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London-based flexi-disc label X-Ray launches
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 11 March 2011
A new indie label, founded by Kasms guitarist Scott R Walker, has launched this week with the interesting USP that it will only release singles on flexi-discs (and downloads, but we’ll gloss over that for now). The first release from the label will be ‘Contina’ by London punks Trogons on 25 Apr.
Kate Price, the other half of the duo behind the label, told CMU: “We’ve persuaded a company to start making flexi-discs again for us, and the label is so called because in the post-war Soviet Union discarded x-rays were used as cheap and readily available raw material to create flexi-discs – as such they became commonly used as a DIY format for spreading underground punk and jazz, music which was banned in the Soviet Union after World War Two”.
For more information head over to www.xrayrecordings.com.
