Behold Finders Keepers, a British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic, jazz, folk, funk, avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.

Catering to record collectors and DJ-producers alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rocksteady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch	Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" mix CDs for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manc-based vinyl-vulture, recording artist and record producer Andy Votel enlists the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new Twisted Nerve distant sister-label, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled.

Future compilations and re-issues will feature collaborative curators such as David Holmes, Cherrystones and Bob Stanley and further contributions from mystery A- / B+ pop-celebrity fanatics of outsider music and ultra-rare bakelite discs. Finders Keepers is an 'accidental world music label' with a punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room...

Join Jim Clemente (former FBI profiler), Laura Richards (formerly of New Scotland Yards, Founder and Director of Paladin, National Stalking Advocacy Service) and Lisa Zambetti (Casting director for CBS' Criminal Minds) as they profile behavior from real criminal cases.

Initially founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the celebrated Knitting Factory club in lower Manhattan, Knitting Factory Records, along with the new Knitting Factory club in Brooklyn, was reborn in 2009 with the acquisition and re-release of the Fela Kuti catalog. KFR also encompasses the catalogs of Instinct Records, Shadow Records, Shimmy Disc, and Evolver Records.

In partnership with Partisan Records, a Brooklyn-based artist-run label, Knitting Factory Records strives to honor the music of an eclectic array of relevant artists drawn from both the past and the present.

“Music is the weapon. Music is the thing of the future. Music is the weapon of the future.” - Fela Kuti

MUSIC CURATOR & SONIC STRATEGIST 😎

CLIENTS
Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, Giuseppe Zanotti, Glamour, Camper, SHOES 53045, H. Lorenzo, Departamento, Saywho, Galeries Lafayette, Cannes Film Festival, Hyères Fashion & Photography Festival, Design Parade Festival, the French Ministry of Culture, 0FR and more.

VENUES
I have played at Grace Cathedral (SF), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Ritz Bar (Paris), Le Baron (NYC & Tokyo), Ace Hotel (DTLA), Palihouse Hotel (LA), Roosevelt Hotel (LA), Monarc (SF), 111 Minna Gallery (SF), Les Bains (Paris), Wanderlust (Paris), La Machine du Moulin Rouge (Paris), Minimusikhol (Istanbul), Burning Man and more

PAST RADIO SHOWS:
LA: Things of Life on Dublab Radio, Omakaze Radio Show on Kuci fm
NYC:  Lion's milk on NYU Radio
SF: Radio Valencia, Black Pancake Radio, Noise from the Void
Paris: Le Mellotron, Radio Marais, Pigalle Paris radio

MEDIA COVERAGE:
My work has been featured in Elle, Glamour, Palace Costes, and Libération.

BOOKINGS:

Europe & world (except North America)

alberto@elasticartists.net




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