News:
Welcome to the Awkward Silence website. I hope you enjoy your time here.
Three new split releases - out now > > >
Sound clips are up!
You can now find sound clips for all of our releases on this website - some are 30 seconds, some are full length. Each page in the Releases section has a
corresponding audio player. Enjoy :)
There are also photos on the Events pages for past Awkward Silence gigs.
There are lots more new split 3" CD releases planned for the near future including discs for:
Bronnt Industries Kapital / Ecce
as well as some new T-Shirts and more...
I am also looking into making much of the back catalogue available for digital download.
Awkward Silence Biography:
Awkward Silence Recordings is an independent record label based in Kent in the south-east of England, which was started in 1999 and is
run by just one person, John, who has also been invloved with running other indie labels past and present.
The label was set up to release limited edition split singles/EPs and focussed on featuring an artist who had released music on other
labels on one side and then an unknown often quite similar sounding artist on the other. The very first release featured the influential
German electronic artist Arovane, at the time when he was just breaking through with the album 'Atol Scrap' with the worldwide debut release
by the then unknown Christian Kleine (now signed to Morr Music / City Centre Offices and half of Herrmann & Kleine) on the other side.
This continued throughout the catalogue, most notably with Papa M's (David Pajo) split single with UK underground post-rock band Unhome,
long before the Slint reunions, and more recently with melodic electronic act ISAN releasing an EP with the excellent Tomcats In Tokyo from France.
Awkward Silence has always been run as a hobby-label with releases appearing as and when the time felt right, often with long gaps between discs
and then with two or more new singles appearing in shops on the same day! The label was also a firm favourite with John Peel, who played
tracks regularly on his BBC Radio 1 shows.
The artwork on all releases has always followed the same pattern with the main image usually being submitted by one of the musical artists on the
release with everythng printed in monochrome colours. All releases up to number 18 were on 7" vinyl and then the switch was made to 3" CDs housed in
cute mini m-lock CD cases in 2005. Short run vinyl pressing prices were provong restrictive and the new digital format meant that more music could be
included on each release, now up to 21 minutes.
The label now has a back catalogue of over 20 split releases featuring over 40 artists from all over the world, many of whom are well-respected and
have gone on to have successes elsewhere.
Awkward Silence has released music for (in alphabetical order):
Accelera Deck, Arovane, Bauri, Brioche Kretzaal, The Buddy System, Will Carruthers, Cathode, Cheju, d_rradio, The Dandelion Council, Dunaewsky69, Emery Reel, epic45,
The Flowers of Hell, ISAN, Joeyfat, Kimonophonic, Christian Kleine, Lilienthal. Lowfish, Lusine ICL, Maps and Diagrams, The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, Milieu,
Nautilis, Novel 23, Ojn, 100 Pets, Papa M, Part Chimp, Portal, Matthew Rozeik, Schengen, Shoosh, Skanfrom, Souvaris, Stafraenn Hakon, Sybarite, Tarentel,
Tomcats In Tokyo, Uga, Unhome, Verbose, The Workhouse, Yellow6, Ylid.
The label is now also offering its new releases via digital download, currently via Warp Records' Bleep.com and it is hoped that much of the back catalogue
will also be available in this way in the future.
Here's the new video for Shoosh's 'Come In From The Cold' by Weird Fields:
There's also been some nice reviews of awkward 24 including in the April 2008 edition of The Wire, Reverb magazine and online at Angry Ape, Igloomag, Losing Today, Leonard's Lair,
Vital Weekly and Unpeeled amongst others.
Worldwide Mail Order:
There is a worldwide online shop on this website incorporating payment by
PayPal. Click to go straight to the Mail Order
section to view all available titles or click on any of the 'Add to Basket' buttons on this website to begin your order. All mail order prices
include postage and packing.
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