The Record Machine

Motorboater started this last summer when my buddy Dan Eaton started sending me electropop jams(emphasis on the jams). I loved the songs so much I told Dan to keep making more. As more and more songs came together he played a show with Half-Handed Cloud. Shortly thereafter Motorboater made appearance at our Holiday Showcase. Well here we are 3 months later and we have his P/U Yr Heart debut EP. Motorboater has a few upcoming shows one at The Record Machine Spring Showcase and another at SWSW.

3/12 at The Czar Bar for The Record Machine Spring Showcase w/Cowboy Indian Bear, Capybara, and Max Justus

3/20 at Canvas in Austin, TX at The Midwasteland Takeover 11:30 PM (RSVP at www.midwastelandtakeover.com)

With your support we are hoping to release this album on vinyl this summer. With that in mind we have a few different options for you to purchase:

For $2.00 you get high quality 320k Mp3’s

For $5.00 you get Apple lossless files

For $10.0 you get a Screen Printed Poster and Apple Lossless files

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I am really excited to let you know that our first 7″ for the label is now available for purchase. Since I was in high school I have been collecting vinyl so being able to put our logo’s on this awesome packaging is a real honor for us. I personally had a pretty high standard for this project. I wanted to make sure the packaging and the value was all really worth it. Both bands Cowboy Indian Bear and It’s True are extremely exciting young bands. For both bands this is their first release with a label after only self releasing fantastic ep’s. For fans of these bands you need to own these songs and for people not familiar with them these are songs you will find yourself listening to them over and over again. Each 7″ is unique we went with a production technique that mixed random colors to get the marble effect you see above. Each one is different and unique! You are going to get all this for just $8(including shipping). This is something that you want to own and something your friends will covet once the pressing of 500 is over.

Just so you know how serious we are about the quality of the music we are going to stream the Cowboy Indian Bear Song – Foolish(for a limited time).

So as many of you might have seen we added a tumblr blog. We did it for a few reasons 1) I love the service and I think it is great way for posting more content and more regular content 2) It will hopefully give you some more insight into who TRM is and give you in sight to what we like and why. 3) This year we are creating so much new media we wanted a place to put it that didn’t clearly clutter up the news that you may want to get on a regular basis. So if your someone that is looking for daily content we will have more updates for you over on the blog. For someone that is looking for just the good stuff new release news, tour news, $2.00 albums and other offers keep yours right where they are and we will still have plenty of news on a weekly basis.

As you might have seen on the blog yesterday we released Part 1 to Sam Billen’s Removers album. It is the first 4 songs collected all into one handy place. So if you haven’t already gotten all of them we have a few different ways you can get your hands on these songs:
1) A new way: Become fans of TRM and post a note about ep on your facebook wall with this widget below:

or
2) Just give us your email address:

We knew when we committed to releasing an album every month we had some great new releases in the pipe for everyone to enjoy in 2010. I have to say that while every release in our catalog has a certain special place in our hearts this one does for me for several reasons. Saharan Gazelle Boy – Airplanes Can’t marks TRM’s 20th release in just under 7 years. While that might not sound like much it is pretty awesome for us a label to get to that point. This release is also the first release to have several songs recorded at my own home. For those not familiar with the name Saharan Gazelle Boy it is the solo project of Darin Seal from Capybara. Airplanes Can’t encapsulates everything I love about bedroom pop. As with these releases you will be able to hear a stream of the album and if you can’t afford the $2.00 you can download just a song for your email address.

One Too Many Mornings has been one of the hits of Sundance. We have been excited to have Capybara involved in the score. I had a chance to watch the movie for the first this past weekend and I can genuinely say that it was truly a great film. In addition to being a great film Capybara did such a good job highlighting the moments. This is their first new music that are releasing as a band since Try Brother and it gets me really excited to see what is next. We decided we wanted to make the score as much of an awesome deal as the movie is:

And last but not least please do yourself a favor and head over to:
www.onetoomanymornings.com and pick up a copy of the film.

A few months back we ran a remix contest for Capybara and we got several great remixes from everybody. You can hear them on the Capybara website. We were extremely excited to get this awesome remix from John Bersuch(from more KC bands than you can count). It was the clear winner in all of our minds. Thanks to everyone that submitted something and we are still taking more remixes on the Capybara site. Pictures to come soon from the unveiling party.

Download: Capybara – The Wimp (Wimpybara The Cap by John Bersuch)

We are also excited to let you know that One Too Many Mornings is debuting this week at Sundance. A couple of months ago they contacted Capybara and asked if they could write a score for their movie. This is the first new material to be recorded since last years Try Brother. Check out the trailer below featuring new Capybara music:

Unlike many other movies at Sundance One Too Many Mornings will be releasing the movie via their website the day after they premier it at Sundance for a digital download. From the little bits and pieces I have seen and heard it well worth the 10 bucks for a digital download if not more then that for the other packages.

In addition to new material for the movie Darin Seal from Capybara is releasing a solo album with us next month as Saharan Gazelle Boy. It will be part of $2.00 albums special. We will have some previews up of it real soon but till then you can hear some older songs on his myspace.

And you won’t have to worry about Capybara disappearing either. In 2010 they will continue to be writing new material and playing shows. They will also be releasing more tour videos from last years tour.

The other day I was out with a friend and we were making jokes about how 2010 is like living in the future. We were at a movie and we were watching the previews thinking “Man movies in the future are going to suck”. Well the statement has stuck with me and got me thinking about the future of music, and what I want to do with it. I felt like this was a good time to launch some new things for our website. One of the things I have been wanting to do is release albums for $2.00. So we are going to be releasing at least one album a month from our website for $2.00. If we don’t have a new release to do at the moment we will do something from our back catalog. The album will also be streaming from our website and you will be able to post the player on your facebook, blog, twitter or whatever social network you would like. I think this will be a great way for people to pick up something new and not feel too guilty about it.

Our first album that we will be releasing with this new tradition is The Parade Schedule – Seeds To Be Planted, Trees To Be Cut. Even though it came out last month we wanted more people to get a chance to pick up this album at this price. It is the long awaited debut from Louisville singer/songwriter Matt Kinder. The album has been in the works for just over 2 years and I am very excited to help Matt get it out. It is a very honest and mature debut album for someone that I think will be around for a long time.

The Parade Schedule is also going to be out on the road this month to support the album this month here are the dates:
January 8th CD Release Party at the 930 in Louisville, KY w/Peter Bradley Adams
January 29th at Czar Bar in Kansas City, MO w/Oriole Post and Grizzly Hands
January 30th at The Firebird in St Louis, MO w/Owen Pye
January 31st at TBA in Cincinnati, OH

or if you can’t afford $2.00 you can download the song Backyard for free below.

Update: Sale has now ended. Thanks everyone that purchased.