At a label fair last night, while perusing our table with a friend, I noted, “Shit… I had a pretty good year!”
In 2014 we released 15 physical albums and 9 videos. That is three more releases than we planned to do and six fewer videos (calculating that we’d meant to create some form of video for every release). We got 24 (to our knowledge) positive reviews on various blogs and print publications. Two titles sold out. We put on a small handful of shows and relaunched the NO LOVE imprint (just today, actually). And I indulged in our most excessive package to date for one of my own pet projects.
As we were at the start of 2014, we’re planning to drastically scale back operations in 2015. As with 2014, we’ll see how that goes (we already have two releases scheduled for January and one in February).
2014 Year End Top 5
(of Arachnidiscs Recordings 2014 releases according to Arachnidiscs Recordings)
#1. Dominic Marion: Totenbaum Träger / Projet Muet
Creeping drones and cinematic post-jazz improvisations.
#2. Uvesen: III
Creepinger drones and dark, reverb-drenched noise improvisations.
#3. Clara Engel: Ashes & Tangerines
Something like the haunting folkiness of Vashti Bunyan corrupted by the bombastic gloom of Nick Cave.
#4. Nite Audit: The Audiot
Apparently the Ween brothers, Beck and Lou Barlow had an orgy and Nite Audit is their love child. There’s something wonderfully ’90s yet incredibly current about Kyle’s music.
#5. Colin Fisher & Mike Gennaro: Sine Qua Non
It’s like Rashied Ali and John Coltrane on bath salts. Free jazz that breaks the chains of your mind.
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