Mush Records
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Mush Records is an independent record label
that has released albums for many independent artists and was started by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roché.
Mush Records is an electronic
based record label. Mush puts out a wide range of electronic music, including "electronic instrumental, underground hip-hop, downtempo, abstract hip-hop, experimental
, indie-rock, jazz-based grooves, turntablist compositions, electronic pop, [and] saturated folk". Mush operates a store online
to facilitate direct sales of Mush Records releases and merchandise.
Dirty Loop Music is home to the independent record label Mush Records. Dirty Loop Music originally started out as a recording studio in Cincinnati, OH. The actual record label was formed in 1997
as an outlet to release some music that was being made in the studio. Since then Mush has been located in Cincinnati, San Francisco, Chicago
, New York
, and has now settled in Los Angeles
. The label's first release was Boom Bip & DJ Oris's Low End Sequence EP
in 1998, with the first album release Dose One & Boom Bip's Circle in 2000. This was followed the same year by the Ropeladder 12 collection, featuring contributions from many artists from the anticon. roster.
In 2003, the label sponsored a tour which included its roster artists Busdriver
, Awol One, Radioinactive
, Aceyalone
, and others.
Mush Records has its own customised content channel on Audiotube.
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:...
that has released albums for many independent artists and was started by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roché.
Mush Records is an 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...
based record label. Mush puts out a wide range of electronic music, including "electronic instrumental, underground hip-hop, downtempo, abstract hip-hop, experimental
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
, indie-rock, jazz-based grooves, turntablist compositions, electronic pop, [and] saturated folk". Mush operates a store online
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
to facilitate direct sales of Mush Records releases and merchandise.
Dirty Loop Music is home to the independent record label Mush Records. Dirty Loop Music originally started out as a recording studio in Cincinnati, OH. The actual record label was formed in 1997
1997 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.-January:*January 9 – David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy...
as an outlet to release some music that was being made in the studio. Since then Mush has been located in Cincinnati, San Francisco, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, and has now settled in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. The label's first release was Boom Bip & DJ Oris's Low End Sequence 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...
in 1998, with the first album release Dose One & Boom Bip's Circle in 2000. This was followed the same year by the Ropeladder 12 collection, featuring contributions from many artists from the anticon. roster.
In 2003, the label sponsored a tour which included its roster artists Busdriver
Busdriver
Busdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records and Fake Four Inc-History:...
, Awol One, Radioinactive
Radioinactive
Radioinactive is an underground hip hop artist from Los Angeles. He has released a number of solo albums, as well as collaborating with artists such as Busdriver, Daedelus and Antimc. He is currently signed to Stranger Touch Records, from which Soundtrack to a Book was released in 2006...
, Aceyalone
Aceyalone
Eddie Hayes, better known by his stage name Aceyalone, is an American rapper.He is a founding member of the Freestyle Fellowship. Apart from his role in Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone is also a member of Haiku D'Etat and The A-Team , and he is a co-founder of Project Blowed.After releasing a...
, and others.
Mush Records has its own customised content channel on Audiotube.
Artists on Mush Records
- 4 Bonjour's Parties
- Aesop RockAesop RockIan Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it...
- Andre Afram Asmar
- AntiMC
- Awol One
- BibioBibioStephen Wilkinson, better known as Bibio, is a British music producer. His music is primarily electronic and experimental in nature. He currently releases music on the Warp Records label, and previously on Mush Records.-Biographical information:...
- Bigg JusBigg JusBigg Jus is an American hip hop artist from New York City, formerly a member of Company Flow along with Mr. Len and El-P. After the late-1990s breakup of Company Flow, Bigg Jus formed the now defunct Sub Verse Music and began to pursue his solo career...
- Blue Sky Black DeathBlue Sky Black DeathBlue Sky Black Death is a production duo based in Seattle, Washington. The duo consists of Kingston and Young God . They are known principally for their hip hop and instrumental music, made with a mix of live instrumentation and sampling...
- Boom BipBoom BipBryan Charles Hollon, better known as Boom Bip, is an American producer and musician. His music is mostly instrumental, but over the course of his career he has collaborated with several vocalists. He is currently signed to Lex Records, which, until 2005, was a division of Warp Records in the...
- Boy In StaticBoy In StaticBoy in Static is a band currently based in San Francisco, California, composed of Alexander Chen and Kenji Ross. The first Boy in Static album Newborn was released in 2004 on small label Alien Transistor . Mush Records released the second album Violet in 2007...
- BusdriverBusdriverBusdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records and Fake Four Inc-History:...
- Caural
- CircusCircus (band)Circus was Ohio-based area Power Pop band active in the early and mid 70s. Their single "Stop Wait & Listen" debuted at #91 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts on March 17, 1973....
- cLOUDDEADCLOUDDEADClouddead was a musical group consisting of the experimental hip hop musicians Doseone , Why? , and Odd Nosdam . Generally Drucker and Wolf provide the group's vocals while Madson produces the music...
- Clue to KaloClue to KaloClue to Kalo is a Folktronica band from Adelaide, South Australia, featuring Mark Mitchell and a revolving cast of supporting musicians. Clue To Kalo’s initial commercial success came in the US through LA-based Mush Records....
- Curse ov DialectCurse Ov DialectCurse Ov Dialect is a Melbourne, Australia based music group. It was the first Australian and Australian Accented hip-hop outfit to score a record deal in the United States with 2003 album Lost in the Real sky, on Los Angeles Indie Label Mush Records...
- DaedelusDaedelus (musician)Alfred Darlington is a music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Daedelus pioneered using the Monome in conjunction with Max/MSP for live performances. He is a part of the groups Adventure Time and The Long Lost...
- DoseoneDoseoneAdam Drucker, better known as Doseone , is an American MC, artist, and poet from Idaho. Dose is known for his nasal, high pitched, fast polyrhythmic rapping style and abstract lyrics. He often simultaneously performs synth, sampler, or keyboard on stage. His words tend to express upon topics of...
- DJ Gman
- Fat Jon The Ample Soul PhysicianFat JonFat Jon the Ample Soul Physician is an American hip hop producer from Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the four members of Five Deez, alongside Pace Rock, Sonic, and Kyle David...
- Fisk Industries
- Golden Glow
- Head Like a Kite
- Her Space HolidayHer Space HolidayHer Space Holiday is the recording moniker of indietronic and indie rock artist Marc Bianchi.-History:Marc Bianchi began as a musician in the California hardcore scene. He was a part of Indian Summer and Mohinder before assuming the moniker "Her Space Holiday" in 1996...
- iD
- Is And of The
- JelJelJel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...
- k-the-i???K-the-I???K-the-I??? is an American rapper and producer born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and now based in Los Angeles, California.K-the-I??? began recording in 2002, and released several small-issue records before signing with Mush Records in 2006...
- LabtekwonLabtekwonLabtekwon is a hip hop artist from Baltimore, Maryland. His explanation of the name is an acronym for "Lifeform Advanced Beyond Terrestrial Esoterics King Warrior Of Nubia."...
- Listener
- LodenLoden (musician)Loden is the alias of Belgium based producer Jolan Koks. He started getting attention after releasing on Dutch labels such as the now defunct , who also released his debut record Valeen Hope in 2005....
- Lulu Mushi
- Lymbyc SystymLymbyc SystymLymbyc Systym is an instrumental band from Tempe, Arizona which formed in 2001, consisting of brothers Jared and Michael Bell. Their sound combines elements of instrumental rock and electronic music. Lymbyc Systym have toured with Broken Social Scene, The Books, Crystal Castles, The Album Leaf, ...
- The MagnificentsThe Magnificents (Scottish band)-Biography:The group formed while its members attended the Edinburgh College of Art. After playing a supposed one off gig of Northern Soul covers for a friend's birthday party they began to write their own material and settled into a lineup of Tommy Stuart , Steven McGregor , Drew McFadyen and...
- Mystic Chords of MemoryMystic Chords of MemoryMystic Chords Of Memory are an American alternative rock band formed by sometime Tyde drummer and Beachwood Sparks frontman Christopher Gunst....
- NeutrinoNeutrinoA neutrino is an electrically neutral, weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with a half-integer spin, chirality and a disputed but small non-zero mass. It is able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected...
- NobodyNobodyNobody may refer to:* Nobodies, a race of beings in the Kingdom Hearts video game series* nobody , the name of a Unix account which has no particular privileges* Nobody, a radio drama by Daniel Brocklehurst...
- OctaviusOctaviusOctavius or Eudaf Hen is a figure of Welsh tradition. He is remembered as a King of the Britons and the father of Elen Luyddog and Conan Meriadoc in sources such as the Welsh prose tale The Dream of Macsen and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae...
- Odd NosdamOdd NosdamOdd Nosdam is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD ; he has worked closely with Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project and remixed tracks by a variety of...
- OmidOmidOmid is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope...
- Open Mike Eagle
- Pedro
- Qua
- RadioinactiveRadioinactiveRadioinactive is an underground hip hop artist from Los Angeles. He has released a number of solo albums, as well as collaborating with artists such as Busdriver, Daedelus and Antimc. He is currently signed to Stranger Touch Records, from which Soundtrack to a Book was released in 2006...
- Reaching QuietReaching QuietReaching Quiet was a American hip hop duo made up of anticon. and cLOUDDEAD members WHY? and Odd Nosdam. The duo released one full-length record, In the Shadow of the Living Room, in 2002...
- S.E.V.A.
- Scientific AmericanScientific AmericanScientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
- Sleeper
- Thavius BeckThavius BeckThavius Beck is an electronic musician, producer, MC, saxophone/bass guitar player, and a certified trainer of Ableton Live. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.-Work:...
- The Opus
- Villain Accelerate
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