The series52 Concept:

While chatting on the phone back in September 2005 the two people who run Unlabel decided to do this...

During 2006 Unlabel released a series of 52 CD albums - one every week of the year, all by people who aren't connected with us (i.e. none of our regular artists), to include all genres that we cover from the usual 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 our fancy, each in a strictly limited edition of just 100 copies.

We decided to do something slightly different - instead of focusing on local artists, as has been traditional with Unlabel, we opened this project up to submissions from all over the world. It was entirely separate to the usual catalogue of releases, a new offshoot of the Unlabel family.

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. We receive quite a few demos these days from all over the world and we thought it would be good to work with some of these people and to document music (albeit in a small way) that may not otherwise be noticed at all...

Each album in this project includes at least 8 tracks or at least 30 minutes of material and quality control was kept to a high standard.

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 at Unlabel HQ photographed every week over the 12 months of 2006 showing the natural changes throughout the year and all pictures were professionally printed on high gloss paper at a Kodak photo lab. Each sleeve was hand numbered and every CD included a diary page insert for the relevant week of the year, which could be filled in and returned to Unlabel to win a unique prize. There were also inserts from the artists and Unlabel making each one of these fine discs a collector's item. The whole collection of 52 releases will surely increase in value over time.

The CDs were sold at a bargain price to simply cover manufacturing costs and some of the time involved in running a busy project like this. They are only available direct from us through this website and from Norman Records mail order, individually and as a complete set.

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series52 Demos:

Unlabel are now accepting demos for a possible project similar to series52 in the future...

The series52 Releases:

un52006/01 Verbose
'Aperture' CD album.

un52006/02 Maps Of The Heart
'Drawn To Light' CD album.

un52006/03 Galena
'The Druid Curtain' CD album.

un52006/04 Soeza
'Tribunal 4 Soeza' CD album.

un52006/05 Vinaya
'Les Marges' CD album.

un52006/06 Trampfartyg
'ska det köras cyklar ner i vaken?' CD album.

un52006/07 Dreams of Tall Buildings
'Harbour'd In The Sleepy West' CD album.

un52006/08 Gareth Dickson
'The Amber Goose Dance' CD album.

un52006/09 Octavcat
'Dumming Up' CD album.

un52006/10 Absent Without Leave
'Bon Voyage' CD album.

un52006/11 Melt
'Inertia' CD album.

un52006/12 Kimonophonic
'This Fragile Emergency' CD album.

un52006/13 The Century of Aeroplanes
'Repellent Communications of Sea Creatures' CD album.

un52006/14 October Man
'Spatial Index' CD album.

un52006/15 Gareth Hardwick
'Three Degrees of Separation' CD album.

un52006/16 Boc Scadet
'Nightfall in Gentle Waters' CD album.

un52006/17 The Baker Boys
'Driftwood Boats' CD album.

un52006/18 Cheju
'Pica' CD album.

un52006/19 Drumm Chimp
'Retro Nebulizer' CD album.

un52006/20 Calder
'Calder' CD album.

un52006/21 Alkin Engineering
'29ON6AT152' CD album.

un52006/22 Old Apartment Songs
'Seldom' CD album.

un52006/23 Aerosol
'All That is Solid Melts Into Air' CD album.

un52006/24 Koutaro Fukui
'O-Dexio' CD album.

un52006/25 Glider
'Some Letters' CD album.

un52006/26 Accrual
'Kirkville Blue' CD album.

un52006/27 Vizier of Damascus
'The Radical Monotheist' CD album.

un52006/28 Eftus Spectun
'Eftus Spectun' CD album.

un52006/29 am-boy
'pg' CD album.

un52006/30 The Evenings
'Firefighters / Dying' CD album.

un52006/31 Unspeakable Easels
'Air Wonder Stories' CD album.

un52006/32 Meets Guitar
'The River Turns to Home' CD album.

un52006/33 Autobam
'Atmo' CD album.

un52006/34 Last of the Real Hardmen
'Another Country' CD album.

un52006/35 Maps and Diagrams
'Onamatapea' CD album.

un52006/36 G.Dam
'Earth Stalker' CD album.

un52006/37 Dirty Husband
'Chocolate Warrior' CD album.

un52006/38 Modern Bison
'I Could've Had A Rustic Pagoda' CD album.

un52006/39 Ojn
'Movers And Shakers' CD album.

un52006/40 Celer
'Continents' CD album.

un52006/41 Accelera Deck
'Instrumentals' CD album.

un52006/42 Billy Mahonie
'Exhale On Mare Street' CD album.

un52006/43 Melodium
'When I Was Young' CD album.

un52006/44 Light
'Waterside Reverberations' CD album.

un52006/45 Milieu
'Pillowtone Poems' CD album.

un52006/46 All Systems Ghost
'29' CD album.

un52006/47 Fieldtriqp
'none' CD album.

un52006/48 Romance of Young Tigers
'I Have Supped Full On Horrors' CD album.

un52006/49 Egsun
'Watching Lights Through My Eyelashes' CD album.

un52006/50 Metrotone
'Kiss Me Awake' CD album.

un52006/51 The Prints
'Sketchbook '01-'06' CD album.

un52006/52 yellow6
'ion-e' CD album.

Can I still buy the 52 CD set?:

Yes, it is still possible to buy the complete collection of all 52 CDs in one go (see below) or to buy individual releases from the series, where available, in the Mail Order section.

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





The box set of all 52 albums released in the series52 project can be ordered here - please click on the relevant button:

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