Since 1995, NYC’s Other Music record shop has had a big hand in defining the sound of the underground, helping to establish the careers (and career resurgences) of hundreds of artists, with a wide-ranging aesthetic that includes everything from indie pop to left-field electronica, folk, funk, psychedelia, dub, free jazz, post-punk, avant-classical, hip-hop and much more. For more than a decade and a half, through myriad changes in the “biz,” Other has stayed true to their one goal, connecting great unheard music with passionate music fans, and with their weekly new-release newsletter reaching more than thirty-five thousand subscribers, an MP3 download store, a mail-order website, and a busy East Village retail shop, they have become an icon and last bastion of indie retail. Now, in partnership with Fat Possum, Other is launching their own label, Other Music Recording Co., to bring the same varied taste and enthusiasm that has always defined their retail store to this new venture.

Other’s first release, OM-001, drops on April 24: Ex Cops’ debut 7-inch,  “You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb” b/w “The Millionaire.” This new Brooklyn group’s hazy mix of influences draws on vintage British and New Zealand indie, Factory Records and a Velvets/Feelies jangle that is distinctly New York, all with their own sunbaked pop vision. What began as a bedroom-recording project for Brian Harding has been fleshed out into a full band, and Ex Cops are now putting the finishing touches on their debut album in the studio with producer John Siket, due out on Other later this year.

Also due this spring on Other, the debut solo album from Shintaro Sakamoto, the former frontman of the legendary Japanese psychedelic group Yura Yura Teikoku. Over the course of their 20 years together, that band rose from the storied Japanese psychedelic underground to huge mainstream success in their homeland (and cult status around the world), with a wholly original sound that defies definition. The group disbanded in 2010, and Sakamoto set off into uncharted waters on his new solo material, working mostly alone to create a stunning set of quiet, percussive songs that draw on ‘70s folk and AM radio pop from the U.S., U.K. and Japan, as well as folk forms from across continents and eras; How to Live with a Phantom, released late last year in Sakamoto’s own Zelone label in Japan, is an enigma and an instant classic that blew so many minds at the Other Music shop when a few imports trickled in, they had to release it themselves.

Other Music Recording Co. will surprise and enlighten fans of underground music with a roster of diverse artists from around the world, releasing new music and under-appreciated classics from their reissue division, and with this strategic partnership with Fat Possum you will be hearing a lot more from Other in the coming months.

Brooklyn based independent record label, established 2007 A.D. 

ciarrablack@gmail.com

2023
09.12 - Pioneer Works residency/ Open Studios (Brooklyn)
07.12 - Times Square Live series - (Times Square NYC)
06.16 - Chaos Computer (live hardware set) (Brooklyn)
05.26 - Lost Soul Enterprises @ Good Room (live hardware set) (Brooklyn)
05.17 - Distrikt 1 @ Bossa Nova Civic Club (Brooklyn)
03.18 - Confused House @ Bossa Nova Civic Club (Brooklyn)

2022
24.11.2022 Hör (Berlin)
10.11.2022  Studio DB (Berlin) Live set,  w/ Hiro Kone 
04.11.2022 Folklor club(Lausanne, Switzerland)
19.10.2022 Refuge Worldwide (Berlin)
15.10.2022 OHM (Berlin) w/ Zoë Mc Pherson as Carbon 96
03.09.2022 Tresor (Berlin)
02.07.2022 Tresor (Berlin)
18.06.2022 Else (Berlin) 
03.06.2022 Aeden (Berlin), Al Gharib Fundraiser
06.05.2022 Tresor Berlin (re-opening weekend)
25.03.2022 Tilt @ RSO Berlin DE w/ Bjarki, Miley Serious
11.03.2022 Renate, Berlin DE w/ Bas Mooy

2021
08.10.2021 Athens, GR @ Astron Bar
08.09.2021 Berghain (Klubgarten)
14.08.2021 Krakow, PL -- Szpitalna 1
21.03.2021 -- Currents.fm COMMON multiverse Livestream (LIVE hardware collab w/ Zoe McPherson as Carbon 96)

2020
03.10.20 Berlin, DE -- Else w/ Kangding Ray, Headless Horseman
15.02.20 Berlin, DE -- Trauma Bar und Kino (live)
31.01.20 Lyon, France -- NO GENDER

2019
22.11 Tresor Klubnacht, Berlin DE
15.11 Milan, IT @ Macao (live)
02.11 Athens, Greece,  Qreclaim 666 @ Romantso
26.10 Katacombes, Montreal QC
20.10 Interzone Festival, Bossa Nova Civic Club, NYC
27.09 Trauma Bar und Kino w/ Suzanne Ciani, Layne, Berlin DE
01.09 Else, Berlin DE
04.07 Säule at Berghain, Berlin DE
14.06 Elektrowerkz (LIVE) -- London UK
07.06 Zet Pe Te -- Krakow PL
31.05 Elswhere Club -- Brooklyn NYC
26.05 Mood Ring --  Brooklyn NYC
21.04 Herrensauna at Tresor (LIVE) Berlin
21.03 Total Black 6 years (LIVE), OHM -- Berlin
09.03 Клуб, St. Petersburg Russia
16.02 Kablys + Club, Vilnius Lithuania
13.01 Secret Project Robot (live), Brooklyn NY
03.01 H0l0, Brooklyn NY

2018
31.12 01.01. NYE Melting Point Warehouse Party Fundraiser, Secret Location Brooklyn, NY
29.12 Bossa Nova Civic Club, Brooklyn NY
01 12. Room 4 Resistance @ Trauma Bar und Kino,  Berlin
02.11 Under My Feet @ The Waiting Room, London
19.10 Rokolectiv x Control @ Control Club, Bucharest Romania
21.09: Unsound Dislocation @ Yerevan, Armenia
19.07: Total Black Nacht @ Ohm, Berlin
29.06: Room 4 Resistance x Mina @ ://About Blank, Berlin
09.06: Szpitalna 1 - Krakow, PL
05.05: Club Twentyone - Firenze, IT
20.04: Unsound x Up To Date Festival, Warsaw
07.04: La Station, Paris
01.04: Herrensauna @ Tresor, Berlin
24.03: Herna, Brno, Czech Republic
10.03: Electrowerkz, London
08.03: OHM, Berlin
03.03 ://About Blank, Berlin
02.03 Incident @ Secret Location, Berlin
17.02 Weeeirdos @ Modular+ Space  (Greenhouse) Berlin
19.01 Grounded Theory @ Tresor, Berlin 
06.01 Confused House @ Bossa Nova Civic Club, Brooklyn NY
05.01 Mercury Lounge w/ Via App, Motiv-A, E-Saggila, New York NY

2017
29.12 H0l0 w/ Container, Brooklyn NY
16.09 Objekt Klein A, Dresden, Germany
22.09 TweakFM, Copenhagen, Denmark
23.09 Culture Box, Copenhagen, Denmark
30.09 Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig, Germany
07.10 Rote Sonne, Munich, Germany
13.10 Wrong, Prague, Czech Republic
14.10 Tresor, Berlin, Germany
21.10 PAL, Hamburg, Germany
27.10 Brutaz, Warsaw, Poland
03.11 Kaiku, Helsinki, Finland
04.11 Conjunto Vacio, Barcelona, Spain
10.11 Under Bron, Stockholm
18.11 Durer Kurt, Budapest, Hungary
24.11 Ohm, Berlin, Germany

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