Sound-O-Mat (label)

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1 Sound-O-Mat Recordings
- 1.1 Currently Signed Bands
- 1.2 The Music for Séances Project
2 References
- 2.1 See also
- 2.2 External links

[edit] Sound-O-Mat Recordings

In 2000, a new division of The Sound-O-Mat Studio was started with the addition of a "boutique" independent record label operating under the same name (which has unfortunately led to some confusion.) Its purpose was to release recordings from the projects of particular groups, such as Austere and their side-projects, all of which had done work with the The Sound-O-Mat Studio, hence the description as a "boutique record label".

In 2006 the business continued to operate as a post-production studio with the record label name being changed to 'Sound-O-Mat Recordings' to differentiate the record label from the audio services studio. The record label does not sell products directly, but rather through distributors such as Hypnos (US), CD Baby (US), CD Jam (Japan), and ping things (Canada). The bands on the label also sell some releases directly from their own Web sites.

The musicians on the label are primaryily ambient artists but one solo side-project, The Mystifying Oracle, produces percussive electronic music which they originally called "psybient", short for "psychedelic ambient", a term that has since taken its own meaning, and tends towards downtempo and Trip Hop styles, as well as heavily Middle Eastern-influenced ethic music. While The The Sound-O-Mat Studio works on a wide variety of genres and styles of music, Sound-O-Mat Recordings is primarily focused on ambient and electronic music.

[edit] Currently Signed Bands

The following is a list of bands that are current under contract and signed to the Sound-O-Mat Recordings record label:

Austere
The Mystifying Oracle
Freq. Magnet

[edit] The Music for Séances Project

Starting in 2002, Sound-O-Mat Recordings began producing a series of "audio art pieces" for the Art*O*Mat project, called Music for Séances (or MFS for short.) This was the first and to date (03:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)) the only audio-based artwork available from an Art*O*Mat machine. The project set out to create 13 original pieces in two editions of 50, one set of 50 sold through Art*O*Mat machines, the other sold directly from The Sound-O-Mat Studio.

Art*O*Mat machines are vintage cigarette dispensers decorated and rebuilt to dispense small pieces of artwork either the size of or in boxes that match the dimensions of a pack of cigarettes.

The Music for Seances project, which took four years to complete, consisted of requitioning one-of-a-kind music tracks written to vaguely follow a theme. They were then edited and mastered at The Sound -O-Mat Studio and packaged in the style of one of many vintage Talking Boards, with the CD containing the song (which was limited to 5 minutes and 23 seconds or less in length) decorated as a Talking Board itself. Each box also came with Template:Todo:Expand

The following are bands/musicians who have had material released by the record label, all part of the Music for Séances series done for the Art*O*Mat project.