Fruits de Mer Records - Psychedelia, Acid-Folk, Krautrock, Progressive Rock, Spacerock Vinyl Heaven


'A Phase We're Going Through' insert

Welcome to Fruits de Mer Records

...possibly the world's smallest new-versions-of classic psychedelia, acid-folk, progressive rock, krautrock and spacerock colour vinyl record label, certainly the smallest one we know of called Fruits de Mer (and the biggest, for that matter).
Classic and obscure tracks from the 60s/70s reinterpreted and released on ludicrously-limited colour vinyl. Pink Floyd, July, Billy Nicholls, Jefferson Airplane, The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix, Caleb, Clouds, The Bee Gees, The Who, Del Shannon, July, Eno, Hawkwind, Cockney Rebel, Silver Apples, Funkadelic, Velvet Underground, Tudor Lodge, Caravan, The Zombies, Jackson C Frank, The Beatles, Dantalion's Chariot, Sendelica, Hausfrauen Experiment, Vibravoid, Rob Clarke and the Wooltones, The Swims, Marshmallow Staircase, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Geese, The Luck of Eden Hall, The Campbell Stokes Sunshine Recorder, The Chemistry Set, Sidewalk Society, Permanent Clear Light, Us and Them, The Flaming Gnomes, Cranium Pie and more gather together for your listening pleasure...

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN - 'THEME ONE' by SCHIZO FUN ADDICT

   "Remember Island, Charisma...think Fruits de Mer"
Geoff Barton, Classic Rock

"Most records on this tie-dyed revival label shoot out of our stockroom quicker than a VW Camper running on kerosene" Norman Records

"This is what 7" should be all about" Record Collector


blimey gang, we're collectible!

  'A PHASE WE'RE GOING THROUGH'
now on sale...$25

Fruits de Mer goes the full 12 inches...

An LP of classic sixties phased psychedelia
tracks originally recorded by The Who, July, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Nicholls, Caleb, Del Shannon, The Bee Gees and Clouds are treated with love, respect and lashings of phasing by 11 great new bands, including:
The Chemistry Set
Cranium Pie
Sidewalk Society
The Luck of Eden Hall
The Sw!ms
Marshmallow Staricase
...and more!

...all on 12" of lovely colour vinyl...only $25 including postage - only 100 or so of our one-off 500 pressing remaining!
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COMING SOON...
HAUSFRAUEN EXPERIMENT

Hausfrauen Experiment

PRE-ORDER NOW!
email us at info@fruitsdemerrecord.com to reserve your copy - just $13 for two slabs of 7" colour vinyl
we're severely testing the limits of our sixties/seventies psych/prog/ krautrock/spacerock agenda and completely blowing our budgets with a double 7" from Hausfrauen Experiment full of future/retro/electro/ leftfield/outtheresomewhere versions of four tracks that only the musically-deranged and commercially-suicidal could put together in one release (so we did).

Due on sale early August
- and we're only pressing up 300 copies!

Featuring:
'Oscillations'
(originally by Silver Apples)
'Spirit of the Age' (Hawkwind)
'Baby's On Fire' (Eno)
'Sebastian' (Cockney Rebel)
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EARLY NEWS ON FdM 13

Sendelica
SENDELICA
Fruits de Mer 13 will be a stunning 7" single from that fine band Welsh band SENDELICA, combining covers of The Velvet Underground ('Venus in Furs') and Funkedelic ('Maggot Brain')
we've heard the tracks and they are brilliant, although we say it ourselves! Due in October, with a following wind....
WE'LL POST MORE INFO HERE AS AND WHEN WE GET IT
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and on our myspace site
FdM ON MYSPACE


WE'RE CURRENTLY BUSY 'UPDATING' OUR WEBSITE
(CUE POTENTIAL DISASTER).
IF YOU HIT ANY PROBLEMS, HEAD STRAIGHT TO OUR SISTER SITE
WWW.BRACKENRECORDS.COM
or EMAIL US AT andy@fruitsdemerrecords.com
AND WE'LL SORT YOU OUT!

hear the tracks...

listen to a few FdM tracks with our compliments - it's the least we can do as we tend to sell out, thanks to fellow vinyl junkies (thank you all!) More Info

...see the videos...

...or, as if slabs of colour vinyl aren't enough, we even spoil you with B-Grade DIY music videos, usually made in someone's bedroom (no, not that sort of video, calm down); check out our Youtube site, but don't be away too long, we're missing you already...
SEE THE VIDEOS

...join the club

and now you can make sure of every future FdM release by joining the Fruits de Mer Members Club - no cash, no commitment and no previous experience necessary; check out our 'About Us' page for more details
More Info or email andy@fruitsdemerrecords.com and all will be revealed

The FDM Shop/Discography


Ready to take care of some of these vinyl beauties? Yes, it's time to head over to our shop; we're already there, waiting patiently behind the counter, pretending we're extras in a Nick Hornsby film
Or maybe you'd just like to see everything we've released so far and remind yourself of your quick thinking in buying every one of them from our early days in 2008? Or gasp in envy at all the FdM singles that are SOLD OUT and you missed because you were busy painting the spare bedroom at the time? (it looks lovely, by the way)
Call in and take a look at the menu of fishy delights that only the best chippie in the lost city of Atlantis could match...
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FdM ON THE BLOG

cheap visual joke yes, it's another stream of semi-consciousness from the depths of FdM's psyche...The July blog includes details of our new members club, more verbal outpourings on our first LP, 'A Phase', finally available to buy rather than just read about (as you may have noticed, we've been building this one up for months - or 'moths' as the first version came out - interesting concept)
12" of grey and occasionally mauve vinyl
Here are a couple of press quotes, just to whet your appetite...

..."like The Beach Boys playing Silver Machine" - Classic Rock's Geoff Barton on 'A Phase'

..."makes you feel that you're living inside the bong" - Shindig!

...we also have some links to recent web interviews with FdM's Andy Bracken, a man of few words (but not few enough apparently, one of the interviews had to be turned into a partwork...!
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...YOU'RE NEVER ALONE WITH AN FDM T-SHIRT...

Jo and Olivia
...as worn by Jo, Olivia, Andy and myself
(for some reason, Andy and I were edited out of the photo).

They might shrink a bit in a cold wash (or at least that's what we told the girls when we made them stand in a cold paddling pool for about three hours) but they look pretty damn fine and they are just $15 apiece

black or white
medium or large
...the choices are endless (ok, so there are only four)
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LATEST NEWS ON FdM 14

(actually, it may be 15, although our spacerock compilation is taking longer to line up than Emile Heskey does to shoot, god bless 'im)
...one more single from us in 2010 (or should we say, AT LEAST one more single from us in 2010) and it will feature one of the bands from 'A Phase We're Going Through' reinterpreting three or four classic 60's psych tracks from some of the UK's best-loved bands....the band are at the final stages of recording and...you'll read more about it here first
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...EVEN EARLIER NEWS ON FdM 15!

FdM in Space
FRUITS de MER IN SPACE
hard to believe but we're still working on a spacerock/krautrock compilation that was going to be our first release of the year but we're hoping will release escape velocity before the end of 2010 - an LP this time, featuring new versions of tracks originally recorded by the likes of
Neu!
Brainticket
Hawkwind
more Neu!
...and a couple of suitably obscure items we've managed to haul aboard
....it started out as spacerock, then a lot of seventies German influences started to get mixed in, which means we can't even come with a title for the album, never mind a final track listing

ANYWAY, MORE INFO AS WE GET IT HERE More Info
and on our myspace site
FdM ON MYSPACE
SEE VIBRAVOID - GERMANY'S LEADING PSYCH-ROCK BAND - LIVE!!!
MORE DETAILS AT www.vibravoid.com/ufo
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...hear the tracks.. ..buy the vinyl.. ..smell the fish...
email us anytime at info@fruitsdemerrecords.com