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Mystery Circles is proud to introduce our first vinyl release, "Songs From My Parents Basement" by Wholewheat. https://wholewheat.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-my-parents-basement Since the late 90's Brian Austin aka Wholewheat was content to amass piles of 4-track cassettes and leave them floating in his disgusting mildew infested basement, never to be heard far outside his Jersey Shore home. Late last year, we went through some of these basement tapes and popped our favorites up in CYBERSPACE. After some decent reaction, 10 months later, we randomly decided to slap some of them on a 12" slab of wax. And that's it. Wholewheat is currently maybe possibly setting up live shows around his Jersey Shore home to support the wax. Who knows if they will actually happen. For fans of Daniel Johnston, Sebadoh, early Beck, the 90's, 60's sunshine pop ETC ETC ETC WW BULLET POINTS: -Wholewheat is from TR STREETZ, NJ -All songs are inspired by mildew smell in his parents mold ass basement -WW prefers #3 supersize extra cheese -His songs recall a better time filled with people in mold ass basements dancing to records with spilled ashtray juice on them -He got that lofi bang MORE MOLD: https://www.facebook.com/basementmold https://soundcloud.com/whole-wheat @TRStreetzNJ

Hey everyone! I've finally decided to take the leap and start a small label - Flesh and Bone Records. I've been releasing my own music for over 10 years and helping friends with their projects as well, and now I want to continue to grow my vision. A little info - After touring the country and world extensively with my band Deadhorse, as well as helping found and run a region wide collaborative zine entitled Broken Teeth, I started Flesh and Bone. For the last 2 and a half years, Flesh and Bone has been the umbrella to encompass all of my creative endeavors. I make a living by doing graphic design and custom 1" buttons for bands, businesses, organizations, labels and individuals all over the world. I've worked with over 600 different clients, and I've seen so many people sharing their visions, ideas, music, art, creations and life in our partnerships together. I want to take that vision one step farther, and turn this into a record label. I'e been inspired by all of the wonderful people I've been working with, that I want that to continue to grow and flourish, and I feel like this is the avenue I want to go down at this point in time, and couldn't be more excited about it. Due to the nature of these endeavors and the DIY mentality that will be behind this, I'm starting small. I want to take baby steps to grow and develop this idea over time, and not jump in head first. With that being said, this will start with all digital and custom tape releases as far as music is concerned. I am also interested in putting out zines, books and other creative projects from artists of all sorts. I'm partnering with a friend that does amazing work with tapes, much like you see with records this day in age - transparent hazes, three color swirls, split half colors, the works. There hasn't been a lot of this that I have seen across the board within the "tape" revival, but his custom creations are quite exciting, and I'm honored to be doing things like this. We'll find unique options for every release that compliment the artwork always. If everything goes as planned at the moment, I will be launching everything this summer. I want to start with 3-6 releases all at the same time. Non-genre specific, this label will rather focus on the mentality of the artists involved. This idea is about creating a family of musicians, artists, writers and other creatives that already know what it's like to hold themselves up with their own efforts, those who know what it's like to pioneer into releases, tours, and all creative projects with their own two hands, not relying on anything else. I'm not here to take over and provide you with all the answers, the right connections, the "label promises" of a bygone era, but rather to house a family, and be of service to helping your creative vision grow. The objective is to then release vinyl down the line, and the first vinyl releases will be collaborative efforts with some partner labels, but that will be a little later in the game. I already have some exciting artists I plan on working with, and we're already figuring out details for the releases, but I'm still open to all ideas, suggestions, and submissions. I want to know what you're doing, and if we connect, who knows what sort of things we could accomplish together. Send your submissions to [email protected] if you're interested!