Strange Attractors Audio House (SAAH) is a record label

Record label

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 from Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

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. It was founded in 2000

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 by Chris Scofield.

History

SAAH was as spin-off

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 of KAOS Olympia 89.3 FM Community Radio's "Strange Attractors" program — a show which Scofield hosted for about eight years. Scofield, who had a four-year stint at K Records

K Records

K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington, co-founded, owned, and operated by Calvin Johnson, formerly of the bands Cool Rays, Beat Happening, The Go Team, The Halo Benders and presently in the bands Dub Narcotic Sound System and The Hive Dwellers...

, was also the station's music director during the 1995-1996 timeframe. During that time the station was intensely focused on supporting independent artists.

The first recording of this imprint was The Lowdown

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's Revolver II, which saw release on Halloween

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 2000.

Roster

Artists whose work has been released through this label include (but not limited to):

• Bright
• Steffen Basho-Junghans
  Steffen Basho-Junghans
  Steffen Basho-Junghans is a German guitarist and composer. He was born in North Thuringia in the former German Democratic Republic. At the age of 17 he taught himself to play acoustic guitar and in 1978 formed the folk band Wacholder...
  
  
• Nick Castro
  Nick Castro
  Nick Castro is a folk, psych folk, traditional and experimental musician and member of the Young Elders.-Overview:Nick Castro was raised in San Diego, CA. His musical training started early although much of his accomplishment was self taught. His musical influences were varied. With an extended...
  
  
• Cul de Sac
  Cul de Sac (band)
  Cul de Sac are a rock music group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members....
  
  
• Glenn Jones
  Glenn Jones
  Glenn Jones, , is an American R&B/soul singer.-Career:He started his career as a gospel singer and has since, managed a successful move into the R&B field. He got his start in R&B in 1980 when Norman Connors featured Jones on a track on his album, Take It To The Limit...
  
  
• Kinski
  Kinski
  Kinski may refer to the following:*Klaus Kinski , a German actor.*Nastassja Kinski , a German-born model and actress, daughter of Klaus K.*Nikolai Kinski , actor, son of Klaus K, half-brother of Nastassja K....
  
  
• Sharron Kraus
  Sharron Kraus
  Sharron Kraus is an English singer, songwriter and musician with strong ties to the US. Kraus was born in New York but grew up in Leicester, England...
  
  
• Landing
  Landing (band)
  Landing is an indie rock outfit from Connecticut, USA. Terms used to describe the music created by Aaron Snow and Adrienne Snow include ambient, shoegaze, slo-core, and space rock...
  
  
• My Education
  My Education (band)
  My Education is an American instrumental post-rock band from Austin, TX. They create cinematic and psychedelic compositions blending intense droning guitars with melodic viola. The core of the band is two guitars, bass, drums, and viola, although they do play with violins, keys and vibes at times...
  
  
• Harris Newman
  Harris Newman
  Harris Newman is a mastering engineer working out of Grey Market Mastering in Montreal, Canada. His studio shares a building with the Hotel2Tango recording studio, as well as Constellation Records. Newman has mastered hundreds of albums since 1998, for artists including Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, A...
  
  
• Paik
  Paik
  Paik is a post-rock/space rock outfit originally from Toledo, United States, currently living in Detroit, Michigan, United States, that includes Rob Smith and Ryan Pritts. Bassist Ali Clegg left the band in 2005, and has since been replaced by San Francisco native Anthony Petrovic...
  
  
• Primordial Undermind
  Primordial Undermind
  Primordial Undermind is a critically acclaimed experimental/psychedelic rock band, begun in 1988 when guitarist Eric Arn of Connecticut's Crystalized Movements moved to California, and continuing today in Austria. Arn initially went to London in 1989 to record demos with the Bevis Frond's Nick...
  
  
• Jack Rose
  Jack Rose
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• Charlie Schmidt
• Sharron Kraus
  Sharron Kraus
  Sharron Kraus is an English singer, songwriter and musician with strong ties to the US. Kraus was born in New York but grew up in Leicester, England...
  
  
• Six Organs of Admittance
  Six Organs of Admittance
  Six Organs of Admittance is the primary musical project of guitarist Ben Chasny. Chasny's music is largely guitar-based and is often considered new folk, however it includes obvious influences, marked by the use of drones, chimes, and eclectic percussive elements...
  
  
• Sean Smith
  Sean Smith
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• SubArachnoid Space
  SubArachnoid Space
  SubArachnoid Space was a San Francisco, California-based psychedelic rock band founded in 1996 by Mason Jones, the owner of the independent music label Charnel Music.They relocated to Portland Oregon, where they continued to perform, tour and release albums...
  
  
• Vocokesh
• Yair Yona