luke vibert new record label - Balkan Vinyl

so, just over 2 years of preparation...

(those of you who know me can confirm I've been constantly rambling on about this idea since late 2006...) :-)

and on the last day of the decade, I can finally launch my new record label - Balkan Vinyl

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Balkan Vinyl - Colours Series

6 releases, 24 artists, over 6 months

each release contains a 12" vinyl with four tracks, and a CD with extra tracks & remixes

limited to 250 copies each, hand-numbered and sealed.

Available on advance subscription - £40 for all six, + p&p

(£15 UK, £20 Europe, £25 Rest of World)

Each record posted out on or before the release date

(in high quality mailer with stiffener board & marked fragile / do not bend)

Artists include:

B12, Mark Archer, Marco Passarani, Plaid, Secondo, Luke Vibert & Richard Wigglesworth, Cursor Miner, Digitonal, Posthuman, EgeBamYasi, Debasser, Echaskech, The Doubtful Guest, Ardisson, Paul Blackford, Hrdvsion, Kansas City Prophets, Global Goon, AGT Rave Cru, and more...

More info & track previews @ http://www.balkanvinyl.com

Wow, very cool. Who is this Richard Wigglesworth fellow? Surely not the Rugby player?

Edit: nm, I figured it out.

Yay for Global Goon :)

Are the releases being pressed on colored vinyl? Wasted opportunity if they're not ):

having coloured vinyl would have been nice, but prohibitively expensive for such short runs - around £2 more per unit (250x6 releases = £3k extra!)

by having standard vinyl, the selling price can be kept reasonable - £40 for six 12"s and six CDs, 7 or 8 tracks per release.

So there are only 250 hand numbered "full series" runs?

Well fuck it, I'll wait til I get payed after this weekend and might consider getting it sent here

Holy shit that is a solid roster of artists! Great job, I'll definitely check this out!

great! can't wait to hear these.

Looks good. Egebamyasi. B12. Lovely. I've twooted it on my twitter page.

This looks awesome! great idea. If i get some money left this month, i sure will spend it on this!

  On 1/1/2010 at 2:51 PM, Macca said:

So there are only 250 hand numbered "full series" runs?

Well fuck it, I'll wait til I get payed after this weekend and might consider getting it sent here

Yep, 250 manufactured of each - of these around 220 will go on sale (the rest are for the artists)

most will be sold via subscription, although a very limited number will be made available for sale individually at rubadub.co.uk

the main reason for subs is because the idea is to expose some of the lesser known artists by including them alongside more established names.

there are also quite a few cross-release remixes, with artist from one 12" remixing an artist from another 12" on the bonus cd.

Will the digital releases include the remixes and extra tracks?

  On 1/4/2010 at 11:52 PM, Caretstik said:

Will the digital releases include the remixes and extra tracks?

the digital releases will be the main vinyl tracks

the extra tracks & remixes will be available from some selected sites as well (not sure which ones - but i'm guessing probably bleep, junodownload and beatport - this is down to the digital distributors)

in before 50 pages of "wigglesworth is rdj" fanboi gayness

  On 1/5/2010 at 4:32 AM, analogue wings said:

in before 50 pages of "wigglesworth is rdj" fanboi gayness

Richard Wigglesworth is a guy from Bristol who makes music on hardware.

He's a friend of Luke Vibert, and after Luke played at I Love Acid and agreed to contribute a track to the label, he gave me a track they did together.

He isn't Richard D James.

man, you could've had a 50 page thread. 50 pages. 50.

  On 1/5/2010 at 12:36 PM, analogue wings said:

man, you could've had a 50 page thread. 50 pages. 50.

haha yeah, but to have even allowed that would have been deliberately deceptive.

i'd rather be straight up and maybe miss out on a couple of AFX fanboi sales.

besides, Wigglesworth is an excellent artist and top guy, and deserves recognition of his own accord.

He's just about to release a 12" on his own label "Tudor Beats" with Vibert & Radioactiveman which is well worth checking out.

Any releases dates yet?

Sounds tasty. Wish i wasn't so damn broke.

That Vibert/Radioactiveman deal also sounds like it has potential for much goodness.

These samples sound ACE... I may have to order a subscription tomorrow when my head's working a bit better.

For those of us who don't know, can you give a little recap of the history behind this? Lots of big names, do you know them all personally or did you connect via some other means... also did you pay out a lot of advances and such? I have these fantasies of starting my own record label, and while I think the actual vinyl production costs wouldn't be a big deal I have no idea how much it costs beyond that...

  On 1/20/2010 at 7:55 AM, The Face Culler said:

These samples sound ACE... I may have to order a subscription tomorrow when my head's working a bit better.

 

For those of us who don't know, can you give a little recap of the history behind this? Lots of big names, do you know them all personally or did you connect via some other means... also did you pay out a lot of advances and such? I have these fantasies of starting my own record label, and while I think the actual vinyl production costs wouldn't be a big deal I have no idea how much it costs beyond that...

i guess i've been involved in music stuff for about 10 years now... started and used to run a label called Seed Records and did a bunch of parties in aldwych tube station between 2001 and 2005 - label is still going now, run by a friend of mine

worked with the Wheels Instead of Hooves guys doing events, set up a consortium of labels and promoters called "London Electrics" which ran for a bit...also worked with B12 Records in 2006-07 getting them back up & running again, and now run a monthly night called "I Love Acid"

most of the artists are acts I'm either friends with and have worked with at some point. Over the next 6 months there will be interviews, downloads, etc. with most of the acts on a blog running alongside the website (see http://www.balkanvinyl.com/blog/ for an interview with Mark up now...blog isnt properly skinned yet though)

been planning this project for about 2 years now. its taken a long time to get all 24 tracks in, plus all the remixes and extras, and obviously a lot of funds to have everything manufactured.

i would say if you want to start a label - do it! but make sure you have plenty of time on your hands, deep pockets, patience....and don't expect to make money out of it!

which one is you?

  On 1/22/2010 at 12:02 AM, SPD² said:

which one is you?

the (more) ugly one.

  On 1/22/2010 at 12:02 PM, jph said:

  On 1/22/2010 at 12:02 AM, SPD² said:

which one is you?

 

the (more) ugly one.

idk, both of you are pretty saucy.

Downloaded from Juno today, this is ace. Going to be hard waiting until June to have them all though (especially with Plaid and Posthuman on the last one).

so there is a Posthuman remix or bonus track on the CD for the first 12"?