Erased Tapes

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At the end of all music, happiness will be erased.

Erased Tapes Records is home to Ólafur Arnalds, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm, Lubomyr Melnyk, Douglas Dare, Rival Consoles and world’s end girlfriend amongst others. It was February 5th, 2007 when the London-based record company was first registered.

Erased Tapes has become a meeting point and melting pot for innovative and imaginative musicians who knew there had to be somewhere they could call home. As artist Nils Frahm says, the label is ‘a wonderful place for creating music and I couldn’t be happier in this family. And it is a family. There’s a great sense of freedom on this label.’ Positioned deliberately outside the fleeting trends that typify contemporary indie music, Erased Tapes has fostered collaboration between its artists, often fusing disparate musical forms and styles, rendering so-called genres like modern classical, post rock and electronica redundant.

Robert Raths, founder of Erased Tapes, explains: ‘I’ve always been most interested in a dialogue between two opposite poles, between traditional and contemporary, between digital and analogue. That cliff between electronic and acoustic, the pop and the classical world. In bringing these worlds together or at least start a conversation in how to utilise the best of both sides and make it into something exciting, something current and something that is of our time. In the beginning people might have found it hard to connect these dots between each of our artists, but throughout the years I think it has become more and more evident where the label is heading.
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  • dkzdesu

    for the love of god please get rid of the official image on the world's end girlfriend page

    last month

  • bleadof

    <3

    January 2013

  • Yannzola

    <3

    November 2012

  • janelesque

    I'm going to keep tabs on this label forever.

    April 2012

  • ivy-time

    great review of Olafur here... http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13808-found-songs/

    January 2012

  • WorldsEndKratos

    LEAVE WEG ALONE MORONS :<<<<

    January 2012

  • Kari420

    Ólafur Arnalds is beautiful music :)

    January 2012

  • Lord_Angsaar

    for the love of god please get rid of the official image on the world's end girlfriend page

    August 2011

  • endote

    May not be the best label, but definitely the most expensive.

    August 2011

  • onelittleatlas

    Are you going to be re-releasing early World's End Girlfriend albums? Hopefully with little extras or something ? :) :) :) :) >_<

    June 2011

  • Takkak

    trollface.xml

    April 2011

  • BigSimo

    for the love of god please get rid of the official image on the world's end girlfriend page [99999999999999999999999999]

    April 2011

  • RedFIag

    Favourite label ever. I can't thank you enough for releasing consistently beautiful music.

    March 2011

  • madotsuki-

    trollface.svg

    March 2011

  • f3ri

    for the love of god please get rid of the official image on the world's end girlfriend page [2]

    March 2011

  • cogsturning

    for the love of god please get rid of the official image on the world's end girlfriend page

    March 2011

  • saypaint

    TOP Label [1]

    March 2011

  • Evelina_De_Lain

    Hi, Erased Tapes! I'm a composer and pianist, my debut album is out now. "The Girl with The Flaxen Hair. Continued..." http://www.last.fm/music/Evelina+De+Lain Please, check out my page and give me a shout, it looks like we could do something together. My style might be quite close to what you're interested in. Best regards, Evelina De Lain.

    March 2010

  • olestronic

    When is the next BEF release?

    January 2010

  • goodmornincaptn

    1st in a series of New Year's Eve Label interviews: label-founder Robert presents the Erased Tapes friends and family, projects and expectations for 2010, including tracks by Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, and Codes In The Clouds: http://www.goodmornincaptn.com/2009/12/29/label-interview-erased-tapes-records/

    December 2009
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