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Finders Keepers Records

Behold the launch of Finders Keepers, a brand-new British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic / jazz / folk / funk / avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history. Catering to record collectors and DJ-producers alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rocksteady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" mix CDs for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manc-based vinyl-vulture, recording artist and record producer Andy Votel enlists the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and designer Dominic Thomas and Delay 68's Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new Twisted Nerve distant sister-label, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled.

Future compilations and re-issues will feature collaborative curators such as David Holmes, Cherrystones and Bob Stanley and further contributions from mystery A- / B+ pop-celebrity fanatics of outsider music and ultra-rare bakelite discs. Finders Keepers is an 'accidental world music label' with a punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room...

Links :
finderskeepersrecords.com
myspace.com/finderskeepersrecords

Friday25February - 2005

Susan Christie - Paint A Lady 7"

Susan Christie - Paint A Lady 7
Susan Christie - Paint A Lady 7"
(7") Finders Keepers FKR45-001, 2005

7" Tracklisting:
A1. Paint A Lady
B1. Ghost Riders In The Sky

Previously unreleased female folk-funk from 1969, produced by John Hill. The first release on Finders Keepers' new COMPACTA SERIES.


Sunday13February - 2005

Yamasuki - Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki

Yamasuki - Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki
Yamasuki - Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki
(Ltd LP) Finders Keepers FKR002LP, 2005

LP Tracklisting:
A1. Yamasuki
A2. Kono Samurai
A3. Yamamoto Kakapote
A4. Okawa
A5. Aieaoa
A6. Aisere I Love You
B1. Yama Yama
B2. Seyu Sayonara
B3. Abana Bakana
B4. Fudji Yama
B5. Yokomo
B6. Kashi Kofima

A fuzzed-out educational multicultural psych-rock opera from 1971. Proto-psychedelic hip hop with overweight drumbeats and basslines!


Saturday01January - 2005

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant Assassin Des Mouches

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant Assassin Des Mouches
Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant Assassin Des Mouches
(LP/CD) Finders Keepers FKR001LP, 2005

LP Tracklisting:
A1. L'Enfant la Mouche et les Allumettes
A2. L'Enfant au Royaume des Mouches
A3. Danse des Mouches Noires Gardes du Roi
A4. Danse de L'Enfant et du Roi des Mouches
A5. Le Roi des Mouches et la Confiture de Rose
B1. L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches
B2. Les Garde Volent au Secours du Roi
B3. Mort du Roi des Mouches
B4. Pattes de Mouches
B5. Le Papier tue Enfant
B6. Petite Agonie de L'Enfant Assassin

BONUS TRACKS
12. Je M'appelle Geraldine (Mid-Tempo Version) (CD ONLY)
13. Je M'appelle Geraldine (Up-Tempo Version) (CD ONLY)

Vannier scored the arrangements to Serge Gainsbourg's 1971 classic 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' before recording this; 'The Child Assassin of the Flies'. Judging by his intense psych-funk-choral vision, he is the 'French David Axelrod', albeit Axelrod in an insane asylum. Bells ring, people mumble and yes, flies buzz, while the music's dizzy extremity recalls such European astro-travellers as Aphrodite's Child.