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Do any of you guys know of any bands, labels, or production techniques that are noteworthy in terms of their eco-friendliness or eco-mindedness, but yet are not absolutely terrible to listen to? By terrible to listen to, I mean like crystal-fetish new age asshole music.

The only thing I can think of is recycled packaging materials, specially paper pulp, which is pretty common among all sorts of music styles. Perhaps there is a band that is passionate about these sorts of things?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2002/03/25/bono-sting.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

bands that don't use any amplification of any kind, and play in fields.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

drum circles, basically.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

I only listen to bands who utilize solar amps.

― p.j. (Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

If you're into the heavy and the fast, check out Uwharria. They actually bill themselves as Eco-Grind.

http://www.slavemagazine.com/uwharria
http://www.duke.edu/~kwmac/uwharria/uwharria.htm

― Mackey, Friday, 7 January 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about trying to find a 100% waste based source for the flat pieces of plastic that I'm going to cut records on. Any thoughts?

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

old shitty records from the thrift store?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Many bar bands conserve songs by playing only covers.

― Pangolino again, Friday, 7 January 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

'right hpencil, but the lathe only cuts 6" discs so i need a material i can cut stuff out of

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

melt 'em down in the oven!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

or in like a natural fire-baked kiln.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

and make a mould?

that is intriguing?

how easy is it to melt vinyl?

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c011/c011930rmw8.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 January 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

it can't be that hard, considering you can fix warps in your oven.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

"mould"

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

REM's Green album was available in a limited edition recycled paper sleeve ... completely missing the point.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 7 January 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

I think digi-packs are eco-friendly.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

I think REM claim to be eco-friendly, but they released some limited edition box sets a few years ago made of some rare wood... fools!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Slightly different version of eco-friendly music releases: for every copy of Pulp's "We Love Life" that was purchased, a small amount money (unsure how much) went into planting trees to offset the damage done manufacturing copies of the album.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Not completely clear what you mean by "not absolutely terrible to listen to." ..as they are not windchimes and recorders, but otherwise they are not all that listenable either:

-Jackson Browne
-Don Henley

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I really like those rough-look recycled cardboard digipacks. They do all sort of look the same though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

polyphonic: Well, if you get all your music from Kazaa, there's no packaging at all, is there?

LSD: How about AOL discs?

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/covers/judjud_demos.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

True but pointless anecdote. Years ago, I was working as editor of an animal welfare-related magazine. I received an (unsolicited) record review that included the following pronouncement: "The problem with most vegan hardcore bands is that they focus on the message to the detriment of the music."

Now.

I had been, up to that point, blissfully unaware that there were enough vegan hardcore bands to make the phrase "most vegan hardcore bands" even meaningful. Let alone the notion that there were enough of them for them to have a problem in common.

So I wrote back to the reviewer and asked whether there were other niche musics that I was missing out on, for example: Macrobiotic disco. Carnivorous reggae. Ovo-lacto polkas. Fruitarian flamenco. Etcetera.

In retrospect, it was pretty snotty of me. But sadly, the young fellow didn't get it, and answered quite earnestly in his effort to educate me about how robust and thriving the "vegancore" scene was.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Afterthought: while I had a juvenile kind of fun disparaging that long-ago person, I really don't wish to bust polyphonic's chops--I wish I could help, and I do applaud the intention.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

There's always the DIY "hippie punk" scene. The CDs most of those bands sell are usually in clear plastic sleeves, not jewel cases, and have very little printed material. They usually screenprint tshirt designs on shirts they buy from thrift stores or use union-made t-shirts. They're generally vegans, live in communal housing, a lot of the time using all sorts of methods of sustainable living. Plan-it-X Records http://www.plan-it-x.com is the main label I think.

― mat, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

probably falls in the "terrible to listen to" category, but:

Pearl Jam arrange for trees to be planted proportionate to the environmental impact of the recording, manufacture and selling of their record and also to account for the touring and performance of it.

Totally honorable. Hope they're still doing this... I know it started when they collaborated with Neil Young on Mirrorball... as that was just exactly what i was into then.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

YOU CAN FIX WARPS in the OVEN? Really? How?

― Off Topic, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Orbital recorded "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head" with a mobile solar generator.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 8 January 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

YOU CAN FIX WARPS in the OVEN? Really? How?

I would like to know the same thing, hpencil.

― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 8 January 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

(sorry I couldn't resist)

― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 8 January 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

I never throw CDs away, so I'm doing my part.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 8 January 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Dave Matthews Band.

Oh wait...

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 9 January 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

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