How do?
It's been a while since I last did an update...actually, i think i did an email mid-August (join the mailing list, you're missing out!)...things have been going on in Wild Animals Towers (Box Hill) though.
I'm currently doing a bit of writing for a cracking mag called Veri.Live based over here in Melbs. It's top class (but not top shelf) and each copy comes with a 7" record, which is ALLLLLRIIIIIGHT!! Check it out!
This weekend I WILL be putting together the Giles Reed EP (I promises, Giles...sorry!). I've got a pile of nice card, some nautical rubberstamps and a bunch of paper string. This EP is being done in exchange for a Fostex X14 four track tape recorder which Giles has sent to me. This is the model before the Fostex X12 I had 15 years ago so I'm going to be dumbing it right down. Sod garageband!
The order has been placed for the Claws & Organs 12" 'I Am Scum And Nobody Should Love Me', which is bloody exciting! I'll be expecting that mid-November...which is bloody ages away! As you may or may not know, everything we do is hand stamped etc so when i order a record it is always just blank white labels in a paper sleeve. So, I'll try and get the sleeve and everything else ready for the records arrival so I can just stamp the labels and get it out to you lucky bastards! I'm the mean time, have Claws & Organs coming in your ears HERE!
Also, I'll be doing another 7", hopefully before Christmas, featuring Aussie stoner, droner, boner(?) duo Hotel Wrecking City Traders and UK twenty-eight piece noise lords Hey Colossus...exciting stuff for me as I have a deep love for both bands....deeply deep.
"Doing Lunch" with Raul today so I will force him to talk about his album that I seem to have been banging on about for 6mnths!
Also, I wanna do a split 7" with Ex-Wives from Scotland (who have kindly agreed...in pencil. HA!) and Bodies from Melbs (Who I've not actually asked yet...chaps?).
Anyway, loads of other stuff going on...I've written too much already.
While you wait of all this great stuff, buy other stuff from me. I promise when I am rich and infamous, I will allow you all to live vicariously through me. I'm kind.
http://wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com/
Serenity NOW!
Danxxx
oh, P bloody S: I forgot, the kind folk at It's Psychedelic Baby mag asked me some question and i answered them! cute... READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Friday, 4 July 2014
Link me up, buttercup...
Hi Schnukie-Pops,
Thanks to all who have ordered the Lonely Wholesome 7". Still got a few coloured vinyl up for grabs HERE.
Noisey /Vice have interviewed Jonah and asked him about Box Hill...which is cute! you can read that HERE.
UK peeps, you can get the 7" from HERE, HERE, HERE or preferable from HERE.
People in the Americas can get it....soon....I've sent it to some shops....no-one has listed it yet! HA!
Aussies, you can get it from me or if you leave your house (in Melbs), HERE and HERE!
I've got two Crap Crab tapes left...IT FLEW OUT! Tapes are cool, yeah? (Jesus!!?). Anyway, get it HERE or if you are in the UK, HERE! Also, get a fucking fantastic 70+ song compilation from Riot Season Records HERE which is only a fiver (that's five English pounds) and also features a new Crap Crab tune and a shit tonne of other great bands!
The Sheen album has also picked up in the last couple of week...it's been a slow burned but WHAT AN ALBUM! I bloody love it...got a hand full left HERE and again, UK peeps can get it from HERE. Also, the band (who are now an 'ex' band) have just put up some live demos of newer tracks recorded after the album which is available HERE!
Just so you know, you might need to email some of those HERE's to get em, but they got em!
Next I'm doing a solo album thing of what I'll be calling Cowboy-Drone from Raul Sanchez i Jorge* form River Of Snakes, Magic Dirt, Midnight Woolf and The Ape (currently!), a CD from my old 'gig buddy' from the UK, Giles Reed....he does some great bluesy stuff and he's my mate.
Also, I want to put a records out by Gold Class and Monotony....but they won't reply to my emails!
But i will be putting Ex-Wives on a comp 7" later in the year!
WOO'YEAH!
Thanks for helping out
Danxxx
* i just found this, hilarious! "Oh...hey!"
Thanks to all who have ordered the Lonely Wholesome 7". Still got a few coloured vinyl up for grabs HERE.
Noisey /Vice have interviewed Jonah and asked him about Box Hill...which is cute! you can read that HERE.
UK peeps, you can get the 7" from HERE, HERE, HERE or preferable from HERE.
People in the Americas can get it....soon....I've sent it to some shops....no-one has listed it yet! HA!
Aussies, you can get it from me or if you leave your house (in Melbs), HERE and HERE!
I've got two Crap Crab tapes left...IT FLEW OUT! Tapes are cool, yeah? (Jesus!!?). Anyway, get it HERE or if you are in the UK, HERE! Also, get a fucking fantastic 70+ song compilation from Riot Season Records HERE which is only a fiver (that's five English pounds) and also features a new Crap Crab tune and a shit tonne of other great bands!
The Sheen album has also picked up in the last couple of week...it's been a slow burned but WHAT AN ALBUM! I bloody love it...got a hand full left HERE and again, UK peeps can get it from HERE. Also, the band (who are now an 'ex' band) have just put up some live demos of newer tracks recorded after the album which is available HERE!
Just so you know, you might need to email some of those HERE's to get em, but they got em!
Next I'm doing a solo album thing of what I'll be calling Cowboy-Drone from Raul Sanchez i Jorge* form River Of Snakes, Magic Dirt, Midnight Woolf and The Ape (currently!), a CD from my old 'gig buddy' from the UK, Giles Reed....he does some great bluesy stuff and he's my mate.
Also, I want to put a records out by Gold Class and Monotony....but they won't reply to my emails!
But i will be putting Ex-Wives on a comp 7" later in the year!
WOO'YEAH!
Thanks for helping out
Danxxx
* i just found this, hilarious! "Oh...hey!"
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Lonely Wholesome (Jonah from F*cked Up) 7" and Crap Crab cassette NEW IN THE SHOP!!!
YES!
I have spent the weekend rubber stamping and pissing about with records...it's like heaven! ...apart from that ache I get across my middle from leaning over the ol' cutting mat for hours on end. It reminds me of trips on Megabus or Easyjet. I think it's like a reverse hernia or something....!?
Anyway, finally up in the shoppe is the Lonely Wholesome 7" AND the Crap Crab tape. What a treat eh! I am super proud of both releases. One is the biggest run of copies I have done yet and the other is the smallest run yet. There are 400 copies of the Lonely Wholesome 7" with 116 of those on limited colour vinyl and only 25 for the Crap Crab tape.
For any of you not teetering on the very edge of the edge of thee cutting edge, Lonely Wholesome is Jonah Falco of Fucked Up, Career Suicide, Smart Boys...err...Mad Men...um, there are prob more, this guy is a not stop music machine. I reckon he's pretty great and I reckon you do too.
Crap Crap are still recording...proper songs, for and album like. This tape is a 15min improv jam. I like jam. Whatever I try and write about this track will sound terrible but I can honestly say, I didn't believe a word they said when they told me they just "made it up"...it's too good!
Anyway, please keep me in business...
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
Love always (and all ways)
Danx
I have spent the weekend rubber stamping and pissing about with records...it's like heaven! ...apart from that ache I get across my middle from leaning over the ol' cutting mat for hours on end. It reminds me of trips on Megabus or Easyjet. I think it's like a reverse hernia or something....!?
Anyway, finally up in the shoppe is the Lonely Wholesome 7" AND the Crap Crab tape. What a treat eh! I am super proud of both releases. One is the biggest run of copies I have done yet and the other is the smallest run yet. There are 400 copies of the Lonely Wholesome 7" with 116 of those on limited colour vinyl and only 25 for the Crap Crab tape.
For any of you not teetering on the very edge of the edge of thee cutting edge, Lonely Wholesome is Jonah Falco of Fucked Up, Career Suicide, Smart Boys...err...Mad Men...um, there are prob more, this guy is a not stop music machine. I reckon he's pretty great and I reckon you do too.
Crap Crap are still recording...proper songs, for and album like. This tape is a 15min improv jam. I like jam. Whatever I try and write about this track will sound terrible but I can honestly say, I didn't believe a word they said when they told me they just "made it up"...it's too good!
Anyway, please keep me in business...
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
Love always (and all ways)
Danx
Monday, 26 May 2014
Things coming....
Yo!
All of you should be well...I hope you are!
Lots of things going down at Wild Animals Towers (Box Hill, Victoria):
Just finished the Crap Crab release...it's called 'Bohemian Crapsody' and it is a totally improvised 15min jam. I don't know how these guys do it! I refused to believe it is improvised (...it is)! I'm still being secretive about what this release is...but I can say I am am super proud of this one. The bands copies are in the post, as soon as they tell me they've got 'em, they'll be in the shop. THERE WILL ONLY BE 25 COPIES!
Also, they have another brand new track on this outstanding compilation from the dudes at Riot Season Record back in the Motherland....it's only £5 for 76 tracks!!! It is also for a good, nay, GREAT cause. Poor old Peter Kemp who the compilation is in honour of is now sadly no longer with us...his record reviews were/are always an entertaining read... http://peterkemptheworldisyours.bandcamp.com/releases
Lonely Wholesome 7"s are on their way to Oz (that's Australia, not on their way to see the wizard). I'm not sure I can express how please I am to be putting this 7" out. Sleeves and inserts are getting rubber stamped by the team (that's me...) this week and the road trip to pick them up from the lovely lovelies at R.I.P. Society in Sydney is being planned! That one will be 400 copies, 100 of which are coloured vinyl.
In the meantime, Jonah is in another band you might have heard of, you can buy their new album here... http://www.galleryac.com/fucked-up-glass-boys.html
Raul Sanchez i Jorge has given me a copy of his album (debut album i'll have you know) and FUCK, it is AMAZING! Hey, don't go thinking "ahh, he's bound to say that...he's putting it out!" ...this is a cracking album. I'm about to coin another new genre (see 'Hard-Pop')...here it comes....'Cowboy Drone'! This album is just amazing...I LOVE IT! Anyway, in the mean time you can see Raul rocking out with Aussie 'Next Big Thing' Violent Soho in front of a few thousand people when he helped them out at a show last week... http://youtu.be/IX9ekFwL2hs
Stay tuned, dream boats
Danx
All of you should be well...I hope you are!
Lots of things going down at Wild Animals Towers (Box Hill, Victoria):
Just finished the Crap Crab release...it's called 'Bohemian Crapsody' and it is a totally improvised 15min jam. I don't know how these guys do it! I refused to believe it is improvised (...it is)! I'm still being secretive about what this release is...but I can say I am am super proud of this one. The bands copies are in the post, as soon as they tell me they've got 'em, they'll be in the shop. THERE WILL ONLY BE 25 COPIES!
Also, they have another brand new track on this outstanding compilation from the dudes at Riot Season Record back in the Motherland....it's only £5 for 76 tracks!!! It is also for a good, nay, GREAT cause. Poor old Peter Kemp who the compilation is in honour of is now sadly no longer with us...his record reviews were/are always an entertaining read... http://peterkemptheworldisyours.bandcamp.com/releases
Lonely Wholesome 7"s are on their way to Oz (that's Australia, not on their way to see the wizard). I'm not sure I can express how please I am to be putting this 7" out. Sleeves and inserts are getting rubber stamped by the team (that's me...) this week and the road trip to pick them up from the lovely lovelies at R.I.P. Society in Sydney is being planned! That one will be 400 copies, 100 of which are coloured vinyl.
In the meantime, Jonah is in another band you might have heard of, you can buy their new album here... http://www.galleryac.com/fucked-up-glass-boys.html
Raul Sanchez i Jorge has given me a copy of his album (debut album i'll have you know) and FUCK, it is AMAZING! Hey, don't go thinking "ahh, he's bound to say that...he's putting it out!" ...this is a cracking album. I'm about to coin another new genre (see 'Hard-Pop')...here it comes....'Cowboy Drone'! This album is just amazing...I LOVE IT! Anyway, in the mean time you can see Raul rocking out with Aussie 'Next Big Thing' Violent Soho in front of a few thousand people when he helped them out at a show last week... http://youtu.be/IX9ekFwL2hs
Stay tuned, dream boats
Danx
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
'Sheen' by Sheen ...for sale NOW! only 42 copies mind...so be quick!
Hi Skeletons, I've just added the new album from Sheen to the shoppe...
wildanimalsrecords.bigcartel.com
I've just spilt my own lovely review of the band out the top of my brains...it's in the shop thing.
But here are some other kind words peeps have written about them recently:
independentmusicnews.co.uk/review-sheen-st
freedomspark.co.uk/review-sheen-sheen
...and even the NME got involved: "London six-piece Sheen might just be the midpoint where Sonic Youth and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower meet. Made up of members who come from Wales, Poland and beyond, their twisted take on dream-pop and shoegaze is gloriously seductive, the sound of a band revelling in a unification of different cultures.
Anyway, the poor buggers have split up. When I heard their last show in March 2014 was also their album launch gig, I got in contact to see if Wild Animals Records could do a physical version...happily, they agreed! I'm glad i got to see them a bunch of times while I lived in London.
There are only 42 copies of this and eight copies are earmarked for the band and myself. So, only 35 for sale...so move quick! It comes in a silver screen printed and hand-numbered black Arigato Pak. CDs are hand stamped and there are a couple of card insert that actually look quite professional!
UK pals, current exchange rate makes this about £8.00 delivered. BARGAIN!
Next up we've got a super nice Crap Crab thing and the Lonely Wholesome 7"...exciting!
Danx
Friday, 11 April 2014
Sheen (ex-band from London)
Hi you y'all, all the bits for the Sheen CD arrived this week so I should get them done this weekend (maybe...I'm going to see Midnight Woolf on Sunday).
Anyway, if you really can't wait you can buy a boring old download from here.
Also, they sent me the 'thank you' list they wanted in the CD too late...so just read it on that link above...ok?! (Sorry Sheen).
Also, my pal Dave helped me out with the more computery stuff on this one...people kept asking me about DPI...I told them, I'm not into that, my back door is one-way only, baby!!
Anyway, you can get his help too here...dch.do ...he's so talented that if he wasn't my pal I'd be sick in his letter box, and I'm not talking 'DPI'...!?
...oh, and this is his fave song...
Lates
Dan
Anyway, if you really can't wait you can buy a boring old download from here.
Also, they sent me the 'thank you' list they wanted in the CD too late...so just read it on that link above...ok?! (Sorry Sheen).
Also, my pal Dave helped me out with the more computery stuff on this one...people kept asking me about DPI...I told them, I'm not into that, my back door is one-way only, baby!!
Anyway, you can get his help too here...dch.do ...he's so talented that if he wasn't my pal I'd be sick in his letter box, and I'm not talking 'DPI'...!?
...oh, and this is his fave song...
Lates
Dan
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