Walk Alone

tKatKa (pronounced 'Te-Kat-Ker') is the collaboration between artists PJ Norman and Carlsson, co-founders of 100m Records. The group formed officially in London, UK, 2004, with their first single appearing on a compilation for the Glass Shrimp show on Resonance FM in early 2005. Later that year a white label of their track "Lazerslab" was broadcast by the influential BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale,leading to an independent London label deal for their next two singles.
 
With these releases, tKatKa garnered radio-play from John Kennedy, James Zabiela and Nick Luscombe, as well as BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who affectionately characterizes tKatKa's sound as "Absolutely gorgeous".
 
Soon after, the duo created their own imprint, 100m Records, to release their well received debut album "tKatKa". This was closely followed by sophomore effort, "TerrorKnowledgeAction", featuring a re-interpretation of the Tom Hickox song "Grief Hijackers", of which Bearded Magazine said:
 
"Expect it to soundtrack a spooky art flick, but it won't because it's better than the film would be."
 
Fittingly, the 10th anniversary of 100m Records this year (2015) sees the release of tKatKa's third long player. Since their second album, the pair have both departed London; Carlsson to Copenhagen and Norman to New York. Despite the distance, they continued to work on compositions towards this third collection remotely, in rare occasions meeting to reconnect and refine. The resulting effort, "Tomorrow Knows Another" is a vast collage of ideas, some originating from their earliest demos and others completed entirely by email.
 
This distance afforded the luxury of recording samples and performances in a wide variety of locations; the forests of Sweden, the subways of New York, the streets of Copenhagen, warehouses in East London, the Royal Festival Hall, the lake in Zurich and the beach on Long Island. Utilizing this eclectic array of influences and soundscapes, the tracks were then finished, mixed and mastered at the 100m Records studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Tomorrow Knows Another

Dimension Tension by tKatKa

Glass Rifle are Americans Dan Colby, Ryan Francini, and British-born PJ Norman. The roots of the group lie in the Boston DIY punk scene where Colby and Francini first met. After serving in Hydrahead stalwarts The Huguenots and The Never Never, and Jade Tree Records’ The Explosion, Colby formed The Cignal with Francini. In the mid ‘00s, after a well-received 7”, The Cignal disbanded and both Francini and Colby moved to New York City. It was here, in 2009, that they met Norman and Italian, Filippo Strang. 

After a spell of performances throughout New York, Strang returned to Rome to found the recording/mastering studio VDSS, leaving the band to regroup in a power trio format that pushed Norman’s striking guitar work to the forefront. The departure also allowed for the intense Colby/Francini rhythm section to expand on the pair’s longstanding musical connection with more vehemence.

2015 sees the release of the band’s first full-length LP, the self-titled ‘Glass Rifle’, a collection that shows a maturing of the group’s songwriting. Focusing more on melodic interplay and vocal delivery, and less on the full-force magnitude of their singles, this collection of songs still retain the impact and immediacy of their earlier works while exploring more subtle arrangements of their trademark velocity.

Aiming to really capture their sound as they heard it, and pushing their DIY ethic to the fullest, they brought the production process entirely in-house. The tracks were written, recorded and produced over a year by the trio in their Brooklyn studio, and then mixed by Norman. The final mixes were then sent to Strang for mastering at VDSS in Rome. The result is an entirely independent and self-produced collection of songs, representative of the band’s potency and spontaneity.

‘Glass Rifle’ is released September 22, 2015 in digital format and will be followed by a limited-edition colored vinyl LP, once again lovingly designed and letter-pressed by Letter From Brooklyn. Physical vinyl copies also include an exclusive 7 minute bonus track.

Links:
www.glassrifle.com
www.100mrecords.com
www.vdssrecordingandmasteringonline.it
www.letterfrombrooklyn.com

For all queries/requests, please contact: press@100mrecords.com

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"It's tight, incredibly crafted and stands alongside any classic American underground sound… Pushing that complex hardcore formula to its limits, it's just an impressive contemporary take on a genre that remains relevant thanks to Glass Rifle."
7INCHES
 
"Early Mission of Burma filtered through the earliest releases on Invisible Records. Somehow it feels very familiar, yet completely new at the same time… For anyone who longs for the heyday when Amphetamine Reptile and Touch and Go weren't just labels, but institutions, this is as inviting as it gets."
BRAINWASHED


Glass Rifle

Paint The Walls by Glass Rifle

The product of a decade of work, Light Breaks Focus marks the debut full-length from artist/producer PJ Norman, a collection that began life in his native London, UK, in 2006. 

During the record's creation, in 2008, he moved from London’s east end to the Bowery in New York City. His apartment hallway was painted with the phrase, “Art is Action, Object is Artefact”, the words of artist Arleen Schloss that would come to be a mantra summarizing how he felt about the possibility of music.

Growing up in Staines, UK, Norman’s love for music was intense and he studied from a young age. After achieving grade 8 from the Royal College of Music in oboe he moved to central London to enrol at City University London in music science. There, under the tutorledge of Denis Smalley, himself a protégé of Olivier Messiaen, he discovered his passion for sound-concrète, North Indian classical and West African music, peppered with influences of Brecht, Artaud, Dada, and James Joyce.

Due to this immersion in various platforms of sound and thought, Norman was able to find his voice collaborating with a myriad of other musicians in the London indie scene. He became a founding member of bands Relapse Lucy, Manalishi, and Death By Sadie. During this time, fortuitous, chance meetings with producer Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis) and guitar-noise improvisor Gary Smith encouraged him to become absorbed in the world of music production.

This first showing of songs from Norman is released through the 100m Records collective, of which he was a co-founder in 2005. Through the label he has curated and released full lengths by tKatKa, Relations, Soccer Mom and Glass Rifle, and the electronic improvisation band Fates. An active collaborator, he has been involved in many of the label’s projects as both a producer and musician.

Light Breaks Focus was recorded in Brooklyn, NY, London, and Zurich, Switzerland.

Recorded by Kris O’Connor and PJ Norman. All instruments and location recordings by PJ Norman. Produced, mixed and mastered by PJ Norman. Published by 100m Ltd. (UK).

Light Breaks Focus

Forever by PJ Norman

Latchkey Lights, from Brooklyn, NY, draw from a vast array of literary and musical influences, marrying their collective experiences from different parts of the world.  Drawing musically from early blues, punk, avant-garde, psychedelic, Brit, and classic rock, they weave them into something new, yet wholly familiar.

Latchkey Lights began when Shonda Robbins and Daniel Colby collaborated together over late night cocktails on a barely playable cheap acoustic guitar that someone had left for dead. After realizing that the composition of the music Colby was creating married perfectly with the blues-influenced Southern vocals and lyrics of Robbins, they decided to form a band.  

Colby reached out to Loved Ones, Vapers guitarist B. David Walsh who he had met in the late 90's and collaborated with in their Jade Tree Records released project The Explosion. Juxtaposing this primal energy with another of his musical connections, Colby recruited bassist PJ Norman. The pair are comrades in post-punk outfit Glass Rifle, one of several projects on which they have co-created, released through Norman’s 100m Records imprint. Rounding out the line-up is drummer-extraordinaire Peter Hilton, whose credentials include Nodzzz, Piano Movers and Tiger Dare.

Latchkey Lights’  Tarantino-esque influences stand vividly apparent, having been compared to the Au Pairs, Heart and Danzig, if he was a woman and grew up in the south. And whilst reverential, their sound is undeniably fresh and immediate.

Saints And Spinners

No Control

King Collider is a drum and bass spin-off of the 100m Records' outfits Glass Rifle and Latchkey Lights. 

In this side project, Latchkey Lights' guitarist Dan Colby (formerly of Hydrahead's The Never Never and Jade Tree's The Explosion) resumes his Glass Rifle mantle on drums; and Glass Rifle guitarist, PJ Norman returns to his Latchkey Lights role on bass. 

The duo's renditions take the DIY energy and aesthetic of Colby's Glass Rifle drum sound to different places. The scope expanded by Norman's FX heavy bass lines, the pair erupt from ambient soundscapes, through Krautrock references into hard, driven passages. 

6 Degrees, the project's debut release was recorded live as a two-piece in 100m Records' studio in Brooklyn, NY, in 2015. Subsequent overdubs and arrangement was performed by the pair over the next two years between other projects. The results were then mixed and mastered by Norman, and are now released through 100m Records.

Released August 1, 2017 

Written and performed by Dan Colby and PJ Norman. 
Recorded, mixed and produced by PJ Norman.

6 Degrees

Passage to Cairo by King Collider

King Collider is a drum and bass spin-off of the 100m Records' outfits Glass Rifle and Latchkey Lights.

In this side project, Latchkey Lights' guitarist Dan Colby (formerly of Hydrahead's The Never Never and Jade Tree's The Explosion) resumes his Glass Rifle mantle on drums; and Glass Rifle guitarist, PJ Norman returns to his Latchkey Lights role on bass.

The duo's renditions take the DIY energy and aesthetic of Colby's Glass Rifle drum sound to different places. The scope expanded by Norman's FX heavy bass lines, the pair erupt from ambient soundscapes, through Krautrock references into hard, driven passages.

6 Degrees, the project's debut release was recorded live as a two-piece in 100m Records' studio in Brooklyn, NY, in 2015. Subsequent overdubs and arrangement was performed by the pair over the next two years between other projects. The results were then mixed and mastered by Norman, and are now released through 100m Records.

Released August 1, 2017

Written and performed by Dan Colby and PJ Norman. 
Recorded, mixed and produced by PJ Norman.

If 6 Was 2 by King Collider

Latchkey Lights began when Shonda Robbins and Daniel Colby collaborated together over late night cocktails on a barely playable cheap acoustic guitar that someone had left for dead. After realizing that the composition of the music Colby was creating married perfectly with the blues-influenced Southern vocals and lyrics of Robbins, they decided to form a band. 

Colby reached out to Loved Ones, Vapers guitarist B. David Walsh who he had met in the late 90's and collaborated with in their Jade Tree Records released project The Explosion. Juxtaposing this primal energy with another of his musical connections, Colby recruited bassist PJ Norman. The pair are comrades in post-punk outfit Glass Rifle, one of several projects on which they have co-created, released through Norman's 100m Records imprint. Rounding out the line-up is drummer-extraordinaire Peter Hilton, whose credentials include Nodzzz, Piano Movers and Tiger Dare. 

In 2016 the 5-piece recorded and released their debut EP, Latchkey Lights, on 100m Records, which East Village Radio described as having a "very cool Au Pairs/X vibe". The band hope you enjoy it. After a string of dates in 2016, 2017 saw the band take to the stage as a 4-piece after Walsh's departure to honor commitments with The Explosion and Vapers. The band thrived in the added space, sharing stages with groups like Moles and Pissed Jeans. Latchkey Lights now announce their late 2017 full-length, Escape Clause.

Escape Clause

100m039

Escape Clause by Latchkey Lights

Latchkey Lights began when Shonda Robbins and Daniel Colby collaborated together over late night cocktails on a barely playable cheap acoustic guitar that someone had left for dead. After realizing that the composition of the music Colby was creating married perfectly with the blues-influenced Southern vocals and lyrics of Robbins, they decided to form a band.

Colby reached out to Loved Ones, Vapers guitarist B. David Walsh who he had met in the late 90's and collaborated with in their Jade Tree Records released project The Explosion. Juxtaposing this primal energy with another of his musical connections, Colby recruited bassist PJ Norman. The pair are comrades in post-punk outfit Glass Rifle, one of several projects on which they have co-created, released through Norman's 100m Records imprint. Rounding out the line-up is drummer-extraordinaire Peter Hilton, whose credentials include Nodzzz, Piano Movers and Tiger Dare.

In 2016 the 5-piece recorded and released their debut EP, Latchkey Lights, on 100m Records, which East Village Radio described as having a "very cool Au Pairs/X vibe". The band hope you enjoy it. After a string of dates in 2016, 2017 saw the band take to the stage as a 4-piece after Walsh's departure to honor commitments with The Explosion and Vapers. The band thrived in the added space, sharing stages with groups like Moles and Pissed Jeans. Latchkey Lights now announce their late 2017 full-length, Escape Clause.

Houdini by Latchkey Lights

“What one gets is a strangely morish mix of surf rock complete with catchy swing and harmonies a la The Beach Boys in a headlong collision with the angular pomp of ESG and Gang Of Four” Dazed Digital

100m Records are pleased to announce the worldwide re-release of the first two singles by British surf-pop sensations Lizzie and the Yes Men.

The band, who describe themselves as a ‘Tarantino surf-pop’ outfit, combine Lizzie’s Twiggy-esque style with a contemporary cinematic sound that fuses surf-pop with punk and draws inspiration from bands such as The Ramones, The Ronettes and The Beach Boys, to create music that wouldn’t be out of place on Tarantino’s next film soundtrack.

The quartet came to national attention in their native UK with the 2011 release of their debut single The Broadwalk which grabbed the attention of Dazed Digital and Fred Perry Subculture. The release saw Lizzie and The Yes Men shortlisted for the Glastonbury Emerging Talent 2011 competition by Breaking More Waves, gaining plays on Frank Skinner’s Absolute Radio show, BBC 6Music’s Nemone show, and being interviewed and featured in Chris Hawkins’ 6Music Acoustic Sessions. The Broadwalk has also been used as the opening music for the British television series ‘The Fabulous Baker Brothers.’

2011 also saw them embark on an Italian tour, during which they played at Rocket in Milan, as well as playing a host of London shows, including a sold-out show with Those Dancing Days at XOYO and a show at Le Baron at Embassy in Mayfair. In 2012 European dates were produced by the Lottarox residency, and saw them returning to Italy, as well as playing Le Baron in Paris and the 1,000+ capacity Debaser Medis venue in Stockholm.

The tag ‘Tarantino surf-pop’ becomes clear within seconds of the first single The Broadwalk, with its combination of catchy surf guitars and whistling. Lizzie’s vocals are suitably upbeat, in keeping with the summery vibes of the track. The Broadwalk is accompanied by a cool, choreographed video directed by James Copeman, who has previously directed promos for Mystery Jets, Paloma Faith, Noah and The Whale, and Wild Palms.

Watch the video for The Broadwalk here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGiInelu78A

Deserts is the band’s follow up single which explores more brooding timbres and shows off the band’s darker inclinations. Lizzie elaborates:

“The Broadwalk is us at our poppiest, Deserts is where we get more introspective. It’s great that 100m Records offered to put both out as a double single to introduce us in the US. I feel the two songs really show the breadth of what we do.”

The Deserts video was directed by photographer Laurence Von Thomas, who has previously worked with the likes of Patti Smith and Mark Ronson. It was shot in a crumbling Victorian industrial warehouse, Lizzie plays three different characters in a lynch inspired “tableau viviant”.

Watch the video for Deserts here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=THTrXwJa2Ek

Lizzie and the Yes Men are Lizzie Holdforth, Andy Goodman, Keir Greenaway, Brendan Bailey. The quartet are currently tracking their next release, produced by Mystery Jets frontman William Rees, and performing select dates in London, UK.

"The debut single from Lizzie and the Yes Men is a fabulously upbeat summer tune that channels Debbie Harry, The Ramones and even the whistling genius of Roger Whittaker. It manages to stay on the right side of 'jaunty' with its Spectoresque melodies." Music Week

"Their riffs and twangs have a darker and edgy feel to them. We can imagine if Tarantino ever heard Lizzie and the Yes Men, he'd get them on his next film soundtrack sharpish." Breaking More Waves

The Broadwalk

The Broadwalk by Lizzie and the Yes Men

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100m Records started out as a boutique record label founded in 2005 around a close-knit scene of musicians and producers in North London, UK. Beyond London, the collective has now spread to include New York, Boston, Copenhagen and Zurich and the aim continues to be to release music from the core artists whilst providing a platform of opportunity to new and emerging artists.