Record Label Records
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Record Label Records is an experimental music label that was formed by Benjamin Vanderford and Robert Martin otherwise known as Jacob Jarnigon. In the last three years Robert Martin has been the sole owner and manager of RLR.
Ben and Robert are more well known for their creation of a fake American hostage beheading video. The video was reported as real by the Associated Press and Reuters on August 7th, 2004, thus becoming worldwide news headlines.[1]
The label started as a parody of the experimental music scene, similar to how the skit Sprockets with Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live was a satire on the avant-garde art scene. In 2000 RLR shifted to a more serious conceptual experimental & electronic direction.
[edit] Current artists on RLR (post 2002)
Fluorescent grey is Robert Martin and RLR owner, sometimes referred to as Jacob Jarnigon. Occasionally guest stars Benjamin Vanderford. Early music included several hardcore noise and ambient albums. Only in the past 3 years has the style developed into more cohesive electronic and sometimes organic rhythmic conceptual music. Some songs tend to be very complex, and others very minimalist. Some have called him a mixture of the styles of Alvin Lucier and Autechre. Others describe his use of algorithmic sequencing, granular effects, and convolution to be similar to that of Richard Devine. In 2005 Robert released a fake version of Autechre's Untilted. It became so infamous Sean booth was asked about it in an interview [2].
The Great White Hype is Benjamin Vanderford posing as hardcore freestyle rapper "Papa-rot-z" from Manchester, England. The main influence behind the startup of RLR was the first Great White Hype album, entitled "Scatology." This album was a parody of an LP of the same name by experimental group Coil. Advertised and sold mostly to fans of Coil, this album's goal was to disintegrate the public image Coil held that many viewed as pompous. The album is noted for a track entitled "Protect Yourself" in which the Great White Hype sought to prove that Coil sampled N.W.A. track, "Express Yourself" by playing sections of each song back to back. See also Born Again Pagans, the Coil album on which the song in question was released on.
Bathroom Shaman, a newcomer to RLR artist, is Brian English.
Kush Arora, previously known as Involution (the name involution was later used by Cevin Key for a one off techno album, which prompted the first stages of a lawsuit by Kush Arora and Ovenguard records) and then later Clairaudience, has been making experimental and noise music for over 8 years. His music from the 1997-2001 era can be described as dark ambient. Kush's current music is far different, varying from industrial/electro, bhangra, and Indian classical.
[edit] Older artists on RLR (prior to 2002)
Brian Eyes, one of the lesser known artists on RLR, was hailed as "the long lost brother of Brian Eno". His albums included "Music for Carports" and 20 others in the same series for every room in the listeners house. "Music from Carports" is parody album of Music for Airports by Brian Eno.
"A Contact Mic in....." was an experimental music group that released a monthly series on RLR that featured an entire 74 minute long contact mic recording in a different, usually silly environment for each installment. One of the more memorable ones was "A contact mic in a rave".
