Browse by Artist: WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	The Awkwardness EP
Label:	AESTHETICS
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	AST 021CD

"Windsor For The Derby's Aesthetics debut is a diverse 5 track CD EP, containing glorious remixes from the likes of Pulseprogramming, Carnival Wave, I - Sound, Calla, and Windsor For The Derby themselves. Surprisingly (unlike some remixed records), these 5 tracks work incredibly well with one another, yet at the same time maintaining their own distinct personality. Carnival Wave's mix starts things off with pure bliss, which then leads perfectly into labelmates Pulseprogramming's dubbed out piece. On the 3rd track, I - Sound (To Rococo Rot collaborator) dense and chaotic deconstructive sounds bite throughout eventually flowing into Calla's guitar driven effort. The record ends (as it begins in context) appropriately enough with the Windsor For The Derby mix of themselves."

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	We Fight Til Death
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 110CD

"This record was recorded and mixed over the last year at Burton's Grotto Home Studio with Burton and a few other locals sitting in. WFTD finds a way to take each release to a wholly different trajectory while at the same time creating a progressive connection to the last. The skewed pop sensibilities of The Emotional Rescue LP are hinted at on We Fight Til Death as well as the dark refrains of 1998's Minnie Greutzfeldt. By combining elements of previous releases and exploring new terrain, We Fight Til Death is Windsor For The Derby's most realized release to date."

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	Giving Up the Ghost
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SC 128CD

"Windsor for the Derby are a study in dualities. It is made of two primary band members preserving not only a musical identity but a friendship over many years and many miles. Creating music that is equal parts dance and folk, a truly disparate combination of styles that come out sounding completely organic. While listening to Giving Up The Ghost, you hear not only the beautiful stylistic tension of two styles at play, but also the room and atmosphere itself. Windsor's music has always been a play on modern pop, infused with giant amounts of space, a space which both reflects the physical distance between its members as well as providing an artistic counterpoint to the massive inundation of noise and data that our society is bombarded with daily."

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	How We Lost
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 141CD

"Despite the connotation of its title, How We Lost is a celebratory album. It's a reflective record and, in its own way, celebrates the Windsor For The Derby continuum that's been created from their first release (Calm Hades Float, 1996) to their last (Giving Up the Ghost, 2005). Each of these recordings is a sequel to the next both in narrative and musically and as the band's first two records (Calm Hades Float and Minnie Greutzfeldt) were re-released last year they found themselves in constant dialogue about their body of work and the paths they'd chosen. Also a part of that ongoing dialogue were the records that the band finds itself consistently re-visiting (Swell Maps, Section 25, Psychic TV and much of the Factory Records catalog) and what makes those recordings timeless and resonate in a personal way with the band. The songs on How We Lost are reflections of those records and those conversations. It's about the band and the ways the band has changed over the years, the things they hold onto and what's been left behind."

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	Calm Hades Float
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 142CD

WFTD's debut record with exclusive bonus tracks. "Originally released in 1996, Calm Hades Float is a timeless record that sounds like a dream collaboration of Martin Hannett and Brian Eno. Snaps of electronic drums collide with warm hum and reverb-drenched guitars on this ambitious release recorded by Adam Wiltzie of Stars Of the Lid. This re-release also contains the '+/-' flexi that came with the first 750 vinyl copies, along with 2 previously unreleased live tracks. Originally released on the legendary Austin label Trance Syndicate."

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	Minnie Greutzfeldt
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 143CD

Reissue of the their 2nd album from 1996. "Veering from their debut, Minnie Greutzfeldt -- the band's sophomore album -- is a study in nothingness. Also engineered by Wiltzie -- Minnie came on the heels of a Kramer-induced world of rolling bass lines and oceanic reverb. The record is paired with the long lost Metropolitan Then Poland EP, a collection of home experiments with synths, scissors and drum machines. Originally released on the legendary Austin label, Trance Syndicate."

Artist:	WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Title:	Difference And Repetition
Label:	YOUNG GOD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	YG 009CD

"Birthed in Austin in 1994, Windsor for the Derby includes core members are Daniel Matz and Jason McNeely. The amorphous WTD crew includes (on occasion) Rodan's John Weiss, Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid, Wayne Magruder of Bowery Electric/Calla and a host of others. King Coffey's Trance Records released their first full length, Calm Hades Float to good reviews, and the Swans' Michael Gira was impressed to such a degree that he included WFTD on the last-ever Swans tour as an opening act. The sound? Think Pink Floyd's Ummagumma as re-recorded by Joy Division's sadly departed producer Martin Hannett."

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