Not Not Fun records (NNF) - S&D / C or D -- have it

Okay I couldn't find a thread on this LA label, so here it is. Tons of stuff and most are very limited. I have only heard a handful (well maybe a couple handfuls) of bands. help search/destroy this label

search:
Goslings - Occasion
Eternal Tapestry - The Invisible Landscape
Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
I'm thinking about adding the new GNOD too. But not just yet

also search
Magic Lantern - High Beams!

don't know alot of their output, but i love the u.s. girls single they released.

search: Christina Carter/Pocahaunted split LP

God, Heavy Deeds so good. On Patrol is good, too.

I have this little teenage friend with a bunch of old nnf tapes. I should call him & ask him what up.

s: inca ore - birthday of bless you

i like that changeling tape and the yellow swans/ex-cocaine split LP. my friends S3X WORK3R and PSYCH1C REAL1TY put out LPs on NNF last year, and they're good!

Search: these BEAUTIFULLY-done "Bored Fortress" 7"s I have

xpost my friends BL4NK R3ALM also recently put out an lp on NNF

Psychic Reality/LA Vampires split is pure shit. Didn't they put out one of the Dolphins Into the Future LPs, too? Terrible, regardless of label.

Blank Realm LP was pretty good; cassette EP was better, I thought. That Topping Bottoms cassette was fantastic. Sun Araw, Magic Lantern, (new) Pocahaunted, plenty of Raccoo-oo-oon, Wet Hair, etc. = Search. Plenty more where that came from, too. Great label.

I kinda dug that Dolphins Into The Future LP. It was nice. 2nd the Pocahaunted/C. Carter & Swans/Ex-Cocaine recs, though the latter mostly for the ex cocaine side. totally underrated band.

Re: Dolphins, I just can't get into anything/much of anything in that whole Skaters biosphere. I dunno.

huh, I didn't think it was a skaters related project, nor does it sound much like them... i dunno though. so much of that stuff is willfully obscure. i did like the secret abuse stuff too.

i think it sounds like a lot like james ferraro's solo stuff. and i fucking love almost every skaters side project i've come across, as well as that dolphins into the future lp. hard to imagine why anyone wouldn't like it tbh

nnf is sometimes a good label, but sorta spotty too

Blank Realm LP was pretty good; cassette EP was better, I thought.

Initially i was like nahhh - But yuh clean shoes, fuck so dope. I know that this stuff was recorded baot 1.5 yrs ago too, fyi.

They sound more like Van Halen now

one of my favorite labels...although I agree on the Psychic Reality/LA Vampires thing. There's one LA Vampires song that is pretty dope tho.

Sun Araw is pretty much the best. New Heather Leigh LP is great. My Estrogeneration comp is kinda spotty, but when it hits, it hits hard. Secret Abuse and Social Junk LPs are fantastic.

Oh, Barn Owl too. Although it seems they're doing a lot of their stuff with Digitalis and Root Strata now.

Word on that Heather Leigh reissue. So good. Just got my Magic Lantern LP and 7", too. Hot DAMN, search it out. Wow. Much better than the new Sun Araw.

yes, ex-cocaine are so underrated. that side is a bomb

Placed and received a mail-order, recently. When it arrived, it had a bonus CD-r which I hadn't ordered and of which I've never heard. It was in a black jewel case. Written on the front in what looked like white out were the words "EARTH MASTERS." Six tracks, about 15 minutes long. Sounds, uh...like a Not Not Fun release. Lo-fi, outre psych-folk...Pacific NW-y. I dunno. Anybody have any fucking idea what this thing is?

the sun araw is da best summer music eva. temperature, sunniness and humidity are directly proportional to how much you enjoy it.

xp: I ordered the new Magic Lantern stuff recently, and I didn't get anything cool like a cdr, but what I did get was a fucking empty Raccoo-oo-oon lp cover. You gotta be shitting me.

I also got the insert from Wet Hair's Dream, which featured a "Recorded in December 2012" typo (well, I assume it's a typo...?). But I don't really care about that. I just wanna know what the fuzz them tunes are.

Of note: In the past, I have received many random inserts, empty sleeves, a test pressing of the new Blank Realm LP, and a sleeveless Odd Clouds LP. Oh, and they once sent me all of their then nearly OOP cassettes because something I ordered wasn't in stock. Can't say that I really needed an Expensive Shit cassette, but what are you going to do? Not just send me back my $5, I guess.

to be fair; they also send stuff out that never reaches its destination. happened couple of times with me and a friend. not so rad

I thought I'd post this here, since most of his music is on this label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KplSAorI5Dk

Sun Araw kills it! Related in some way to Magic Lantern, I think - but I don't follow those details quite as closely as I should.

Yeah, he and the guitarist behind him (William Giacchi, i believe) are in Magic Lantern.

been meaning to check him out. if that's what his album sounds like i can live without

i can do without as well..bawring

That Neil Young cover is not indicative to what most of his music sounds like. Check out anything from Heavy Deeds or Beach Head. But if that clip annoyed you, maybe just pass on him all together. Better yet, just listen to Magic Lantern.

Magic Lantern > Sun Araw

Fewer releases = greater quality control.

Not Not Fun is my favorite current record label. Even their not so good releases are worth hearing once or twice. Anyway, whoever said that the Psychic Reality/LA Vampires split LP is pure shit is fucked in the head. That's easily one of the best releases of '10 so far, from any label. Some crazy beats, rhythms, and samples going on in that one.

Also, while I generally prefer Sun Araw to Magic Lantern, I must admit that Platoon is better than On Patrol. Both are fine albums, though.

Vibes, "Psychic"

I will go to Hell/my grave before having anything good to say about that Psychic Reality/LA Vampires split, but it's all good. To each, his/her own. I just...oh, man, I hated it. Can't love 'em all, right?

Yeah, I suppose so. I'm also clearly biased, since I'll automatically devour anything associated with Amanda Brown.

Anyway, the NNF website has announced that another Bored Fortress 7" series will be dropped sometime within the next few months. As I missed out on the last few, I could not be more psyched for this.

anyone else pick up the latest batch? this new Umberto is the best thing I've heard from NNF this year.
http://www.midheaven.com/products/p/114795/images/6550358212140_main.jpg

ha i was just looking at all the new releases theyve got - really interested in the 'new age outlaws' rerelease

best nnf release ive heard this year is the outer limits recordings lp which manages to walk the pretty/ugly divide really well & still sound p fresh/interesting.

tons of this label's records are "heavily recommended" in the weekly roundups from the aquarius records and volcanic tounge record-shops.

that new age outlaws record is beyond naff, could it be any more zeitgeist baiting cringey? look at the fucking cover

saw wet hair last night & they were amazing. first i'd ever heard them and for some reason i was expecting noize (& they were billed w aids wolf who now only have one guitarist extreme noise terror), so happy when they started playing and it was all groovy organ melodies & cool jams

thanks for that umberto/argento/carpenter/goblin hint. very likeable.

yeah this umberto is cool. first track just went from giant squelching psych to creepy squelching disco. totally was not expecting that

dig the umberto, but after one listen, it seems like a bit of a step down from the first one. check it if you like the NNF lp.

that new age outlaws record is beyond naff, could it be any more zeitgeist baiting cringey? look at the fucking cover

looooool. 'beyond naff' kinda completely the point? lol

Forgot to mention that I got a 1989 Jeff Robinson sportflics card with my last order.

This thread is almost impossible to search for! ("not" gets stopworded out and there are 5000 threads about fun)

Which of this year's output so far is classic? I've raved about the Peaking Lights album elsewhere, but I haven't heard much else from NNF. And then there's the 100% Silk stuff, about which I know nothing...

Pointers please!

Yeah, 936 is great. I'm also a Maria Minerva stan, but I really haven't heard much else from NNF this year.

I listened to the Maria Minerva once and it didn't make much of an impression, might check it out again.

Currently listening to the Xander Harris album (lol 90s ephemera)...it's Italo horror pastiche in the vein of Umberto, certainly not bad but hardly essential on first listen.

Reissue of Barn Owl "From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light." Yeah it's a reissue BUT COME ON PEOPLE. Also reissue of early Blues Control tape "Riverboat Styx." Ensemble Economique LP is really good, more on the weird rather than pop end. Dylan Ettinger is either gonna click with you or not, but he is one of the more "definitive" NNF artists right now - definitely worth exploring if you haven't heard anything. The NNF dance 12" sub-label, 100% Silk has been making some interesting moves. Looks like a Rangers 2xLP is on the horizon...stoked for that.

I liked the Ettinger album from last year ok...the Lion of Judah single/EP/??? seemed less interesting.

love this label

xp Tallinn at Dawn is better than the newer one Cabaret Cixous, but I think you'd like the 100% Silk 12" she did best of all (named "Noble Savage").

cool, will check out.

This is nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7beoB7mU288

PEDRO MAGINA '1985' ON NNF TAPES GET THAT SHIT IS STELLAR BRO FUKKEN INTERSTELLAR

also the jonas reinhardt album is p good and the cursory listen ive given sand circles 'midnight crimes' was ~approving~ but man that pedro magina tape is a jam imo

Pedor Magina seconded. I forgot that was NNF.

love this label

yes

the cough cool and swanox tapes are great too. need to check out the pedro mangina

apparently in the near future they are doing a tape by rites wild who are local and really, really great

the rite wild girl still owes me a tape!!!

dang. i assume u already have the download of her EP?

no i dont id actually kinda forgotten that she was supposed to send me that tape until you mentioned them and was like oh yeah

get it http://riteswild.bandcamp.com/album/rites-wild-ep-2011

To channel my 10-month-ago self, what's been good this year? Feels to me like a lot of NNF stuff has been going back over familiar territory, the ones I liked best are

Cruise Family - We're in Heaven
Sand Circles - Motor City
Dylan Ettinger - Lifetime of Romance

Don't think they're especially recent, but I have been enjoying NNF stuff from Cankun and also Holy Strays (both French guys I think). That Sand Circles is pretty good too!

Hadn't even heard of those guys, will check out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_1PTUPM8k

Amanda Brown's enthusiasm for her own label is incredible, at the 100% Silk showcase I attended she was going positively wild at the front of the crowd while everybody else, even the folk on stage, seemed completely static.

There is so much stuff from this label, it can't all be brilliant surely? And yet, I've enjoyed most of everything I've heard from it.

There is so much stuff from this label, it can't all be brilliant surely?

Without a doubt, there are some stinkers from nnf.

Haven't really paid attention to what they've released this year. I'll check out what you guys recommend for sure.

Tail end of last year rather than 2012, but Sapphire Slows "True Breath" is my favourite of the poppier NNFs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbqQYlCYy5U

Very excited about the upcoming Umberto LP, in the meantime I've been playing this a lot:

http://assets.boomkat.com/images/649543/333.jpg

RIYL Dylan Ettinger, scuzzy synth jams, non-soundtracks.

have been listening to that sand circles album loads. andy stott was raving about it on facebook, he should do a remix!

quite like the jonas reinhardt album but the blatant and not obviously tongue-in-cheek silver apples ripoff is slightly baffling

which one is that?

title track on the newie

oh yeah, totally rips the melody from the flame is its own reflection.

New Sapphire Slows album up now on spotify, some deliciously woozy synth jams on that thing

Yeah it's great. Not sure that I prefer it to the last one, but yeah.