Friends of Friends Vol. 1, Shirt Available NOW!

By • Jan 23rd, 2009 • Category: Don't Sleep

While the music industry is getting a much needed make-over, for fans there lies a fresh opportunity to change the way we value and understand music as a whole. The Internet in many ways has been “the great equalizer” for both artists and music fans giving us all new opportunities to release, buy and receive music. Artists are able to reach new listeners with ease, while interested fans have plenty of avenues to express their own voices online and discover something new. And while people aren’t buying music at the stores at the same rate as in the past, they certainly are willing to support the people that make art they love. Fans still want something tangible and by evidence of current blog/Twitter culture, are seeming just as interested in the story and method as they are in the final product.

Thus leads way to the introduction of a new type of label called FoF Music (Friends of Friends), the name itself is the driving force behind the label and website, referring to the most effective way (yet traditional way!) people learn about new music…through Friends! The hope is to help re-invent how music is released in a way that is not only more involving for the artist (A&R, artwork, marketing) but more importantly truly enticing for the fans. We want to create releases that are inspiring for artists and fans alike; with the intention to create a product that is not a useless plastic memory holder but rather is worth the hard earned money spent to create and purchase.

The concept in short for our inaugural release is FoF invites an artist to join the FoF family by signing on to do a split EP; they in turn invite another musician or group to complete the split release and commission a designer to create the EP’s artwork on a limited edition T-Shirt which will include a download card(100% seed paper card; Included will be the release, exclusive remixes and special content: ie videos, mixes etc).

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For the first in the Friends of Friends series, FoF has invited a great friend and HERO of ours: Santa Monica based electronic genius Alfred “Daedelus” Darlington whom you may know from his solo work on labels such as Ninja Tune, Mush, Plug Research and more or even more recently with his wife as The Long Lost (also on Ninja Tune). With the power to choose his cohorts, Daedelus has brought in homies Jogger; Amir Yaghmai and Jonathan Larroquette for their first EVER release! Not only did Alfred attend High School with Amir but the duo are the active live band members of Alfred’s The Long Lost project with wife Laura as well as collaborators on his ‘Exquisite Corpse” release. He’s also managed to bless us with the INCREDIBLE husband and wife art duo Kozyndan for the cover art/t-shirt design. They all 5 are truly friends and we’re happy to now call them ours! The fans receive a beatiful, 100% organic-shirt printed on Alternative Apparel’s “Alternative Earth” shirts and the album with bonus material all in one swoop. The album will also be available through all digital retail outlets separately…

Friends of Friends Volume 1 out 3/3/09 on FoF Music!

Tracklisting:

1. Daedelus – C’est Super
2. Daedelus – LA Nocturn
3. Daedelus – Off to the Races
4. Jogger – Nice Tights
5. Jogger – Litre o’ Cola
6. Jogger – Nephicide

Buy it on iTunes HERE

www.FoFMusic.net
www.myspace.com/daedelusdarling
www.myspace.com/joggermusic
www.kozyndan.com

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  1. News in Brief: Devo, Mark Sultan, Daedelus, the Soft Pack, Thieves Like Us - Indie Music News - musicscene network on March 6th, 2009 at 10:49 pm:

    [...] and wife Laura Darlington) on Ninja Tune and an EP, split with L.A. duo Jogger, for the new Friends of Friends series, which promotes socially and environmentally progressive music industry practices. And the Friends [...]

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  5. Daedelus and Jogger EP | Nialler9 Music Blog | MP3s | Videos | Reviews on April 7th, 2009 at 11:30 pm:

    [...] Speaking of LA beatmakers, there’s a new releaser from Daedelus in the form of split 6-track EP with Jogger on the Friends of Friends label. The idea involves Friends of Friends inviting an artist to do a split EP; they in turn invite another musician or group to complete the split release and commission a designer to create the EP’s artwork on a limited edition T-Shirt which will include a download card. More info. [...]

  6. Daedelus and Jogger EP | Wiz Kid Reports on April 8th, 2009 at 3:32 am:

    [...] Speaking of LA beatmakers, there’s a new release from Daedelus in the form of split 6-track EP with Jogger on the Friends of Friends label. The idea involves Friends of Friends inviting an artist to do a split EP; they in turn invite another musician or group to complete the split release and commission a designer to create the EP’s artwork on a limited edition T-Shirt (Aren’t all tees limited edition?) which will include a download card. More info. [...]

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  8. Lazy Brow on April 11th, 2009 at 7:38 pm:

    you should buy them a shirt!

    haha. enjoy the beers and hopefully some good music

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  10. Vince Delmonte on April 15th, 2009 at 8:21 am:

    The style of writing is quite familiar to me. Did you write guest posts for other bloggers?

  11. mark on April 15th, 2009 at 12:09 pm:

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  12. Lazy Brow on April 15th, 2009 at 10:26 pm:

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  13. Lazy Brow on April 15th, 2009 at 10:28 pm:

    Not really. I’ve done mixes for dublab.com and talked about some of this stuff but have yet to contribute to anything but this site. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed your visit :)

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  18. News in Brief: Devo, Mark Sultan, Daedelus, the Soft Pack, Thieves Like Us - Subculture on April 19th, 2009 at 9:56 pm:

    [...] and wife Laura Darlington) on Ninja Tune and an EP, split with L.A. duo Jogger, for the new Friends of Friends series, which promotes socially and environmentally progressive music industry practices. And the Friends [...]

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