label roster includes: The Quiddity, Subterranean Bleu Mind(s), Miss Chocolate Cake, The Fits, :details:, The ARGG Project, Jesus H Chrysler, Le Chambre Nautili
Influences
Edison, Russian bootleggers from the 40's who cut records on xrays, lathe trolls everywhere
First off, I like records. There's a certain tactile quality to them that cd's and mp3's and the like are missing. I think it's the fact that the grooves cut in them are THE ACTUAL SOUND and not just encoded data. It's so primitive, yet so perfect.
I've been in many bands over the years and at some point in all of their brief sparkling careers the topic of pressing a record has come up yet somehow it never came to fruition. It's pricey to press records. A CD_R is cheap and easy enough to make and copy, give away, throw away, but a record? not so easily done. So every time the topic came up we'd be all gung ho about it, get price quotes, plan out the track lists and times, plan the sleeve art etc, and then... the band would break up, or we wouldn't have the budget, or the masters still needed to be mixed down or whatever...and still no record.
So a few bands later and the inevitable topic of cutting a record came up. This time would be different. It had to. And then inspiration struck. Instead of spending several hundred dollars on mastering plating and pressing a few hundred copies of a 7 inch, why not spend a few hundred on a vintage record cutter and make my own!! It was genius! Elegant even. So I started scouring the net for all the info I could find on lathes, cutterheads, needles, dubplate cutters, Presto, Rek-o-kut, Grampion, etc. Eventually I found a very nice looking Presto k-10 on ebay, not a full scale lathe, but one of the better "portable" cutters made in the 40's and 50's. The price was right, the seller was reputable so I bid and won it. And thus was Rah Rah Records begun.
the catalog so far
RahRah 001 -Subterranean Bleu Minds-9 to 5 blue plate flexi edition of 7
RahRah 002- SBM- Not Sonic Man, UltraSonic Man- Red plate flexi edition of 5
RahRah 003- SBM- ...this is the first communication-10" vintage lacquer- edition of 5
RahRah 004 Miss Chocolate Cake/SBM - Kubla Kong split 10" vintage lacquer edition of 3
RahRah 005 SBM/ LeChambre Nautili - split 10" vintage lacquer, "Electric Feel"/ "Blood Question" ed. of 5 with one of a kind collaged sleeves
RahRah 006 SBM/ Gay Werewolves split 10" vintage lacquer, "9 to 5"( remastered)/ "Sausage Party" ed. of 5 with one of a kind collaged sleeves
RahRah 007 SBM "Notsonicman.." reissue 7" old lacquer, b-side: "Beware the Groove" by JHC, ed. of 2
All of these are now sold out. Thanks for the support!
NEW CUTS!!
RahRah 008 The ARGG Project "glitch-ploitation" series of 10 , circuit bent noise masterpieces, each one different, one sided, cut on font reels from a vintage varityper typesetting machine, 4,5 & 6 screeenprinted on reverse by Johnny Pundt @ KultureKlash art show
MORE NEW CUTS!! FEB 08
RahRah 009 SBM "I Feel Sick" white noise flexi 6" ed. of 5
RahRah010 Miss Chocolate Cake "I'd throw out my records" red flexi 6" ed. of 5
RahRah011 The Fits "Ants @ War" black flexi 6" ed.of 5
RahRah 012 Jesus H Chrysler "Beware the Groove" purple flexi 6" ed. of 5
RahRah 013 SBM "Predestined Agitation" 8" lacquer ed.of 2 + 1 flexi
Yo Sean. I finally got the show that you guys played with Flattbush transferred to DVD. It came out pretty good. Thanks for hooking the record player up. We need to get together soon bro.
howdy ho senor!
how is the cuting going...
ya know one day we played at this festival and there was this guy from berlin who was cuting vinyles live ...so we got three double sided vinyles right after our show...yahoooo
are u happy with yr first cuts?
did ou check atmosferatu 's myspace...there 's a rad track'frankenstein junior", with felin and us all jamming.do u have any photos of atmosferatu or the studio so may be i could add them to the profile
www.myspace.com/atmosferatu.
by the way, we now live in maastricht, hollland.
ciao amigo
Rah Rah has those funky ass stone cold grooves. sometimes i listen and i'm like yes! yes! keep on rockin! and yet other times i listen and i'm like no no! don't stop rockin!
