Ache Records
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Ache Records is an independent record label
based in Vancouver
, British Columbia
, Canada
. It was started by musician Andy Dixon around 1999. Ache releases music for both Canadian and international acts. The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot Heat
's 1999 debut, Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Other notable artists to work with Ache include Death from Above 1979
, Four Tet
, Hrvatski
, Konono N°1
, and Matmos
.
Ache Records releases albums from various disparate genres—University of Saskatchewan
newspaper The Sheaf
states Ache has an "inconsistency of genres"—and the label distances itself from using genres to describe its releases. Ache has been described by the Montreal Mirror
as having an "uncanny ability to meld seemingly disparate worlds into a cohesive whole". Discorder magazine named Ache Records "Label of the Year" for 2004, citing a featured review on Pitchfork Media
for Flössin's album Lead Singer, as well as the label's DIV/ORCE 7" series.
's 1999 debut, Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Hot Hot Heat also recorded a split album
with The Red Light Sting for the label's (and Hot Hot Heat's) second release.
Andy Dixon's first band, d.b.s.
, released their final album on Ache in 2001, a five song EP entitled Forget Everything You Know
. One thousand copies were issued. Dixon has also released several of his solo albums through the label (as The Epidemic, Secret Mommy, and by his real name), and with the bands The Red Light Sting and Winning.
Femme Fatale's second album, As You Sow, So Shall You Reap
, was released by Ache in 2002.
Death from Above 1979
released their 2002 debut Heads Up EP on Ache, as well as the vinyl edition of their 2004 album You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
.
Swedish band Kid Commando
released their only album, Holy Kid Commando, with Ache in 2003. They also released a split single with Kid606
for Ache's DIV/ORCE 7" series.
Congolese band Konono N°1
released the vinyl version of their 2004 album Congotronics
through Ache. Ache has issued three pressings of the album.
states the pairings on these albums are typically between electronic
and indie rock
acts. The split releases in this series include:
or electro-acoustic musicians. These musicians were given a single sample of music, a recording of a bicycle recorded by Jesse Gander at Vancouver's Hive Studios, and they were tasked with composing a song using only that sample.
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
based in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It was started by musician Andy Dixon around 1999. Ache releases music for both Canadian and international acts. The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot Heat
Hot Hot Heat
Hot Hot Heat is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1999 from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.-Career:Dustin Hawthorne and Steve Bays had been in many different bands together since 1995 and met Hawley in 1998. In 1999, Hawley bought a Juno 6 keyboard and asked Bays to try playing it, as no one...
's 1999 debut, Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Other notable artists to work with Ache include Death from Above 1979
Death from Above 1979
Death from Above 1979 are a Toronto-based Canadian dance-punk/noise rock duo. Their album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011.-History:...
, Four Tet
Four Tet
Kieran Hebden is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist under the moniker of Four Tet....
, Hrvatski
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Keith Fullerton Whitman is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski...
, Konono N°1
Konono N°1
Konono Nº1 is a Grammy nominated musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembé with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard...
, and Matmos
Matmos
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...
.
Ache Records releases albums from various disparate genres—University of Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan is a Canadian public research university, founded in 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. An "Act to establish and incorporate a University for the Province of Saskatchewan" was passed by the...
newspaper The Sheaf
The Sheaf
The Sheaf is a student run newspaper serving the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan since 1912. A new issue comes out every Thursday with approximately 9,000 copies per issue.The Sheaf is a student-run non-profit organization...
states Ache has an "inconsistency of genres"—and the label distances itself from using genres to describe its releases. Ache has been described by the Montreal Mirror
Montreal Mirror
Montreal Mirror is a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a circulation of 70,000, and reaches a quarter of a million readers per week. It is published by Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée....
as having an "uncanny ability to meld seemingly disparate worlds into a cohesive whole". Discorder magazine named Ache Records "Label of the Year" for 2004, citing a featured review on Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
for Flössin's album Lead Singer, as well as the label's DIV/ORCE 7" series.
Ache Records releases
The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot HeatHot Hot Heat
Hot Hot Heat is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1999 from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.-Career:Dustin Hawthorne and Steve Bays had been in many different bands together since 1995 and met Hawley in 1998. In 1999, Hawley bought a Juno 6 keyboard and asked Bays to try playing it, as no one...
's 1999 debut, Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Hot Hot Heat also recorded a split album
Split album
A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...
with The Red Light Sting for the label's (and Hot Hot Heat's) second release.
Andy Dixon's first band, d.b.s.
D.b.s.
d.b.s. were a punk rock band from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. From their beginnings in 1992 to their eventual breakup in 2001, they gained popularity in the Canadian punk rock scene d.b.s. were a punk rock band from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. From their beginnings in...
, released their final album on Ache in 2001, a five song EP entitled Forget Everything You Know
Forget Everything You Know
Forget Everything You Know is the final album released by the North Vancouver punk band d.b.s. It was released by Ache Records on April 1, 2001. Only 1000 copies were pressed.The band's sound on this album has been likened to The Promise Ring....
. One thousand copies were issued. Dixon has also released several of his solo albums through the label (as The Epidemic, Secret Mommy, and by his real name), and with the bands The Red Light Sting and Winning.
Femme Fatale's second album, As You Sow, So Shall You Reap
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap is a seven-song EP released in 2002 by Femme Fatale. This album was only released on vinyl and was released in a limited amount of 1,000 copies.-Track listing:# "Blood Money " – 0:36...
, was released by Ache in 2002.
Death from Above 1979
Death from Above 1979
Death from Above 1979 are a Toronto-based Canadian dance-punk/noise rock duo. Their album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011.-History:...
released their 2002 debut Heads Up EP on Ache, as well as the vinyl edition of their 2004 album You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine is an album by Canadian band Death from Above 1979, released on October 26, 2004 by Vice Records in the United States, Last Gang Records in Canada, Ache Records on vinyl, and Victor Entertainment in Japan...
.
Swedish band Kid Commando
Kid Commando
Kid Commando was a band from Sweden founded in 1998. They were influenced by Arab on Radar and various noise rock bands. Kid Commando disbanded in 2005 after releasing several 7"s and a debut album entitled Holy Kid Commando in 2003...
released their only album, Holy Kid Commando, with Ache in 2003. They also released a split single with Kid606
Kid606
Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost De Pedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco...
for Ache's DIV/ORCE 7" series.
Congolese band Konono N°1
Konono N°1
Konono Nº1 is a Grammy nominated musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembé with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard...
released the vinyl version of their 2004 album Congotronics
Congotronics
Congotronics is the official debut album by Konono Nº1. It was released in 2004. by Crammed Discs. It has won the band massive favour in the dance and alternative rock scenes as well as in world music circles and in the North American and European media....
through Ache. Ache has issued three pressings of the album.
DIV/ORCE 7" series
The DIV/ORCE 7" series features split 7" singles, with the musicians on both sides having different musical styles. The series began in order to challenge what Ache Records calls "finicky sub-genrifying", believing instead that "underground art forms should not be defined". Although Ache does not describe the genres of its releases, the Montreal MirrorMontreal Mirror
Montreal Mirror is a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a circulation of 70,000, and reaches a quarter of a million readers per week. It is published by Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée....
states the pairings on these albums are typically between electronic
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
and indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
acts. The split releases in this series include:
- ACHE013 – Hella / Four Tet
- ACHE016 – MatmosMatmosMatmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...
/ Die Monitr Batss - ACHE019 – Sightings / HrvatskiKeith Fullerton WhitmanKeith Fullerton Whitman is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski...
- ACHE023 – Kid606Kid606Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost De Pedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco...
/ Kid CommandoKid CommandoKid Commando was a band from Sweden founded in 1998. They were influenced by Arab on Radar and various noise rock bands. Kid Commando disbanded in 2005 after releasing several 7"s and a debut album entitled Holy Kid Commando in 2003... - ACHE028 – Greg DavisGreg Davis (musician)Greg Davis is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums drawing from a wide variety of sources, including guitar, field recording, various world / ethnic / traditional instruments, percussion, and voice, all delicately processed through digital manipulation...
/ Of - ACHE031 – Gorge TrioGorge TrioGorge Trio is an American experimental rock band based in Oakland, California. It is composed of three-fourths of the critically acclaimed math rock band Colossamite, which disbanded in 1998, and is survived by three releases on Skin Graft Records....
/ Uske Orchestra - ACHE035 – Bulbs / Wobbly
- ACHE039 – The Secret Mommy Quintet / Basketball
Project: Bicycle
Another project of Ache Records was their compilation album Project: Bicycle. The album had eleven songs by various electronicElectronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
or electro-acoustic musicians. These musicians were given a single sample of music, a recording of a bicycle recorded by Jesse Gander at Vancouver's Hive Studios, and they were tasked with composing a song using only that sample.