We've recently launched the Fruits de Mer Members Club - not so much a secret society for vinyl junkies, more a badly-promoted society for vinyl junkies.

We're trying to make your, and our, lives easier by allowing you to reserve a copy (or more!) of every FdM release without having to respond to every email from us.

Joing the club means you'll get your copy hot of the presses as we can produce our address list more quickly, and ship the packages out without having to constantly check we've got your mailing details right.
Other benefits include the chance to receive all of our releases on periodic CDrs as a back-up to the vinyl, as well as other stuff we may cobble together at the eand of the year, maybe the odd competition for members-only. Who knows? Certainly not us, we're making this up as we go along
One added bonus is having first chance to buy any of our releases that turn up at FdM Towers on non-standard coloured vinyl, if we happen to get some from the pressing plant

All we need you to do is to ask us to reserve one or more copies of every FdM release - no money changes hands and you always have the option not to buy a specific release if it doesn't take your fancy (no, it's not like the old record clubs where they sent you records you DIDN'T want and invoices you DID have to pay - we're not that clever)
It means we can more easily see where we need to set pressing quantities and prices; we hope that this will help us to keep prices as low as possible through 2011
Longer term, we'd like to create up a community of like-minded FdM collectors, whereby members have a say in tracks they'd like to see covered, and even recommend bands to do the covers, if they know of any
Essentially, though, it's there today as an optional service for the people who have been with us for a long time, and guarantee they never miss a beat

drop Andy a line to find out more...andy@fruitsdemerrecords.com

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), 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, so 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, 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 Chemistry Set, Cranium Pie, 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 300-500 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 2010, we'll be up to Fruits de Mer Volume 13, 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 2008/9 are in short supply or completely sold out 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 on our label? Want to buy our slabs of vinyl but you can't stand PayPal and prefer cheques or cash? Just bored with the latest rubbish on (insert radio station of choice) and want someone to complain to? Why not drop us an e-mail:

keith@fruitsdemerrecords.com  (I'm in the UK)

andy@fruitsdemerrecords.com  (he's in the USA)

info@fruitsdemerrecords.com  (we're all over the place)