FIRE.inc.
FIRE.inc. was an Icelandic independent record label run by Heimir Björgúlfsson between 1993 and 2003.
History
FIRE.inc. started as a collective of four bands who put on a couple of concerts together at a small run down basement space of a building complex called Hlaðvarpinn in downtown Reykjavík, Iceland, the same space is now a luxury Spanish Tapas Restaurant. The bands Stilluppsteypa, Curver, Púff and Kolrassa Krókríðandi managed to gather enough funds from the concerts that they decided to put out a compilation release. The "F.I.R.E." CD was released late 1993.
In autumn 1993 FIRE.inc. also began organizing concerts in Iceland for bands from abroad, the first being the Scottish, Dutch based, band Dog Faced Hermans. Between 1994 and 1996 further bands played under the FIRE.inc. banner in Iceland, such as God is my Co-Pilot from New York, Dawson from Scotland, Keuhkot and Radiopuhelimet from Finland and Spaceheads from England.
Since 1994 the label fell into the sole hands of Heimir Björgúlfsson of Stilluppsteypa who directed it towards a more experimental direction. He moved the label to The Netherlands in 1997 and took up a manufacturing and distribution deal with Staalplaat in Amsterdam which lasted until the label was put to rest in 2003.
Releases
- cat.no. f -1 Various Artists "F.I.R.E." CD (1993)
- cat.no. f-2 Stilluppsteypa + Curver "Inside AM / Make Star Shine" 7"single (1994)
- cat.no. f-3 Plastik "Hérna" Audiocassette (1994)
- cat.no. f-4 unreleased
- cat.no. f-5 unreleased
- cat.no. f-6 The Hafler Trio "The Day I Married The World" 7" single (1996)
- cat.no. f-7 irr. app. (ext.) "An Uncertain Animal, Ruptured; Tissue Expanding In Conversation" CD (1997)
- cat.no. f -8 Stilluppsteypa "One Side Mona Lisa - The Front Side Only" CD e.p. (1997)
- cat.no. f-9 Reptilicus "Craters" 7" e.p. (1996)
- cat.no. f-10 The Hafler Trio "Whistling About Chickens" double CD (2003)
- cat.no. f-11 Stock, Hausen & Walkman "Empty Box" 10" e.p. (1997)
- cat.no. f-13 Stilluppsteypa & irr. app. (ext.) "Tpith Or Tetapth" CD (1997)
- cat.no. f-14 Carl Michael Von Hausswolff "How To Make Things Happen In The Bunker Via The Micro Way" CD (1997)
- cat.no. f-15 Stilluppsteypa "Reduce By Reducing" 12" single and CD e.p. (1998)
- cat.no. f-16 Skúli Sverrisson & Anthony Burr "Desist" CD (1999)
- cat.no. f-17 Akira Yamamichi "Pulse Beats" 3" CD e.p. (1999)
- cat.no. f-18 Heimir Björgúlfsson "The Opposite" 3" CD e.p. (1999)
- cat.no. f-19 Vindva Mei "On Fire" CD (2000)
- cat.no. f-20 Stilluppsteypa "Not A Laughing Matter, But Rather A Matter Of Laughs" CD e.p. (2000)
- cat.no. f-21 Akira Yamamichi "Sémiologie" CD (2001)
- cat.no. f-22 TV Pow "Despite Ourselves" 3" CD e.p. (2001)
- cat.no. f-23 Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson "This One Comes Highly Recommended" CD (2002)
- cat.no. f-24 The Vacuum Boys "Play Songs From The Sea Of Love" CD (2002)