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IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAKE RECORDS brings musicians and visual artists together. We are interested in boundary-breakers.

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ITAV is a design-based collective: we can partner with other independent labels to offer art and design which captures the spirit of a recording. ITAV is a project label and therefore home to few bands, however we constantly seek new sounds and craft compilation CDs based on what we hear. We're open to growing.

We believe in visual magnetics and in advancing music and art that is sonically arresting and pushes the thought envelope. We're detail-oriented and proud of our catalog. We also believe in being efficient and fair. If you like what we do and would like us to partner on a project with you, please contact Peter via this here myspace page.

Our current project, AUTHORLESS, is highlighted below:

AUTHORLESS is an emerging musical experiment that launched August 1, 2008. Ten demo songs have been offered to musicians of all backgrounds and levels of notoriety, with the understanding that the songs may be altered in any way -- rearranged, rewritten, or reimagined; then passed on to a new group of musicians to alter even further. After the songs have been through 6 stages of changes, all versions go to Paul Roessler (The Screamers, .45 Grave, Nina Hagen) to be ultimately mixed/mastered into one full-length album -- no doubt in a vastly different form than the "root demos" in the SNOCAP store above. You can help AUTHORLESS succeed by purchasing the seed tracks above. As new versions arrive, they will be added to the store. Since this is a fundraiser for AUTHORLESS, each track is $0.99, or you can buy all ten root demos as a package for under ten bucks. Both ways help a lot! To participate in AUTHORLESS, drop me a message!

FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS, THEORIES & THEIR REPERCUSSIONS is a CD compilation of independent musicians, released via Michigan-based music cooperative It Takes A Village To Make Records. The CD was released March 25, 2006 in a limited pressing of 1,000 and is now out of print. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS, THEORIES & THEIR REPERCUSSIONS featured many exclusive performances, alternate versions, demos and live performances by artists such as Canada, Nick Schillace, Jen Sygit, Rubber Band Banjo, Oh My God, Phil Avalos & The Quiet Lanes, The Mnemonic Devices, That's Him! That's The Guy!, Stare Into The Sun, Bit, Casionauts, Animal (Drum Kit), XU, Pat Zelenka, Rattling Wall Collective, Bradford, Freel, Brickburner, The Strawberry Explosion, and Sam Corbin. "First-Hand Accounts, Theories, & Their Repercussions" was a labor of love and was given away for free.

[ITAV believes aesthetics do not need to be compromised. Inquire within.]

* THE "ENLARGED TO SHOW TEXTURE" EP *

* AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD HERE *




[ ENLARGED TO SHOW TEXTURE will be physically released August 1, 2009 in a limited edition. Each copy will be numbered and include a unique nanobot sculpture made by hand by the band members. Pre-ordering information will be posted soon ]

* PREPARE TO BE SMITTEN *

* THE NANOBOTS *

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THE AUTHORLESS PROJECT: Begins August 1, 2008

[cover painting by Travis Pickard]

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In The Orchard Of Osiris [Compilation]
(In Production for Spring 2010)