About
Champion Version: All our releases are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of alternative, drone, electronic, experimental, jazz, krautrock, minimalist and post-rock movements. Our records are all lathe cut and housed within 100% recycled full colour picture sleeves that are assembled carefully by hand. All of our releases are issued in very limited quantities and restricted to one copy per person/household. There’s something tactile about pulling a record from its sleeve, looking at the gleaming surface tracked with grooves, placing it onto the turntable and gently placing the needle onto it. Buy some records, fire up your turntable, put on your headphones and enjoy the warm detached attitude of an old technology. *Fighting the powers since 1999*
Fake Jazz: The label was originally started to contrast the broad spectrum of music genres released on Champion Version. It was created as a derivative rather than a sub or sister label that was brutally extreme in direction with a strict and distinguished emphasis on embracing conceptualism and minimalism. After consideration, the ideologies of the two labels weren’t really all that different after all so in January 2012 we incorporated our Fake Jazz label releases onto the Champion Version imprint. *Freedom from process*
Superior Standards: This was an experiment set-up by Adam Barringer and Rutger Zuydervelt to distribute a collection of ten lathe cut transparent 7″ releases in an extremely restricted quantity of ten copies each. Particiating artists were Celer, Richard Chartier, Gareth Davis, Lawrence English, Fuck Fuck, Kenneth Kirschner, Machinefabriek, Minus Pilots, Bartholomäus Traubeck and Nate Wooley. Each subscription included all ten 7″s, artist postcards, stickers and cards, the password to a specifically tailored web page and download links to all the tracks. All subscriptions are now sold out.
