Chapter Music
| Chapter Music | |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 1992 |
| Founder | Guy Blackman |
| Genre | various |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Location | Northcote, Victoria |
| Official website | Chapter Music |
Chapter Music is one of Australia's longest-running independent record labels,[1] and is considered one of Melbourne's established and well-respected independent labels.[2][3][4] The label's 2013 roster features bands such as Dick Diver, Beaches and Twerps.
History
The label was founded by Guy Blackman in Perth, Western Australia in June 1992, after he released several issues of a Syd Barrett-inspired fanzine called Chapter 24,[5] started in October 1990, when Blackman was seventeen.[6] Initially, Blackman released compilation cassettes of local Perth underground bands, the first of which was Bright Lights, Small City in July 1992.[7] A Sonic Youth tribute tape[2] called Kill Yr Idols! was the label's next release, followed by a new fanzine called Salty & Delicious. The label released a further eight cassettes (mostly compilations), one CD, and four issues of the fanzine prior to Blackman's relocation to Melbourne, Australia.
Blackman relocated to Melbourne in mid-1995,[5] where he released Chapter Music's first seven-inch vinyl single, pressed at Corduroy Records, a new pressing plant in Australia at the time.[8] The single, a Molasses/Minimum Chips split single, was released in September 1995.[8] This was followed by a seven-inch single by Perth band Sulk, with a third release, a split single for Sleepy Township/Cannanes[8] released in October 1996.
Chapter Music has worked with a broad range of mostly Australian artists, in genres such as rock and roll, indie pop, post punk, country and western and folk. Between 1992 and 2013, around 45 titles have been released by Chapter Music, including several compilation albums, such as Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 and Songs For Nao.[9][10] The label briefly closed for 18 months in 2002 when Blackman relocated to Japan.[11]
Accolades
In December 2013, Chapter Music artists Dick Diver, Primitive Calculators, Bushwalking and Beaches featured in the critics' lists of the mess + noise and Guardian websites, as they selected their best Australian albums of 2013. Dick Diver's Calendar Days was voted into the number 1 position by the Guardian critics;[12][13] the album was then voted into the number 1 position of the mess + noise 2013 readers poll.[14] In BuzzFeed's "The Very Best Australian Albums Of 2013" list, published on 29 December 2013, both Beaches and Dick Diver appeared.[15]
Artists
- Always
- Beaches
- Bum Creek
- Bushwalking
- Chris Robison
- The Cannanes
- Clag
- Clare Moore
- Coolies
- The Crayon Fields
- Danny & the Parkins Sisters
- David Chesworth
- Dick Diver
- Fabulous Diamonds
- Frida Hyvönen
- Geoffrey O’Connor
- Guy Blackman
- Hit The Jackpot
- Jonny Telafone
- Kath Bloom
- Kath Bloom & Loren Connors
- Lakes
- Laura Jean
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz
- New Estate
- Pikelet
- Primitive Calculators
- Richard Lockwood
- Sachiko Kanenobu
- Standish/Carlyon
- Tenniscoats
- The Apartments
- The Cannanes
- The Stevens
- Tully
- Twerps
- Woelv[16]
See also
References
- ↑ "Chapter Music". AIR. Retrieved 4 January 211.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sounds Australia @ CMJ 2010" (pdf). APRA/AMCOS. p. 6. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ Rule, Dan (20 June 2008). "Labelled with love". The Age. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ "Victoria Rocks Music to the Ears of Winning Artists". Arts Victoria. 9 July 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lush, Brian (September 2008). "Rockwired interviews Guy Blackman". Rockwired. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ "Chapter Music". Australian Network. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ Schaefer, Renae (28 December 2008). "Passion for Pop". Mess + Noise. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Chapter Music". Corduroy Records. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ "Songs For Nao CD – OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS". Chapter Music. Chapter Music. February 2005. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ↑ "Can’t Stop It! CD- OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS". Chapter Music. Chapter Music. December 2001. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ↑ Guy Blackman (December 2013). "History". Chapter Music. Chapter Music. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ↑ "The 10 best Australian albums of 2013". The Guardian. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ↑ "M+N Critics Poll 2013". mess + noise. mess + noise p/l. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ↑ "M+N Readers Poll 2013". mess + noise. mess + noise p/l. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
- ↑ Brad Esposito (29 December 2013). "The Very Best Australian Albums Of 2013". BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed, Inc. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ↑ "Artists". Chapter Music. Chapter Music. December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.