Etcetc
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Etcetc Records is an independent record label based in Sydney
, Australia
. Focusing on signing, developing, and distributing music from a small selection of career artists, etcetc is the home to alternative and electronic bands PNAU
, Mission Control, Lost Valentinos
and Jump Jump Dance Dance. It is also the Australian home of different releases such as Mylo
's Destroy Rock & Roll and The Knife
's Deep Cuts.
etcetc is manufactured and marketed in Australia
and New Zealand
by Universal Music Australia and operates with various international partners outside of its home territory.
in August 2008 by Andrew Jackson, Tim McGee and Richard Mergler, etcetc was originally launched in March 2007 as a trading name within the Ministry of Sound
Australia business to focus on artist album
projects until becoming fully independent.
In 2004 when Jackson was A&R / Recordings Manager for Ministry of Sound Australia, he signed Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll to the label. Released through EMI
Australia, who Ministry were distributed by at the time, the album went on to achieve Gold status in Australia (currently awaiting ARIA certification). Later licenses included The Knife's Deep Cuts and critically acclaimed follow-up Silent Shout (named the #1 Album of the Year in 2006 by alternative media site Pitchfork Media
), WhoMadeWho's self-titled debut, and Jenny Wilson's Love & Youth.
In March 2007 after a successful run of album projects, Jackson and McGee decided to create a dedicated brand for these releases, named etcetc. The first release under the new brand was Digitalism's Idealism, in partnership with Virgin Music to whom the band were signed worldwide.
In December 2007, Ministry of Sound Australia and etcetc changed distribution partners from EMI Australia to Universal Music Australia. The first release on etcetc through Universal was the self-titled comeback album from PNAU (a.k.a. Nick Littlemore
and Peter Mayes
, who later went on to produce the hugely successful Empire of the Sun
album). Having signed the Sydney duo in 2007 and spending almost a year bringing the album mixes to completion with the help of producer and mix engineer Sam Littlemore
[3], etcetc released PNAU's third album in October 2007.
In February 2008, etcetc signed Melbourne band Mission Control and released their debut EP
soon after. Acclaimed as “sublime, understated pop” by The Sydney Morning Herald
, the EP also converted Australian youth broadcast network Triple J
as fans - earning Mission Control a feature as a Next Crop artist for 2009. The accompanying film clip (for the title track) was directed by the production house Krozm. Mission Control are currently working on recording demos for their debut album for release in 2010.
In October 2008, etcetc signed Sydney band Lost Valentinos
to the label and started promotion on their debut album Cities Of Gold, produced over the previous two years in collaboration with producer Ewan Pearson
. The first single was The Bismarck in December, released on tastemaker label Bang Gang 12 Inches, and then Serio in February 2009, featuring a video directed by video director Dave Ma. The single Midnights followed as a one-off release on Leo Silverman's boutique label Dummy, featuring remixes from Fan Death and Emperor Machine, and supported by a few select European performances received acclaim from NME
, The Guardian
, and frequent plays from BBC Radio One's
Zane Lowe
.
In September of that year, etcetc and Lost Valentinos ran a national promotion giving fans the chance to win a trip for two to Peru to discover the inspiration for the album Cities Of Gold, to coincide with the album's release on 09.09.09. Rare gold coins were distributed at performances around Australia, pointing recipients back to the band's website to enter into a treasure hunt to win the prize. This promotion was quickly followed by another for their next single Nightmoves. The project allowed fans to create and share their own unique music videos by recording augmented reality
performances of each band member performing in their world.
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Focusing on signing, developing, and distributing music from a small selection of career artists, etcetc is the home to alternative and electronic bands PNAU
Pnau
Pnau is an Australian dance music duo originating from Sydney, Australia. The duo consists of musicians Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes...
, Mission Control, Lost Valentinos
Lost Valentinos
Lost Valentinos are a band from Sydney, Australia. They released two EPs under the band name The Valentinos but changed their name in mid 2007 to Lost Valentinos due to the threat of legal action by soul artists from the 1950s, Bobby Womack & The Valentinos...
and Jump Jump Dance Dance. It is also the Australian home of different releases such as Mylo
Mylo
Myles MacInnes , better known by the stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer.-Career:...
's Destroy Rock & Roll and The Knife
The Knife
The Knife are a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg, formed in 1999. The group consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records. They first received international attention after their song "Heartbeats", covered by...
's Deep Cuts.
etcetc is manufactured and marketed in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
by Universal Music Australia and operates with various international partners outside of its home territory.
History
Founded as a companyCompany
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
in August 2008 by Andrew Jackson, Tim McGee and Richard Mergler, etcetc was originally launched in March 2007 as a trading name within the Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...
Australia business to focus on artist album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
projects until becoming fully independent.
In 2004 when Jackson was A&R / Recordings Manager for Ministry of Sound Australia, he signed Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll to the label. Released through EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
Australia, who Ministry were distributed by at the time, the album went on to achieve Gold status in Australia (currently awaiting ARIA certification). Later licenses included The Knife's Deep Cuts and critically acclaimed follow-up Silent Shout (named the #1 Album of the Year in 2006 by alternative media site 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...
), WhoMadeWho's self-titled debut, and Jenny Wilson's Love & Youth.
In March 2007 after a successful run of album projects, Jackson and McGee decided to create a dedicated brand for these releases, named etcetc. The first release under the new brand was Digitalism's Idealism, in partnership with Virgin Music to whom the band were signed worldwide.
In December 2007, Ministry of Sound Australia and etcetc changed distribution partners from EMI Australia to Universal Music Australia. The first release on etcetc through Universal was the self-titled comeback album from PNAU (a.k.a. Nick Littlemore
Nick Littlemore
Nick Littlemore is an Australian musician and producer, known as frontman of electronic act Pnau and one part of electro pop-duo Empire of the Sun . He is also member of art-rock band Teenager Nick Littlemore is an Australian musician and producer, known as frontman of electronic act Pnau (with...
and Peter Mayes
Peter Mayes
Peter Mayes is an Australian musician and producer. He widely known for being a leading member of dance act Pnau. He is long time collaborator with Nick Littlemore and has produced and mixed many of his projects, most notably the platinum selling album Walking on a Dream for Empire of the Sun, and...
, who later went on to produce the hugely successful Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun (band)
Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo that formed in 2008. The duo is composed of Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson and Nick Littlemore of Pnau. The two met in 2000 after both being signed to the same record label. Luke and Nick knew that they instantly had a chemistry like no other...
album). Having signed the Sydney duo in 2007 and spending almost a year bringing the album mixes to completion with the help of producer and mix engineer Sam Littlemore
Sam Littlemore
Sam Littlemore, also known as Sam La More, is an Australian record producer and recording artist working in Hollywood, Sydney and London. Littlemore is best known for his work with Tonite Only and his production work with Nellee Hooper and Gwen Stefani, including Gwen's debut solo hit "What You...
[3], etcetc released PNAU's third album in October 2007.
In February 2008, etcetc signed Melbourne band Mission Control and released their debut EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
soon after. Acclaimed as “sublime, understated pop” by The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
, the EP also converted Australian youth broadcast network Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
as fans - earning Mission Control a feature as a Next Crop artist for 2009. The accompanying film clip (for the title track) was directed by the production house Krozm. Mission Control are currently working on recording demos for their debut album for release in 2010.
In October 2008, etcetc signed Sydney band Lost Valentinos
Lost Valentinos
Lost Valentinos are a band from Sydney, Australia. They released two EPs under the band name The Valentinos but changed their name in mid 2007 to Lost Valentinos due to the threat of legal action by soul artists from the 1950s, Bobby Womack & The Valentinos...
to the label and started promotion on their debut album Cities Of Gold, produced over the previous two years in collaboration with producer Ewan Pearson
Ewan Pearson
Ewan Pearson is an English electronic music producer/remixer who works under various aliases including Maas, Sulky Pup, Villa America, World of Apples, and Dirtbox. He is also in Partial Arts with Al Usher. He has remixed for artists such as Cortney Tidwell, Seelenluft, Ladytron, Depeche Mode,...
. The first single was The Bismarck in December, released on tastemaker label Bang Gang 12 Inches, and then Serio in February 2009, featuring a video directed by video director Dave Ma. The single Midnights followed as a one-off release on Leo Silverman's boutique label Dummy, featuring remixes from Fan Death and Emperor Machine, and supported by a few select European performances received acclaim from NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, and frequent plays from BBC Radio One's
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England...
.
In September of that year, etcetc and Lost Valentinos ran a national promotion giving fans the chance to win a trip for two to Peru to discover the inspiration for the album Cities Of Gold, to coincide with the album's release on 09.09.09. Rare gold coins were distributed at performances around Australia, pointing recipients back to the band's website to enter into a treasure hunt to win the prize. This promotion was quickly followed by another for their next single Nightmoves. The project allowed fans to create and share their own unique music videos by recording augmented reality
Augmented reality
Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is...
performances of each band member performing in their world.
Artists
- Jump Jump Dance Dance
- Kristina Miltiadou
- Lost ValentinosLost ValentinosLost Valentinos are a band from Sydney, Australia. They released two EPs under the band name The Valentinos but changed their name in mid 2007 to Lost Valentinos due to the threat of legal action by soul artists from the 1950s, Bobby Womack & The Valentinos...
- Mission Control
- PNAUPnauPnau is an Australian dance music duo originating from Sydney, Australia. The duo consists of musicians Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes...
Licensed Artists
- Annie
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- CassiusCassius (band)Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...
- CazalsCazals-Geographical:Cazals is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:* Cazals, in the Lot department* Cazals, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department* Cazals-des-Baylès, in the Ariège department...
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- Clock Opera
- Congorock
- Crystal Fighters
- DatarockDatarockDatarock, derived from the Norwegian word for computer – datamaskin and the word rock , is a Norwegian electro rock band. The band formed in 2000 as Fredrik Saroea, Ketil Mosnes and Kevin O'Brien and soon hired Tom Mæland. O'Brien and Mæland later left the band, but the duo of Saroea and Mosnes...
- DigitalismDigitalismDigitalism may refer to:*Digital philosophy, a direction in philosophy and cosmology advocated by certain mathematicians and theoretical physicists.*Digitalism , a German electronic music group....
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- Fever Ray
- FlorrieFlorrieFlorrie is an English singer-songwriter, drummer and model. Closely associated with the Xenomania production house, since joining as their in-house drummer in 2008 she has played live and on record for popular artists such as Girls Aloud and the Pet Shop Boys. In 2010, she began a solo career...
- Gamble & Burke
- GrumGrumGraeme Shepherd, better known by his stage name Grum, is an electronic musician from Scotland.-Career:Grum's debut album, Heartbeats, was released in May 2010. A confident debut record, inspired by 1980s disco, it has been compared to Daft Punk's Discovery and Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll...
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- Is Tropical
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- La RouxLa RouxLa Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...
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- MSTRKRFTMSTRKRFTMSTRKRFT is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto, Ontario. The group was started in 2005 by Jesse F. Keeler of Death from Above 1979 and Al-P formerly of the Mississauga, Ontario electropop group Girlsareshort...
- MyloMyloMyles MacInnes , better known by the stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer.-Career:...
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- Ted & Francis
- The KnifeThe KnifeThe Knife are a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg, formed in 1999. The group consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records. They first received international attention after their song "Heartbeats", covered by...
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- WhoMadeWhoWhoMadeWhoWhoMadeWho formed in 2003, with falsetto voiced bassist Tomas Hoffding coming from the Scandinavian rock underground, singer songwriter/guitarist Jeppe Kjellberg from the avantgarde jazz scene, and drummer Tomas Barford – who also records as Tomboy...
- YelleYelleYelle is a French band founded by lead singer and namesake, Yelle and GrandMarnier . A third member, Tepr , joined the band before the recording of their debut album. Budet and GrandMarnier began working on music together in 2000...
Releases
| Artist | Title | Catalogue Number |
|---|---|---|
| Mylo | Destroy Rock & Roll | HUSSYCD009 |
| The Knife | Deep Cuts | HUSSYCD018 |
| Annie | Anniemal | HUSSYCD019 |
| Chicken Lips | Making Faces | HUSSYCD025 |
| The Knife | Silent Shout | HUSSYCD023 |
| Jenny Wilson | Love & Youth | HUSSYCD027 |
| Digitalism | Idealism | 094638924005 |
| Datarock | Datarock | ETCETCD001 |
| PNAU | PNAU | ETCETCD002 |
| PNAU | PNAU (Limited Edition) | ETCETCD003 |
| Mission Control | Innerspace EP | ETCETCD004 |
| Cazals | What Of Our Future | ETCETCD005 |
| Various | Kitsuné Maison Compilation 6 | ETCETCD006 |
| Various | Kitsuné Tabloid: Mixed By Phoenix | ETCETCD007 |
| Fever Ray | Fever Ray | ETCETCD008 |
| MSTRKRFT | Fist Of God | ETCETCD009 |
| Jenny Wilson | Hardships! | ETCETCD010 |
| Datarock | Red | ETCETCD011 |
| Various | Kitsuné Maison Compilation 7 | ETCETCD012 |
| Lost Valentinos | Cities Of Gold | ETCETCD013 |
| autoKratz | Animal | ETCETCD014 |
| Various | Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8 | ETCETCD015 |
| Two Door Cinema Club | Tourist History | ETCETCD016 |
| The Knife In Collaboration With Mt. Sims And Planningtorock | Tomorrow, In A Year | ETCETCD017 |
| Various | Kitsuné Maison Compilation 9 | ETCETCD018 |
| Oh No Ono | Eggs | ETCETCD019 |
| Grum | Heartbeats | ETCETCD020 |