Kite Operations - Festival
act13 - CD

"With its deep lyricism and carefully constructed accompaniment, 'Festival' is an unparalleled mixture of celebration, emotion and passion." - Lucid Forge

Filled with visceral noise spirituals, ‘Festival’ is less a collection of songs than a joyous exaltation for the no-wave set; an exhilarating testament to the band’s ability to infuse dissonant experimentation with the emotionally incisive.

Jienan Yuan - We Saw Everything
act12 - CD

“Yuan’s melancholy pop makes rainy days, messy breakups, and shitty jobs beautiful.” - Giant Robot

Reflective and bittersweet, Jienan Yuan's music glimmers with the fragments of unrequited love and faded memories; an electro-acoustic current of sound over which Yuan’s delicate melodies float and tremble.

The Gold Medalists - The City Lights Us on Fire
act11 - CD

PART ANIMAL PART MACHINE. Those are the words scrawled across professional skateboarder Jason Jessee's back and a phrase well suited to describe San Francisco’s Peter Nguyen AKA The Gold Medalists. Famed as the drummer monster behind noise/metalheads Total Shutdown and indie-rockers eE, Nguyen (pronounced Win) is now releasing his debut album, The City Lights Us on Fire, to the world, and woe to those who turn a deaf ear.

Oishi - No In Between EP
act7x2 - 7"

Oishi is the collaboration between Jon Monteverde AKA XYZR_KX and singer/songwriter Carly Oishi. This 7” previews four songs from their forthcoming album, due sometime in 2008!

Joel Walter - Heart of Branches
act10 - CD

Armed mainly with a guitar and harmonica, Central Ohio-based singer-songwriter Joel Walter examines the core of blue-collar life via portraits of broken souls worn down by hard living and the lost dreams that are often buried within them. His debut full-length album, Heart of Branches, portrays these lost souls unsparingly, illuminating their fractured desperation and frustration yet always celebrating their fiery will to get by and survive.

Hope in Ghosts - All Your Departures
act09 - CD

The debut full-length, 'All Your Departures', arrives from guitar anti-hero Ted Flynn's Hope in Ghosts project. Predominantly instrumental, Flynn uses differing guitar tones, layers and arrangements to sonically represent the cycle of emotions involved when losing someone, leaving, or being left.

Ee - Capital Plans
act08 - CD

The legendary San Francisco rockers return with their long-awaited third album ‘Capital Plans’. Combining indie-pop, slowcore and noise to create beautifully crafted textured post-rock pop, EE redefine the indie rock status quo with their new sonic masterpiece.

EE is Tobin Mori, Che Chou, Pete Nguyen and Sooyoung Park.

The Red Wheelbarrow - Homemade Life Raft EP
act7x1 - 7"

The first release in the 7x7 series is a three song collection of The Red Wheelbarrow's most heartbreaking songs, recorded in his home studio between 2003-2005. Essential listening!

XYZR_KX - Inanomie Op.221
act07 - CD

'Inanomie OP.221' is an act of cultural reappropriation. Using the musical form made popular by Finnish composer Sekari Hulkohhen, XYZR_KX reconstructs the meaning of the Inanomie by exploring its Phillipino origins, resulting in a decisive work that functions as both an an extension of the musical ideas developed in ‘Falls’ and a statement against cultural imperialism.

Maria Photopulos - S/T EP
act06 - CD

Maria Photopulos’ debut self-titled EP conjures up images of emotional displacement, a bittersweet sense of nostalgia and a sardonic recognition of romantic impossibility – all united by a profound sense of longing. This first release reveals both her natural skills at writing insightful and irreverent lyrics balanced with memorable and irresistible melodies, and her natural ear in creating aural productions steeped in subtle intricacies.

XYZR_KX - Falls Off The Curb, Chump Style.
act05 - CD

Hushed vocals. Serrated Guitars. Chaotic Beats. The debut full-length album from XYZR_KX represents a cross-section of his stylistic range, utilizing traditional rock sounds and electro-virtuosity to create a fresh, emotionally taut soundscape firmly situated within a classic pop structure.

Homecooked EP Series
act01-04

In the inital stages of the label, we home-pressed four initial EPs to assist in spreading word-of-mouth. Each of these limited edition EPs contained songs from future releases and never-again-to-be-cd-released demo/ workshop versions. Sadly, all of these are now out of print:

act01 - "Actually, Sampler."
act02 - XYZR_KX 'Demo EP'
act03 - The Red Wheelbarrow 'S/T EP'
act04 - Maria Photopulos '3 Song Demo'