AIP Records
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| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder(s) | Greg Shaw |
| Distributing label | Bomp! Records |
| Genre(s) | Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Rock and Roll |
| Country of origin | US |
| Official Website | http://www.bomp.com/aip.html |
AIP Records is a record label that was started by Greg Shaw's Bomp! Records, being launched in 1983 to continue the Pebbles series. The first 10 volumes in the Pebbles series had been released by BFD Records of Kookaburra, Australia in 1979-1980 and have been kept in print by AIP for many years. Including those in the companion Highs in the Mid-Sixties series – which concentrated on American regional music scenes – there are over 50 LP's covering some 800 obscure, mostly American "Original Punk Rock" songs recorded in the mid-1960's – primarily known today as the garage rock and psychedelic rock genres – that were previously known only to a handful of collectors. Two similar series of LP's featuring British music were released in the ensuing years, the English Freakbeat series and Electric Sugar Cube Flashbacks series. Although LP's are still available from the Bomp! Records website, none are being manufactured any longer, and many are now out of print, including all of the Freakbeat and Flashbacks discs. The abbreviation AIP stands for "Archive International Productions".
AIP also issued numerous CD's in the English Freakbeat series and Pebbles series, with the first 6 Pebbles volumes being basically the same as the LP's, with bonus tracks. (The 6th Pebbles album was actually reissued more appropriately as the 6th CD in the English Freakbeat series, since this LP also featured British music). Later Pebbles CD's were taken from particular regions, like the Highs series. More recently, AIP has begun the Essential Pebbles series and Planetary Pebbles series. With the exception of an album called New Fruit by Sky Saxon, former leader of the Seeds, and an individual compilation album, Surfbeat From Behind the Iron Curtain, all of the AIP releases are in one of these series.
