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Records recording artists:
To hear samples of
all our artists please check out our MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/oibrecords
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Lonely
Ghosts / Mewgatz / Tumbledown
Estate / My Device / Gay
Against You / Munch Munch /
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Lonely
Ghosts is the brainchild of Tom Denney (guitarist and
co-vocal extraordinaire in indie noise kids Help She Can’t
Swim). During a quiet summer off from action, Tom disappeared
into his room with a laptop, a mess of guitars and keyboards and a CD
of drum samples, only to emerge eight weeks later as avant-pop
experimentalist Lonely Ghosts. Exploring more pop, electro
and acoustic influences than Help She Can’t Swim, Lonely Ghosts
is an eclectic amalgamation of sounds all held together by his
love for a pure ‘pop’ tune.
Discography:
 OIB
Split Volume 1 feat –
The Tumbledown Estate – Voodoo Wave
Lonely Ghosts – Predictions
Munch Munch – I See Sexy Dead People
Gay Against You – Wall Wizards Part Two
Released
30th July 2007
OIB003 4 Tracks, 7” , £4.00
OIB
Split Volume 1. Each volume comes with four different covers
each designed by the bands themselves, as well as band badges.
In
the cold winder months of 2006 the OIB collective were
all gathered around the open fire discussing our spring schedule and
how we are going to document all this creativity going on around
us. Then a bright spark suggested we release a series
of split 7 inch records, that way we could provide an outlet
not only for the more-established acts to experiment more widely but
also a well-deserved platform for the lesser-known talent. So we did.
And
this, my OIB enthusiasts, is VOLUME 1.
OIB
Split #1 badge set
(4 badges)
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£1.50 
Over
the next 12 months we will be releasing a further four 7”
split records culminating in a vinyl boxset and CD compilation in late
2008.
Each
volume comes with four different covers each designed by the
bands themselves, as well as band badges!
It’s a pretty damn deluxe release.
Lonely
Ghosts – ‘Untitled’ mini-album
8 Tracks
CD
OIB005
Coming Spring 2008
Don’t
forget to check out http://www.myspace.com/lonelyghosts
and
http://www.myspace.com/helpshecantswim
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Mewgatz
is one crazy bastard. Based out of an attic in the midlands and armed
with an arsenal of home-made instruments and iBooks, Mewgatz makes delicate
yet damaging electronica. Based with an ethos of “if
it’s got a circuit, I’ll break it”, Mewgatz circuit
bends everything from 80s Casios to keytars and kids toys to make some
of the most schizophrenic and chaotic yet beautifully subtle music we
have ever heard.
When playing
live Mewgatz is a wonder to behold. Beats, melody, bass and vocals are
all masterfully spun together into a delicately psychotic show
of electronic malfunction, and due to the randomised nature
of circuit-bending every show is unique as the track you hear on one
specific night will never to be heard the same way again.
Discography:
Mewgatz
– Underfelt
Released 23rd July 2007
10”
6 Tracks
OIB002
£6.00
Constructed
around the brain of a £3 Yamaha keyboard and an 80's keytar, Mewgatz
debut ‘Underfelt’ EP is 30 minutes of dark and harrowing
basement pop. Paying homage to his fascination with original keyboard
presets and demo songs, Mewgatz fuses glitching preset bossanova beats
with delicate guitar chord progressions and tender untrained vocals,
schizophrenically remixing popular contemporary tracks until they’re
bent out of all recognition. These are lo-fidelity electronic ballads
drenched in raw, passionate, and vulnerable emotion, a true testament
to his quest for melodic chaos, to find that void between human fragility
and robotic malfunction where unpredictability and stability collide.
Mewgatz
– Love Songs and Car Boot Electronica LP
CD
OIB006
Coming Spring 2008
A
particularly raw Mewgatz live video recorded on a handheld cam for MTV/Oxfam.
You can check
out the official Mewgatz MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/mewgatz
and download his beautiful lead track ‘A-Part’ here
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Tumbledown Estate is a one-man avant-pop explosion,
orchestrated by the indie-surf eccentric Jim Morrison (no, not that
one). Sounding frantic, passionate and off the wall
one moment and chock full of over powering pop goodness
the next, the Tumbledown Estate come on like Stephen Merritt and Of
Montreal jamming out Blur tunes with the Bronx, if you can imagine such
a thing! We’ve never truly understood the warped mind of the Tumbledown
Estate, but if we did it probably wouldn’t be as much fun.
Discography:
 OIB
Split Volume 1 feat –
The Tumbledown Estate – Voodoo Wave
Lonely Ghosts – Predictions
Munch Munch – I See Sexy Dead People
Gay Against You – Wall Wizards Part Two
Released
30th July 2007
OIB003 4 Tracks, 7” , £4.00
OIB
Split Volume 1. Each volume comes with four different covers
each designed by the bands themselves, as well as band badges.
The
Tumbledown Estate – Fuck Sweat and Tears LP
CD
OIB007
Coming Summer 2008
Make sure
to checkout the official Tumbledown Estate MySpace for more tunes http://www.myspace.com/thetumbledownestate
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Arriving
just in time to save your weekend, My
Device are a frantic and energetic power-trio out of
Brighton who make controlled chaos full of grinding guitars, frenzied
drums and thick pounding bass. Its pure indie-disco
for the alternative kids that while maintaining a fun, danceable pop
angle, wrap it up in multi-genre influenced freak outs and walls of
fuzz and feedback.
Discography:
My
Device – Eat Lead/I Was Brave Today
Transparent Purple 7”
3 Tracks
OIB001
£3.00
On
February 26th 2007 My Device are unleashing their highly anticipated
and Radio 1 endorsed double A-side 7” single ‘Eat
Lead/I Was Brave Today’, their first record since Nervous
System. ‘Eat Lead’ is 3 minutes of pure disjointed
pop magic, full of yelps, hooks and infectious beats that will never
fail to lift you up and get you moving.
ORDER
'EAT LEAD' NOW!
Limited
to just 500 hand numbered copies the 7” comes on beautiful transparent
purple vinyl with hand drawn labels all individually drawn and personalized
by the band themselves. The CD format of the single is released via
the Shifty Disco label.
Eat
Lead Music Video:
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Recently
described by Fused magazine as “two subterranean creatures
dressed in primary school P.E. kits, complete with charcoal-stained
eyes and badly-concealed erections”, Gay
Against You are the enthusiastic, messy and overly friendly
duo of Lachlann Rattray and Joe Howe,
who inhabit the middle ground between Cyndi Lauper and the Locust.
Part of the post-punk-happy-hardcore electro movement made famous by
DJ Scotch Egg, Adaadat, and the Wrong Music collectives, GvsY make aggressive
spaz-core electronic party music that’s confrontational,
demanding, and very, very fun. One of the most hardworking
bands on the circuit, in the year and a half since they formed, GvsY
have extensively toured with Lightning Bolt, Coughs, Park Attack, Esquilax,
Shitmat, Misty’s Big Adventure, Volcano, Help She Can’t
Swim, DJ Scotch Egg, Noxagt, and Shitdisco amongst others.
Discography:
 OIB
Split Volume 1 feat –
The Tumbledown Estate – Voodoo Wave
Lonely Ghosts – Predictions
Munch Munch – I See Sexy Dead People
Gay Against You – Wall Wizards Part Two
Released
30th July 2007
OIB003 4 Tracks, 7” , £4.00
OIB
Split Volume 1. Each volume comes with four different covers
each designed by the bands themselves, as well as band badges.
Hear more
GvsY tunes at http://www.myspace.com/gayagainstyou
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Munch
Munch duo Tom Carrell and Richard Manber met in Bristol
and instantly bonded over a mutual love of maple and pecan crunch and
the shared appreciation of the Lighthouse Family. They write songs on
a laptop using whatever instruments they find lying around, including
casios, Yamahas, glockenspiels, and ukuleles. Live, they enlist the
help of friends Jack and Sarah, “creating something bolted
together by a dyslexic Ikea enthusiast building a pop wardrobe.
That or they’ve learned music from scribbled descriptions pushed
under a cell door” (Venue Magazine).
Discography:
 OIB
Split Volume 1 feat –
The Tumbledown Estate – Voodoo Wave
Lonely Ghosts – Predictions
Munch Munch – I See Sexy Dead People
Gay Against You – Wall Wizards Part Two
Released
30th July 2007
OIB003 4 Tracks, 7” , £4.00
OIB
Split Volume 1. Each volume comes with four different covers
each designed by the bands themselves, as well as band badges.
Hear Munch
Munch tracks at http://www.myspace.com/munchmunchband
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| We
are always on the lookout for new and exciting talent that goes beyond the
conventional and challenges people’s perceptions. If you would like
to be considered for a place on the O.I.B Records roster then please send
your demo (all formats accepted) to: OIB
Records, 1A, 64 Brunswick Place, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1NB, UNITED KINGDOM.
Alternatively you can e-mail us at demos@oibrecords.com.
We believe that it’s crucial for the development of an artist both
musically and mentally to receive feedback, and with this in mind we guarantee
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