. Add ABoS, MySpace or WoH! instead. Please send an e-mail rather than a MySpace message.
Did someone say "demo policy?" A Beard of Snails (psych/drone/improv) and Workaholics on Holiday! (indie pop/lo-fi/twee) are currently open to hearing from artists, while d'Oorhinge (shoegaze/ambient/electronic) is not. Please visit the respective label's site for info on how to submit music for release consideration. At any rate, I will not be able to get back to you if I feel your music does not fit in on any of my labels, but I thank you in advance for your interest all the same.
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