me Wu aU Re Tae Us Aah zedge ad Other Electricities was the not-so-natural Progression of National Cinema, an instrumental post-rock band | was the drummer for in Portland, OR in 2004. The bassist, Tom Dorsey, and | had trouble retaining guitar players for the project and called it quits. He phoned me up a few months later and asked if | wanted to start a record label with him since the band thing didn’t work out. We pooled our money and first started offering independent music promotion (press/radio/ booking) while we awaited the “right” band to come along and launch the label, One day a package came in the mail from a broody Seattle band called Sneaky Thieves. We released their debut, accident(s), in October 2006 and now we're about to drop our 32nd release December 11th, 2012. A lot happened in between — too much to cover in short interview. Eventually | moved to Miami in 2011 and Tom left the label to focus on other things. | now run the label solo, although my cat, Stax, often tries to get into the office to “help” by knocking shit over. 2. Has working at Sweat Records changed your approach to managing a loli) Managing a record store allows me to see what other labels and artists are doing with their releases. | see oversights/mistakes | used to make back in the day and feel less shitty about them. | also get ideas for new approaches to Manufacture and promotion. It’s enabled me to stop taking things so seriously EWM atemanrelom VAM Ti @NK-llectseom aM el ol cel myself to in the past. The UCT Wols all a MVeMe WVello)oL-foM MaKe UTM cieMeaa eel stores, labels and artists has broadened by perspective and reinvigorated my love of independent music on every level. There are so many people out there still fighting the good fight. When people say the music industry is dead, maybe it’s just dead to them... they stopped listening, stopped caring. Or LN CMe HCHiTaNe mele Mr-Tolp label/major media music-model, which, yeah, died a long fucking time ago Good riddance.