
Christmas sure has that certain knack of bringing people together, and from all corners of the globe, and from all varieties of the Rack & Ruin musical spectrum. Vlantis, a RnR newcomer starts off proceedings with the joyous, fast, fun, frenetic opener "Hush Child, The Snow is Gone", a track based on one which Vlantis (Joe Jacobs) wrote with his friend Chris Ward at an earlier date. Grand Pocket Orchestra are next up, with another ridiculously catchy number entitled "Yum Yum", their coming year will be one to watch with interest. We slow things down a [...]

Summers here kids, and Rack & Ruin is proud to present their latest "Various Artists" collection. "Never mind the brollies" contains many of your Rack & Ruin favourites, but also some wonderful bands who have also offered their tracks to this years summer collection. The album is as wide a mix as you would imagine from the label. After the fuzzy scuzzed up lo-fi singalong opener from These Are Words, it isn't long before you hit the hi-fi electronic mastery from artists like T Bear, and TASRU. Mixing lo-fi with hi-fi is no mean [...]
die lütten dinger! man sucht sie nicht, man findet sie. stolpert fast darüber. kleinstlabel. persönliche dinger. geschmacklos, zum teil. mannigfaltig in ausdehnung, anliegen und bestückung. ramschläden. manchmal. andererseits offen für alles, was sich so andienen kann, musikalisch, außermusikalisch. ohne sie wäre das leben nicht einen pfifferling wer. old life records . schon der name ist die erwähnung wert. kein großes tamtam um woher und wohin. lakonisch der hinweis: a label from victoria, bc, canada. young lions heißen die bands oder bear's lair, the macadamia brothers oder balacade. die scheibchen gibts [...]