Katerwaul will be performing at the Kilau Coffee Shop and Art Gallery in Aberdeen on 4th September at 8pm in association with Lost & Found promotions. Those who are able to [...]]]> Earlier on this week we announced the details of the upcoming Katerwaul single release and now we have the details on the launch party to celebrate!

Katerwaul will be performing at the Kilau Coffee Shop and Art Gallery in Aberdeen on 4th September at 8pm in association with Lost & Found promotions. Those who are able to attend will be able to purchase one of only fifty limited copies of the “Valley Under a Concrete Sea” package, which contains a vinyl CD copy of the double A-side single and a poster; 2 days before the release in the BOI Store!

You can also catch Katerwaul at a very special instore performance earlier in the day on Saturday 4th at 1up Records on Belmont St, Aberdeen.

So please get down to the shows and give your support, it’s set to be a great day. And if you can’t make it on Saturday 4th, don’t worry, because we will be holding back a number of the “Valley Under a Concrete Sea” packages for the official release on Monday 6th September via our very own BOI Webstore.

Stick it in the diaries because this is the date that we will be releasing the BRAND NEW Double A-Side Single from Katerwaul “Valley Under A Concrete Sea”.

Not only are we so good to you that we are going to be offering the download of the album on a ‘Pay What You Want’ basis, [...]]]> 06.09.10

Stick it in the diaries because this is the date that we will be releasing the BRAND NEW Double A-Side Single from Katerwaul “Valley Under A Concrete Sea”.

Not only are we so good to you that we are going to be offering the download of the album on a ‘Pay What You Want’ basis, starting at £0…but we also have a great little physical set to offer too.

We will be selling copies of “Valley Under A Concrete Sea” on vinyl CD (which is basically a disk that plays as a CD but has the lovely appearance of a 4.72″ vinyl record); to be accompanied with a fold out map/lyrics sheet, and also a beautiful A3 poster designed by Katerwaul’s very own Tim Courtney.

AND…

To celebrate this great news, Katerwaul will be having a (pre)release party on the 4th of September, where you will be able to pick up a copy of the CD and a poster before anyone else!

But more news on that to follow soon, so keep your ear to the metaphorical, internet based, ground.

The CD comes packaged in a beautiful 24 page booklet filled with artwork and lyrics by Tim Courtney. We love interesting physical product here at BOI towers and this certainly ticks all our sweaty boxes!

To celebrate the release [...]]]> Huzzah! We are now selling Katerwaul’s brilliant album ‘Here There Is No Why’ in our BRAND NEW BOI Webstore.

The CD comes packaged in a beautiful 24 page booklet filled with artwork and lyrics by Tim Courtney. We love interesting physical product here at BOI towers and this certainly ticks all our sweaty boxes!

To celebrate the release we’re knocking 20% off the price which means you can get your hands on a copy for just £7.99

We also have the album up for ‘pay what you want’ download on the BOI Bandcamp page, so there really is no excuse not to get on the Katerwaul bandwagon

Enjoy!

Nick

If you head over to our special BOI Mixtape Bandcamp page, you can purchase your mixtape and get [...]]]>

Ladies and Gentlemen, the time is finally here! The BOI Records Mixtape: Volume 1 is available to buy now! For just the measly sum of 5 english pounds sterling, one of just 100 limited edition mixtapes could be yours.

If you head over to our special BOI Mixtape Bandcamp page, you can purchase your mixtape and get the audio and artwork straight to your desktop to listen to at your leisure.

With the quality of music on offer, combined with the frankly INCREDIBLE artwork created by our 9 artists, we think this release is an absolute bargain. And if you feel the product is worth more than £5, we’re giving you the option to possibly pay a little more if you so wish.

We also just want to take this opportunity to thank all the bands on the compilation for their co-operation, all the artists who took the time and effort to be involved in this release, and of course, you for reading this and supporting independent record labels like ours.

Now the mixtape is out, we’re not resting. Keep your eyes peeled right here, over on our official Twitter feed and also our brand new Facebook page. We’ve got some great stuff coming your way in the next couple of months!

The BOI Records Crew

The cassette has got people talking left, right, centre and even sideways.

So to make sure you don’t miss out, we are allowing our loyal fans to get hold of their copy a whole week in advance. All you have [...]]]> The time is slowly ticking away to the release of our BOI Mixtape Volume 1, 19th July 2010.

The cassette has got people talking left, right, centre and even sideways.

So to make sure you don’t miss out, we are allowing our loyal fans to get hold of their copy a whole week in advance. All you have to do is sign up to our mailing list and we will send you an exclusive link on Monday 9th, so you can secure your one-of-a-kind mixtape before anyone else.

Plus; just as a thank you for signing up to the mailing list (as if that wasn’t enough), you will receive a copy of Tiny Cinema’s exclusive cover of Wheat’s ‘Don’t I hold you’ absolutely free!

Details about how you can get hold of your favorite designer’s work will all be revealed soon.

So to wet your appetite even more, grab yourself an extra sneak preview at some more beautiful cassette designs. Got your eye on one in particular? Then what you waiting for…

We’ve talked a lot in the past about making physical product interesting and desirable and so we’re not just releasing any old compilation in the [...]]]> So we’ve been talking for a while now about releasing a compilation/mixtape, and now that we are getting ever closer to a release, we thought it’s about time you had some details.

We’ve talked a lot in the past about making physical product interesting and desirable and so we’re not just releasing any old compilation in the ’standard’ way. Firstly, we’re releasing actual mixtapes, and by this, we mean cassettes. But that’s not all…we have also recruited the help of 9 different artists/designers so that every single cassette that we sell is going to be 100% individual and unique. We’re releasing 100 cassettes and every single one will have it’s very own artwork. Here’s a few examples from the 100 cassette covers that we’ll be selling:

As you can see, it’s a whole variety of art too; and this is only a snippet of the 100 cassettes that we have! We’ll be putting up a blog, or page on the BOI site, to showcase all of the art we have and all of the artists very soon.

But…it’s not all about the art, of course the original purpose for this mixtape was to release some great music, and we have definitely got that. In no particular order, the BOI Mixtape: Volume 1 will feature tracks from…

There Will Be Fireworks

Tiny Cinema

Savant

Dark Mean

Katerwaul

Satellites

Minion TV

Jamie Clayton

Itch

Lions.Chase.Tigers.

Thats all you’re getting for now, but we’ll be giving the full release details very very soon…so keep em peeled.

Here’s what some other people have had to say about Katerwaul:

“Beguiling, impassioned and cinematic beauty integrated with fits of sheer sonic anarchy”

THE FLY

“Soulful [...]]]> Katerwaul are Tim, Graham, Sam and Nick. They are an Alternative/Ambient/Progressive/Post-Rock band from Aberdeen in Scotland and we are glad to announce that they have now become part of the BOI family.

Here’s what some other people have had to say about Katerwaul:

“Beguiling, impassioned and cinematic beauty integrated with fits of sheer sonic anarchy”

THE FLY

“Soulful crashing loud choruses. Emotional heartfelt interludes… Refreshing, honest and vibrant. This is the soundtrack to one of life’s greatest Movies.”

***** ITUNES

“Live, Katerwaul are impassioned unpredictable and at times absorbing. They understand arrangements instinctively and swings from periods of loose and delicately interwoven delayed guitar arpeggios and gentle falsetto, to moments of crashing, distorted bass-and-drum driven chaos. And back again. At times frenzied, at others fragile; Katerwaul know when they should and – crucially – should not live up to their name.”

TREND MAGAZINE

We will be posting details on Katerwaul’s release with BOI very soon. But for now head on over to the Katerwaul Myspace page. Or check them out on Twitter…and they’re even on Facebook.

Sometimes when a label does this, it can seem like it’s a ‘fire sale’ or an ‘everything must go’ situation as they desperately chase lost revenue. Not for us. This is about remembering why we started this [...]]]> So you may have seen yesterday that we are now selling the Tiny Cinema album Designs for £1 on CD.

Sometimes when a label does this, it can seem like it’s a ‘fire sale’ or an ‘everything must go’ situation as they desperately chase lost revenue. Not for us. This is about remembering why we started this label in the first place.

This time last year we were just four friends on a University course. Chris W and Callum were putting on a gig for one of their modules and needed an artist to play. I have known Darren (Tiny Cinema) for 20 years and have played in countless bands with him for the last 15. He has always been my favourite songwriter, and since our last band parted ways he had started to produce some solo work. I recommended him to the lads for their gig, and they fell in love with his music too.

All Darren has ever wanted to do is write music, but he (by his own admission) is not a promoter. It’s the side of music that he has always hated, and always avoided. We decided that we could help get his music out there, simply because it deserved to be heard. We got Ryan on board, and later Shearer, and we started planning out how we could work this label.

We work with some really inspiring and forward thinking people, and we all have really strong views on the music industry and how people should strive to do interesting things, and create interesting products. The only way people will want to pay you for music these days is if you create something they want to pay for, something different, something cool. This, of course, is why we went out and got “Standard Jewel Case 4pp CDs” made.

Yeah. We fucked up.

We got caught up in the ‘old’ way of running a label, and we did things that we fundementally do not agree with.

It is not that the product is bad. The artwork by our friend Gavin Weir is beautiful, the package is well made, and I don’t think I need to tell you how much we love the music. It’s just that there is nothing different in this physical package, there is nothing to excite, there is no unique selling point.

The main problem that this has caused is that we had started to make decisions based on “well, we might shift a few CDs” and we had forgotten our orginial reason for starting the label. We no longer wanted to make decisions based on “shifting CDs”, it was taking all of the fun out of running this label, so we are taking them out of the equation.

On every other level we have delievered on our intentions for Tiny Cinema. Close to 200 people have downloaded his music from Bandcamp, he has played to new audiences and we have got him press coverage that gets his name out there, and we will continue to do this for as long as he lets us.

This post may be quite candid, and not something you would expect from a record label. Most of the time labels like to paint themselves as always right, but we are still learning, and importantly we have learned from this. We are not invincible, so we try to be brave.

Don’t ever expect to see us release a bog standard physical package again. Indeed, keep your eyes peeled as we have some really cool stuff happening soon.

The important thing we hope that anyone looking to release music takes away from this is to do things YOUR way. Don’t think just because you are releasing music everything has to be ‘major label standard’, like you would see in your major high street music shops. Fuck those places. They are dying, and if you align yourself with them then you will do.

Finally I will go back to why we started this label. To get the music that we love heard. So with that in mind, head on over to Tiny Cinema’s bandcamp and download some music.

Hey, and if you feel like buying a CD, that’s just fine too.

Much love

Nick x

The lovely Andy Roberts has included us in this months regional round-up, so go and get yourself a free copy.

The Fly is available from HMV stores, and loads of other places across the UK. Or you can have a gander online.

Turn to page 73 and see if [...]]]> We’re in this month’s (April 2010) issue of The Fly!

The lovely Andy Roberts has included us in this months regional round-up, so go and get yourself a free copy.

The Fly is available from HMV stores, and loads of other places across the UK. Or you can have a gander online.

Turn to page 73 and see if you can spot us.

Nick was’nt actually credited on [...]]]> This week Nick and I (Callum) from BOI featured on the lovely Blue Whale Blog, where we talked about how the label came to be, what plans there are for the future and also a bit about what we get up to in our time off.

Nick was’nt actually credited on the post, but I can safely say that he was very helpful in crafting some answers for it…in a way.

You can read the full article right here.

And we also made a mix to go alongside it, which you can listen to in full here: