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Backporch Revolution was originally founded in North Carolina in 1994 and released its first record in 1995, winning (suprisingly) acclaim in Billboard magazine. Since moving to New Orleans in the late 90's, it has grown into becoming not so much a label as a canvas for a collective of like-minded musicians in New Orleans (and elsewhere) to express their art.

As the the death throes of indie-rock gave way to more experimental electronic music in the mid/late 1990's, we splintered into a thousand directions, taking our influences from early modular synthesis experiments, 70's moog grooves, bossa nova, lounge, dub, IDM, drone, ancient Appalachian recordings, space rock, post-classical composers from John Cage to John Cale, as well as looking east to the sufi music of Turkey and Pakistan, south east Asian pop music, and 1960's underground psychedelia and jazz.... and beyond.

To the exclusion of nothing in particular, we tend to like music that is psychedelic /psycho-acoustic, drone-based, nontraditional, eclectic, electronic (often with a fair dose of analog), often improvisational and/or loose-structured ensemble pieces.

We're also commited to a philosophy that music is meant to be shared more than consumed, and as such the website features a large number of songs for free download, and we encourage you to share them with your friends. We'll be adding mp3s from time to time, and as you may have noticed there are even a few albums that can be downloaded in their entirety, including the album artwork, so if you have a printer, you can make your own CD's straight from the site at http://www.backporchrevolution.com.

We welcome your comments and feedback. Please contact us.