Resipiscent
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Resipiscent is an independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 based in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2005 by James Decker and Thomas Day.

The label publishes a wide range of experimental music and film. Most of its releases are extremely limited editions involving handcrafted package art. Liz Allbee's "Quarry Tones" release is packaged in heavy handsewn felt with flowers and shredded circuits scattered inside. Smegma
Smegma
Smegma is a combination of exfoliated epithelial cells, transudated skin oils, and moisture. It occurs in both female and male mammalian genitalia.-Human smegma:Both females and males produce smegma...

's "Live 91-93" relies on dumpster-dived mainstream CDs that the band then defaces to serve as packaging. The Anti-Ear "Tre Picoli" release is appears to be a 7" record but contains two mini-CD's and one mini-DVD. Aaartfystte's "22 Short Noise Videos" comes in a four color silkscreen package embellished with hand carved relief prints by Maw Zuffler. The double CD compilation "String of Artifacts" requires listeners to solve a word jumble and then a crossword puzzle in order to decode the track listing, with some bands adding to the puzzle by imitating the style of other bands. The Bran(...)Pos "Quaak Muttar" package is a crude but functional pinball machine for which track indexes serve as scoreboard.

The label name revives a word that had fallen into disuse. Resipiscent means "a return to one's senses following a brutal experience." Its tagline
Tagline
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 is "Unburying the meanest in criminally obscure sound."

Artists published by Resipiscent

  • Fat Worm of Error
    Fat Worm of Error
    Fat Worm of Error is an Experimental/Noise/conceptual art avant garde rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts. They are seen as staples of the underground noise and improvisation scene and helped to start what is known as a regional form of noise music called . They have been associated with the...

  • Nerfbau
  • Ava Mendoza
  • Audrey Chen
  • Miya Masaoka
    Miya Masaoka
    Miya Masaoka is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers...

  • Kenta Nagai
  • Loachfillet
  • Smegma (band)
    Smegma (band)
    Smegma is an American experimental noise group formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Originally part of the Los Angeles Free Music Society movement of the 1970s, Smegma is one of the few music collectives of that era still active today. Author Richard...

  • Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
  • Aaartfystte
  • 0th
  • skozey fetish
  • Occasional Detroit
  • Black Mayonnaise
  • Scott Arford
  • Peter B
  • Core of the Coalman (Jorge Boehringer
    Jorge Boehringer
    Jorge Boehringer is an electro-acoustic musician, composer, sound designer, and installation artist from the United States. He was born in New York in 1975, grew up in Texas, and in 1998 moved Oakland, California...

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  • Xome, Tralphaz, Eco Morti
  • Tarantism
  • Earwicker
  • The Ritualistic School of Errors
  • Critical Monkey
  • At Jennie Richie
  • Noel Von Harmonson
  • Cactus
  • SIXES
  • Porest
  • Midmight
  • Anti-Ear
  • Bran(...)Pos
  • Masonic Youth
  • Liz Allbee

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