Load Records discography

Last updated

Load Records was an independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island, specializing in noise and experimental music. Load Records was started in 1993 by Ben McOsker in order to release a 7-inch record for the band Boss Fuel. The label quickly became the most prominent source for noise music coming out of the Providence scene, issuing over 100 releases until folding in 2017.

Contents

Bands such as Lightning Bolt, Noxagt, Sightings, Landed, Arab on Radar, Brainbombs, The White Mice, and Pink and Brown released records through Load. Load Records also re-released records originating from other labels, such as the United States release of Close Calls with Brick Walls by Andrew W.K. [1] and the vinyl editions of The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project by Men's Recovery Project [2] and Things Viral by Khanate. [3]

Catalog

This list is organized by catalog number, a roughly chronological number system established by the label and typically printed on or assigned to each official release.

YearNo.ArtistTitleCo-releases
19931Boss FuelJust Like Everybody Else Would / Bender
2Von Ryan ExpressUp on the Block
19943Boss FuelThe Ride / Rumble Mambo
4Golden TouchHits the Sweet Spot
19955PistolwhipDevil Deep / Seeing Red
6Thee Hydrogen TerrorsThe Erotic Adventures of
Thee Hydrogen Terrors
19967 The Scissor Girls So that You can Start to
See what S-T-A-T-I-C-L-A-N-D
8 Six Finger Satellite Clone Theory
9various artistsRepopulation Program
10Thee Hydrogen TerrorsTerror, Diplomacy & Public Relations
11
199712 Lightning Bolt / Forcefield split
13Olneyville Sound SystemBecause We Are All In It Together
13John Von RyanOrgans vs. Furniture
14Gerty FarishBulks Up [4]
15Olneyville Sound SystemBecause We're All In It Together
16
199817AstoveboatNew Bedford
18 Landed Dairy 4 Dinner
199919 Brainbombs Singles Compilation
200020 Men's Recovery Project Bolides over Basra
199922 Brainbombs Urge to Kill
199823 Arab on Radar Swimming with a Hard-On
24PleasurehorseDropdead DeconstructedOver the Counter Records
199925various artistsYou're Soaking in It
26 Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt
27Brainbombs Singles Compilation
28
200029 Lightning Bolt Conan
30 Mystery Brinkman / Pleasurehorsesplit
200131 Lightning Bolt Ride the Skies
200332Hawd Gankstuh Rappuhs
MC's (Wid Ghatz)
Wake Up and Smell the Piss
200133VazDemonstrations in Micronesia
34Brainbombs Cheap
200235 Sightings Sightings
36 Pink and Brown / Death Drugsplit
37Olneyville Sound SystemWhat is True, What is False
200338ForcefieldRoggaboggas
39PleasurehorseBareskinrug
40 Lightning Bolt The Power of Salad
41 Wonderful Rainbow
42 Neon Hunk Smarmymob
43Pink and BrownShame Fantasy II LP
200344 Noxagt Turning it Down Since 2001
45Pink and BrownShame Fantasy II
46 Friends Forever Killball
47Viki / Hair Policesplit
48SightingsAbsolutes
49 Khanate No Joy (Remix)
200450various artistsPick a Winner
200351Vincebus EruptumVincebus Eruptum
52Mr. California and the State PoliceAudio Hallucinations
53 Kites Royal Paint with the Metallic Gardener
from the United States Helped into an
Open Field by Women and Children
54Total ShutdownThe Album Tigerbeat6
55Khanate Things Viral Southern Lord Records
56 The USA Is a Monster Tasheyana Compost
200457NoxagtThe Iron Point
58NecronomitronNecronomitron
200559 Mindflayer It's Always 1999 Ooo Mau Mau Records
200460 Metalux Waiting for Armadillo
61Nautical AlmanacRooting for the Microbes
62Kites / Prurient split
63 Fat Day Unf! Unf!
64BurmeseMen
65SightingsArrived in Gold
200566 The White Mice ASSPhIXXXEATEASHUN
67CoughsFright Makes Right
68ExcepterThrone
200669NoxagtNoxagt
200570UltralydChromosome Gun
71HospitalsI've Visited the Islands of Jocks and Jazz
72PrurientBlack Vase
200673Vampire Can'tKey Cutter
74 Fat Worm of Error Pregnant Babies Pregnant
with Pregnant Babies
200575Men's Recovery Project The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project 5 Rue Christine
76 The USA Is a Monster Wohaw
77
200578 Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain
200679Impractical CockpitTo be Treated
80 Wizardzz Hidden City of Taurmond
200581KitesPeace Trials
200682Metalux / John Wiese Exoteric
83
200684 The USA Is a Monster Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age
85
200686DiskaholicsLive in Japan, v.1
87various artistsFun From None: Live at the No
Fun Fest 2004 - 2005
88CoughsSecret Passage
89Barkley's Barnyard CrittersMystery Tail
90 Yellow Swans Psychic Secession
91 OvO Miastenia
92
200693LandedTimes I Despise
94Gang WizardByzantine Headache
95 Paper Rad Trash Talking
200796Yellow SwansAt All Ends
97 Justice Yeldham Live in School
200698Noise NomadsNoise Nomads
200799 The White Mice BLasssTPhlEgMEICE
100
2006101PrurientPleasure Ground
2008102 Shit and Shine Küss Mich, Meine Liebe
2007103MouthusSaw a Halo
104Silver DaggersNew High & Ord
105Hetero SkeletonEn La Sombre Del Pejaro Velludo
106Air ConditioningDead Rails
107Sword HeavenEntrance
108MonotractTrueno Oscuro
109 Clockcleaner Babylon Rules
2009110HomostupidsThe Load
2007111 Andrew W.K. Close Calls with Brick Walls Universal Records
112 Business Lady Torture Footage
113KitesHallucination Guillotine / Final Worship
114 DJ Scotch Egg Drumized
115LandedHow Little Will it Take
116
117
118
2007119SightingsThrough the Panama Ecstatic Peace! [5]
2009120 OvO Croce Via
2008121 Harry Pussy You'll Never Play This Town Again
122 The USA Is a Monster Space Programs
2009123Rusted ShutDead
124
125 Six Finger Satellite Half Control
126 Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights
2010127Tinsel TeethTrash As The Trophy
128
129Sword HeavenGone
130ClockcleanerAuf-Wiedersehen
131Daily LifeNecessary And Pathetic
132
2011133 Black Pus Primordial Pus
134 Ed Schrader's Music Beat "Sermon" b/w "Rats" 7"
135Sex ChurchGrowing Over
136Skoal KodiakKryptonym Bodliak
137
2012138FNU RonniesSaddle Up
139 Ed Schrader's Music Beat Jazz Mind
140White LoadWayne's World 3 b/w Godfather 4
141White SunsSinews
142 Lightning Bolt Oblivion Hunter
2013143Dead AirDead Air
144HumanbeastVenus Ejaculates into the Banquet
145Whore PaintSwallow My Bones
2014146TimeghostCellular
2015147Tropical TrashUFO Rot
2016148FinishedCum Inside Me Bro

"—" denotes unassigned catalog numbers.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lightning Bolt (band)</span> American noise rock band

Lightning Bolt is an American noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. The band met and formed in 1994 as students of the Rhode Island School of Design. Lightning Bolt were listed 8th in Metacritic's Artists of the Decade 2000–09.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amphetamine Reptile Records</span> American record label

Amphetamine Reptile Records is a record label founded in 1986 by Tom Hazelmyer in Washington state. The label specializes in noise rock and also released Strap It On, the debut album by alternative metal band Helmet which sold more than 40,000 records. According to Hazelmyer, the success of the album was vital to keeping AmRep going throughout the 1990s, as it "helped support the other things that sold less." The label was the subject of the 2015 documentary The Color of Noise.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Son Volt</span> American rock band formed in 1994

Son Volt is an American rock band formed in 1994 by Jay Farrar after the breakup of Uncle Tupelo. The band's current line-up consists of Farrar, Andrew DuPlantis, John Horton (guitar), Mark Patterson (drums), and Mark Spencer. In addition to playing alternative rock, the band is considered a staple of the alternative country rock movement of the 1990s. The band's sound also is rooted in folk rock and Americana. The band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2001, before reforming in 2004.

Load Records was an American experimental music-oriented independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pit. "Rounded out by some of the most uncompromising noise/avant-garde/experimental artists in all of music's sordid underbelly, Load has always prided itself on remaining outside of common taste and maybe even common sense."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fueled by Ramen</span> American record label

Fueled by Ramen LLC is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by 300 Elektra Entertainment. The label, founded in Gainesville, Florida in 1996, is now based in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dominick Fernow</span> American experimental musician

Ian Dominick Fernow is an American experimental musician, poet and multimedia artist. He is best known for extreme music released under the stage name Prurient, as well as numerous other aliases including Vatican Shadow, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement and Christian Cosmos. His first releases date back to 1998, the same year in which he founded the record label Hospital Productions.

<i>20,000 Watt R.S.L.</i> 1997 greatest hits album by Midnight Oil

20,000 Watt R.S.L. is a compilation album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil released in October 1997 on their own label Sprint Music. The word "Collection" appears on the front of the CD along the hinge in the same type face as the title and the name of the band and may have been intended as part of the album's title; however, it does not appear on the spine. The release has also been distributed inside a cardboard sleeve which adds "Midnight Oil: The Hits" to the album art, distinguishing it as a compilation album.

Hydra Head Records was an independent record label specializing in extreme metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993. It had another imprint, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialized in experimental and noise music. Turner announced he was winding the label down in 2012. In 2020, the label removed its catalog from Spotify and returned its album rights back to several artists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hydra Head Records discography</span>

This is a complete discography of Hydra Head Records releases. Hydra Head Records was an independent record company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1993 by Aaron Turner. It had two imprints, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialises in experimental and noise music, and another entitled Tortuga Recordings.

Men's Recovery Project was an American experimental noise rock band formed by Sam McPheeters and Neil Burke in Richmond, Virginia, active from 1993–2002. The group's post-modern absurdist musical attitude resulted in a diverse and consistently obtuse output, with varied material touching on electronic, avant garde, comedy and spoken word motifs that often alluded to their roots in hardcore punk.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">This Providence</span> American alternative rock band

This Providence was a four-piece alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington, United States. The band consisted of Dan Young, David Blaise (bass), Gavin Phillips, and Andy Horst (drums).

Six Finger Satellite are an American synthesizer-based post-hardcore band, based in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Dischord Records is an independent record label specializing in the punk rock music of the Washington, D.C., hardcore scene. The company is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded the label in December 1980. Before founding Dischord, both MacKaye and Nelson were members of the Teen Idles, and the label was initially meant to only foster a single release from the defunct band, the Minor Disturbance EP. By the time Dischord #1 was finished, many new bands had emerged from the same music scene, and like the Teen Idles, also began releasing their records through Dischord.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lightning Bolt discography</span>

Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. The group's discography consists of seven full-length studio albums and a number of 7-inch singles and splits. Lightning Bolt have also appeared on numerous compilations, starred in the 2003 tour-DVD The Power of Salad, and performed in DVD compilations such as Pick a Winner and Sleep When You are Dead by performance artists Mighty Robot.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew W.K.</span> American rock musician (born 1979)

Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier, known professionally as Andrew W.K., is an American rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and motivational speaker. He is known for his combination of rock, metal and pop music and anthemic songs about partying. Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his musical career in the mid-1990s. He performed in a number of local bands before eventually moving to New York, where he produced his first recordings under the Andrew W.K. moniker.

Peter Glantz is an American director of theater and film, notably the films Lightning Bolt - Power Of Salad and the music video DVD Pick A Winner, both released through the record label Load Records.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew W.K. discography</span>

The following is a comprehensive discography of Andrew W.K., an American rock musician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Windham Hill Records</span> New-age music record label

Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. It was founded by guitarist William Ackerman and Anne Robinson in 1976 and was popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

Sightings is a New York City-based trio of musicians, operating on the boundaries of rock, noise, and avant-garde sounds. The lineup consists of Mark Morgan on guitar, Richard Hoffman on bass and Jon Lockie on drums. The band debuted with a 7" on the Freedom From label and has since released records through Load Records, Psych-O-Path, Fusetron, Dais Records and Brah Records. "Through The Panama" was produced by Andrew W.K.

OvO is an Italian noise rock duo formed by Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella in 2000 in Ravenna, Italy. The two initially planned for the band to be totally improvisation-based with an open lineup. After encouragement from members of their local music scene to become a band and tour, they decided to do so in order to play with Cock ESP, an extreme noise band from Minneapolis. Since, the pair have released eight full-length albums on a variety of international record labels including Load Records, Dio Drone, Bar La Muerte, and Supernatural Cat, among others. The origin of the band's name, OvO, stems from using a piece of the Italian word "nuovo", or new, which creates a palindrome. Decibel Magazine summarizes OvO's 2016 album, Creatura, as "making rhythmic, layered, sludgy noise" and a "David Lynch dance party". The duo has toured extensively across the world, playing over 1000 shows in varied locations including Europe, Asia, North America, and Mexico.

References

General
Specific
  1. "About Andrew W.K." Andrew W.K. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  2. "Shawn Greenlee – Discography". Shawn Greenlee. Archived from the original on February 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
  3. "titles at Aquarius Records". Aquarius Records. Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  4. "Gery Farish – Bulks Up". Audio Lunchbox. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  5. Farrar, Justin F. (2007-10-31). "Sightings – Through the Panama". Clevescene.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2007-12-30.