Narrominded is an 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:...

 based in the Netherlands. The label releases experimental 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 rock

Experimental rock

Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....

 music genres like idm

Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...

, ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, electro, Electroacoustic improvisation

Electroacoustic improvisation

Electroacoustic improvisation is a style of music that incorporates aspects of both electroacoustic music and free improvisation.-Origins:Live electronics has been part of the sound art world since the 1930s with the early works of John Cage...

, noise rock

Noise rock

Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...

, post punk and new wave

New Wave music

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. The formats on which the label releases its music are equally versatile. The label has released music on CD

Compact Disc

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, CD-R

CD-R

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, LP

LP album

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, 7" single and MP3

MP3

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. Most of the featured artists come from Europe, including Living Ornaments, Kettel

Kettel

Kettel is Reimer Eising , a self-described "elixir-brewing, camping-loving and musicmaking sorcerer-to-be." He is well-known for his playful, spontaneous melodies and organic folk sounds similar to Aphex Twin, Jega, and Plaid....

, Gone Bald

Gone Bald

Gone Bald is a noise rock band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band was founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 1994. Soon thereafter, the band hitch-hiked to Amsterdam and that's where the band still lives, even though singer/guitarplayer Razorblade Jr is the only original member left after numerous...

, Cor Fuhler

Cor Fuhler

Cor Fuhler is an Amsterdam-based musician who plays in the style of electroacoustic improvisation. His primary instrument is the piano . He explores the possibilities of the piano, manipulating it’s sound with use of various string stimulators like ebows, rotating threads and spinning disks...

 and Mats Gustafsson

Mats Gustafsson

Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....

.

History

Narrominded was founded in 2000 by Lars Meijer and Coen Polack to have a platform for putting out the many releases by their project Psychon Troopers. The name Narrominded originated out of the name of Lars' tape-label, which was called Narrow-Minded.

Catalogue

• NM001 Psychon Troopers - Animals Rise (CDr)
• NM002 Psychon Troopers - Atomic Museum (CDr)
• NM003 Psychon Troopers - The Building Playground (CDr)
• NM004 Psychon Troopers - Music From The Film 'Morning Became Eclectic' (CDr)
• NM005 Larz - Waving With Newtons (CD)
• NM006 SGP - Trapped Till Eleven / The Elite (7")
• NM007 Larz - Moral Sewer (LP + 7")
• NM008 Psychon Troopers - 5.1 (CDr)
• NM009 Psychon Troopers - 5.2 (CDr)
• NM010 Diverse Artiesten - We're Running Out Of West (LP + CDr)
• NM011 Living Ornaments / Accelera Deck - Split LP Series #1 (LP)
• NM012 Hydrus / Kettel
  Kettel
  Kettel is Reimer Eising , a self-described "elixir-brewing, camping-loving and musicmaking sorcerer-to-be." He is well-known for his playful, spontaneous melodies and organic folk sounds similar to Aphex Twin, Jega, and Plaid....
  
   - Split LP Series #2 (LP)
• NM013 Psychon - Apocalypse Has Been Dubbed The Weekend Pill (CD)
• NM014 Gone Bald
  Gone Bald
  Gone Bald is a noise rock band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band was founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 1994. Soon thereafter, the band hitch-hiked to Amsterdam and that's where the band still lives, even though singer/guitarplayer Razorblade Jr is the only original member left after numerous...
  
   - Exotic Klaustrofobia (CD)
• NM015 Petrified Host - As When Lighted (CD)
• NM016 Makazoruki - Makazoruki (CD)
• NM017 Living Ornaments - Vlokken (CD)
• NM018 Quarles Van Ufford - Aurakramp (CD)
• NM019 Hydrus - Postcards (MP3)
• NM020 Pfaff - How To Explain De Flipstand To A Friend (MP3)
• NM021 Boutros Bubba - Hearing Voicst In A Beer Commercial Makes Me Wanna Get Drunk (MP3)
• NM022 Living Ornaments – Klonten (MP3)
• NM023 Various Artists - Retro Retry Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
  
   - EVOL
  EVOL
  Evol is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1986 on SST Records, and recorded and mixed by New York recording icon Martin Bisi. The album cover features a picture of Lung Leg, a still taken from Submit to Me, a film by Richard Kern...
  
   (CD)
• NM024 Larz – Hoofddorp (MP3)
• NM025 Hydrus – Interleaves (MP3 / CD, DVD)
• NM026 Gone Bald
  Gone Bald
  Gone Bald is a noise rock band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band was founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 1994. Soon thereafter, the band hitch-hiked to Amsterdam and that's where the band still lives, even though singer/guitarplayer Razorblade Jr is the only original member left after numerous...
  
   - 100 Ways To Become Cool (Book, DVD, CD)
• NM027 Boutros Bubba - How I Wrote The Star Spangled Banner (7")
• NM028 Makazoruki – Analogue Breakfast (EP, CD)
• NM029 Coen Oscar Polack – Psychic Investigations (MP3 / CD)
• NM030 Cor Fuhler
  Cor Fuhler
  Cor Fuhler is an Amsterdam-based musician who plays in the style of electroacoustic improvisation. His primary instrument is the piano . He explores the possibilities of the piano, manipulating it’s sound with use of various string stimulators like ebows, rotating threads and spinning disks...
  
   / Mats Gustafsson
  Mats Gustafsson
  Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
  
    - Split LP Series #3 (LP)
• NM031 Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken - The Language of Mountains Is Rain (MP3 / CD)
• NM033 Spoelstra - I Got Issues the Shape of Italy (10" Lathe cut)
• NM034 Boutros Bubba - National Anthems (CD)
• NM036 Coen Oscar Polack - Geluiden uit De Blauwe Kamer (MP3 / CD)
• NM037 Coen Oscar Polack - The Skipping Monk (MP3 / CD)
• NM038 Het Fukking Licht - Kutplaneet (CDr / MP3)
• NM039 Garçon Taupe / Legowelt
  Legowelt
  Legowelt is a Dutch electronic musician who describes his musical style as "a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack."...
  
   - Split LP Series #4 (LP)
• NM040 Memory of a Free Festival - Een Narrominded Compilatie (MP3)
• NM041 Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World
  Another Green World
  Another Green World is the third studio album by British musician Brian Eno. Produced by Eno and Rhett Davies, it was originally released by Island Records in September 1975. As he had done with previous solo albums, Eno worked with several guest musicians including Phil Collins, John Cale and...
  
  (CD)
• NM042 Fine China Superbone - Make-machine (CD)
• NM043 Katadreuffe - Quel Gargantua! (MP3 / CD)
• NM044 Puin+Hoop + Herman Wilken + Coen Oscar Polack - De Objectieve Lach (CD)
• NM045 Hunter Complex - Here Is the Night EP (CD / MP3)
• NM046 Puin + Hoop - Door (CD / MP3)
• NM047 Hunter Complex - Hunter Complex (CD)
• NM049 Spoelstra - The Almighty Internet (CD)
• NM050 Spoelstra - Go Tell Them That It Is Christmas (MP3)
• NM051 Kruno Jošt | Gijs Borstlap - Quasi Quasi (CD)
• NM052 Katadreuffe - Cut-Up Comfort (MP3)
• NM055 Gone Bald - Waiting It Out (CD)