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Cold Spring is an independent record label based in Northamptonshire, England, specialising in "all forms of extreme media, but particularly: black/dark Ambient, Neo-classical/Neo-folk, Orchestral, Power Electronics/Noise, Japanese Noise, Minimal, Death Industrial, Dark Soundtracks, Experimental, obscure electronics from Russia, China, Japan, Poland etc."[1]
[edit] HistoryThe label is owned, and run, by Justin Mitchell who had been working for "Thee Temple Ov Psychic Youth", a radical occult group from the eighties. [2] Mitchell had started out listening to early electronic music around the late seventies, early eighties. [3] This included bands like Soft Cell and The Human League. [4] From listening to this genre of music Mitchell progressed into the different fields of electronic and experimental music including artists like Genesis P-Orridge. [5] Mitchell began getting involved in the music industry after be involved in re-issuing some cassette releases form his project Satori. These releases originated from around 1984 and were released by another label. [6] [edit] Initial ReleasesCold Spring began releasing recordings in 1988 by mail order, then in 1997 began selling and distributing releases on the internet. [7] After releasing a handful of cassette releases by artists such as The Grey Wolves and Genesis P-Orridge. Cold Spring released their first vinyl compilation album “...And the Wolf Shall Lick The Jewels From Your Belly” (CSR 1LP). This was in 1990 and featured artists such as The Grey Wolves, Crash Worship and The Hafler Trio. [8] The next planned release, (CSR 2LP) would have been a split album between Alan Moore and Psychic TV but was withdrawn due to major label pressure. [9] It wasn’t until 1992 that Cold Spring released their next release “Asesinos” by Crash Worship. This would be the first CD release by the label. [10] In 1999 Cold Spring released the Genesis P-Orridge / Merzbow project titled “A Perfect Pain”. The album was an enormous success for Cold Spring, and one of the label’s most requested titles. [11] [edit] Record label PrinciplesCold Spring carefully listen to every release they distribute. They believe that every release should have a strong philosophy, or manifesto. They also believe that there should be more to a band than just their music. [12] [edit] Cold Spring Artists
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