onec recordsis based in Plymouth, UK. We put out what we like and we like what we want!
30 August 2010 Coming soon on onec, Katapulto's
second album, Pralines Of Doom, check out the trailer below!
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July 2010 Crikey how time flies! onec is five years old and to celebrate we combined a birthday
bash with Head Of Programmes album launch show at the White Rabbit, Plymouth. Mark Greenwood, The Rooftop Gambler, Elliot
Whale Boy and Head of Programmes and more all graced the stage for one corking night. Head Of Programmes (check them out here,) album launch is for their second album, 'Goodbye, Forever' released on UPR Records. They are touring all over
the place in the coming months so go see 'em!
The first of our 'pizza box' series of records
is out now and available from the shop! Bloodbrand's Live In Hell : The De Sade EP is a 4 track hand cut clear vinyl 7",
with a 12 page booklet and comes in a hand printed pizza box. The music is brutal thrash fused with lyrics based on Marquis
de Sade's '120 Days Of Sodom', Tommie who cut the record likened it GG Allin, and quite frankly thats pretty
much spot on! Limited to 20 copies only! Next up are 10" 'pizza box' lathe cuts from Poems In Stone (Sept/Oct) and Katapulto's second album (Nov/Dec).
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April 2010 onec is pleased as punch to announce details of our next release! It is Mark
Greenwood's 'White Mice, All Colours', x 2 CD's with a 20 page booklet and housed in a DVD case, limited to
100 copies only!
Greenwood
has been writing and performing poetry and text since 2005. White Mice, All Colours represents five years of work
with a number of visual and sonic collaborators including Alastair MacLennan, Matt Lord, Nicolas Grew, Andrew Prior, Stephen
Cornford, Pete Davies and the Institute for Digital Art and Technologies.
Greenwood uses a number of experimental tactics to generate text works including site specific encounters with memorials
and monuments, uses of lexicon and reference books, notations from performance actions and chance procedures that incorporate
horse racing, card games and the recycling of overheard conversation. Poetic patterns and minimal narratives re-configured
to present a series of works which explore the darker sides of identity and ‘otherness’.
The title of these collected works, White Mice, All Colours comes from
a Father’s recollection of a childhood in post war Tyneside – where resilience, imagination and humour became
modes of survival in times of economic desperation. It is hoped that while the poems depict instances of futility, paradox
and the absurd, they also communicate an optimism and goodwill that challenges modern media and how we use language. Please listen with the hi-fi high and the lights down low, whilst smoking
your favourite pipe. Click on the image below to buy from the shop, Postpaid to UK £7, EU £8, ROW £9.
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March 2010 Heres a cool video from Neil Rose to accompany Whippoorwills a track from his
debut LP 'Wilbur Whateley/Psychopomps' which was released on onec last October...
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February 2010 Great review of RTG's 10"
in the Feb/March issue of Rock-A-Rolla...
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January 2010 The Rooftop Gambler 'Turned Out The Light' launch show (Friday 29th January) has
a great line up, check out the details below...see you there!
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December 2009 Heres a top review
of the Rooftop Gambler's 10" EP from 247 Magazine, you can pre-order it now and you get an immediate download from
the shop. They will be playing their last gig of the year at the X-Mas Balls 3 at the White Rabbit, Plymouth,
December 23rd, get on down and get festive vibes!
12 November 2009 We
are proud to announce that our first split release with UPR Records is now available to pre-order from the onec shop. The
nationwide release date is 01/02/10 and pre-orders will be sent out week beginning 14/12/09, in time for chrimbo, arrgghhh
yes I mentioned the c-word, slap slap more coffee. Or if you cant wait that long you can get copies of the EP direct from
the band at their shows listed below.
The Rooftop
Gambler- Turned Out The Light 10” 4 track EP on yellow vinyl, like a piece of cheese, limited x 300 with a
free download. (onec/UPR001EP)
“Think Firehose recorded by Steve Albini, and if that sounds like too much of a flight
of the imagination then be prepared for even more adventures off the beaten track offered by The Rooftop Gambler.With stories that are magically wistful and intriguing, it’s like a heavenly slumber party under the influence
of a full moon. Surprising.Not least when you learn that the sonorous tone and almost hypnotic musical
and vocal cadences that create the sumptuous sound of these four tracks are created by a band that hails from a heavy punk
rock background – this EP is like discovering the poetic beauty of the beast.” (thanks Debbie!)
The Rooftop Gambler live dates Friday 13th Nov - Ryan’s Bar, Torquay w/ Head of Programmes Saturday 14th Nov - The
Barrel House, Totnes w/ Head of Programmes Saturday 21st Nov - Sew Darn Good, The Fortesque, Plymouth Tuesday 24th Nov - The White Rabbit, Plymouth w/ Joe Lally and Babar Luck Wednesday 2nd Dec-
The Skiving Scholar, Plymouth
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October 2009 We got some onec T-Shirts done, black screen print on the front (onec records
& box) and 'out of the box' on the back, comes in either a grey or red Fruit Of The Loom shirt.
Limited numbers in the following sizes, small, medium, large and XL. £8 postpaid in the UK, £9 for Europe and
£10 Rest Of The World. Get in! Click on the image to buy one.
24 September 2009 onec’s new release is available to pre-order with immediate download! Neil Rose’s ‘Wilbur Whateley / Psychopomps’ LP is
our third release and limited to 250 copies only. The release date is 26th October 2009, but is available to pre-order
now. Any pre-orders will be emailed a link enabling an immediate download, the album will be sent out the week before the
release date. So get t'shop good people!
“Neil Rose’s debut album maintains a core feeling of oppression and unease layered with moments
of bliss, skilfully achieved through doom laden, minimalist sound and creeping drones.”TAPC
You can also get it from The Genepool hereAnd over in Germany both Drone Recordsand Klangware will be stocking the LP.
Also
available in person from Really Good Records, Breton Side, Plymouth, along with other onec releases.
The album launch takes place at the monthly Café Concrete night at
the Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth on the 26th October 2009, where any attendees are advised to bring along a smoking
jacket, a pair of slippers and an opium pipe!
19 August 2009
We have just sent our next release away to be pressed up, which is Neil Rose's amazing Wilbur Whateley/Psychopomps
LP. Inspired by the writing of HP Lovecraft this concept album is going to have a beautifully crafted gatefold sleeve and
180 grams worth of black vinyl to enhance your audio pleasure and bring about the apocalypse!
Neil Rose is a Plymouth
based electroacoustic composer and his debut album fully deploys his considerable skill at interweaving concrete sound sources,
the spoken word and awkward polyrhythmic beat material. It is dark and brooding, and at times yields results no recording
should produce, and yet retains a danceable sensibility. The release date is the 26th October 2009, we will be taking
pre-orders as the record is limited to 250 copies, the record will be available from the onec online shop and other independent
distributors/retailers, as yet to be finalised.
12 July 2009
onec are hosting Sonic Skullduggery, a two hour
radio show on Freesound Radio. We are going to play a mix of local experimental rock, spoken word, birdsdong, cut and paste
segments of delight and whatever else we can get away with. Click on the flyer to take you to the Freesound website.
19 May 2009
FREE GIG! A great local billing at the amazing Odd Fellows Hall
in the heart of Devonport. Get the date in your diaries!
08 April
2009
Wow onec are pleased
to announce our second release, yes its been six months since the first one, but we've been busy! Dr Ake started recording
'Stonehouse Dreams' at PMC Studios exactly one week ago today under the watchful eye and super sharp ears of Doc Collins.
The results of which are now available as a 6 song 4 panel digipack CD! Dr Ake are a motley bunch and come from a diverse
range of musical and artisic backgrounds, hows improv electro jazz punk rock classical for starters!
"Cap'n Greenwood has many an old lyric to enchant countless
scurvied sirens, while Petty Officer Grew, First Mate Davies and Gregski The Navigator have enough sonic trickery and melodious
mayhem to shiver the timbers of any soul."
The SONGS FROM THE DOG WATCH boat cruise album launch party was
fantastic! Hero of the night was Jim from Head of Programmes who played whilst being under the influence of the flu! More
pictures in the archive page.
HEAD OF PROGRAMMES
3 December 2008
And here is our first release, what a beauty! The ten tracks are
all exclusive, you won't find them anywhere else, (except on MurdochSpace, most likely!) we are well pleased with
our first record and it has been well recieved so far. Also a wee reminder that the Boat Cruise Launch Party on Saturday 6th
December is going to be great with Head of Programmes, Consolation Prizefighter and Dr.Ake playing. Theres a few tickets left,
and the weather will be ok! No doubt there will be some photo's appearing on here soon....
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SONGS FROM THE DOG WATCH LP (onec 001)
GATEFOLD SLEEVE, 180 GRAM, LIGHT BLUE COLOURED VINYL LTD x 500
Release Date 28th November 2008
The first record release from onec is a compilation LP that features 10 bands/musicians
from the Plymouth area interpreting their own definition of sea songs and shanties: WILLE AND THE BANDITS, HEAD OF PROGRAMMES,
VINCE LEE, FISHERMANS MISSION, THE DHARMA BUMS, LEMANIS, CONSOLATION PRIZEFIGHTER, DR. AKE, THE ROBINSONS and COSMO JARVIS.
The album is an emotive mix of traditional and self-written songs of a nautical theme, highlighting the range of musical talent
that is evident in Plymouth. This album roots the contemporary music to its locality and history of place.
