Dust off that turntable or hit the yard sales this weekend, local label IAMSOUND has a pretty sweet LA record club type deal happening this year. The deets are below:
The LA Collection is a series of limited edition split 7-inches released on IAMSOUND Records in 2010, one a month going from March till August, in partnership with one of our favorite UK record stores, Pure Groove Records. All artists are LA acts hand-picked by IAMSOUND that represent the true talent and diversity that we believe LA has to offer. LA is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities and yet our music scene is wholly underrated whenever compared to other artistic hotbeds such as NYC and London.
We wanted this series of releases to help bring together an LA scene and showcase the depth of talent that exists in this city. All of the artwork is done by local artists Ingrid Allen and Elisa Saether, creating fantastical scenes of Los Angeles with oil on canvas on the front, and on the back, the typesetting would be done by famed artist and graphic designer Aaron Rose.
We kick off the LA Collection with a 7” from LA eclectic dance purveyors We Are The World, out February 16th (this one is not a split though).
ARTISTS
We Are The World
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
Fool’s Gold
Local Natives
Dead Man’s Bones
Rainbow Arabia
Nosaj Thing
IO Echo
Pocahaunted
Signals (ex-Mae Shi)
Actually
Moonrats
Imaad Wasif
More about IAMSOUND here: http://www.iamsoundrecords.com/
