Consouling sounds
| Consouling sounds | |
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 Logo of the label |
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| Active years | Since 2008 |
| founder | Mike Keirsbilck |
| Seat | Ghent , Belgium |
| Website | consouling.be |
| Sub-label | 9000 Records, Circuits |
| Genre (s) | Doom Metal , Postrock , Ambient |
Consouling Sounds (often spelled ConSouling Sounds ) is a Belgian independent label founded in 2008 .
history
Mike Keirsbilck founded Consouling Sounds in 2008 with a friend. In 2014 Keirsbilck's partner left as he only wanted to run the label as a hobby and looking after Consouling Sounds had increasingly developed into a full-time job. Keirsbilck's wife Nele Keirsbilcks then took the place of the partner. Since then, the couple has been running the business together.
The label's first releases appeared as self-burned and financed CDr . With the proceeds, the label produced Nadja 's The Bungled & The Botched, the first professional release of Consouling Sounds in the year it was founded. In the years that followed, Laben established itself increasingly as a distributor for drone doom , post-metal and electronic music groups . In addition to Nadja, the artists who have since been released via Consouling Sounds include well-known artists such as Amenra , Aidan Baker , Methadrone and Ortega . Keirsbilck maintains a close relationship with the Church of Ra artists' collective that developed around Amenra .
Subcontractors and business premises
In the following years, Counsouling Sounds expanded the business, opened the Consouling Store, an associated record store in Ghent in 2014, and founded two sub-labels, 9000 Records in 2015 and Circuits in 2018, which increasingly focus on electronic music (Circuits) and indie rock (9000 Records ) obligated. In addition Coming exists with the Agency ConSouling a subcontractor which artists to self-publishing allows.
Artist (selection)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c QRD: Label Owner Interview with Mike Keirsbilck of Consouling Sounds. Silber Media, April 2015, accessed June 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Christina Wenig: Special: Church of Ra . In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, February 2017, ISSN 1614-2292 , p. 56-62 .
- ↑ ConSouling sounds from Ghent. Vinyl Frontier, January 25, 2017, accessed June 7, 2018 .