Fruits de Mer Records – possibly the world’s smallest vinyl-only psych/prog/acid folk/krautrock/spacerock record label – but then again, maybe not – what do we know? Established way back in 1715 (that’s a quarter past five in the evening) by Andy and Keith, we started out with the carefully laid-out plan to unearth and reissue long-lost, classic tracks from the sixties and early seventies – but the record companies with the rights to the back-catalogues simply didn’t want to know us. After several weeks of crying into our coco pops, we thought, “sod it, we’ll do it ourselves”…and we have. Andy decided it was time to do something different at the beginnning of 2012, so FdM now consists of me (Keith) and whoever else I can rope in. FdM releases are a right old mix of classic and obscure tracks, usually reinterpreted by artists who love them, respect them but want to breathe new life into them…and they do, god bless ’em. FdM pays all the publishing fees, so the original writers get paid…and the record companies get bugger-all. These days, there’s also a smattering of new songs by artists who impress me as having a touch of trhe 60s and 70s about them – but are mainly just damn-good. go on, put on your diving gear, join the Fruits de Mer deep-sea fishing trip as we dredge up whoppers by the likes of The Small Faces, Nick Drake, Can, Dantalion’s Chariot, Caleb and Strawberry Alarm Clock…even little-known bands such as The Beatles. Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones get a look-in with us. Then we let new or cult artists such as The Bevis Frond, Soft Hearted Scientists, nick nicely, The Chemistry Set, Cranium Pie, Stay, Vibravoid and Alison O’Donnell get to work in making the tracks their own. Running a vinyl record label is a sure-fire way of losing money but I’m in it for the love of it and, if you’ve read this far, you probably are too – you can find out more about FdM at www.fruitsdemerrecords.com – but of course you’re here already – call in for a cuppa, drop me a line any time. In the words of Schizo Fun Addict, who put together our first single, “Be brave…and keep faith”.
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