LA-TI-DA RECORDS is a Canadian independent label in Vancouver. There’re mainly garage rock and punk bands as Ape City R&B, Needles/Pins, Fist City, but you can also find 60s garage: The React, 70s glam rock: Paralel, soul: The Jay Vons, and one man band: Skip Jensen. My favourite is a garage soul band, The Ballantynes. You can listen to these on the label’s Bandcamp site.

What was the cause of starting of the label?

While hung over on vacation in Las Vegas in 2004, my good friend and I (Dale Davies, who is the graphic designer for everything we do) decided it would be a good idea to start a label. A lesson was learned that day: don’t make decisions while dehydrated in midday desert heat! Against our better judgement, we haven’t stopped yet.

What’s the main profile?

In terms of a goal? Our reason for doing it? To help get our favourite bands from home out into the world and help bring some of our favourite bands in the world back home with us! The fun part is when the two parts meet.

What was the greatest success?

In terms of releases, probably The Tranzmitors and The Ballantynes, as we have worked with those two bands every step of the way and it’s been really gratifying that both have found an audience. That said, our new Steve Adamyk Band single has been very well received and our strongest pre-seller ever. In terms of putting on shows, I’d have to say our annual festival, The Fall Down/Get Down!

What was the greatest surprise in the course of your story?

The greatest surprise is that after nearly ten years, we’re still standing! Somehow, we’ve managed to maintain this thing and continue to grow slowly and steadily. By maintaing our friends and relationships with bands and labels around the world, by continuing to adapt and change with the times, and by bridging our love for bands old and new, we’ve kept our enthusiasm and drive.
Again, with the Fall Down/Get Down festival, there’s been some tremendous surprises, but only upon reflection. At the time, we are so busy running the festival to stop and think how weird it is to bring in artists like Death and Roky Erickson, but after it’s over, it’s hard not to pause and say, wow, we just flew in Death and Roky Erickson!

What will be the next release?

The next release will be a brand new band called The Flintettes, featuring Mike Flintoff of the Tranzmitors. The Flintettes are a three piece from Vancouver who play in a style similar to early Stiff Records releases. Great stuff!

Matsuki Ayumu is a mad about cat Japanese musician. Playful orchestral J-Pop alone

Terraforming (Alternative) LP by Ample Play. Originally it was released in June 2013 in digital format. His brand new album Enterkey.co.jp is released in January only in digital.

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Psychedelic no wave disco with gothic and oriental moments by Tucan feat. jabbaboy, who is saxplayer of the Italian noise attack  Hiroshima Rock Around.

Cold Cold – digital album & cassette by Bloody Sound Fucktory (Italy) and Jus de Balles (Belgium)

By the way, Padre Pio non è tucano.

The founder of Tinariwen Ibrahim Ag Alhabib has seen a cowboy to play on guitar in a western film in his childhood. After happy end he fabricated his first instrument from a tin can, a stick and bicycle brake wires. He has formed his band with musical Tuaregs in a Lybian refugee camp, where they were in military training in 1979. North-African desert blues from the album Emmaar

Euro tour in Feb-March

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Some years ago some girls walked in a pawnshop in Atlanta, and bought the most cheapest instruments.

Coathangers – Suck My Shirt LP by Suicide Squeeze

Cheveu

more and more absurd and entertaining eclectic punk rock like Devo. Stadium

from the album Bum by Born Bad

If you know The Pussywarmers then you will be surprised. There is no trace of the punk swing. Chansons, folk ballads, psychedelic beats, rocks and seagulls on a tropical coast. I like this better than the previous albums, but one thing is missing for me, the polyglotry.

The Pussywarmers and Réka – I Saw Them Leaving by Wild Honey

And look this: a 7″ by Réka Csiszér a „Hungarian Austrian Jazz Singer Film Maker Enfant Terrible” Femme Fatale + Lala Morte a „Thai Vietnamese Parisian Burlesque Performer” + Simone (Pussywarmers) + Nene (Movie Star Junkies). They recorded Dawn Penn’s reggae hit from 1967, You Don’t Love Me in a Billy Holiday and a Jane Birkin style French versions. It’s released by Voodoo Rhythm

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D.Charles Speer is a guitarist. Grew up in Deep South of America. Moving to New York in the early 90s. Member of No-Neck Blues Band, a folk, drone, psychedelia, free jazz, noise and everything big band, who like to use the wharves, parks, rooftops and other unusual places for performances, so their shows have been shot down frequently by police. He likes and plays Greek and Arabic music. And rock’n’roll, blues, country and rockabilly

D Charles Speer & The Helix – Double Exposure LP by Thrill Jockey

The garage rock superstar Black Lips‘ southern rocker album is coming soon in March. The boys asked Phil Spector to produce the album, but the incarcerated 74 years old producer didn’t answer. In 2009 he was sentemnced to 19 to life for murder of an actress. So it is produced by Patrick Carney from Black Keys. And stars everywhere. It is mixed by a Grammy winner, who has worked with Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Björk. The album photos shot by legendary British rock’n’roll photographer Mick Rock

Underneath The Rainbow LP by Vice Records

Euro tour in May-June: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussles, London, Athens

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Solids. Canadian psych garage grunge in the manner of 90s

Blame Confusion – debut LP by Fat Possum (US) and Dine Alone Records (Can)

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
One of their latest releases

FAI BABA – SHE’S MY GURU

At first I overlooked that this album is a great one because I was wonder-struck by doomenfels so much.  But when I edited the (very coming soon) radio show from these albums on the first round I wrote to a paper the number of selected songs during the listening. On the occasion of Fai Baba I selected almost the full album.

Fai Baba was founded by Fabian Sigmund in Zürich, 2008, after he came back his spititual journey from India as „Psychedelic, Garage and Soul man.” He writes and plays very strange and highly enetertaining music. Krautrock-like psych pop, drenched with noisy space rock, spiced with a little 70s disco pumping sometimes. In short: very indie rock. Beside the drums and guitars you can find a heep of old keys intstruments as Farfisa, Ace Tone and Hammmond organs, Rhodes and Crumar electric pianos, Omnichord and Moog on this album.

Fai Baba is influenced by John Lee Hooker, who rarely played on a standard beat.

More trees in a field

Death on the North Street > 3 black brothers underwent from funk to punk in Detroit, 1974. The trio was called Death. They self-released only one single before they transformed into a gospel rock band in 1977, but later they turned into reggae. The Death stayed fully unknown until 2009. Now here are two unreleased Death song from the post-Death era on a 7″ single by Drag City. North Street from 1980

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Lucifer Big Band is denaturally an Italian one man electronic noise project by Leonard Kandur Layola for example. He is living in a fly.

‘Atto II’ CDr by Lemming Records

LAKE

is an American sweet indie pop band. Perfect Fit

from the album the world is real by KRECS

Cole Alexander (guitar, vocal) and Joe Bradly (drums) from the garage rock star Black Lips teamed up with Curtis Harding (Cee Lo Green‘s former back-up singer/writer) and Danny Lee Blackwell (guitar, vocal in the psych garage rock Night Beats) in order to mix southern soul and garage rock.

Night Sun debut 7″ by Burger

Black Lips Euro Tour in May-June: Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, London, Athens

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Two experimental drone metal legends the Norwegian Ulver and the American SUNNO))) have made some tracks together between 2008 and 12 in Oslo.

Terrestrials LP by Southern Lord

Last Good Teeth

Indie folk from the Blue Ridge Mountains through New York. EEEeee

from the album Not Without Work And Rest by Team Love Records

One of the best European garage rock/punk label is Goodbye Boozy Records. It was founded in the late 90s in Teramo, which is a little central Italian town. The label is focusing limited edition 7″ vinyls. Some names of the roster: Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, King Khan, BBQ, River City Tainlines, Lantern, CPC Gangbangs, LiveFastDie, Red Mass, Useless Eaters, Cosmonauts, Outdoorsmen, Timmy’s Organism, Hussy, Straight Arrows, Hellshovel, Movie Star Junkies, Warm Soda.
Here are the new singles. GBB brings 4 bands from Australia, where is maybe the most exciting musical scene in the world nowadays:
Ausmuteants, Frowning Clouds, Hierophants and Wet Blankets, which is fronted by a 15 years old dude. And last but not least a Trio Banana 7″ also will be released together with Bubca Records.

You can download some previous GBB releases from here.
Sometimes the download links are invisible!