Exit Stencil Recordings
Exit Stencil Recordings is an American independent record label based in Brooklyn. The label was founded by Brandon Stevens in 2002 [1] in Cleveland, Ohio. Ryan Weitzel joined in 2004 with Paul Murphy following shortly afterward to form the core of the label. The label is named after a play on the word existential. During the time in Cleveland, Ryan and Brandon helped operated a short lived multipurpose warehouse space called Parish Hall and the Miller Weitzel Gallery which both served as the labels home base. The spaces were centered around creative endeavors with a DIY ethic[2].
Although Exit Stencil Recordings moved their offices to Brooklyn in 2010, the label continues to be the flagship label of Cleveland indie music. The label operated a digital and analog recording studio in the Waterloo Arts District of Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood from 2008 - 2010. The eclectic sounds of Exit Stencil Recordings disparate member bands is simply explained by the owners' personal tastes, but the bands are each recognized for doing something creative in their respective genres [3].
Bands
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Past Bands
- roué
- This Moment in Black History
- Spanish Prisoners
- Coffinberry
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Discography
- ESR 031 Company - Holy City (2011) LP
- ESR 030 Herzog - Search (2011) LP
- ESR 029 Dreadful Yawns - Picnic (2010) LP
- ESR 028 HotChaCha - Fantastic Static (2010) EP
- ESR 027 The New Lou Reeds - Hit Songs (2010) LP
- ESR 026 Mystery of Two - Color Me (2010) Cassette
- ESR 025 Like Bells - Palma (2010) LP
- ESR 024 HotChaCha - The Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars (2009) LP/CD
- ESR 023 Mystery of Two - the album (2009) LP
- ESR 022 Blake Miller - Burn Tape (2009) CD/Cassette
- ESR 021 Like Bells - Like Bells (2009) LP/CD
- ESR 020 Mystery of Two - Gravity (2008) Digital Single
- ESR 019 Dreadful Yawns - Take Shape (2008) LP/CD
- ESR 018 HotChaCha - Rifle, I knew you when you were just a pistol (2008) EP
- ESR 017 roué - Totally F***ing Totally (2007) EP
- ESR 016 Spanish Prisoners - Songs To Forget (2008) LP/CD
- ESR 015 ESR Oil And Water Sampler (2007) CD
- ESR 014 Blake Miller/Julie Sokolow - Tomorrow Sorrow/Pathetic Fish (2007) Single
- ESR 013 Mystery of Two - Arrows Are All You Know (2007) CD
- ESR 012 The Dreadful Yawns - Rest (2007) CD
- ESR 011 This Moment In Black History - About Last Night (2006) 7" Single
- ESR 010 Blake Miller - Together with Cats (2007) CD
- ESR 009 The New Lou Reeds - Top Billin' (2006) CD
- ESR 008 The New Lou Reeds - Looking for a Boogaloo (2006) 7" Single w/ Shandi Records
- ESR 007 Home and Garden - History and Geography w/ bonus I Spent My Vacation (1982, remastered and reissued 2005) EP
- ESR 006 roué - upward heroic motive (2005) CD
- ESR 005 Mystery of Two - self-titled (2004) EP
- ESR 004 The New Lou Reeds - Screwed (2003) CD
- ESR ??? This Moment in Black History - The Cleveland Finger EP (2003) CD
- ESR 002 Coffinberry - The Spins (2002) EP
- ESR 001 CD Brandon Stevens - The Person With The Telescope Is Me (2002) EP
Compilations
- ESR Oil And Water Sampler (2007)
See also
References
- ^ http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=7AA9ED8B8B0749BCBB8A81CA65F1DED4
- ^ CoolCleveland.com
- ^ Plain Dealer 2009
External links
Interviews