Freedom From is a Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

 based record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 which primarily focuses on the international noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 underground genre. The label was founded in 1996

1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...

 with its first official release by a San Francisco three-piece named Job. Up until early 1998, the labels focus was singularly cassettes, with the most well-known being the infamous Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

/Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

/Tom Surgal cassette. During the course of its primary existence, FF often released either the first or first widely available release by many bands, including Hair Police, Sightings, No Doctors, Milovan Srdenovic, Violent Ramp, Reynols and many more. The label is maintained to this day by founder and CEO Matthew St-Germaine.

Freedom From is best known for its eschewing of conventional record business tactics in favor of an absolute aestheticizing of experience. Freedom From's catalog includes a wildly diverse sampling of the fringes of artistic and sonic exploration.

Artists

• Milovan Srdenovic
• 1/3 Octave Band
• Volvox
• Jackie O Motherfucker
• Arctic Universe
• Paul's Enemy is Bathing
• Zip Code Rapists
• Ova!
• Happy Mother's Day I Can't Read
• Cock ESP
• Reynols
• Wrong
• Birchville Cat Motel
  Birchville Cat Motel
  Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unknown in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, America, Europe, and Australia. His first vinyl release was Jewelled Wings on the Freedom From label...
  
  
• Yeoh Yin Pin
• No Doctors
  No Doctors
  No Doctors was an American rock and roll band based out of California's San Francisco Bay Area. Their music drew from a wide range of styles and traditions, most prominently noise, punk, blues, metal and jazz. Members included guitarist Elvis S. deMorrow, Chauncey Chaumpers on guitar, Mr. Brians on...
  
  
• Sightings
  Sightings
  Sightings was an American paranormal documentary and news television series that originally aired from April 17, 1992 to August 1, 1997 on Fox. The program began as a special titled The UFO Report: Sightings on October 18, 1991...
  
  
• Hair Police
  Hair Police
  Hair Police is an American psychedelic noise band based out of Lexington, Kentucky formed in 2001. They have released records through labels such as Troubleman Unlimited, Hanson Records, Gods of Tundra, Freedom From, and Hospital Productions...
  
  
• Ashtray Navigations
  Ashtray Navigations
  Ashtray Navigations is an English psychedelic noise group centered upon Phil Todd, active since 1991.Colloquially referred to as "Ash Nav", The group operate out of Todd's home in Stoke-on-Trent, England, from which he also ran the record labels Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and, subsequently...
  
  
• late
• Dr Gretchen's Musical Weightlifting Program
• Remora
• Vibracathedral Orchestra
  Vibracathedral Orchestra
  Vibracathedral Orchestra is an England-based drone ensemble that has been active since 1998.-Biography:The original group came together when Mick Flower began recording with Neil Campbell and Julian Bradley, who had released a number of homemade cassettes and an LP of their duo work...
  
  
• Laundryroom Squelchers
• Rexor
• Kreamy 'Lectric Santa
• Ut Zilko
• Tom Ato
• Armpit
• Job
• Lasse Marhaug
  Lasse Marhaug
  Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation, jazz, rock and extreme metal. Marhaug has also been involved in creating music for theatre, dance, art installations and video art...
  
  
• Kevin Drumm
  Kevin Drumm
  -Biography:Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers...
  
  
• Violent Ramp
• Pimmon
  Pimmon
  Pimmon is the recording name of Australian musician Paul Gough. He has released records on labels such as Fat Cat Records, Fällt, Tigerbeat6, Staalplaat and Staubgold, and collaborated with Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi, among others....
  
  
• Zartan
• Carlos Giffoni
• Brent Gutzeit
• Stewart Walden
• Two Cent Bitch
• Zartan
• Penny Needham
• Sistrum
• Creeping Jesus
• The Ideal Gus
• The Aesthetics
• Moz
• Ferocious Dopes
• Ed Gray
• Brian Lavelle
• Inversion
• Wagstaff
• Energy Park
• Smokehouse
• CJA
• White American
• Diz Willis
• Peachh
• Mason Jones
• David Means
• Sandra Espinoza
• Chatterland
• Blur Cheer
• Cherry Choke
• Fukktron
• Humectant Interruption
• Expose Your Eyes
• Noxagt
  Noxagt
  Noxagt is a Norwegian rock band. It started as a Kjetil Brandsdal solo project in 1999, but was expanded to a power trio in 2002, with Brandsdal on bass, Nils Erga on viola and Jan Christian L. Kyvik on drums...
  
  
• Bob Marinelli
• Fredrik/Per Gisle/Lasse
• Anopheline Entropy
• Emil Hagstrom
• Hiatus
• Blatherskite
• Unknown
• Ed Gray
• Meat Market
• Bongo Bunny
• She Camel of God
• Monotract
• Noctuary
• K.O.H.N.
• Schawami
• Bad Sector
  Bad Sector
  Bad Sector is an ambient/noise project formed in 1992 in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini. While working at the Computer Art Lab of ISTI in Pisa , he developed original gesture interfaces that he uses in live performances: 'Aerial Painting Hand' , 'UV-Stick' Bad Sector is an ambient/noise...
  
  
• Quasi Sutro
• Prick Decay
• Alan Licht
  Alan Licht
  Alan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.-Biography:Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968...
  
  
• Tamio Shiraishi
• Courtis
• Miguel Tomasin
• Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
  
• Beck
  Beck
  Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...
  
  
• Tom Surgal
• Greg Kelley
• Duncan Bruce
• Lotus
• III
• Crank Sturgeon
• ABNU
• White Saucer w/ Lovely Midget + Guy
• Gordo Bolomo
• Valerio Tricoli
• A Sonic Deterrent
• Pencilneck
• Neil Campbell
  Neil Campbell (musician)
  Neil Campbell is a British musician, notable for his vast catalogue and his many collaborations. In 2005, The Wire declared that he, Richard Youngs and Matthew Bower had "provided the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s".-Early...
  
  
• Witcyst
• Charles Bascomb
• Dr Ginger Whatsherface
• Lugosi
• Post Prandials
• Destroy All Jazz
• Amfitheatof
• Flatline Construct
• N/A
• Julian Bradley
• Feverdreams
• Del
• Eso Steel
• Smell & Quim
• Ut Zilko + His Amazing Zen Guitar
• Giuseppe Ielasi
• La Gloria
• Harry Pussy
  Harry Pussy
  Harry Pussy was a noise rock band from Miami, active from 1992 to 1997. The main members were Bill Orcutt on guitar and vocals and Adris Hoyos on drums and vocals. Other members included briefly Ian Steinberg on accordion, and later either Mark Feehan or Dan Hosker on second guitar...
  
  
• New Port
• Lost in Translation
• Evil Moisture
• Jason Lescalleet
• Jesse Petersen
• 200 year old wolf pussy
• La Gloria
• Brutum Fulmen