Junior Aspirin Records is a not for profit, artist-run independent record label

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:...

 founded in 2002 and located in London , England. It has released music by a number of artists in limited editions on divergent formats. These include hand-made CD-RS, 12"vinyl, 7" vinyl, hand-made lathe-cut records and MP3s.

Artists

• Skill 7 Stamina 12
• Advanced Sportswear
• Charlottefield
• DJ Scotch Egg
  DJ Scotch Egg
  DJ Scotch Egg is a Japanese producer of chiptune/gabba music based in Brighton, England.He has released music on the Wrong Music label, Adaadat and was signed to Load Records after Lightning Bolt was impressed by his music.)...
  
  
• Imitation Electric Piano
  Imitation Electric Piano
  Imitation Electric Piano is a British post-rock band, that originally formed in 1999 by Stereolab bassist Simon Johns and Andrew Blake on guitar.-History:They recorded their eponymous instrumental first EP for Duophonic Records' 'Super 45s' series in 1999....
  
  
• Socrates That Practices Music
• Toilet
• Jack Too Jack
• Sue Tompkins
  Sue Tompkins
  Sue Tompkins is a British visual and sound artist based in Glasgow. She is best known as vocalist for the now defunct indie rock band Life Without Buildings.-Biography:Tompkins studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art, and graduated in 1994...
  
  
• The Rebel
  Ben Wallers
  Benedict Roger Wallers is the frontman, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the band Country Teasers. His lyrics often deal with taboo subjects such as racism, sexism and xenophobia from first-person standpoints...
  
  
• Emily Wardill
• Bob Parks
• Same Things
• God in Hackney
• Mysterius Horse
• D.J. Lonely + Blodfet
• Dan Fox
• Invisible Polytechnic

Discography

ASP 001 Skill 7 Stamina 12 / Zebra Zebra split 7" vinyl. 500 copies.

ASP 002 Skill 7 Stamina 12 - 'Museum of Surfaces' 7" vinyl. 500 copies.

ASP 003 Skill 7 Stamina 12 - 'Robotics With Strings' CD album. 500 copies.

ASP 004 God in Hackney CD-R. 25 copies.

ASP 005 Same Things CD-R. 25 copies.

ASP 006 The Rebel

Ben Wallers

Benedict Roger Wallers is the frontman, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the band Country Teasers. His lyrics often deal with taboo subjects such as racism, sexism and xenophobia from first-person standpoints...

 - Prawns (album)

Prawns (album)

Prawns is the twenty-fifth solo album recorded by B.R. Wallers under the name The Rebel, the third to be released widely. It is the album version of "Unfired Covenish Den. New Fresh Concepts in Germ Enticement". Another version of "Hitlers & Churchills" would later appear on the Country Teasers...

 vinyl LP. 500 copies.

ASP 007 Skill 7 Stamina 12 & Socrates That Practices Music - split 12" vinyl. 500 copies.

ASP 008 'Remove Celebrity Centre - A Junior Aspirin Records Compilation', CD album, 500 copies.

ASP 009 Skill 7 Stamina 12 - Skill 7 Stamina Dead' vinyl LP. Hand numbered, 250 copies. Artwork by David Noonan

David Noonan

David Noonan may refer to:* A former candidate for the 2003 Ontario provincial election* David Noonan , London artist* David Noonan , designer for the Dungeons & Dragons game...

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ASP 010 Mysterius Horse - CD-R. 25 copies.

ASP 011 Toilet - CD-R. 25 copies.

ASP 012 The Rebel - Mouthwatering Claustrophobic Changes (M.C.C.). Vinyl LP 500 copies.

ASP 013 Adventure (Nicholas Bullen

Nicholas Bullen

-Biography:He is one of the founding members - with Miles Ratledge - of Napalm Death, the band credited with creating the Grindcore genre.The duo had collaborated on fanzines and played together in a number of 'bedroom' bands from 1980 onwards and formed the first line-up of Napalm Death in May...

, Mark Beasley, Steve Beasley) - CD album.

ASP 014 Skill 7 Stamina 12, Toilet, Same Things. Split 12". 200 copies with hand-made screen-print sleeves.

ASP 015 Bob Parks - The R&B Feeling. Vinyl LP 500 copies.

ASP 016 God in Hackney - untitled, triangular lathe-cut 8" record. 50 copies.

ASP 017 Dan Fox - Easy Sneezing At The Century - free download from label site.

ASP 018 Advanced Sportswear - CD album + insert in zip-lock bag. 99 Copies.

ASP 019 The Rebel - The Incredible Hulk. Vinyl LP.

ASP 020 Invisible Polytechnic perform Terry Riley's IN C.

ASP 021 Socrates that practices music - Further conclusions against an Italian version (BAT)

ASP 023 The Rebel - The Race Against Time Hots Up.

Podcasts

Junior Aspirin Records produces an irregular series of themed podcasts, accessible via the label's website. Themes have included: 'Exercises in Style', 'Explaining Success and Failure', 'Explaining Limbo', 'Political Incorrect Correct', the four medieval humors, 'Explaining Melodrama' and 'Explaining Capitalism (With Particular Reference to the Military Industrial Complex)'.

Committee

Junior Aspirin Records is run by Nathaniel Mellors

Nathaniel Mellors

Nathaniel Mellors is a British artist and musician.-Life and work:He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Art....

, Dan Fox, Andy Cooke

Andy Cooke

Andrew "Andy" Cooke is an English former professional footballer, who played as a striker for 16 years, from 1992 until he retired in 2008.-Career:...

 and Ashley Marlowe.

Events

Junior Aspirin Records has promoted events in London venues such as The Luminaire

The Luminaire

The Luminaire was a live music venue on Kilburn High Road in north west London, UK. It opened on 1 March 2005 in what was a nightclub called Late, above McGovern's Pub and The Kilburn Bar...

 (now defunct) and St Giles in the Fields

St Giles in the Fields

St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, is a church in the London Borough of Camden, in the West End. It is close to the Centre Point office tower and the Tottenham Court Road tube station. The church is part of the Diocese of London within the Church of England...

 church, and has staged events at arts venues including the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...

 and, in Paris, France, the Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...

. These have featured live performances by The Rebel, DJ Scotch Egg, Skill 7 Stamina 12, Socrates That Practices Music and others.

Junior Aspirin Records participates in London's annual self-publishing fair Publish & Be Damned.

External links

• Junior Aspirin Records website
• Junior Aspirin records on MySpace
• Review of 'Remove Celebrity Centre - A Junior Aspirin Compilation' in The Wire magazine, March 2007
• Publish & Be Damned website
• Junior Aspirin Records at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London