Unlabel is an independent record label based in Kent in the south-east of England, which was started in 1996 by the band Joeyfat and is still run by two members today.
The label originally focussed on releasing music for interesting local artists from the Tunbridge Wells area (where there has been a flourishing underground scene for many years) and has gone on to work with bands from all over south-east England, London and beyond, now with a catalogue of over 100 releases.
Unlabel has previously released music for (in alphabetical order):
Belt Motel
Charlottefield
Cove
Deadboy Racer
Eiger
Elks
Eric
Headquarters
Hunter's Loaf
Jason and the Astronauts
Joeyfat
Matra
Moth
Nub
October All Over
Planquez
Princess Headbutt
Rebus
SJ (aka Paul Taylor and Kevin Tomkins, formerly Sutcliffe Jugend)
Songs of My Lap
Tom Williams and The Boat
Unhome
Ye Wiles
Unlabel has also released a compilation album at Christmas every year since 2002 and as well as featuring the artists listed above, guests on these releases have included:
30 Day Hex
100 Pets
Alexander Tucker
Bilge Pump
Billy Mahonie
Black Black
Blue House
Box
Camelion
Chain Street (& 4th)
Clearlake
Collides In Arc
Dead Note Songbird
Death of London
Die Munch Machine
The Durells
Econoline
Everything For Miles
Sandy Finlayson
iForward, Russia!
Furniture Sound
Haemostatic Picnic Races
Hey Colossus
Honey Ride Me A Goat
Hood
Hunting Lodge
I, Coelacanth
Jet Johnson
Kill Yourself
Klaus Says Buy The Record
Kyote
Lakes
Last of the Real Hardmen
Lefthand
Lords
Method Sent
The Monochromat Fixation
Montana Pete
Noizreverzion
Noon
The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers
Part Chimp
Pellethead
The People's Choir of Berlin
Pipecleaner
Quack Quack
Querelle
Sarandon
Shink
The Ship of the Sun
Ship's A Going Down
Shit and Shine
S*M*A*S*H
Sstres
The Tailors
That Fucking Tank
The Wow
Zettasaur
Unlabel's series52 project
During 2006 Unlabel released a special collection of fifty-two CD albums - one every week of the year in a project called 'series52', all by people who weren't connected with the label from all over the world to include all genres from guitar based music - acoustic and alt. country to post-rock / math-rock, hardcore and beyond, piano, electronica / idm through to ambient, glitch, microsound, gabber, industrial / noise, soundscapes and anything else that took their fancy, each in a strictly limited edition of just 100 numbered copies.
The idea was to release work by unknown artists who may not otherwise be recognised at all alongside a handful of carefully selected guests, including a few names which may be familiar due to their other releases elsewhere.
All releases were packaged in distinctive matching artwork with the musical artists' own image on the front and two images from Unlabel on the back - including one of a landscape photographed every week over the 12 months of 2006. These CDs were all sold at a bargain price to simply cover manufacturing costs and some of the time involved in running a massive project like this.
It is still possible to order the complete set of 52 albums from our website along with a selection of individual releases from the series.
The 2006 series52 Artists were:
Absent Without Leave
Accelera Deck
Accrual
Aerosol
Alkin Engineering
All Systems Ghost
am-boy
Autobam
The Baker Boys
Billy Mahonie
Boc Scadet
Calder
Celer
The Century of Aeroplanes
Cheju
Dirty Husband
Dreams Of Tall Buildings
Drumm Chimp
Eftus Spectun
Egsun
The Evenings
Fieldtriqp
G.Dam
Galena
Gareth Dickson
Gareth Hardwick
Glider
Kimonophonic
Last of the Real Hardmen
Light
Koutaro Fukui
Maps and Diagrams
Maps Of The Heart
Meets Guitar
Melodium
Melt (Kevin Tomkins)
Metrotone
Milieu
Modern Bison
Octavcat
October Man
Ojn
Old Apartment Songs
The Prints
Romance of Young Tigers
Soeza
Trampfartyg
Unspeakable Easels
Verbose
Vinaya
Vizier of Damascus
yellow6
For more information on pretty much everything we do please visit our website:
www.unlabel.net which includes information about and pictures of the artists we have worked with as well as a full list of all our releases with numerous sound clips, exclusive downloadable tracks, details of upcoming releases and shows, and a worldwide online shop, where we have all our available releases for sale together with a selection of other items some of which you can listen to and some you can wear and we accept payments by PayPal, cheque and cash amongst other things...
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