Originally just a platform for ideas, projects, experiments and doing things for the hell of it, Factoryroad has evolved into an umbrella for a growing number of artists, musical and visual.
We’ve donned our shopkeepers’ aprons and polished the tills for our newly-crammed shop, which is now home to 18 unique Factoryroad-produced goodies including jewellery, art, bags, adapters and t shirts. So what if it’s not Christmas? You deserve a treat ALL year round.
Orders placed between 2nd and 24th June will be despatched on 25th, as we are working in a far away land until then.
Needless to say Factoryroad is right behind this relatively new movement showing Big Love for record stores. Here’s some bumpf from their website explaining what they’re all about:
The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Franscisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
Record Store Day is currently managed by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Scott Register, and Carrie Colliton. Folks wanting to contact Record Store Day are encouraged to email us at information@recordstoreday.com
NOTE:
A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths).
After the love and success of our black dinks (45 rpm adapters) from stores and 7″ fans alike, we’ve decided to introduce colours into the range!
We felt compelled to start with a lovely warm red and hope to make up a rainbow of colours over the coming months, so music lovers will be able to choose what colour dink to have with their coloured label/vinyl, it’s all about the colour co-ordination!!
They will be available in Japan within the next few days through DMR and they’ll be distributed to record stores nationally and internationally by ST Holdings in the next few weeks!
DJ Fuckabout is Ed Garland from Bristol. Lie down somewhere dark and cool and wait for this to bang your neurons together. You can expect drum’n'bass in rude health, no avant garde, just exquisite classics neatly sutured together.
With a huge swell in our chests, we’re pleased to announce that you can now buy Factoryroad T shirts and 45 rpm adapters in Japan through the lovely people at DMR.
DMR is a very thorough record store focusing on hip-hop, R&B, house, jazz and all the accessories a DJ could ever possibly, possibly need!
DMR are selling and distributing Factoryroad exclusively throughout Japan.
Check out their shop here:DMR
and check out the Factoryroad top gear here: Factoryroad in DMR.
Or visit DMR’s stores in Shibuya or Osaka.
While you’re there, online or in the store/s, be sure to make time to check out their amazing record containers for keeping your vinyl well protected and easy to categorise, mmm, nice!
At last, after all the blood, sweat…well, just waiting and talking actually, we’ve received our first consignment of Factoryroad 45 rpm adapters (dinks) from the manufacturer.
Phew! what a relief. It feels so good, to have them after all this time. So, we’ll be packaging them up for people to buy and sorting our final prices very soon.
We’re already in talks with a couple of distributors so we hope to get these out to your local stores as soon as possible.
If you’re interested in stocking the dinks or buying some for yourself, please feel free to get in touch and we’ll keep you right up to date.
BFT has been talking on and off with recording artist Lord Cry Cry for many months about releasing some of his beautiful material. We’re very pleased to say some tunes will be coming our (then your) way soon, so again, Watch this space!
After some recent trials and tribulations, we’ve decided to cease record distribution. There was far too much work for one man (Mr. Perry) and not enough cash for another employee.
Don’t worry! Being kind and compassionate people we didn’t just drop the labels. We’ve found new distributors for all the labels to help keep the vinyl/cds/dvds flowing into the stores!
Around 5 years ago, having a rather strong relationship with 45 rpm adapters, we decided we wanted to manufacture some, as nowhere in the world makes them anymore. After much research, many conversations with plastics people and ideas thrown around, we eventually found someone in our hometown to make them for us. Read the rest of this entry »
Mr Perry goes next playing tracks and remixes from The Bug, Kid Acne, Skinnyman, Fourtet, Grand Funk Railroad, TTC and other underground favourites.
