Month: September 2014

The Record Low

Great Bands We Never Signed…

You’ve seen them live. You’ve had dinner with them. You really feel like you are clicking with them. Then they spurn you. If it sounds like the dating process, it’s not. It’s courting an artist to sign to your label. Granted, with the digital age in full swing, the aging Phoenix of the massive major label music industry has crumbled…

Fundamental Records

Just when you think it’s dead…

…it comes back. Here’s a new article from Paste Magazine on a Fundamental/Red Records band from Philly – Executive Slacks. It mentions Richard Jordan, as if he needs more street cred… “When success eludes a band, more often than not its missing component is easily detected. Amidst the thousands of unoriginal acts and the handful of successful ones, a few,…

Richard Jordan Fundamental Records

“THE ORIGINS OF FUNDAMENTALISM”

The FUNDAMENTAL Label originated from a troubled adolescence. Because I quit high school and had a difficult family life I could not take a real job. Instead, me, my cousin Brice and a friend – Jacob Bayer – began selling phonograph records at the numerous flea and farmer’s markets that dotted eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. This transpired during…

Fundamental Records Beginning

In the Beginning, God created Fundamental…

Sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, Quaaludes, LSD and Mescaline, the mafia, Morris Levy, Stiffed, stolen LPs and prog rock imports, Flipper, Butthole Surfers, Roky Erickson, Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Eugene Chadbourne, Shockabilly, Jimmy Carl Black, Executive Slacks, Bunnydrums, Ruin, Stickmen, Bill Laswell, Philly punk, Naked Prey, Chip Kinman, Blackbird, Savage Republic, Red Temple Spirits, Shock Therapy, Dirtball, Used Carlotta, Six…

Fundamental Records Colorblind

Colorblind James Experience

I love history – moreso, I enjoy the lessons of history. They can be summed up in one sentence: The same things seem to happen over and over again, and we just can’t seem to learn. “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David…