Browse by Label: TWISTED NERVE (UK)

Artist:	DAVE TYACK'S DAKOTA OAK
Title:	Am Deister
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TN 022CD

Twisted Never is the Badly Drawn Boy's label in the UK. "Wilkommen to the wonderful world of Am Deister, the debut LP from Twisted Nerve's multi faceted, multi instrumentalist, multi careered Dave Tyack. Inspired by his childhood memories of life in Bredenbeck, Germany and the nearby Deister Forest where he whiled away his days, the album is a beautiful collection of folk tinged melodies influenced by his love of Krautrock, cinematic soundscapes, and seminal blues. As usual, Dave plays all instruments on the album (11 in all) and for the first time he even treats us to some vocals. The 24 tracks are wonderfully formed, heartfelt and earthy and in typical Dave Tyack style they never outstay their welcome."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Twisted Nerve Zoo
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TN 040CD

"On a similarly unfashionable concept album tip, Twisted Nerve's numbers have reached the mid life crisis inducing 40 and instead of doing the run of the mill-grass is always greener leave your wife for a young blonde bauble thing - Twisted Nerve ran away to the Zoo. A place of tender care called Twisted Nerve Zoo. To document Twisted Nerve's mid life crises, all the acts recorded songs about their favorite animals at the Zoo and we decided to collect them all together and give them to YOU. It's the soundtrack to the best animal related movies that haven't been made. Yet? Badly Drawn Boy contributes a brand new exclusive track, the oompah inspired 'Push Me Pull Me' which shows a return to his experimental roots on the label. There are Byrdsian harmonies (DOT with 'Horses'), extreme noise techno (Sirconical's 'Sloth') and Bubblegum garage (Misty Dixons .. 'Butterfly'). It's yet another fine example of Twisted Nerve's diversity, versatility and knack of producing compilations like no one else." Also includes: Andy Votel, Little Miss Trinitron, The Insect (Ian & Joe of Mum&Dad), Dave Tyack, Mariano, Cherrystones, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.

Artist:	LANE, LUMA
Title:	Nicegirls
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TN 042CD

"Nice girls shouldn't do it, but here's one girl who did. Dreamy vocals, keyboard, guitar, piano, recorder, bells. Luma Lane wanders around these sounds, collecting them, making them her own. These are songs about adventures real and imagined. Experimental pop music, that is lo-fi and unusual. Nicegirls opens with the optimistic-but-sad electronic landscape of 'Sleepy Recorder' and finishes with the sad-after-the-storm 'Ships'. Nicegirls recalls the seductively dreamy quiet moments between sleeping and waking."

Artist:	TYACK WITH MALCOM MOONEY, DAVE
Title:	Rip Van Winkle
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TN 043CD

"The Story of Rip Van Winkle may seem incredible to many, but nevertheless I give it my full belief, for I know the vicinity of our old Dutch settlements to have been very subject to marvellous events and appearances...' In addition to his work on the debut albums by DOT and Misty Dixon, David Tyack follows his solo debut with an album based upon Rip Van Winkle, the short story by Washington Irving. Where Am Deister drew comparisons from Tortoise to Faust, Can and even Debussy, Rip Van Winkle takes its inspiration from a classic work of American fiction. Rip Van Winkle, an idle fellow from the Dutch settlements goes into the Catskill mountains, where he falls into a deep sleep. When he awakes, he finds that those he once knew have passed away, and that his country has undergone major political and social change."

Artist:	MISTY DIXON
Title:	Iced To Mode
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TN 046CD

"Debut album from Misty Dixon. Iced To Mode features 11 songs displaying a reaction to a vast range of influences from All Saints to My Bloody Valentine. Misty Dixon's debut 'Milk Money' EP was compared to 'Palace spliced with Jane Birkin' -- NME. From eerie opener 'The Sea Is Not Far' through the luscious 'Are You Lost?' and forthcoming single 'You're So Cruel To My Heart' the first half of this album will seduce and entrance you. With a second half which includes a sublime cover of Prince's 'The Beautiful Ones', a tender song about Jane's cat Coco and a sleighbell fuelled ending with 'La Chanson De Noel'."

Artist:	DOT
Title:	DOT
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	TN 048CD

"Signed in the summer of 1998 after the first A+R scouting mission by Badly Drawn Boy and Andy Votel for the fledgling Twisted Nerve, DOT are a band that defy the usual music convention. DOT have played in cinemas, churches, theatres, pubs and breweries. They have scored music for old films and for new films. Individually they have released records under their own auspices (Dave Tyack as himself, James Rutledge as Pedro, James Wright as himself) Their debut album, DOT comprises ten carefully selected tracks from their current repertoire. The airtight three piece manage to encompass rock, jazz, electronica, glitch, krautrock and folk into an album that measures in at the perfect LP length -- 45 minutes."

Artist:	SMITH, AIDAN
Title:	At Home With Aidan Smith
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TN 049CD

"Just 23 years of age and hailing from Salford, Aidan Smith has managed to soak up most of the best music of the 20th century and make something new that is completely his own. Aidan learned to play music in bands formed with his friends such as 'Rob Curry and the Tandoori Chickens' and 'Jack Spam and the Spamettes' which were based around the nucleus of 'The Egg Plant Trio' (comprising Aidan, Kev Rogers and Jack Jennings). Whilst at University he began to record on 4-track by himself and is now ready to compromise his anti-social personality and perform live."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Safety In Numbers
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TN 051CD

Twisted Nerve is the Badly Drawn Boy's label. "Safety In Numbers sees Twisted Nerve re-acquainting itself with the label sampler format and introduces the boys and girls of the TN Class of 2003. Opens with DOT's 'Part Three', a drum heavy, exhilarating post-rock stomp that's been a live favorite for the last couple of years. The second track is by one of TN's newest signings Luma Lane. Sounding not unlike Julee Cruise taking a late-night stroll through Moominland, Luma Lane's music will charm and unnerve you in equal measures. Toolshed's 'NaNaNaNaNaaNaa' is like nothing you've ever heard before -- with knobs on. Call it Kosmiche-freakout-spacerock, call it avant-freejazz-opera, call it what you want, but one thing that it most certainly isn't is music to have on in the background. Sirconical's layered, distorted test tones, oblique melodicism and that magical but rare thing in electronic music - warmth - are all present and correct. Safety In Numbers ends somewhat appropriately with Misty Dixon's 'Outro'. Music to fall in and out of love to, the debut LP will see the dreamy chanteuses of Misty Dixon stretch their minimal pop paeans to epic proportions."

Artist:	SMITH, AIDAN
Title:	At Home With Aidan Smith Vol. 2
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TN 052CD

"Hot on the heels of his universally acclaimed debut mini LP comes the second instalment of tracks culled from the wealth of bedroom recordings brought to Twisted Nerve last summer. "Manchester is currently buzzing with excitement over this 23 year old Salford wunderkind. If Jesus Christ appeared tomorrow in the Northern Quarter, all anyone would want to know is 'How good is Aidan Smith ? ' and Jesus would say 'He's f*ckin brilliant', because he is" -- NME . The seven tracks on this his second album, cover subjects as diverse as baked beans, jellyfish, rice crispies, nitwits, eskimos and gin. With a handful of genres thrown in too there's something for the balladeer (Dream Song 2), lounge freaks (Eskimo) Surf Guitar(Nitwit Jive) and classic singer songwriter (Eskimo)."

Artist:	TOOLSHED
Title:	Toolshed
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	TN 053CD

"Started in 1998, the Toolshed project is the brainchild of Graham Massey of 808 State and Homelife fame. Sick of club nights that left him feeling short changed Massey decided to start a club night where you could bring your own instruments and join in with whatever records or live jams were taking place. He was soon joined by open minded guests and friends including Paddy Steer (Homelife), Dick Clark (Spaceheads), James Ford (Simian) and the amazing multi octave voice of Seaming To. Lazy observers will call it Jazz but it is in fact truly indescribable, infused with Massey's long long history stretching to the Factory signed Biting Tongues right through his techno days with 808 and speeding off into the future. Toolshed has been hailed as one of the most expansive and ambitious attempts to leave the planet."

Artist:	TOOLSHED
Title:	Toolshed
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	TN 066CD

"The return of one of the most exciting acts that Twisted Nerve Records has ever had the pleasure of releasing records by. In a similar vein to 2003's Toolshed EP, by turns sinister, pulsating, throbbing, foreboding and uplifting, Toolshed's self-titled debut LPis like nothing you've ever heard before -- with knobs on. Call it Komiche-freakout-spacerock, call it avant-freejazz-opera, call it what you want, but one thing that it most certainly is not is music to have on in the background. This is music for the fully engaged only. Borne out a new outhouse backyard studio following the birth of his son, Graham Massey's Toolshed were formed as a houseband at Manchester's seminal club night of the same name some 6 years ago. Not merely content with having redefined dance music with 808 State, Graham Massey steers the good ship Toolshed into uncharted music territories. Comprising various members of Homelife along with a host of other musical mavericks, Toolshed grew into a psych-jazz-techno-orchestra, culminating at one point in a 28 piece big band performance commissioned for a three day workshop alongside Nitin Sawney at The Contact Theatre -- including a huge brass section culled from the Royal Northern College Of Music as well as a string quartet."

Artist:	VOTEL, ANDY
Title:	Twisted Nerve 10th Anniversary Mix
Label:	TWISTED NERVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	TN 086CD

"Twisted Nerve Mixed is the latest hi-speed mutant mixtape from B-musicologist Andy Votel using tracks exclusively selected from the vaults his own ferociously independent non-record label. A 40 track masala of T.N. D.I.Y classics, B-sides, rarities and remixes celebrating a decade of teenage garage jams, Mancunian psychsploitation, arkhestral communism and workshop pop, Twisted Nerve Mixed features Voice Of The Seven Woods, Samandtheplants, the first-ever release by Badly Drawn Boy, rare remixes from Cherrystones and Homelife and psyched-out side projects from Jane Weaver (Misty Dixon), Clearspot (Duophonic), Graham Massey (808 State) and CD debuts of vinyl-only cuts from label stalwarts Sirconical, Dakota Oak and many more lubricated in custom-built sound effects and dialogue -- Twisted Nerve's roster has never been so digestible! Accidentally conceived in 1998 when cut and paste graphic artist and obscure vinyl obsessive Andy Votel teamed up with screenprinter cum second-class songsmith, Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) and converted their own 4-track compact cassettes into cut-price vinyl 45s, Twisted Nerve is now ten years old. Consistently jarring with the status quo, our thoroughly unreliable and schizophrenic release schedules fits like a fingerless glove on an octopus. Embracing the true nature of the independent record label with little regard to the impractical standards of the major music industry, Twisted Nerve has conspired to bring you the closest thing to a community run industry with our privately-pressed and handmade products. Support independent labels. Breaking boundaries before breaking even!"

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