Ache Records Explained

Ache Records
Founded:1999
Founder:Andy Dixon
Genre:Indie music
Country:Canada
Location:Vancouver, British Columbia
Url:AcheRecords.com

Ache Records is an independent record label based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was started by the musician Andy Dixon around 1999. Ache releases music for both Canadian and foreign acts.[1] The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot Heat's release, Hot Hot Heat (1999), a four-song EP.[2] Other notable artists to work with Ache include Death from Above 1979, Four Tet, Hrvatski, Konono N°1, and Matmos.[3]

Ache Records releases albums from disparate genres. The University of Saskatchewan newspaper, The Sheaf, says that Ache has an "inconsistency of genres" and the label distances itself from using genres to describe its releases.[4] [5] Ache has been described by the Montreal Mirror as having an "uncanny ability to meld seemingly disparate worlds into a cohesive whole".[6] Discorder magazine named Ache Records "Label of the Year" for 2004, citing a featured review on Pitchfork Media for Flössin's album Lead Singer,[7] as well as the label's DIV/ORCE 7″ series.[8]

Ache Records releases

The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot Heat's Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Hot Hot Heat also recorded a split album with The Red Light Sting for the label's (and Hot Hot Heat's) second release.[9]

Dixon's first band, d.b.s., released its final album on Ache in 2001, a five song EP entitled Forget Everything You Know.[10] One thousand copies were issued. Dixon has also released several of his solo albums through the label (as The Epidemic, Secret Mommy, and by his real name), and with the bands The Red Light Sting and Winning.

Femme Fatale's second album, As You Sow, So Shall You Reap, was released by Ache in 2002.[11]

Death from Above 1979 released their first EP, Heads Up, on Ache in 2002,[12] as well as the vinyl edition of their 2004 album You're a Woman, I'm a Machine.[13]

The Swedish band Kid Commando released their only album, Holy Kid Commando, with Ache in 2003.[14] They also released a split single with Kid606 for Ache's DIV/ORCE 7″ series.[15]

The Congolese band Konono N°1 released the vinyl version of their 2004 album Congotronics through Ache.[16] Ache has issued three pressings of the album.[17]

DIV/ORCE 7″ series

On the DIV/ORCE 7″ series of split 7-inch singles, the musicians on each side have different musical styles.[18] The series began in order to challenge what Ache Records called "finicky sub-genrifying", believing instead that "underground art forms should not be defined". Although Ache does not describe the genres of its releases, the Montreal Mirror says that the pairings on these records are typically between electronic and indie rock acts. The split releases in the series include:

Project: Bicycle

Another project of Ache Records was its compilation album Project: Bicycle. The album had eleven songs by various electronic or electro-acoustic musicians. These musicians were given a single sample of music, a recording of a bicycle recorded by Jesse Gander at Hive Studios in Vancouver, and they were tasked with composing a song using only that sample.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arthur . Krumins . Listen to This! – Vancouver's Ache Records . . 30 November 2006 . 1 May 2009 . The label releases Canadian and international artists' musical work from a home in Vancouver, B.C. . https://web.archive.org/web/20120220084654/http://thetyee.ca/Music/2006/11/30/MusicPix/ . 20 February 2012 . dead .
  2. Web site: Hot Hot Heat: s/t 7 . Ache Records. 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070529132256/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=1 . 29 May 2007 . dead .
  3. Web site: Releases . Ache Records. 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061208050938/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php . 8 December 2006 . dead .
  4. Chris . Morin . 22 September 2005 . CD Reviews: Konono No 1 – Congotronics . . 97 . 7 . B7 . Saskatoon, SK . 1 May 2009 . Ache has developed not only a reputation for itself, but an assurance of consistency in musical aesthetic; you are likely to find an affinity with the bands on the label despite the seeming inconsistency of genres (or lack thereof; Ache has seamlessly transcended genre and is sort of its own descriptor). . https://web.archive.org/web/20080517041016/http://www.thesheaf.com//pdf97/Sheaf20050922web_B.pdf . 17 May 2008 . dead.
  5. Web site: Gorge Trio / Uske Orchestra: Split 7 . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . The 6th installment of our DIV/ORCE series, dedicated to the abolishment of finicky sub-genrifying . https://web.archive.org/web/20070526132804/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=31 . 26 May 2007 . dead .
  6. Raf . Katigbak . 17–23 November 2005 . Disc of the week . . 21 . 22 . . Montreal . 1 May 2009 . Vancouver's Ache Records have always prided themselves on their uncanny ability to meld seemingly disparate worlds into a cohesive whole (like their seven-inch series, pairing electronic musicians with indie rock acts). . https://web.archive.org/web/20080704221633/http://www.montrealmirror.com/2005/111705/disc.html . 4 July 2008 . dead .
  7. Web site: Flössin: Lead Singer . Mark . Richardson . . 17 September 2004 . 20 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090221162432/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17967-flssin-lead-singer . 21 February 2009 . dead .
  8. Web site: Discorder Label of the Year: Ache Records . . Vancouver . December 2004 . 20 January 2009 . Recent releases include Flössin's Lead Singer, which garnered a featured review on Pitchforkmedia.com, and the Div/Orce 7" series, nine split singles featuring artists who are too busy making rad music to bother categorizing themselves. . https://web.archive.org/web/20090611140949/http://discorder.ca/oldsite/features/04declabel.html . 11 June 2009 . dead .
  9. Web site: Hot Hot Heat / The Red Light Sting: split LP . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080518184215/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=2 . 18 May 2008 . dead .
  10. Web site: d.b.s.: Forget Everything You Know CDEP . AcheRecords.com . 1 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080518184310/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=3 . 18 May 2008 .
  11. Web site: Femme Fatale: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap 12 . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080518184410/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=8 . 18 May 2008 . dead .
  12. News: Ben . Rayner . On Death and dying . . . 31 December 2006 . 1 May 2009 . There's also the requisite, impossible-to-find early-career EP (2002's Heads Up!, released in limited quantities on Vancouver's Ache Records) .
    - Web site: Jennifer . Tattersall . Keep your eyes on the skies . . . 2 December 2004 . 1 May 2009 . The debut Death From Above release, a six-song EP titled Heads Up, dropped in 2002 on Ache Records, a DIY-minded indie rock/punk/hardcore label out of Vancouver, that also counts early Hot Hot Heat among its releases. . https://web.archive.org/web/20050515214604/http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=4921 . 15 May 2005 . dead .
    - Web site: Death from Above: Heads Up CDEP/12 . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . https://archive.today/20130116055034/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=9 . 16 January 2013 . dead .
  13. Web site: Death from Above: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine LP . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090227122648/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=18 . 27 February 2009 . dead .
  14. Web site: Kid Commando: Holy Kid Commando CD/LP . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070529132219/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=11 . 29 May 2007 . dead .
  15. Web site: Kid606 / Kid Commando: split 7 . Ache Records . 1 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070529093047/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=23 . 29 May 2007 . dead .
  16. Web site: Konono No. 1 . . 1 May 2009 .
    - Web site: Konono No.1, Congotronics . Boomkat.com . 1 May 2009 .
  17. Web site: Konono No1: Congotronics LP . AcheRecords.com . 1 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080518184225/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=21 . 18 May 2008 .
  18. Web site: DIV/ORCE 7" series . Ache Records . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724093958/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=0 . 24 July 2011 .
  19. Web site: Project: Bicycle . Ache Records. 14 January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070529093034/http://www.acherecords.com/releases.php?release=25 . 29 May 2007 . dead .
    - Web site: Nilan . Perera . Various Artists: Project Bicycle . https://archive.today/20130115121906/http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?fid1=22071 . dead . 15 January 2013 . . June 2006 . 1 May 2009 . Enter Project Bicycle, a CD of 11 electronic/electro-acoustic artists from eight countries who were given a sample track of a real bicycle and told to make an "instrumental" piece of music using only that sound source. .

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