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Explorers Club Subscription Survival Kit
Various Artists

Formats:
LOAF36X [Merch]
LOAF36-1 [Download]
LOAF36-2 [Download]
15/12/2009
BUY


ActionTrack NumberTrack NameDuration
Play 01 Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Amina
Play 02 Peter Broderick - Robbies Song
Play 03 Ryan Teague - High Knoll
Play 04 Minotaur Shock & J Underwood - Monodon Monoceros
Play 05 Snowbird - Where Foxes Hide
Play 06 Smile Down Upon Us - Coffee Train Girl
Play 07 The National Jazz Trio of Scotland With Beans - Frozen Vaults
Play 08 Oen Sujet - Circled.Centred
Play 09 Sons of Noel & Adrian - Black Side Of The River
Play 10 Kama Aina - Permafrost
Play 11 Dustin O Halloran - Opus 43 (featuring Adam Wiltzie)
Play 12 David Kitt - Still Dont Know
Play 13 Montag - Dream Machine
Play 14 Mint Julep - Cherry Radio
Play 15 Janek Schaefer - Exposure
Play 16 Hauschka & Stefan Schneider - Common Exposure
Play 17 Nils Frahm - Corn
Play 18 Johann Johannsson - Sifreri
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The Explorers Club is a collaboration between LOAF recordings and the Arctic Circle organization. Together we plan to bring you The Explorer’s Club, a series of special, one-off singles released once a month from 30, or so artists from the four corners of the globe. Iceland, Germany, Japan, Scotland, America, Ireland, France and Australia are just some of the places that these maverick composers and performers hail from.

We were delighted to have such great and established contributors to this project as The Mercury nominated Sweet Billy Pilgrim, the multi talented instrumentalist Peter Broderick, one of Scotland’s best kept secret Bill Wells (as The National Jazz Trio of Scotland), the ever-solovely Kama Aina and a piano driven track by Johan Johannsson.

Following in the footsteps of the highly praised Fuzzy Feeling Album and subsequent EP of the same name, The Explorers club will bring you a unique selection of modern sounds that challenge how we receive and experience music.

We were privileged to work with such a diverse range of acts, represented by some of the most interesting labels around; Bella Union, Type, Static Caravan, Front & Follow, 4AD, SamadhiSound, Willkommen Records as well as our own blend of ‘Domestic Pop’ thrown in to the mix with contribution by LOAF’s own Montreal-based Oen Sujet and our 'hommie’ Vincent Oliver.

All of the artists involved create music inspired by the unknown. Our intrepid adventurers travel without maps into the hinterland to bring you back audio treasures capable of transporting your mind to another plane. But Explorer’s Club isn’t only offering a selection of our favourite established acts.

We’ve also been forging into the unknown to bring you some hand-picked, uncharted beauties such as Snowbird (new project of Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen), Mint

Julep and Soren Bigum, for whome Explorer’s club will be their debut release. Others are entering into new worlds of collaboration; Andy Nice & Isnaj Dui, Minotaur Shock & J

Underwood, Ted Barnes & Emily Barker, Plus Plus & Hybernation and the stunning collective effort of Hauscka & Stephan Schneider.

So why not join us and explore a universe of music from the comfort of your own listening space. The Explorer’s Club will offer a chance to subscribe to this great wonder of music that will allow you to get it delivered every month to your e-mail inbox. As a special bonus for those who subscribe, we’re offering the Explorer’s Club survival bag, which includes a quality organic cotton tote bag, screen printed calendar & poster and some extra little surprises, all specially designed by the Pika Pika design team.

Upon purchase, the subscriber will receive the luxurious hand screen-printed goodies pictured on this page as well as a couple of other surprises. They will then receive 12 e-mails, one every month for a year, with instructions on how to download the ‘release’ of that month.

Each ‘release’ will include two or three exclusive mp3s and a beautiful digital booklet with a

new hand-drawn explorer-themed penguin illustration.