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I thought it would be useful to have a continuing thread on Votel and Co.'s mission to find lost and hidden gems for us to enjoy. Has anyone heard any of the newish stuff they've released ? I'm thinking Ersen, Magpahi, Galwad y Myndd ?

oscar, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

there's sound from most of the releases here too:

http://www.klicktrack.com/shop/index.jsp?cp=375

i have not heard nearly as much of this as i probably should

electricsound, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

There was a poll thread recently, I think.

Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah there was alex. i started this thread to chronicle all the new stuff they keep releasing. these guys are putting out new records pretty consistently.

oscar, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link

I have the Selda, Vannier, Welsh comps, Sarolta, Ozkent, and Yamsuki records. I would ride for all of those as essential except for maybe the Ozkent, Yamasuki and the Welsh comps.

oscar, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Has anyone bought their 7's ? I've never gotten any of those.

oscar, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Got that Ersen record, pretty good. It's got some tracks that are particularly amazing, but overall doesn't stand up to the quality of Selda.

oscar, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Dude, the Welsh Rare Beat comps are totally essential.

The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 12 December 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

A guy in a shop made me listen to the John Hill record. It is pretty out there, but I think one that would be will worth acquiring.

Are there any bad FK records?

The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 3 April 2009 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Not for my knowldege.
I bought several albums and they're all quite interesting when they're not very good.

Marco Damiani, Friday, 3 April 2009 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link

the only one I'd call not essential is Susan Christie, but I still like it

dmr, Friday, 3 April 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link

i liked the susan christie, but it's been a minute, so i don't remember. the only one i remember not liking was some all female folk record. maybe Bearded Ladies? maybe it wasn't FK after all?

(jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link

the "sound of wonder" pakistani film comp is out now and not immediately one of my favorites by any stretch, but need to give it some time and in fairness the bolly/lolly/wood stuff is much less 'my thing'

Bangelo, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh man, the Sound of Wonder is amazing. The song that lends its name to the title, anyway, as I haven't heard the comp itself.

emil.y, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

why's it called lollywood

(jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Bollywood:Bombay::Lollywood:Lahore

Bangelo, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link

also funny jokes and big all-day suckers

Bangelo, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

i find most of the finders keepers stuff to be marginal & forgettable :( chris harwood LP was them too, no? blah blah blando. clasic example of something being "cool" and hyped but really just kinda MOR stuff for ultradorks.

ian, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link

okay wait, i take the back--the jean claude vannier & mustafa ozkent LPs were pretty cool. but really only essential for a certain type of collector imho.

ian, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

The Chris Harwood LP was pretty bad, yeah- but have you heard the Selda Bagcan reissue, ian? It's fantastic, easily the best of the "Anatolian Invasion" series they've put out so far. And the new Jean-Pierre Massiera is fantastic. I can't really evaluate it as a comp of Massiera stuff since it's the first I've actually managed to get my hands on, but I definitely want more now. Allegedly there's a second volume in the works, hopefully that'll be out before the end of the year.

Telephone thing, Saturday, 4 April 2009 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link

MOR stuff for ultradorks.

or maybe it's kryptonite for the soulless!

cut-off jeans, skinnydipping, and "getting weird" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 April 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Selda did nothin' for me, nor did the Sarolta Zalatny... I think I've heard most of what they've put out, but most if it really doesn't click with me. Sometimes sorta "oh that's nice" but nothing more.

ian, Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

The Pomegranates comp of persian music is excellent. No dudleys on there. Also, the mix cd of Vannier tracks Andy did is v good as well if you can find it. I've been marinating on the Massiera comp over the last couple months. I love Massiera but it would be like making a comp of Brian Eno productions, so mucn good stuff to mine from. Either way essential if you have not heard of the eccentric Frenchman.

oscar, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link

beware the Vampires of Dartmoore record - it is an actual FK duffer.

I like the sound of that Persian one you mention.

The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 19 February 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link

The recent BYG comp was also top-quality.

Granted a more expensive proposition, but the 'disposable music' LP that has the vampires of dartmoore/outer space dance party instrumentals is much more palatable than the regular one, imo

Bangelo, Friday, 19 February 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Apparently they're going to reissue the Horrific Child lp too. Utterly weird, Massiera-produced, an obvious blueprint for Nurse With Wound. In a word: great.

Marco Damiani, Friday, 19 February 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i think it's already out

Bangelo, Friday, 19 February 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link

YESSS, been wanting a copy of horrific child forever.

GOD PUNCH TO DALE HAWKWINDS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 February 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link

excellent record. sounds great on wax

oscar, Saturday, 20 February 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link

"YESSS, been wanting a copy of horrific child forever"

Now, to make me very very happy, somebody should kindly reissue Brave New World's "Impressions on reading Aldous Huxley" and the first Gunther Schickert lp.

Marco Damiani, Saturday, 20 February 2010 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Well, yeah. But one step at a time, man.

GOD PUNCH TO DALE HAWKWINDS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 February 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Pomegranates comp is great although the subtitle is a little weird since none of this stuff sounds particularly funky or psych to me. I guess the marketing team thought it would be a good pull in though.

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this is pretty rad. thai + sabbath
http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/discog_fkr45006.html

jaxon, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link

man... i hope both sides are going to be on that comp, those 7" releases never seem to make it over here.

Chokoreeto Kurosawa (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link

The Well Hung - Communist Hungary Funk Explosion comp is my favourite. Not a bad track on it.

Doran, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

should I buy the Googoosh record (despite never having heard anything the Rumanian sensation)?

The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Iranian, I mean.

The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

It's OK.. if you don't have the "Pomegranates" comp I'd pick that up 1st.

Deverly (Bangelo), Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

secret stash has a bunch of similar releases i was checking out tnite. what are some other labels that rerelease this kind of stuff?

Mordy, Saturday, 30 March 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link

they have a comp persian funk which is really great - i haven't heard pomegranates comp yet but possibly covering similar territory?

Mordy, Saturday, 30 March 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link

Pomegranates is great. This too: http://www.discogs.com/Kourosh-Yaghmaei-Back-From-The-Brink/release/3025704

Deverly (Bangelo), Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link

The best thing on The Sound Of Wonder! release.. and lucky lucky, there's a video to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZa-zVj-8Sw

ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Saturday, 30 March 2013 04:32 (eleven years ago) link

Selda did nothin' for me,

I was surprised it placed on the '70s poll. It's pretty cool but I'd imagine there are tons of records like that. Sounds like something you'd hear at any middle eastern restaurant. But maybe it has subtle charms that haven't revealed themselves to me yet.

The store Mount Analogue in LA has some interesting limited FK stuff like a JC Vannier box set. Kind of pricey though.

wk, Saturday, 30 March 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link

I love Finders Keepers. The 70s Hungarian funk comp Well Hung doesn't have a bad track on it - that's my favourite; awesome party album. I know DJ Mencap will rep for the Man Chest Hair, NW England 70s heavy rock comp. Anything they do by Polish soundtrack composer Andrzej Korzynski is worth getting, some of the Anatolian releases like Ersen and Turk Jerk, the Jean Claude Vannier reissue which launched the label L’enfant assassin des mouches is great and, as people have already said, Sound Of Wonder and Pomegranates are fantastic. Some of the stuff borders a bit on ironic, loungey, student common room, cheesy easy listening for my tastes but Votel and Shipton are deeply engaged with their subject matter and you're getting the perspective of people who've been collecting these sorts of music for a couple of decades or more.

Doran, Saturday, 30 March 2013 10:03 (eleven years ago) link

does anybody have any sense of where this label stands w/r/t hunting down and paying the artists? I have a couple of things on the label and love them but the whole cambodian rocks "who knows who this is by!" deal (a: people who know about cambodian music, maybe seek them out?) has made me always feel a little woozy about "found" stuff

not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

Sounds like something you'd hear at any middle eastern restaurant. But maybe it has subtle charms that haven't revealed themselves to me yet.

Aside from the fact that, uh, no, she really doesn't, and you're kind of verging on "it all sounds the same to me" dodginess, Selda is fiercely political. I highly doubt you'd hear her at a restaurant.

emil.y, Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link

Aero: I know they're very, very diligent about licensing stuff. The unique tragedy of Cambodian music is that most of the musicians who recorded pop music in the 60s were murdered by the State. (I don't have any Cambodian stuff on the label but everything else I've got by them - about 25 - 30 albums seems to be licensed completely.) I talked to Votel recently about Ameoba's digitising programme and he sees it as a rights grab and completely unacceptable.

Doran, Saturday, 30 March 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link

still enjoying that Strange Passions compilation of Irish Post punk...

some of the compilations I've heard from them recently were a bit meh.

Cuckooland & Byg spring to mind...

my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 30 March 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link

yeah unless there's examples I'm not recalling I don't think FK are a 'found' label in the way that you're talking abt

like ed balls fans know what a gif is (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 30 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link

The store Mount Analogue in LA has some interesting limited FK stuff like a JC Vannier box set. Kind of pricey though.

― wk, Friday, March 29, 2013 9:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure one of the ppl who own or work there helps run the label

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link

yeah she does

wk, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link

Aside from the fact that, uh, no, she really doesn't, and you're kind of verging on "it all sounds the same to me" dodginess, Selda is fiercely political. I highly doubt you'd hear her at a restaurant.

Yeah I knew that would come across in a bad "it all sounds the same" way. But I've heard a lot of middle eastern pop that sounds really cool. The selda record sounds cool too but doesn't stand out to me as being leaps and bounds above the rest. I don't speak the language though so I don't know how lyrics can possibly enter into it.

wk, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link

Aero: I know they're very, very diligent about licensing stuff. The unique tragedy of Cambodian music is that most of the musicians who recorded pop music in the 60s were murdered by the State.

yes, this is true - however the Cambodian Rocks comp didn't really even do any diligence whereas these guys did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGFI6AH9KJ8

not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link

it just strikes me as one of those situations where a whole interesting style of music is reduced down to only one record

wk, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link

XP: I'm not aware of this compilation. We're definitely not talking about the compilation with the same name on the American Parallel World label?

Doran, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link

according to my (quarter turkish) mom selda is leaps and bounds above the rest

the late great, Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link

The first Welsh Rare Beat comp is pretty great. Never got around to the second one.

afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 30 March 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link

Second Welsh Rare Beat is not a patch on the first, I think. I've practically worn the first one out, maybe listened to the second four or five times. Someone does need to reissue those Bran albums, though...

Should be noted there was a series of Cambodian Rocks comps (on the Khmer Rocks label) that DID have liner notes and artist info, not that anybody got paid because, well, see above.

I know DJ Mencap will rep for the Man Chest Hair, NW England 70s heavy rock comp

Man, I wanted to like this comp - it's totally my kind of stuff - but it really falls off about a third of the way through. Unreleased Stack Waddy track, though.

ben kvelertak (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 31 March 2013 06:06 (eleven years ago) link

Irish post punk comp is well worth picking up, one of my most listened to records from last year

Crackle Box, Sunday, 31 March 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link

three years pass...

https://twitter.com/andyvotel/status/811683489846329344

They got Macca on their Christmas episode

afriendlypioneer, Friday, 23 December 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link

eight years pass...

for various reasons, i have spent the last 6 months buying as many of this labels cd releases as i have been able to afford via discogs, ebay, and bandcamp/direct.

noticed a couple of weeks ago that their bandcamp was out of action.

and now their discogs page has this notification :

"The company has been wound up voluntarily at the end of December 2024. ( Creditors voluntary liquidation )"

anyone any idea as to what will happen re the digital releases now ?

(have never gone down the vinyl road re this label as that way madness lies .. )

mark e, Sunday, 12 January 2025 11:18 (four weeks ago) link

sad to hear about this, but explains all the deep discount sales last year
time to get those latest Ciani LPs

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 12 January 2025 11:32 (four weeks ago) link

yeah, i was wondering that about the sales thing as well.
also, they posted a few promo cd mixtapes on one of the bc fridays that i umm'd and ahh'd about as they weren't cheap,
very glad i grabbed them now.

mark e, Sunday, 12 January 2025 11:42 (four weeks ago) link

Say to hear this. Mark e, curious if you recommend anything in particular from the label. I have a bunch of the Ciani releases they put out.

Position Position, Sunday, 12 January 2025 22:00 (four weeks ago) link

the Midnight Massiera comp rules, see also Horrific Child

Pomegranates comp is good

Emerald Web and Ciani stuff is p much all good

the Don Cherry/Jon Appleton 7" is not good

I like the Moomin records but never listen to them in practice

the Strain Crack Break comps and the Roger Doyle reissues are also worthwhile for NWW fans

sleeve, Sunday, 12 January 2025 22:07 (four weeks ago) link

I had thought they did the Cults Percussion Ensemble record, but that was Trunk

sleeve, Sunday, 12 January 2025 22:08 (four weeks ago) link

Position Position : not an easy question as different days I love different parts of the catalogue.

However, whatever mood, I love all of the releases on the Sound of Wonder sublabel (Bollywood Bloodbath, Sound Of Wonder, Life Is Dance, Disco Didlar, Solla Solla, ilectro etc), both of the B-Music compilations, Well Hung, Absolute Belter, BYG, Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word (vol 1 and 2), Thai Dai, Cloud Cuckooland, Bearded Ladies, Pomegranates, and yeah, the aforementioned Man Chest Hair.

Of the artist albums/compilations, then as per the thread suggestions I really enjoy : Selda, Ersen, Zalatnay, Mustafa Ozkent, Susan Christie, John Hill (a particular fave!), and even the mad french prog excess of Jacky Chalard.

I'd also add : X-Ray Pop, Billy Green/STONE soundtrack, Magnetic Systems, Bruno Spoerri, Fusioon, Moomins, Jean Claude Vannier (though his Roses release is an acquired taste !), Andrzej Korzynski, Gary Sloan & Clone, Emerald Web, Science Fiction Dance Party, Voice Of The Seven Woods to albums that I have really got into.

Stuff that doesn't quite hit the spot : Danse Sacrale, T.R.A.S.E., Don & Stevie, Emma Tricca, Don Gere/Werewolves On Wheels soundtrack, and while I get the importance of Ciani, the Lixiviation compilation is not a great listening experience for me.

Top recommendation to find out if this stuff is of interest to you : grab The Gaslamp Killer FK megamix, 'All Killer', as that gives a brilliant introduction to the various styles/sounds in one easily digestible form.

mark e, Monday, 13 January 2025 10:03 (four weeks ago) link

the Midnight Massiera comp rules,

i spotted a copy of this over the weekend for a decent-ish price, so ordered.
really looking forward to checking it out.

mark e, Monday, 13 January 2025 10:05 (four weeks ago) link

here's another tip.

a couple of years ago, andy votel teamed up with verdant brewery, and released a cassette compilation.
as part of the promo he put together a mixtape of FK material.

the mixtape is still available as a WAV download via their soundcloud page

https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/verdant-brewing-co-x-finders-keepers-records-making-global-sound-local

not so sure it should be a WAV as most of the other downloads available are in skinny mp3 form, so i'd grab it sharpish.

mark e, Monday, 13 January 2025 10:12 (four weeks ago) link

Awesome, thank you!

Position Position, Monday, 13 January 2025 13:54 (four weeks ago) link

Ciani’s work is now available digitally on her own Bandcamp:

https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 January 2025 03:23 (two weeks ago) link


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