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Mint Recordings_ the label home for great music .................................................................................... We apologise for any inconvenience but our web payment system is currently unavailable whilst we change over our providers. June 22/08_
More wonderful support continues for Nigel's THIS IS HOW IT FEELS, from the Daily Mail to Janice Long on BBC Radio 2. "This could well become one of the athems of the summer..."(Daily Mail). For full press click here: Nigel_Full Press
Cheers
Pure Mint Recordings
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June 08/08_
Hi all- What a fantastic start to the release of Nigel of Bermondsey's wonderful cover of the Inspiral Carpet's This Is How It Feels. With amazing radio support already from XFM, Absolute Radio, BBC Radio 2, Music Week, Artrocker, BBC Radio Ulster, West FM, Forest of Dean Radio and many more. Thanks everyone. Full press click here: Nigel_Full Press
THIS IS HOW IT FEELS - Released 22nd June 2009
“Nigel’s version of This Is How It Feels is a truly wonderful interpretation. He has given the song a completely new energy, more delicate and less urgent than it’s original. Strip away the electricity and there it is… the mysterious little kitchen sink drama I put together 20 years ago. Thanks Nigel, it’s lovely."Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets) ..................................................................................
If you get a chance, please also keep an eye out for the awesome June 2009 issue of SHINDIG magazine, which features a three page article on the fantastic Margo Guryan, who we had the pleasure of releasing her superb satire 16 Words, back in 2007 as a CD and digital download. Please click here or on images below for more info.
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We are really chuffed by the attention we have to begun to receive for Nigel and for the label more generally and thank you all for your continued support. I am not going to beat around the bush, but it is really tough running a small wholly independent label in the UK at the moment.
A funny report from the PRS indicated that the filesharers were just stealing the same music that they were being marketed to by the big major labels - talk about sheep leading the blind! There is so much great independent music out there, but you have to look for it. Please continue to buy Independent music so that we can keep taking the fight to the majors and finally open up the airwaves to a whole variety of new music, and not just music with huge marketing budgets from the major labels.
Cheers
Pure Mint Recordings
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March 20/08_
Hi all- our very own DJ and Producer Supremo, Michael Morph is playing this Saturday night at Matter in London alongside a fantastic lineup of some great DJs including Pendulum, James Lavelle (U.N.K.L.E), DJ Food, Aim etc. Doors 10pm-7am. Tickets £12 (adv), £15 (otd). Click here or flyer above for more details
Cheers
Pure Mint Recordings
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March 16/08_
Hi - Please come and support Nigel at the 12 Bar, London tonight - 16th March 2009.
January 26/08_
Rare double chance to come and see Nigel
of Bermondsey play tonight, 26th January 2009. At 8pm you can catch Nigel perform an acoustic set at The Slaughtered Lamb, in Clerkenwell, London (on stage at 8pm), followed by a later appearance at the legendary 12 Bar Club in central London at 11pm. Hope some of you can make one or the other.
Cheers
Pure Mint Recordings
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January 16/09_
We are really pleased to announce that Nigel of Bermondsey has been nominated for the XFM New Music Award 2009. He has made the 'Long List' of 46 artists who XFM reckon released the best albums of 2008. We must confess that we concur wholly with XFM's reasoning here; that being said, we would be sublimely grateful if you could click the link below and add your vote for Nigel. After the votes have been counted, the list will be shortened to 10, and then the winner will be announced. Voting for Nigel will bring you fantastic Karma, 99% guaranteed!! :-) Voting closes Friday 23rd January. Thanks for your support.
(4/5) in the UK National newspaper The
Independent - "Stuffed
with panoramic, psych-pop arrangements..An absorbing and intriguing
debut"and another (4/5) from Beat
Surrender.
Click image/links to read in full.
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Nigel is also playing at The Water Rats
(nr Kings X, London) on Monday 10th November.
On stage at 8:45pm. Please come and show some support.
Click on flyer below for more details:-
Pure Mint are off to LA for some meetings next week.
Web update on our return :-) Thanks for supporting our
label.
Pure Mint Recordings
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October
11/08_
Fantastc support for Nigel
of Bermondsey from loads of places; Radio
2, NME, Q
Radio, Clash Magazine etc.
Thanks to everyone.
Click image for full press.
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Nigel
has been performing here and there acrosss London and has
a gig at the Water Rats on 10th November. Further details
and discounted advance tickets from Nigel's Myspace
Short staffing over the summer led to fewer updates of the
web than usual...apologies. Michael
Morph's Do What You Want received awesome airplay and
reviews in the leading press, Mix Mag, iDJ, etc, it also charted
at #12 in the DMC Zzub charts. More information/press
here
The
summer (if one can call it that this year) also saw the release
of Elevator Suite's Remixes
album which picked up support at both radio and mainstream
press. And we offered Matt
Kebbell a helping hand to get him up on iTunes.
Please check out all of these new releases, and let us know
what you think. Videos to some are available on youtube
and the releases are available on iTunes etc.
We
hope you enjoy the music
Pure Mint Recordings
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June 06/08_
New releases (coming very soon). Please check
back...
Clockwise from top left:Michael
Morph "Do What You Want", Elevator
Suite - Remixes, Matt Kebbell,
Nigel Of Bermondsey
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April
14/08_
Michael Morph - Resident DJ -
Summer of Love 08, Audio, Brighton. This saturday
19th April. Click Flyer for more information.
It is with great sadness that I have to report that a wonderfully
dear friend of ours,
Running Water (aka Bevin Fagan), vocalist with seminal UK
reggae act Matumbi,
sadly passed away on the 2nd April 2008. You will be sorely
missed Run by all of us at Pure Mint. A real talent and
a true philospher and king. RIP brother.
Please click on the YouTube box below to watch a little tribute
video of some Super 8 footage we shot with Run on our legendary
debut Midem in Cannes in the South of France in 2003.....now
there were some fun adventures I could tell you about that little
trip.....ha... :-)
Bevin Fagan aka Running Water
Anthony,
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Press:-
XFM (Eddie Temple Morris - Top 5), DJ Mag, Fast Car Mag (5/5), Teletext, Artroker and more.... For full press please click here
"..splendid" -
Subba Cultcha "..their recent dazzling self titled long player has been remixed by top prodcuers..so go buy it cause it's a proper goodun " -
Boys Toys (5/5)
"Elevator Suite – The Remixes.....to put it bluntly has shit hot remixes...by some of the hottest
remix talent out there...Truly awesome, enough said" -
UKCD (10/10)
Featuring
remixes from:-
Long Range (Phil Hartnol - Orbital), Aquasky, Crazy
P and a digital only vocal mix ft. Desire For full press please click
here
"A
techy proggy belter" -
DJ Magazine - 4 stars "..Perfect
for rocking the floor" -
Mixmag
"Expect
this one to win a legion of fans" -
5/5 DMC Update
Press
confirmed:-
Bent., BBC Online, Beat Surrender, Clash, Uncut, Drummer,
Monkey, Pop Justice, Fast Car, Boys Toys, Max Power,
Base, Subba Cultcha, and more.... For full press please click here
"..a
canny balance between accessible radio friendly melodies
and stoned muso stylings" -
Clash Magazine (4/5) "..some real
tracks of beauty" -
Beat Surrender (4/5)
Press
confirmed:-
Fense.com
Drowned In Sound
KCRW Los Angeles (Radio)
WFMU Jersey/New York (Radio)
125 College stations across USA (Radio)
William Gibson (writer) - blog For
full press please click here
Press
confirmed:-
Crack, Total Rock, Record Collector, Classic Rock, Big
Cheese, Rock Sound, Drummer. Total Guitar, Base Magazine,
Sony PSP etc. For full press please
check back soon....
"So, with its varied music
agenda and artist-friendly policy, Pure Mint Recordings looks
set to smash it in the new year" (Notion Magazine
- Jan05)
"...a new label that's having
a go at re-writing the rulebook" (DJ)
"....it's a label that aims
to develop new talent" (Blues & Soul)
"Mint Source Recordings; the
eclectic new label with a revolutionary approach to artist
deals…." (MUSIC WEEK)
"…the members of the
very new independent London label Mint Source were discussing
freely in the VIP room of the Martinez, their first and perfect
compilation: A Hint of Mint" (LES INROCKS)
Congratulations to Titus and the Carbon Fools for their gig/festival
recently in Budapest and for the fist airing of the MOSQUITO
video on Hungarian national television. Congratulations also
to Tilos Radio Budapest (the radio station the Carbon Fools’
track "TILOS.S.O.S" on the Hint of Mint vinyl is all
about…..), which now has an FM licence. Excellent news!
The Carbon Fools "Mosquito" video (by the way) is
a work of genius…. and presciently current!, but then
I have come to expect no less from David.
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