BlissAquamarine.net
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BLISS/AQUAMARINE - ALTERNATIVE, UNDERGROUND AND INDIE MUSIC
Description
For those that don't yet know me, I'm Kim Harten and I'm a music fan now based in Bromsgrove, UK, after living in Redditch for some years, and then in Birmingham for a couple of years. On this page I will explain what Bliss and Aquamarine are, and attempt to answer some of the questions I'm often asked.
Bliss is a non-profit tape label started in 1993 to help promote music I personally like. There's an overall emphasis on indiepop and noisepop, but it also ventures into other melodic genres such as indie-rock, punk-pop, spacerock, psychedelic, progressive, folk, folk-rock and various other styles which are less easy to categorise.
The label was started in the days when many tape labels were extremely lo-fi and included a lot of messy, unprofessional music/noise, and because of this tape labels had a bad name. I wanted to change their reputation and instead release tuneful, well-recorded music. A lot of people have commented on how they found the sound quality, and quality of the music itself, superior to other tape labels. There have since been a few more lo-fi (but melodic!) artists featured on the tapes, on occasions when I feel that the song itself is so good that it shines through the lo-tech recording, but there isn't that much extremely lo-fi stuff on Bliss. This isn't to say I'm against homemade songs and out to alienate those that record at home - I have released a lot of material by home recording artists. It is possible to make a more than acceptable quality recording at home. The sort of thing I have a problem with is lo-fi in its extremest form; music recorded on a 2nd hand cassette, where the tapehiss drowns out the song, and the sort of messy, random experimentation that even a five year old could make.
Contact
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- Redditch Worcestershire
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland B98 7JP
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- +015.27500400
