Flying Foxes are a musical duo based in Sydney comprising local Benjamin Maher and New Zealand expatriate Rachel Wintle. Their second album Beat Repeat is released on 9th April 2013. Jordy Lane (https://soundcloud.com/jordy_lane) returned to mix, record and produce the album while he wasn't busy with with own bands Shady Lane and Richard In Your Mind. Flying Foxes are blissfully independent artists - if you want to know more please get in touch with us.

Hello Im Pav Modern, founder of Modular Recordings home of The Avalanches, Cut Copy, The Canyons, The Presets, Wolfmother and Tame Impala amongst many others many others.

Before my life as a record company I was a concert promoter and had the good fortune of promoting artist such as Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Fugazi, Pavement, Sonic Youth Pearl Jam, My Bloody Valentine, Hole, Bikini Kill, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs , LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk and hundreds of others across Australia and New Zealand.

I created The Summersault festival in Australia and an island festival in Croatia called For Festival and curated/creative directed events in Australia like Vivid Live 2011 and most recently the UNPOPULAR  exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum.

I've started a new record label called UNPOPULAR and will start uploading some really exciting new artists here:

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Benjamin Fletcher was born in Australia. Growing up in a beach side suburb of Sydney Benjamin left high school to become a founding member of rock and roll band Bluebottle Kiss. Benjamin played bass and guitar on 5 Bluebottle Kiss albums & 5 Ep's including: Higher Up The Fire Trails (1994), Double Yellow Tarred (1995), Fear Of Girls (1996), Somnambulist Homesick Blues (1997), Tapdancing On The Titanic (1998), Patient (1999), Revenge Is Slow (2002), Come Across (2004). Bluebottle Kiss toured throughout Australia, the USA and the UK.

Benjamin started his own band The Devoted Few, as songwriter and vocalist, in January 2001. The band released 3 full-length albums: Sleepless (2002), Billboard Noises (2004), Baby, You're A Vampire (2009) and an EP: Schematic Tracks (2005). The Devoted Few toured extensively around Australia.

In 2005 Benjamin joined acclaimed Australian singer Sarah Blasko's live band playing bass, guitar and keyboards.

In 2012 Fletcher recorded his debut solo album entitled: Upon Ayr the album was released worldwide on Warner Bros.

Early 2014 Benjamin co-wrote with Sarah Blasko on her 2015 release: Eternal Return. Eternal Return won the Aria Award for Best Alt. Album in 2016. Also in 2014 Benjamin met Marina And The Diamonds singer Marina Diamandis and started playing guitar for her.

January 2015 Benjamin signed on to become Marina And The Diamonds Musical Director (MD). 2015/16 saw Benjamin tour the world with Marina And The Diamonds culminating in the Neon Nature tour at the end of 2015.

2017 Ben opened his own music production/writing studio in London's legendary Konk Studio's owned by Kinks singer Ray Davis. Benjamin again co-wrote with Sarah Blasko in 2017 for her new album entitled Depth Of Feild.

2018 Now living in LA Ben still MD's for Marina And The Diamonds. Ben is also MD and guitarist for the LA-based singer: Buzzy Lee.

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

Welcome to First Love. We look after artists, release records & throw parties.

First Love is an artistic community based in Melbourne. Our emphasis is on friendship and collaboration has lead to an increasingly multimedia oriented endeavor. Individual talents combine for a stronger product and artistic identity. We are not bound by a particular aesthetic direction, but rather excel in the diversity created by this cross pollination. We is not an archetypical record label, rather First Love is the vessel for a scene and artistic movement.

Artists:
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Jimmy Hawk, Big Smoke, Cope & Drag, The Cherry Dolls, William van der Vliet,  Young Hysteria, & Geno Carrapetta.

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