Awkward Silence Recordings

Awkward Silence Recordings

Awkward Silence Recordings is an independent record label located in Staplehurst, Kent, UK. It has released EPs for artists including Isan, Arovane, Part Chimp, Tarentel, Papa M and Nautilis.

History

The label was set up to release limited edition split singles/EPs and focussed on featuring an artist who had released music on other labels on one side and then an unknown often quite similar sounding artist on the other. The very first release featured the influential German electronic artist Arovane, at the time when he was just breaking through with the album 'Atol Scrap' with the worldwide debut release by the then unknown Christian Kleine (now signed to Morr Music / City Centre Offices and half of Herrmann & Kleine) on the other side.

This continued throughout the catalogue, most notably with Papa M's (David Pajo) split single with UK underground post-rock band Unhome, long before the Slint reunions, and more recently with melodic electronic act Isan releasing an EP with the excellent Tomcats In Tokyo from France.

Awkward Silence has always been run as a hobby-label with releases appearing as and when the time felt right, often with long gaps between discs and then with two or more new singles appearing in shops on the same day! The label was also a firm favourite with John Peel, who played tracks regularly on his BBC Radio 1 shows.

EPs and formats

The artwork on all releases has always followed the same pattern with the main image usually being submitted by one of the musical artists on the release with everythng printed in monochrome colours. All releases up to number 18 were on 7" vinyl and then the switch was made to 3" CDs housed in cute mini m-lock CD cases in 2005. Short run vinyl pressing prices were proving restrictive and the new digital format meant that more music could be included on each release, now up to 21 minutes.

The label now has a back catalogue of over 20 split releases featuring over 40 artists from all over the world, many of whom are well-respected and have gone on to have successes elsewhere.

Awkward Silence is now also offering its new releases via digital download, currently via Warp Records' Bleep.com and it is hoped that much of the back catalogue will also be available in this way in the future.

Artists

External links

* [http://www.awkwardsilencerecordings.com Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/awkwardsilencerecordings Awkward Silence's page on MySpace]

ee also

* List of record labels


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