Demos

Feel free to send us your CDs, MP3's, weblinks, cassettes and wax cylinders but.....

SL Records is a very small label, we only release a few records a year and aren't looking for any new acts to work with at the moment. We've never signed a band directly from an unsolicited demo, the closest we've come is The Aphrodisiacs, and we only gave their demo a listen cos we heard a track by them on John Peels show and liked what we heard. Having said that sometimes we're working on project where we're looking for bands, and occasionally we're looking for support bands. We try and listen to all demos we're sent, but we can't guarantee it nor provide feedback.

However the music industry is changing and record labels as we now know them may soon be a thing of the past. It's getting easier and cheaper to record, release and promote your own music or to set up your own label. When SL Records began we received invaluable help from, mostly, small independent DIY labels, promoters, music fans and musicians and we're happy to share what knowledge and experience we've gained along the way with anyone looking to set up there own label. Feel free to contacts us with questions, and have a look at the links below. We can't guarantee to help, but'll do what we can

Musicians.About.Com I have to declare an interest because I write for this site. It's American based but it does have a lot of general info about the music industry and the like. Edited by the wonderful (and not cynical) Heather MacDonald who'll always happily answer your questions.

OK so there's one link so far - we'll add more soon.....

Last updated in September 2008

<a href="http://slrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sl-records-sampler">Wowl! - The Black Ark by SL Records</a>

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  • Fuckin Stories Cover

    Paul Vickers

    Fucking Stories

    Album

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    Paul Vickers is badly dressed with a shedload of odd toys, he would have had his very own sitcom in the 70s N.M.E.

    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - Frankenstein's Liquorice Castle
    2. 2 - Swiss Echo
    3. 3 - Theme Of Eerie Bill
    4. 4 - Fucking Storys
    5. 5 - Dancing Jim
    6. 6 - Grease And Gristle
    7. 7 - Fast Junk
    8. 8 - Guide To The Music Industry Part 1
    9. 9 - A Moosk
    10. 10 - Treacle Tits
    11. 11 - Guide To The Music Industry Part 2
    12. 12 - Titoe's Metallic Device
    13. 13 - Barbara Bananas
    14. 14 - Kissing A Hero
    15. 15 - Powerful Soup
    16. 16 - Lovestruck Malcolm
    17. 17 - Guide To The Music Industry Part 3
    18. 18 - Living Inside a Cravat
    19. 19 - Eerie Bill
    20. 20 - Guide To The Music Industry Part 4
    21. 21 - The Count of Christopher
    22. 22 - Lion Milking A Cow
  • Master Dude cover

    Enfant Bastard

    Master Dude

    Album

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    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - Wanker
    2. 2 - Blood
    3. 3 - Master Blaster 1
    4. 4 - Song For The Maudlin
    5. 5 - Master Dude
    6. 6 - Master Blaster 2
  • Sonic Dreamer cover

    Thomas Truax

    Sonic Dreamer

    Album

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    Amid the gleeful sonic invention it's easy to miss how good his songwriting can be.....Truax is shaping up nicely as one of the great rock eccentrics. Morning Star

    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - Beehive Heart
    2. 2 - It's All Happening Now
    3. 3 - It Always Rains on Sundays
    4. 4 - What's The Matter With My Grey Matter
    5. 5 - The Cannibals Have Been Captured Our Nicole Kidman
    6. 6 - Around The World With The Sexy Sigh
    7. 7 - Balancing On A Bouncing Wire
    8. 8 - Ode To the Olde Elderberry
    9. 9 - Post Post Post Modern
    10. 10 - Sonic Dreamer
    11. 11 - Lonely Taxi
  • Dumb Head / There’s Someone At The Window cover

    The Dumbettes / Misty's Big Adventure

    Dumb Head / There’s Someone At The Window

    Single

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    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - The Dumbettes - Dumb Head
    2. 2 - Misty's Big Adventure - There’s Someone At The Window
  • Itchy Grumble

    Paul Vickers and The Leg

    Itchy Grumble

    Album

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    Firmly on the jazz-Hobbit pop ley line which connects Captain Beefheart, skronk-era Tom Waits, Kevin Coyne and Pere Ubu Jim Wirth, Mojo

    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - Overture
    2. 2 - Vial
    3. 3 - A Horse Hoof In The Soup
    4. 4 - The Continuous Itch
    5. 5 - The Foreman’s Song
    6. 6 - Tears Of A Witch
    7. 7 - The Great Bend
    8. 8 - Cannonball Fall You Human
    9. 9 - Oil Drum Maggots
    10. 10 - Itchy Grumble
    11. 11 - Curtains
  • Three Hits Cover

    Wowl!

    Three Hits

    EP

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    a whistle-infused flash of feral pop The Skinny

    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - The Black Ark
    2. 2 - Bulbassador
    3. 3 - The Hand
  • Good News Cover

    Withered Hand

    Good News

    Album

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    On this impressive debut Dan Willson’s alter ego attains the celestial lustre of that holy grail of lapsed evangelical folk nouveau, the first Palace Brothers album. Ben Thompson, Mojo

    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - Providence
    2. 2 - Cornflake
    3. 3 - Love In The Time Of Ecstacy
    4. 4 - Joy
    5. 5 - New Dawn
    6. 6 - Religious Songs
    7. 7 - No Cigarettes
    8. 8 - I Am Nothing
    9. 9 - Hard On
    10. 10 - For The Maudlin
  • Songs From The Films of David Lynch Cover

    Thomas Truax

    Songs From The Films of David Lynch

    Album

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    Truly unsettling and perplexingly brilliant....these covers wouldn’t sound out of place soundtracking a mental breakdown. The Skinny

    Tracklisting:

    1. 1 - Wicked Game
    2. 2 - Twin Peaks (Falling)
    3. 3 - Baby Please Don't Go
    4. 4 - Blue Velvet
    5. 5 - I'm Deranged
    6. 6 - Audrey's Dance
    7. 7 - Black Tambourine
    8. 8 - I Put A Spell On You
    9. 9 - In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)
    10. 10 - In Dreams

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