Load Records is an independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island, specializing in noise and experimental music. Load Records was started in 1993 by Ben McOsker in order to release a 7-inch record for the band Boss Fuel. The label quickly became the most prominent source for noise music coming out of the Providence scene.
Bands such as Lightning Bolt, Noxagt, Sightings, Landed, Arab on Radar, Brainbombs, The White Mice, and Pink and Brown have released records through Load. Load Records has also re-released records originating from other labels, such as the United States release of Close Calls with Brick Walls by Andrew W.K.[1] and the vinyl editions of The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project by Men's Recovery Project[2] and Things Viral by Khanate.[3]
This list is organized by catalog number, a roughly chronological number system established by the label and typically printed on or assigned to each official release.
Year | No. | Artist | Title | Co-releases |
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1993 | 1 | Boss Fuel | Just Like Everybody Else Would / Bender | |
2 | Von Ryan Express | Up on the Block | ||
1994 | 3 | Boss Fuel | The Ride / Rumble Mambo | |
4 | Golden Touch | Hits the Sweet Spot | ||
1995 | 5 | Pistolwhip | Devil Deep / Seeing Red | |
6 | Thee Hydrogen Terrors | The Erotic Adventures of Thee Hydrogen Terrors |
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1996 | 7 | The Scissor Girls | So that You can Start to See what S-T-A-T-I-C-L-A-N-D |
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8 | Six Finger Satellite | Clone Theory | ||
9 | various artists | Repopulation Program | ||
10 | — | — | ||
11 | — | — | ||
1997 | 12 | Lightning Bolt / Forcefield | split | |
13 | John Von Ryan | Organs vs. Furniture | ||
14 | Gerty Farish | Bulks Up[4] | ||
15 | Olneyville Sound System | Because We're All In It Together | ||
16 | — | — | ||
1998 | 17 | Astoveboat | New Bedford | |
18 | Landed | Dairy 4 Dinner | ||
19 | — | — | ||
2000 | 20 | Men's Recovery Project | Bolides over Basra | |
21 | — | — | ||
1999 | 22 | Brainbombs | Urge to Kill | |
1998 | 23 | Arab on Radar | Swimming with a Hard-On | |
24 | Pleasurehorse | Dropdead Deconstructed | Over the Counter Records | |
1999 | 25 | various artists | You're Soaking in It | |
26 | Lightning Bolt | Lightning Bolt | ||
27 | Brainbombs | Singles Compilation | ||
28 | — | — | ||
2000 | 29 | Lightning Bolt | Conan | |
30 | Mystery Brinkman / Pleasurehorse | split | ||
2001 | 31 | Lightning Bolt | Ride the Skies | |
2003 | 32 | Hawd Gankstuh Rappuhs MC's (Wid Ghatz) |
Wake Up and Smell the Piss | |
2001 | 33 | Vaz | Demonstrations in Micronesia | |
34 | Brainbombs | Cheap | ||
2002 | 35 | Sightings | Sightings | |
36 | Pink and Brown / Death Drug | split | ||
37 | Olneyville Sound System | What is True, What is False | ||
2003 | 38 | Forcefield | Roggaboggas | |
39 | Pleasurehorse | Bareskinrug | ||
40 | Lightning Bolt | The Power of Salad | ||
41 | Wonderful Rainbow | |||
42 | Neon Hunk | Smarmymob | ||
43 | — | — | ||
2003 | 44 | Noxagt | Turning it Down Since 2001 | |
45 | Pink and Brown | Shame Fantasy II | ||
46 | Friends Forever | Killball | ||
47 | Viki / Hair Police | split | ||
48 | Sightings | Absolutes | ||
49 | Khanate | No Joy (Remix) | ||
2004 | 50 | various artists | Pick a Winner | |
2003 | 51 | Vincebus Eruptum | Vincebus Eruptum | |
52 | Mr. California and the State Police | Audio Hallucinations | ||
53 | Kites | Royal Paint with the Metallic Gardener from the United States Helped into an Open Field by Women and Children |
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54 | Total Shutdown | The Album | Tigerbeat6 | |
55 | Khanate | Things Viral | Southern Lord Records | |
56 | USAISAMONSTER | Tasheyana Compost | ||
2004 | 57 | Noxagt | The Iron Point | |
58 | Necronomitron | Necronomitron | ||
2005 | 59 | Mindflayer | It's Always 1999 | Ooo Mau Mau Records |
2004 | 60 | Metalux | Waiting for Armadillo | |
61 | Nautical Almanac | Rooting for the Microbes | ||
62 | Kites / Prurient | split | ||
63 | Fat Day | Unf! Unf! | ||
64 | Burmese | Men | ||
65 | Sightings | Arrived in Gold | ||
2005 | 66 | The White Mice | ASSPhIXXXEATEASHUN | |
67 | Coughs | Fright Makes Right | ||
68 | Excepter | Throne | ||
2006 | 69 | Noxagt | Noxagt | |
2005 | 70 | Ultralyd | Chromosome Gun | |
71 | Hospitals | I've Visited the Islands of Jocks and Jazz | ||
72 | Prurient | Black Vase | ||
2006 | 73 | Vampire Can't | Key Cutter | |
74 | Fat Worm of Error | Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies |
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2005 | 75 | Men's Recovery Project | The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project | 5 Rue Christine |
76 | USAISAMONSTER | Wohaw | ||
77 | — | — | ||
2005 | 78 | Lightning Bolt | Hypermagic Mountain | |
2006 | 79 | Impractical Cockpit | To be Treated | |
80 | Wizardzz | Hidden City of Taurmond | ||
2005 | 81 | Kites | Peace Trials | |
2006 | 82 | Metalux / John Wiese | Exoteric | |
83 | — | — | ||
2006 | 84 | USAISAMONSTER | Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age | |
85 | — | — | ||
2006 | 86 | Diskaholics | Live in Japan, v.1 | |
87 | various artists | Fun From None: Live at the No Fun Fest 2004 - 2005 |
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88 | Coughs | Secret Passage | ||
89 | Barkley's Barnyard Critters | Mystery Tail | ||
90 | Yellow Swans | Psychic Secession | ||
91 | Ovo | Miastenia | ||
92 | — | — | ||
2006 | 93 | Landed | Times I Despise | |
94 | Gang Wizard | Byzantine Headache | ||
95 | Paper Rad | Trash Talking | ||
2007 | 96 | Yellow Swans | At All Ends | |
97 | Justice Yeldham | Live in School | ||
2006 | 98 | Noise Nomads | Noise Nomads | |
2007 | 99 | The White Mice | BLasssTPhlEgMEICE | |
100 | — | — | ||
2006 | 101 | Prurient | Pleasure Ground | |
2008 | 102 | Shit and Shine | Kuss Mich, Meine Liebe | |
2007 | 103 | Mouthus | Saw a Halo | |
104 | Silver Daggers | New High & Ord | ||
105 | Hetero Skeleton | En La Sombre Del Pejaro Velludo | ||
106 | Air Conditioning | Dead Rails | ||
107 | Sword Heaven | Entrance | ||
108 | Monotract | Trueno Oscuro | ||
109 | Clockcleaner | Babylon Rules | ||
2009 | 110 | Homostupids | The Load | |
2007 | 111 | Andrew W.K. | Close Calls with Brick Walls | Universal Records |
112 | Business Lady | Torture Footage | ||
113 | Kites | Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship | ||
114 | DJ Scotch Egg | Drumized | ||
115 | Landed | How Little Will it Take | ||
116 | — | — | ||
117 | — | — | ||
118 | — | — | ||
2007 | 119 | Sightings | Through the Panama | Ecstatic Peace![5] |
2009 | 120 | Ovo | Croce Via | |
2008 | 121 | Harry Pussy | You'll Never Play This Town Again | |
122 | USAISAMONSTER | Space Programs | ||
2009 | 123 | Dead | Rusted Shut | |
124 | — | — | ||
2009 | 125 | Six Finger Satellite | Half Control | |
126 | Lightning Bolt | Earthly Delights |
"—" denotes unassigned catalog numbers.