Fruits de Mer Records - possibly the world's smallest vinyl-only psych/prog/acid folk/krautrock record label. Established way back in 1715 (that's a quarter past five in the evening), 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. The tracks we are releasing are the same classic tracks, but they are reinterpreted by artists who love them, respect them but want to breathe new life into them...and they do, god bless 'em. We pay all the publishing fees, the original writers get paid...and the record companies get bugger-all. So 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 and Strawberry Alarm Clock...even little-known bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones get a look-in with us. Then we let new or cult artists such as Stay, Mark Fry, Vibravoid and Alison O'Donnell get to work in making the tracks their own (in the case of Mark, they're his own to start with!). Every release is limited to 300 copies, always colour vinyl and always put together with the care, attention and cow-gum that only true vinyl junkies can fully appreciate. By the autumn of 2009, we'll be up to Fruits de Mer Volume 7, or thereabouts; we hope that in time you'll grow to love us so much you'll want to own every one of them, but you'll have to hurry - our releases from 2008 are in short supply and we're not repressing (although we may, of course, be repressed). Running a vinyl record label is a sure-fire way of losing money but we're in it for the love of it and, if you've read this far, you probably are too - you can find out more about us at www.myspace.com/fdmer and www.myspace.com/fdmer2 (it's a long story) - call in for a cuppa, drop us a line any time. In the words of Schizo Fun Addict, who put together our first single, "Be brave...and keep faith".

Have you got a question about one of our releases? Are you an artist or band interested in releasing something on Fruits de Mer? Are you a vinyl junkie looking to recommend some songs you would love to hear reinterpreted? Want to buy of our slabs of vinyl but you can’t stand PayPal? Want to know the meaning of life? Just bored and want someone to chat to? Why not drop us an e-mail:

keith@fruitsdemerrecords.com

andy@fruitsdemerrecords.com

information@fruitsdemerrecords.com