Igloo-Magazine sits down with RecordLabelRecords founder Robbie Martin for what was intended to be a short to the point interview but turned into a historical overview on RLR's beginnings  

"RecordLabelRecords‘ own Robbie Martin (aka Fluorescent Grey) takes the Five questions spotlight to new levels with an in-depth historical overview of the label and its spawning. Central RLR theme’s generally hover around “layers of custom-cut sounds, derailed electronics, distorted audio warfare and a virtual smorgasbord of unique electro-acoustic fragments.” - Igloo Mag

"Igloo Magazine :: When did RecordLabelRecords start up and what was your inspiration?

Robbie Martin (RLR) :: RecordLabelRecords technically started back in 1996, as a pseudo umbrella ‘label’ for a self-released track rap parody album I made with a friend riffing off of Coil’s Scatology. At the time, I was trying to discover all this weird music using AOL, pre web browsing, mailing lists and usenet (alt.noise, rec.music.ambient). I then met Kush Arora by typing in ‘noise’ into the music genre profile search in AOL and we struck up a friendship after I discovered that he lived 20 minutes away (and still lived with his parents and was in high school as was I).

I think the Coil mailing list itself was probably the way I discovered most of the music I grew to love like Scorn and Autechre. Brainwashed was just starting up at that time, but by the end of my ‘tenure’ on the list (after the rap parody and my friend and I trolling the list under different aliases), I had already burned several bridges including that of the guy who runs Brainwashed and who ran the old Coil list (who still won’t talk to me 15 years later). I will admit I was a cocky 17 year old who lived in a suburban town where I was the only person my age within a ten mile radius who had heard of these obscure musicians. From Coil’s association with Nurse with Wound, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV I had fallen in love with their jarring and psychedelic sounds. Aside from being a chin scratching elitist who didn’t care to have many friends in my home town, I was what most people would describe as straight edge. I had never smoked weed, nor cigarettes, hadn’t done acid, mushrooms or even alcohol. Music like Coil vs Elph Worship the Glitch put me into states that made me feel outside of myself"

Continue Reading 5 Questions with RecordLabelRecords at Igloo-Mag

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A lot of these reviews come courtesy of excellent web-zine, Igloo-Mag which has been showing a lot of love to RecordLabelRecords as of late, as well as the East-bay Express (local oakland free newspaper kinda like the Stranger) and Cyclic Defrost out of Australia. Many thanks to Pietro De Sacco, Philippe Blache, Jus Forrest, Wyatt Lawton-Masi, 

Tomoroh Hidari - Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes ***2xLP Vinyl limited 250 copies*** 

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Kossak - You Forgot to Kick it 

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Dalglish - Benacah Drann Deachd

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wAgAwAgA - Midnight Sampler

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Mike Dunkley - Corpus Clock 

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upcoming releases for 2012: 


Tomoroh Hidari - Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes ***2xLP Vinyl limited 250 copies*** APRIL
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Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes - An Album Preview 



Nommo Ogo - Endless Dream  **2xLP Vinyl limited 250 copies** JUNE
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Nommo Ogo - Awaken from the upcoming 2xLP 'Endless Dream' on RecordLabelRecords


Fluorescent Grey - Ambiente   **3xCD normal edition limited 100 copies**  
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***limited edition of 10 inside 10"x10" painting by Abby Martin*** MAY 
Coming Soon: Pre-Order special edition of 10 with painting, prices starting at $65



Daglish - Venonyn  **12" Vinyl limited 250 copies** JUNE
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Dalglish - Venonyn EP  Preview Upcoming, Limited to 250 copies 12" vinyl on RecordLabelRecords


Voice Of Eye / Thomas Dimuzio - The Unveiling Of Darkness    CD/Digital  APRIL
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Previews Coming Soon! 

The 3rd entry into RecordLabelRecords SEGA series is Brian E's long awaited Dusty Cart album. Featuring 10 tracks of metallic tinged buzzy pop music for imaginary Sega Gensis videogames.
Check out our previous entries in the SEGA series on the Downloads tab above.  Download / Stream Dusty Cart by Brian E here 

  

THE CREMATION OF CARE V/A  featuring exclusive live tracks from Xanopticon, Wisp, Terminal 11, Kush Arora, RMS, Fluorescent Grey, Brian E, Exillon, Thee Source Ov Fawnation, Identity Theft, Scuzi, William S. Braintree
Recordings were done by Brian Albers using a stereo room mic mixed with direct board input.  
The Cremation of Care was a 2 day festival for RecordLabelRecorsds at our very own underground venue in Oakland, CA called ZOOL 
$15 (us) $20 (intl) gets you a Cremation of Care Tshirt  Listen / Buy  here 

new RecordLabelRecords CD release, 'Banacah Drann Deachd' by Dalglish was rated in a top 3 chart by none other than the Caretaker aka Leyland James Kirby for Boomkat.com

Go here to see the Boomkat charts and links to what else the Caretaker recommended

wAgAwAgA  'Midnight Sampler'  Digital LP  

 
Coming Soon........
wAgAwAgA - vArAnAsi pujA (from the upcoming 'Midnight Sampler' LP) by Fluorescent Grey

2 new free downloadable releases by RecordLabelRecords. Put the amount of 0.00 $ to access the files for free. 

Candle Labra - Live @ Zool++  Candle Labra's debut album after mysteriously appearing on the RRRecords 500 locked grooves compilation in 1997 and on the most recent 'Drinking the Goat's Blood' compilation. He drops a strange set of a acoustic modeled synthesis experiments. He explicted wanted me to write that 'no samples or real sounds were used in the making of this album, it's not really a live album either' 


Fluorescent Grey - Fibrous Emerald Tendrils Part 1-4 
4 part series of unreleased/unfinished/scrapped/neglected Fluorescent Grey works from 2002-2007