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Special releases from Beach House, Grimes, Alt-J and more for Independent Label Market

28 November 2012, 16:11 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton
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A list of special releases have been announced for this weekend’s Independent Label Market.

The event, which promotes indie labels and their artists, returns to London’s Spitalfields Market on 1-2 December 2012 for a special Christmas edition.

Among the special releases are limited edition offerings from from Florence & The Machine, Beach House, Grimes, Alt-J, TOY & more.

The full list of releases are below. You can stream a special mixtape here.

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SATURDAY

Angular: Postcards from This Many Boyfriends’ LP, ten exclusive postcards with download code for the album, Angulympic T-shirts

Bella Union: Stuff you can’t get anywhere else yet – like the first two Beach House LPs on coloured vinyl for the first time at the market.

Big Dada: Yellow vinyl Banana Skank EP by Roots Manuva, and White Label Tombola.

Full Time Hobby: Special Pinkunoizu cassette only EPs , and exclusive bags and tea towels.

Fire: The infamous tracksuit worn by Craig Dermody in the Footscray Station video, FREE Keel Her, Scraps, Diva and SACW Badges, Free Postcards, Signed 7”s and 12”s, Exclusive Tapes! And every purchase wins a free CD from our gigantic home-made advent calendar. Also grab yourself a slice of Scott & Charlenes Wedding – Wedding Cake.

GETME!: Some new tees and jumpers plus all our record releaese for a discounted price, free stickers too.

Ground Level: Few of our early releases on vinyl and a load of test pressings which haven’t been on sale in stores for a couple of years, we’ll also have bucket-loads of our new compilation CD - PlayGround - which is a collection of 13 new tracks and remixes to celebrate the label’s 5th birthday.

Hottwerk: Punx Soundcheck / Chanty Poe will be doing ‘stall signings’, exclusives and a Super Hottwerk Bundle – one of each item (CDs, 12″s, Merch) for the frankly bonkers price of £25

Killing Moon Ltd: Worship 7” ” House Of Glass”(10 left in the whole world), Bluebell 7″” Normal Heights/Cinderella”, Strangers 7″” It Was A Sin/If I Found Love”, Duologue 7″” Underworld/Zeros”, – Draper 12″” The Draper EP” (signed and hand-numbered), Draper CD “The Draper EP”, Dan Croll 7″” From Nowhere”, and special merch items such as pin badges and 50 tote bags.

Lex: Test press Tombola! You pay £1 and there are various prizes you can win: free download from our Lex shop, free Cd, 7″ test pressing, 12″ test pressing of super rare albums like DOOM’s BORN LIKE THIS, JJ DOOM / Lex Logo t-shirts, 1 golden ticket wins a signed copy of Unearthing by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins!! There will also be super cheap DOOM christmas boxset presents, and regular copies of Unearthing that will be reduced.

Monotreme: We will have an exclusive pre-release sale of the forthcoming debut CD album by Niagara. We will also have some T-shirts, tote bags and mugs, plus free label sampler CDs, pins and stickers. In addition, there will be a raffle for a free CD or vinyl album of choice – no purchase necessary, just drop by the stall and enter. Also various paraphernalia such as tote bags, T-shirts and mugs because people kept asking for them.

Ninja Tune: We’ll have some FaltyDL Straight & Arrow 12″ picture discs. We have some signed records from Bonobo and others

No Pain In Pop: Grimes test pressings

One Little Indian: The Computers will be appearing at our stall and selling copies of their ultra limited 10″ picture disc ‘The Computers Are Misfits’. Plus all sorts of vinyl deals – Bjork’s new ‘Bastards’ album, rare white labels, signed and limited editions, Totem Series booklets and lots of other interesting anomalies from OLI’s 25+ year history.

Peacefrog: Baby shoes, exclusive new Peacefrog Tshirts, 20th anniversary releases such as Jose Gonzlez ‘Veneer’, plus some old school releases and white labels.

PIAS: Spray painted copies of Fake Blood album – by Fake Blood himself!

Planet Mu: Freshly manufactured ‘merch’ and lots of exclusive mp3s available for illegal download.

Sonic Cathedral: We will be selling gingerbread effects pedals on the sonic cathedral stall.

Stolen: We have Bo Ningen and Serafina Steer coming down. Screened limited Bo Ningen posters, as well as some hand painted one off calligraphy ones painted by the drummer Monchan. Bo Ningen live in Tokyo and Remix CD’s that are only available on tour. Signed Pete And The Pirates, JEFF The Brotherhood, Bo Ningen, Let’s Wrestle. Last couple of 12″s by Pete And The Pirates and Let’s Wrestle. Japanese imports, test pressings.

STRUT: We’ll have some limited signed stock from Ethio jazz legend Mulatu Astatke and some one-off tasty bundles including tickets to our Christmas party. We’ve also been raiding the Strut archives so there will be loads of long deleted CDs and vinyl available at a snip for one day only!

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SUNDAY

Acid Jazz: Plenty of RARE vinyl from the archive.

AED: Deer Christmas cards just in – produced from an Edwyn lino print

Because: Because / Ed Banger / Phantasy Sampler on 12″ Marbled Vinyl (Free with any purchase). Because / Ed Banger / Phantasy Tote Bag (Free with any two purchases). Django Django Remix Album free with any Django Django Purchase. Exclusive Merch / Tees / Posters / Stickers / Badges, Limited / Out of stock Vinyl across Because / Ed Banger / Phantasy catalogue

Believe / Tape Club: Limited edition numbered prints, test pressings, signed records not to mention the best Christmas cake you’ve ever eaten!

Fear And Records: A few copies of some of our long sold out releases (such Emmy The Great’s Secret Circus 7″ and I Was A Cub Scout’s We Were Made To Love 7″) as well as the first opportunity to buy our latest release – Playlounge’s Thrash Magic 12″.

Heavenly: First pressing of the Temples debut 7″ “Shelter Song”, a handful of ultra rare US 7″ copies of “Left Myself Behind” by TOY, Stealing Sheep “Into The Diamond Sun” black vinyl repress.

Highline: An amazing Christmas compilation, which is a great soundtrack for holiday snacking.

Infectious: First dibs on the repress of Alt-J white vinyl, Exclusive signed Local Natives Breakers 7″s, Signed Alt-J, Cloud Control, Tim Wheeler & Emmy the Great, and Local Natives albums. Exclusive limited edition Tim Wheeler & Emmy the Great vinyl – Emmy will be down to sign/sell these!

Leaf: Stuff we found in the warehouse, never to be seen again.

Lojinx: We’ll be pushing some very competitively priced LPs, EPs and singles from our catalog, as well as CDs. And some freebie trinkets. And cakes. oh yes, cakes.

LuvLuvLuv: Limited Kouldam Artwork by a great French artist Cyprien Gaillard, Splashh T-Shirts and some Florence & The Machine gems

Memphis Industries: We’ve found a box of Japanese and South Korean only editions of some of our albums, so they’ll be available. We’ll be redoing our Xmas Memphis Industries lucky dip – £10 for a random selection of 3LPs or 5CDs. I’ve found a bunch of white labels and we’ve got a cheeky Memphis Industries compilation to give away.

Phantasy Sound: We’ll be selling exclusive records, t-shirts and tote-bags

Rough Trade: Rare Strokes singles, signed posters from the Alabama Shakes, and a secret artist appearance

Song By Toad: We may have some limited edition Toad Beer, some custom-made Toad Cupcakes, and a couple of yet-to-be-released things which we are making available because we have the finished product already, and the release date is pretty soon so, in the words of Doc Brown, we figured what the heck.

WIAIWYA: This time the plan is to have one off test pressings in hand made sleeves, extremely limited, and long since deleted records, gift wrapped lucky dips for the budget conscious and Christmas releases.

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