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This is our newest release:
Best Actress is a new group consisting of Maya Weissbach, formerly of the Chicago group Music For Boating, and Scott Ritcher of the Metroschifter. The debut, full-length, 11-song album is a unique mix of pop, piano, and guitar, topped with Maya's delicious vocals. The album is the result of a collaboration which began in 2004 and was recorded in a variety of locations, as fancy as the University of Louisville School of Music and as basic as Scott's apartment. Buy it now from BestActress.org. Available as a compact disc or digital download. Hear a few tracks from the album on the Best Actress profile at MySpace. |
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"Equal" is the second album from Lafayette, Indiana's The Pat McClimans Group. The PMG has settled into a cohesive lineup and branched out into collaborative territory with pianist Chad Cutsinger trading vocals with Pat on several tracks. The album comes in a fantastic custom-made, hand-printed package, crafted at Anvil Prints in Louisville. If you enjoyed their first record or Pat's earlier work with MT Rhoades and His Lonesome Woods Band, "Equal" will ease into your record collection without incident. Buy it now from PatMcClimansGroup.com!
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Coming soon: A few good things we're working on for the future of music. |
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 The
US debut CD from Trollhättan, Sweden's The Sorted.
We met these girls and guys years ago when Metroschifter played in
their hometown. They wowwed us with heavy rock show that included a
reworking of one of our songs. They're recording in March, so the release
will be probably early in the summer. You can get a load of what they're
all about and hear some earlier recordings on The
Sorted web site. |
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Our
first release was a homemade 7-song CD called Limited Edition
European Tour CD. We made 55 copies and sold them, well,
on our European tour that same month. Its seven songs were unmastered
versions of the songs from Strawberries and the Metroschifter
Picture Disk 7" recorded by Ed Rose. The tracks weren't
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In
January 1999, another homemade tour disc was issued on our label.
The first Scott Ritcher solo CD was recorded in
his parents' basement in Middletown, Kentucky. About 100 homemade
CDR's of this were sold on Scott's 1999 solo tour in Europe. In June
1999, the release was re-recorded in as an album at Red House Studios
in Eudora, Kansas, by Ed Rose. |
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The
studio version, which is still available,
was recorded using a beautiful acoustic guitar built by Scott's sister
Greta Ritcher, and includes a cover of a song by his brother, Mark
Ritcher's band, Cooler. |
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Our third release from I Can't Believe It's a Record Company was 2000's Encapsulated, the record that has 13 other bands playing a new album we wrote. This album was manufactured and distributed on Doghouse Records with our logo. The bands performing for us on this record are Burning Airlines, Cooler, Elliott, the Enkindels, the Get Up Kids, Ink & Dagger, Joan of Arc, Music Group, MT Rhoades & His Lonesome Woods Band, the Promise Ring, Refused, Rye Coalition, and Kyle Crabtree & Jason Noble of Shipping News. |
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Release
number four was a different version of Encapsulated issued
through the Howling
Bull label in Japan. The artwork on the Japanese version is completely
different and the audio was supposed to be slightly different as
well. The MT Rhoades Band recorded two different versions of their
Metroschifter cover "Under Pressure to Exist," and the
alternate version was supposed to appear on this release. However,
a mixup of master discs caused the audio on the Japanese version
to be exactly the same as the Doghouse version.
The elusive alternate version of "Under Pressure to Exist" can be downloaded as an MP3 by clicking this link. |
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Speaking of clicking on links, the fifth title from I Can't Believe It's a Record Company is an internet-only release. Encapsulated Demos is a 14-song collection of the original demos we sent to the bands who performed on the actual Encapsulated album. The recordings were all made in Scott's apartment in Old Louisville and vary in quality - some have piano tracks, some with drum machine tracks, some are just acoustic guitar and vocal, while others have more typical Metroschifter instrumentation. Three of the songs on this record didn't make it to the final album, and two of them never made their way to any record. Encapsulated Demos is available free of charge as downloadable MP3 files:
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Let's
Get This Party Started was originally a homemade cassette
we sold at shows during 1997. The songs are early demos, alternate
versions and live tracks. In 2001, we included it in the material
we have available for downloading on emusic.com. But as of now, Let's
Get This Party Started is
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For a while, we've wanted to do a release of music from Pat's other group, The MT Rhoades band, but we haven't had the money. We decided instead to give you this 6-song EP they recorded in 2001. You can download it here free of charge. You can download a PDF of the really hideous cover art and print it out by clicking here, and then burn a CD and it'll be just like you bought it. Holy shit! This material was recorded April through July 2000 at Berzerker Studios in Lafayette, Indiana. Engineered by John Gordon. Produced by Pat McClimans.
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In
2003, Metroschifter members Pat McClimans and Scott Ritcher teamed
up in a new band called Department of Energy. Recorded
in Boston, Massachusetts, by John Gordon, the disc is comprised of
completely instrumental music with segments of presidential speeches
and debates from the past 40 years. Department of Energy CD
plays a continuous track for the duration of the nonstop 18-minute
program. Click
here to listen to a 2-minute preview or buy
it right now from this site. |
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The first disc from The Pat McClimans Group. Pat just can't get enough of playing music, and his roots are shown in all their glory on this CD. The 9-song fill-length album features a cavalcade of guest appearances. Pat leads what amounts to essentially a different band lineup on each track. Buy it now from PatMcClimansGroup.com! |
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