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Welcome to the Unlabel website. We hope you enjoy your time here.

New Releases:
We are pleased to announce more new releases in the shape of brand new albums from Chain St. & 4th and Kevin Tomkins as well as the new 30 track double CD compilation, and the October All Over album - all available now.

Coming Soon:
Coming very soon will be a new single from Eiger, an EP for Death of London, an EP for Instruments as well as a split release for Epideme and Zettasaur and the next Joeyfat album will be ready one day too...

New Shows:
Check out the Events page for details of the upcoming Dog Ego Co. nights in Tunbridge Wells.



Sound Clips are up!
You can now find sound clips for all of our releases (un001 to un059) on this website - some are 30 seconds, some are full length.
Each page in the Releases section now has a corresponding audio player for that disc on the page. Enjoy :)

Photos for the Gallery
The Gallery section of this website has been updated - there's now a list of just about every Unlabel show that has taken place along with a few other interesting bits and pieces.
We will be adding lots of photos, posters etc. from gigs gone by from our own collections over the next few weeks but we'd love to hear from you if you have any photos, videos or other info relating to any of these shows. Feel free to email photos or anything else to us.
If you only have actual printed pics then we'd be very happy to scan then at Unlabel HQ and send them back to you safely by return - whatever you can offer, please get in touch: unmail@unlabel.net

Likewise, we're also compiling a similar list of Joeyfat gigs to be published soon, going right back to the beginning (1991) covering UK and European shows.
There's lots of gaps in the list at the moment so any info will be welcome. Once again copies of photos, posters etc. would be much appreciated too.

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Worldwide Mail Order:
There is a worldwide online shop on this website incorporating payment by PayPal. Click to go straight to the Mail Order section to view all available titles or click on any of the 'Add to Basket' buttons anywhere on this website to begin your order. All mail order prices include postage and packing.

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Unlabel on Last.fm:
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The series52 releases will be on there soon too...

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Unlabel Biography:
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.

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.

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.

The label will soon be offering a selection of its new releases via digital download and it is hoped that much of the back catalogue will also be available in this way in the future.

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Your continued support of Unlabel is appreciated.

This website was last updated on 25th April 2008.

© 1996-2008 Unlabel.

Latest Releases - Spring 2008:

un057
Chain St. & 4th - 'Devices' CD album.



Chris Hoad, formerly of 9 Volt, spent 12 months working on ideas, sessions and recording 'Devices', the debut album from progressive metal act Chain St. & 4th.

It was recorded and mixed at The Granary Studios and is now available as a limited first edition of 100 copies on Unlabel.

Listen:



Chain Street & 4th on MySpace.

Available now by Mail Order.

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un059
Kevin Tomkins - 'Square Pegs For Round Holes' 2xCD album.



'Square Pegs For Round Holes' collects together unreleased tracks recorded over the last ten years. All are experiments or sketches exploring Kevin Tomkins' passion for electronic music and the avant-garde.

The first 30 track disc consists mainly of short electronic pieces, the exceptions being the later tracks for clarinet, percussion, keyboard and piano. Disc two consists of five much longer noisier pieces.

The album was completed on 5th April 2008 and released less than two weeks later in a limited edition of just 100 copies; one for the collectors.

Listen:





Available now by Mail Order.

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un055
October All Over - 'Vital Organs' CD album.



The debut release on Unlabel from October All Over.

"Anyone can be loud given tinnitus-spreading bluster enough, but where October All Over trump so many of this nation’s capital’s most-rocking acts is that they meld their might with killer pop hooks and stirring melodies that bring to mind the Breeders as swiftly as their chopped-up chords conjure thoughts of a dozen or more hard-touring hardcore outfits. The four-piece have been playing London’s dirtiest and dingiest clubs for some years; from time to time they’ve made it beyond the city limits, but to many an ear to the underground they’re part and parcel of their hometown’s D.I.Y. scene. Keen to play, keen to promote, keen to do things their own way..." - Mike Diver

Listen:


October All Over on MySpace.

Available now by Mail Order.

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Various Artists - 'ünlaut [a thirty track unlabel compilation]' 2xCD album.



Another new compilation for 2007/’08 featuring 30 tracks from 30 artists that we like very much, spread over two CDs - almost two hours of brand new music, including all the usual suspects and lots more new guests:

Disc A
Lakes - 'Capt. Fidanza'.
Joeyfat - 'Meal Moth'.
Death of London - 'Ex Heavyweight Champion of the World'.
Klaus Says Buy The Record - 'Linen Cloth'.
Hunter's Loaf - 'Red Adare'.
Honey Ride Me A Goat - 'Varicose Jibs'.
Sandy Finlayson - 'Until'.
Chain Street (& 4th) - 'Pictures and Words'.
The Durells - 'The Anti Durell'.
Pellethead - 'Food Giant'.
Collides In Arc - 'Whispering Is An Overture'.
Box - 'Terry'.
Headquarters - 'Shit Got Instrumental Demo Blue Tongue'.
Kevin Tomkins - 'Violin Loops Retard'.
Black Black - 'A Song 2 Die 2'.

Disc 1
Kyote - 'Roman Candles (D. Bateman Mix)'.
October All Over - 'Nightwatchman'.
Cove - 'Autumn Leaves'.
Tom Williams - 'Fuck It I'm Doing Spoken Word'.
Die Munch Machine - 'Diekruntmaschine'.
Pipecleaner - 'Stab Vest'.
Jet Johnson - 'Håvard Hedde'.
Elks - 'What Hit The Ceiling?'.
Belt Motel vs. El Fin - 'Strike Gently Away From Children (Round 1)'.
Zettasaur - 'Stegasaurus'.
Matra - 'Lights Low'.
Deadboy Racer - 'Champion Theme'.
The People's Choir of Berlin - 'Harbour'.
Last of the Real Hardmen - 'The Great Kentwood Road Drum-Off'.
I, Coelacanth - 'Untourage'.

Listen:



Available now by Mail Order.

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Other recent Unlabel releases:

un047
Headquarters - vinyl LP.



More info and to listen: Headquarters - vinyl LP.

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un050
Nub - 'Nub' CD album.



More info and to listen: Nub - Nub CD.

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un049
Belt Motel - 'Twenty Eight' CD EP.



More info and to listen: Belt Motel - Twenty Eight CD.

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un052
Songs of My Lap - 'The Prize' CD album.



More info and to listen: Songs of My Lap - The Prize CD album.

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Unlabel series52:

The complete box set of all 52 albums released in the series52 project is available to order (last few!):





Here's a complete list of all of the artists involved in the series52 project:

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

Each album works out at the bargain price of just a few pence over GBP£4 each when ordered as a complete set!

To order the full set of 52 albums please click on the relevant button:

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UK Price: GBP£210.00
(inc. postage and packing).