Suggest AWESOME albums from lesser-known indie labels affected by the SonyDADC/PIAS fire

So that we can support them through digital purchases.

The full list of labels distributed by Pias is as follows:

1234

2020 Vision

Accidental

Ad Altiora

Adventures Close to home

Alberts

All City

Alt Delete

Ambush Reality

Angular

Ark

ATC

Atic

Atlantic Jaxx

Azuli

B Unique

Backyard

Bad Sneakers

Bandstock

Banquet

Beggars

Big Chill

Big Dada

Big Life / Nul / Sindy Stroker

Boombox

Border Community

Boysnoize

Brille

Bronzerat

Brownswood

Buzzin Fly

Can You Feel It

Catskills

ChannelFly

Chemikal Underground

City Rockers

Counter

D Cypher

Dance To The Radio

Deceptive

Def Jux

Dirtee Stank

Divine Comedy

Domino

Drag City

Drive Thru

Drowned in Sound

Duophonic

Eat Sleep / Sorepoint

Electric Toaster

Emfire

F. Comm

Fabric

Faith And Hope

Fantastic Plastic

Fargo

FatCat

Feraltone

Finders Keepers / Twisted Nerve

Fingerlickin'

Flock

Free Range

From The Basement

Full Time Hobby

Goldsoul

Gronland

Groove Attack

Halftime

Hassle

Heron

Hum&Haw;Independiente

Info UK

Join Us

Kartel

Kensaltown

Kitsune

Kompakt

Laughing Stock

Leftroom

Lex

Lo Max

Loose

Love Box

Lowlife

Lucky Number

Marquis Cha Cha

Memphis Industry

Merok

Metroline

Mute

Naïve

Nation

Navigator

New World

Ninja Tune

Nuclear Blast

One Little Indian

Output / People in the Sky / Process

Pale Blue

Palm

Peacefrog

PIAS Recordings

PIP 555 Productions

Play To Work

Powerhouse (T2)

Propaganda / Ho Hum

Raw Canvas

Red Grape

Red Telephone Box

Rekids

Renaissance

Respect Productions (PES digital)

Reveal Records

RMG

Rock Action

Roots

Rough Trade

Rough Trade Comps

Rubyworks

Ruffa Lane

Search And Destroy

Secret Sundaze

Secretly Canadian / Jagjaguwar / Dead Oceans

Sell Yourself

Setanta

Shatterproof

Sideone Dummy

Slam Dunk

Smalltown

Soma

Something In Construction

Sonar Kollectiv

Soul Jazz

Southern Fried

Stranded Soldier

Subliminal

Sunday Best

TARGO

Taste

Ten Worlds

Thrill Jockey

Total Fitness

Touch And Go

Track And Field

TriTone

Trouble

Try Harder

Turk

Turnstile

Twenty 20

Underworld

Union Square

Urban Torque

Vagrant

Vice

Victory

Wagram

Wall Of Sound

Warp

Wi45

Wonky Atlas

Word And Sound

Xtra Mile

You Are Here

Ok, so I don’t know but a handful of these labels. The ones I can recognize are relatively high profile and have at least one massive seller under their belts (like Domino, Drag City, etc.), so while I’m sure they’ll be impacted, it won’t be nearly as bad as for some of these smaller guys.

Do you know any particularly AWESOME albums released by any of the lesser-known labels? I’m thinking that maybe it would be cool to just put together a list so that posers like me could try and track down a couple albums on itunes or other digital format in the near future.

I mean like "Boombox, Border Community, Boysnoize, Brille, Bronzerat"? I don't know what the fuck and I probably wouldn't glance at them twice. But maybe you do know what the fuck and we could help boost sales for these artists who could be getting hit pretty hard by this.

― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Pretty much everything on Soul Jazz is amazing.

― polyphonic, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Rock action is mogwai's label and they've put out good stuff by errors,envy,part chimp,James orr complex,remember remember etc.

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Cool, let's hear some more!

― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Jagjaguwar has some Richard Youngs albums, don't they? You can't go wrong with him.

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:34 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

Sorry...

I can wholeheartedly recommend James Holden's The Idiots Are Winning on Border Community. Sort of blissful, quirky, melodic house and techno that is ideal for headphones and odd dancefloors.

On Rock Action, you cannot go wrong - as Jim says - with Thriller by Part Chimp, a superior stoner rock album.

Soul Jazz is an amazing label. The recent Invasion Of The Mysteron Killer Sound comps by Kevin Martin and Stuart Baker are both great. For reggae fans - Jackie Mittoo The Keyboard King Of Studio One, 100% and 300% Dynamite, Studio One Rockers and Reggae Disco are just some of the blinders they've released. Elsewhere Saturday Night Fish Fry and New Orleans Soul and Funk, their Louisiana primers are great.

I'm really partial to Lights Out Zoltar or anything else by UK singer songwriter Gemma Ray on Bronzerat.

Can't recommend Well Hung and Tandy Love's Turk Jerk, Sam Spence Sounds and Pommegranates on Finders Keepers.

Jane Weaver's The Fallen By Watchbird on Bird is also great.

Will try and think of some more.

The first two parts of Oneida's Thank Your Parents trilogy on JagJag and both Besnard Lakes albums.

Awesome! See, this is all so much greek to me. But I'll definitely try and track a couple of these down next payday.

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=14230

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B001FZCZQQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

really feel for artists who were about to release their new albums, which would have been destroyed - toddla t, little dragon and mara carlyle off the top of my head

I've got a feeling the neo-shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral may hang in the balance because of this so a recent album is Sarabeth Tucek's Get Well Soon. Yeti Lane by Yeti Lane is really good indie pop if that's your bag. Check the song Lonesome George.

XP That Fly Girls album is mint. There are literally too many good Soul Jazz albums to mention but yeah, that's great.

My favourite compilation of about a year ago is the superb proto-synth pop anthology Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics vol 1. And the reissue of Thriller by Ruth is awesome as well if you like Cold Wave.

that's their full roster but don't we not really have knowledge of what labels were affected or not yet other than the specific couple mentioned in the initial article

How do you mean? I know the people who run Sonic Cathedral and Angular for example and they are fucked.

Even if they get insurance money they're going to miss out on getting all the albums they had planned for the rest of the year pressed and that will mean closure if they're on the bread line.

from whatever i'd read i'd come away with the impression pias has multiple warehouses and not all labels or all-of-a-particular label were in the one destroyed, dunno.

Where did you read that? They had one warehouse that was full and that is now gone. They now have another temporary warehouse but literally no stock to put in it.

Fair enough if you've got some info that I haven't but you're coming across as a bit snide. Where's your info sourced from?

more albums. less rumors. this thread operates under the assumption that these labels entire UK stock was depleted.

I just want to add one more thing because I've spent all day batting back these snide insinuations. One quite pathetic accusation, via Twitter, came from Alec Empire, who should know better. Insurance covers all albums at cost price not sale price which means that on average few of the labels will earn any profit this year.

This will spell the end for some of the smaller indies. And this isn't about having a row on the internet. I dearly love to be proved wrong.

Anyway, with that I'd say:

Alexander Tucker - Dorwytch (Thrill Jockey)
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike (Memphis Industries)
Various - Nice Up The Dance (Soul Jazz)
Various - Rumble In The Jungle (Soul Jazz)
Jean Claude Vanier - L'ENFANT ASSASSIN DES MOUCHES (Soul Jazz)

Nina Nastasia - Outlaster (Fat Cat)
Nina Nastasia - Run To Ruin (Touch And Go)
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch And Go)

Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy (Drag City)

Obviously some of these labels are American and won't feel the pinch anywhere near as much...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Recitation-Envy/dp/B003ZUV93Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1313008792&sr=1-1 Rock Action version. It's on TRL in the US (Where I got my vinyl from)

I've got a feeling the neo-shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral may hang in the balance because of this so a recent album is Sarabeth Tucek's Get Well Soon

Lovely release, this, so yeah, pick it up and enjoy.

for the big ones:

Search And Destroy: Warp Records

best warp records album

and a bunch more.

ninja tune - gotta rep for cougar 'patriot'

soul jazz - oh man, everything

dvd labels hurting too

buy this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0051URX0Y/ref=s9_simh_gw_p74_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1DH1PJQJT32QJRGD1V54&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

I work over at Kompakt and was truly touched by The Quietus by including "Nah Und Fern" however must clarify the following.

Many may not realize this, however Kompakt distributes over 100 different labels worldwide. We worked with PIAS in the UK up until about 18 months ago with a number of these labels.

Though we did have stock from a number of our exclusive labels that apparently was lost in this horrendous fire, compared to what so many labels are going through right now, its a minor setback.

We have also published on our website a full statement.
http://www.kompakt.fm/blog/R9FdV0STiwsT

Please support these great labels and again, thanks to The Quietus for providing a very thoughtful means to do so!

Kompakt

Yeah, we amended the piece to reflect all this information as soon as we received it. There was a lot of confusion within 12 hours of the fire happening and we had to amend the piece as regards two labels after they got back to us the following day. We changed Nuclear Blast who no longer have any dealings with PIAS but left Kompakt with a disclaimer because some of their labels have been affected.

We simply ask people to use their own discretion when choosing labels. A good rule of thumb is the smaller the label the more likely it is they'll need help but keep on checking news outlets, more information is arriving all the time.

Mr Oizo - Moustache (half a scissor)

the Lucky Soul album 'A coming of age' on ruffa lane is a total gem

the recent albums by Mazes and Milk Maid on Fatcat are both favourites from this year

gronland did all the recent Neu! reissues

re: Soul Jazz, New Thing! is one of my very favorite compilations ever

These New Puritans - Hidden
I Like Trains - Elegies To Lessons Learned
Earl Brutus - Tonight You Are The Special One
Brett Anderson - Black Rainbows
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
The Bug - London Zoo
Tinariwen - Imidiwan
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Alan Moore - Unearthing
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Mogwai - Special Moves

It sounds like Lauren Laverne is exclusively playing music from affected labels right now. Good on her.

The forthcoming Toddla T album is very good, and the track Streets So Warm is eerily riot-appropriate.

I've got a feeling the neo-shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral may hang in the balance because of this so a recent album is Sarabeth Tucek's Get Well Soon

Just heard a song off this - sounds lovely. Might go for that one.

i bought that one, but I havent listened to it yet

It sounds like Lauren Laverne is exclusively playing music from affected labels right now. Good on her.

Yeah, they need all the PRS they can get, right?

If it encourages people to buy the albums then it's a good thing. I mean, speaking as a music fan, anything that encourages people to support interesting, small labels is a good thing normally. But under these circumstances it's even more.

So yeah, good on her.

Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwuar recently released a statement saying that they are pretty much alright because their stock wasn't centrally housed there.

WARP have lost everything. Beggars/4AD 3/4 million CDs/records.

Now would be a really really good time for those Warp heavy hitters BOC and AFX to pull their fingers out and deliver their new albums; I think either of those would instantly save the label?

Fuck. Excellent point... Damn... talk about a silver lining...

Karen, please remove Mr. Twin from your vagina so he can get back to work.

De Stijl records isn't on the list up top, but I know that they were affected in this loss. Lots of great records on that label, including
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets: Dost
Wet Hair: In Vogue Spirit
Parasites of The Western World: s/t

He's working very hard in my vagina. he's recording the entire new album on one of these:

http://www.sixtiescity.com/SciFilm/Images/SF083.jpg

"DON'T WORRY WARP, I WILL SAVE YOU!!!"

I've been smiling about that photo all day

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArWCHu2wAZl6dFVqd1EybjMweWo3LWhhYV80Q1VGQ2c&hl=en_GB#gid=0

Somebody is making an awesome spreadsheet.

I bought that Sarabeth Tucek, by the way Doran. Sad as fuck! (but awesome)

bump

buzzin' fly have lost their complete back catalogue as have ninja tune.
each label have stated that many of the more obscure parts of the catalogue will never get repressed
the forthcoming dj food album which was due out in next few weeks has been delayed until 2012

wait, what? there's a forthcoming dj food album?

what's a good record on Buzzin' Fly?

dj food album : done and dusted. in the can. mastered. artwork completed etc.

was until this week top of my want list for 2011.

I actually broke out Kaleidoscope recently. It's been holding strong as one of my favorite records since it came out.

buzzin' fly : tough one.

if you like their style of house/techno, then its all good.
the compilations are all good starting points, but my fave is volume 4, and the justin martin mixes are both highly recommended.

then again, the 3 cd boxset is a good entry level package.

of the non-dance spin off label, strange feelings, i really like the figurines and tigercity ep.

the figurines : epic multi layered pop
tigercity : miami vice era 80s drama pop

however, my fave is the debut by "Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia" : lovely ambient electronic pop.

In response to the Finders Keepers/Twisted Nerve/Bird/Battered Ormnaments stock loss in the PIAS warehouse fires caused by rioting on August 8th a few of our close label mates have come together to compile some of their favourite moments from the Finders Keepers family discography. A series of 10 limited edition CD and MP3 compilations curated by the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Demdike Stare, David Holmes and Gruff Rhys including some exclusive and unreleased tracks are now ready to order directly from the website and like minded retailers in a bid to ease us back onto our feet releasing phantastic obscure and obselete music as soon as possible.

For the next five months we will present 10 limited edition albums (one every 2 weeks) kindly compiled by B-Music stalwarts and friends, including Jarvis Cocker, Demdike Stare, David Holmes and Gruff Rhys (amongst others) choosing their favourite songs from our expansive catalogue, as well as featuring exclusive songs, edits and remixes.

These compilations will be available in a number of ways...

* Each volume will be availabe for £5 through the Finders Keepers online shop (as well as all good record shops) OR
* Each volume will be availabe digitally for £4.45 from our download shop (as well as all good digital outlets) OR
* A volume of your choice will be added free to every order over £25 (depending on availability - one CD per order) OR
* You can subscribe to the whole series now for £40 (inc. UK p&p)