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Preorders for the Totally Slow//Black Market split 7" are now live in our webstore, so you should go check it out!!! Both bands are really awesome and are some of the best kept secret bands of the southeast. Totally Slow features ex members of Rights Reserved, Eagle Bravo, Manamid, Decoration Ghost and so many more. We released their debut LP in 2013 and it is really awesome, if you haven't checked it out, you really are missing out! The best years of California pop-punk and early Merge Records, rolled into one. Black Market is a little bit newer, but all members have definitely "done their time" in the "scene," for lack of a better way to describe them. Features ex members of Light the Fuse and Run (RVA- Level Plane Records, known for their split with Hot Cross) and Forcefedglass (MA- featuring Ben Koller of Converge). Black Market sounds nothing like those bands. Instead of spazzy post-hardcore or blistering fast punk, Black Market is more garage rock sensibility with 90s punks intensity. Basically loud post hardcore that knows when to get loud, but also knows when to get crazy. It'll make sense when you hear it. The band previously released a collection of their 2013 EPs, "One Year Old," via Death to False Hope Records. Totally Slow will be playing THE FEST on Saturday, November 1st at Durty Nelly's. The band will have advance copies of the split (tests) in a very very limited quantity. If you are interested in picking this variant up, then make a beeline to the venue and nab it up. The 7" EP is limited to 300 copies of randomly mixed color vinyl.The release features 4 new tracks (2 from each band) on the record w/ two additional digital only songs! The digital versions are covers of each others songs. This was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Kris Hilbert at Legitimate Business. Side A: 1. Totally Slow- Blank Paper Sides 2. Black Market- Hangover Hobby Kit Side B: 3. Black Market- No Brain 4. Totally Slow- The End of Air Digital only: 1. Black Market- Phone (Totally Slow) 2. Totally Slow- Basement Dweller (Black Market) Under The Gun Review premiered a Black Market track, "No Brain," from the split, so make sure you check that out as well. http://www.underthegunreview.net/2014/09/29/utg-premiere-black-market-no-brain/ PREORDER HERE!!! PREORDER HERE!!! PREORDER HERE!!! http://selfawarerecords.storenvy.com/products/8899032-preorder-totally-slow-black-market-split-7-w-digital-download-bonus-s

So, we aren't doing Treasure Fest this year. Instead we are focusing on the 5th anniversary of SELF AWARE RECORDS and throwing a two day event with many of the current and active SA bands playing. If you live in Charlotte, NC or anywhere in the Southeast then you should come out to this, it will be an awesome time. June 13-14 @ The Milestone w/ Old Flings Totally Slow Mike Bell & the Movies (ex members of Bandname, Algernon Cadwallader) Late Bloomer (ex Meth Mountain) No Power Museum Mouth Oddczar Pullman Strike Alright (new band-members of Late Bloomer) Means Well (ex Calormen) One Another plus special guests and honorary Self Aware friends Muscle & Bone (Black Numbers/Bitter Melody Recs), Junior Astronomers (Broken Circle Recs) and Black Market (ex Light the Fuse and Run). https://www.facebook.com/events/273054142860530/ MORE INFO will be posted soon as well as a flyer for your visual pleasure. Thanks for all the support over the past 5 years, it definitely means a lot! www.selfawarerecords.com www.selfawarerecords.bandcamp.com

I know we've posted in here before, but here we go again, this is an update of sorts. Recently we released an LP for a Greensboro, NC band, Totally Slow (ex Rights Reserved, Decoration Ghost, Eagle Bravo) with the help of Headfirst! Records. It is going awesomely and we love those dudes. Not sure what the point of this post is, other than to make you aware of Self Aware Records. We have lots of awesome releases and very expansive distro, as well as some cool shirts for sell. We have a busy 2014, with a few LPs and you could help us by thinning the heard to make way for the new stuff! Check it out... www.selfawarerecords.storenvy.com Also take a look at our bandcamp so that you can hear our past and current bands, We have ALL of our current releases on there, and a few more that we decided you needed to hear. https://selfawarerecords.bandcamp.com/ SA020: Totally Slow "S/T" 12" LP SA019: Means Well "Don't Dream" CS (ex Calormen) SA018: Center of the Sun "Machine Gun" 12" (members of Young and In the Way) SA017: Late Bloomer "S/T" 12" LP SA016: Oddczar "One Word" 12" SA015: Old Flings "Spite" 12" LP SA014: Late Bloomer "demo 2012" CS (OOP) SA013: No Power "No Axis" 7" SA012: Mike Bell & the Movies "Stuck In a TV" 7" (ex Algernon Cadwallader) SA011: Just Die! "A Momentary Lapse in Positive Thinking" 12" SA010: Pullman Strike "People We Know" CD (OOP) SA009: Andy the Doorbum/Yardwork "split" 7" SA008: Matt Evans "Senseless" CS (b/w Old Flings) SA007: Bandname "Breakfast" 12" LP SA006: Meth Mountain "Discography" CS (OOP) SA005: Meth Mountain "Monotony" 7" SA004: Just Die! "Garages and Basements" 7" SA003: Meth Mountain "Gentrifi-Cat" CD SA002: World Champions "Angels With Filthy Souls" CD (OOP) SA001: Lowbrow "Broken Speech" 7"

I'm putting out the debut LP for an awesome North Carolina band called TOTALLY SLOW. The band features ex members of Rights Reserved, Eagle Bravo, Decoration Ghost, Manamid and a few others. TOTALLY SLOW makes me think of 80s California punk ala Agent Orange, Adolescents, Descendents mixed with early Lookout! Records bands and maybe even influenced by 90s indie/punk ala Archers of Loaf and early Superchunk. Fun, surfy, and thoughtful punk. The LP is being released jointly, by SELF AWARE and HEADFIRST! Records. It will be limited to 500 copies on clear red vinyl. Preorders are now up, so check it out please!!! This band does not dissapoint. http://selfawarerecords.storenvy.com/products/1901684-totally-slow-s-t-12-lp-w-digital-download [selfawarerecords.storenvy.com] » (PREORDER) http://www.selfawarerecords.com [www.selfawarerecords.com] » http://headfirstrecords.limitedrun.com [headfirstrecords.limitedrun.com] »