Latitudes is a simple concept. We agreed it would be a great idea to offer our favourite bands – many of them passing through London as part of a European tour – the opportunity to spend some time recording something spontaneous, collaborative, fun or experimental in our studio. Whatever the band wants to achieve in a one day session — essentially – something truly transient, imaginative and unique. Something we hoped to capture in the aesthetic of the resulting record – something with boundless creative scope and freedom – specific to a certain time and space – something with latitude…..

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Latitudes

From Arbouretum's Latitudes session featuring four songs by Gordon Lightfoot.  Released August 2013.

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Arbouretum - Carefree Highway

From the album "Short And Sweet", Southern Records 2011.

Little Annie - Bless Those (Little Annie's Prayer)

A cheerful little ditty from the 2013 remaster of the outsider punks' 2004 album.

Rudimentary Peni - One And All

From the astounding debut album on Aurora Borealis.  Available from the Southern Web Shop £10 on CD. Vinyl come soon.  http://bit.ly/kF0yIy

The Haxan Cloak - Raven's Lament

From the 2005 EP "Already Told You" on Southern Records.
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Geoff Farina - Kin Of Carbons

From the 2005 EP "Already Told You" on Southern Records.
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Geoff Farina - Molasses To Rum

From the 2005 EP "Already Told You" on Southern Records.
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Geoff Farina - Already Told You

From the 2005 EP "Already Told You" on Southern Records.
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Geoff Farina - Femmes Damnées

From the Southern Records album Crush Depth.

Chrome Hoof - Crystalline

From the 2004 album (It(Is)It Critical Band on Southern Records. 

90 Day Men - Jupiter And IO

Babes In Toyland - Spit To See The Shine

From the Southern Records album The Leading Hotels Of The World.  Available from the Southern web shop.

Bob Tilton - Beach Combing

From the remastered album 29:29 Split Vision. Available from the Southern web shop.

Subhumans - Somebody's Mother

From the Bluurg Records album Wider Than a Postcard.

Citizen Fish - Mind Bomb

From the recently reissued album Worldhood Of The World (As Such).

NoMeansNo - My Politics

From the new Latitudes session by Sylvester Anfang II. Coming soon...

Sylvester Anfang II - Jam 3

From the new Latitudes session by The Entrance Band. Coming soon...

The Entrance Band - Last Kind Words

From Best Before 1984 (original CD master).  Soon to be reissued as part of the Crassical Collection.

Crass - Smash The Mac

From the 2004 album Panda Park by 90 Day Men.

90 Day Men - Too Late or Too Dead

From The Feeding of the Five Thousand released as part of the Crassical Collection, fully remixed and remastered.

Crass - So What?

From Hymns for the Hopeless.

Released on Southern Records, 28106-1 (LP) and 28106-2 (CD).

Hailing from a small town along the banks of the Mississippi River, Mr. Whitmore's experiences are steeped in the black Iowa dirt, the bracing punch of Kentucky whiskey, and the cold hard truths of life, love, and death. 

William Elliott Whitmore - Cold and Dead

From Ashes to Dust
Released on Southern Records
Catalogue: LP 28111-1, CD 28111-2

William Elliott Whitmore - Midnight

From Song of the Blackbird

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Catalogue: LP 28130-1, CD 28130-2

William Elliott Whitmore - The Chariot

From his untitled release on Latitudes
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William Elliott Whitmore - One Man's Shame

From the Latitudes session release "Labour Of Love".

Wino & Conny Ochs -  Judas

From "Alice", the Grumbling Fur session for Latitudes, out on 28th May 2012.

Grumbling Fur - Solar Nights & Rainwater

From the forthcoming Latitudes session.  Following his critically acclaimed debut album on Aurora Borealis, the new Tri-Angle signee, The Haxan Cloak (AKA Bobby Krlic), has quite gracefully buried himself deep into the networks of unsettling electronic music. This Latitudes release is, in essence, Bobby live, but think of it as 'The Haxan Cloak 2.0'.  

Haxan Cloak - The Men Parted The Sea To Devour The Water (excerpt)

From the forthcoming Latitudes session. Forever cited as the space rock band that deliver everyone’s fix of drug-inspired psychedelia, Bardo Pond land on earth to fill a gap in our Latitudes series. It’s safe to say this quintet come out in full force to deliver lengthy, calculated soundscapes luxurious in distortion and noise.

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Bardo Pond - Side To Side (excerpt)

A track from the Latitudes session due for release 29 October.  The session includes covers of five Rudimentary Peni songs.   

Chelsea Wolfe -  Prayer for the Unborn (Rudimentary Peni cover)

Legendary Irish punks team up with former Crass/Conflict/Stratford Mercenaries singer Steve Ignorant for a firey chorus or two.

Paranoid Visions featuring Steve Ignorant - Rock & Roll & Revolution

From the Bluurg Records album "Onwards & Upwards"

Culture Shock - Civilization Street

From the new album "These Factory Days", out 25th March 2013.

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Tartufi - Underwater

From the album Pope Adrian Psychristiatric.  Originally released in 1995. Remastered from the original analogue tapes.  Reissue May 2013.  shop.southern.com/rudimentary-peni

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Rudimentary Peni - The Pope With No Name

From the remastered reissue of Rudimentary Peni's 1988 album Cacophony, to be released on 24 June 2013.

Rudimentary Peni - The Only Child

Remastered reissue of Rudimentary Peni's 1995 album, released May 2013 on LP and CD.

Rudimentary Peni - Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric (full album)

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