I have run Mission Label in many formats for the past 4 years and now I have decided the company will beat the "bullshit" record industry and cut right to the collectors... especially with vinyl.

Mission is starting a limited edition collector's label for specifically coloured, etched, hand-done artwork, and amazing product. The goal is to restablish the need for tangible collectables in the music world. The burned CD is trash and the Ipod has made music seem... well expendable.

Therefore we progress...

Over the next few months and into 2008, I will be speaking with artists and friends, that I have worked with over the years. I really want to make the artist happy and make the consumer happy, while restablishing the music societies need for tangible goods. That is the ultimate Mission.

Look for vinyl releases in limted runs of 350 units next year.

Keep you posted (and go blog)

Nick @ Mission

Well... you know those early recordings, demos, samples, and weird beats that didn't quite fit on a new release. This marks the first exclusive online release for Dogme 95. It is 16 tracks of lo-fi goodness and some early versions of "Calm and Tame" and "Bi Popular"... totally check this out.

DOGME 95 "BOX SET"  -----------------------------

http://www.luchalibrerecordings.com/releases/LLR029/LLR029.html

http://www.archive.org/details/LLR029

There are also 4 limited edition album covers for the "Box Set" all designed by Stephen Gose @ www.gosedesign.net

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts!

Nick

So my good friend in New York has just started the hottest new YouTube show in cyberspace. It is called "Don Does"! I spent hours crafting and visualizing the theme song for this TV Show. The Intro and the Outro are new Dogme creations. Also the songs "Survival of the Fittest", "Salty Air and Devils Toes", and "Bloody Basin" are featured in the first episode. You should totally take a second to learn about juicing and who the funniest sex symbol on the East Coast is... Don Does... will rock the juice right out ya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFfB9r6HZi8

Enjoy and spread the word!

thanks

nick

Check out the Video section.

I just posted the "Breed" video I did with Mark Borchardt in rural Wisconsin.

Look for fire... pagan chants... huskies... and darkness...

rockin, nick

Here is an amazing podcast I did in New York with 75 Minutes...

http://75minutes.com/podcast/feature/15minutes

This is the best way to discover the Reagle Beagle!

Thanks and luv

Nick

So I have been on the road since March 2nd, 2006 and it is now April 11th, 2006. Over a month and time to recap a few highlights for everyone...

Minneapolis @ 400 Bar ... good set, planes for spaces rule, and my friends in the Zzz we're in town. (music) Okkervil River's "Black Sheep Boy" for the car.

Chicago @ Subterranean ... CD Release Show, sold like 15 records and some tees, got to see all my friends before hitting the road. Oh what joy...

St. Louis @ Creepy Crawl ... lame show, but Winter hooked up the best place to stay and eat in MO. Too be honest, I'll be back for just the hospitality. best omelettes!

Kansas City @ the Brick ... lots of scrabble before the show and Grand United were awesome... support Grand United.

Lawrence @ Jackpot Saloon ... best turn out to a show this tour, but i think it was for a the "puppet show." It felt a bit like Spinal Tap, but I survived. Honestly, I love the lawrence vibe :)

Dallas @ The Cavern ... so my hometown was so supportive, all my friends came out and rocked it. the Dallas Observer ran I nice piece on the show. And my mom and dad ran the merch booth. classic!

Austin @ SXSW ... most successful year! Played shows with Catfish Haven, Peter and the Wolf, the Castanets, Pterodactyl, Matt & Kim, Make A Rising, and more... overall great people and good food.

Jackson @ WC Dons ... the weirdest bar in the south, but played with Great Lake Swimmers. And my buddy Goose was travelling through... so it was a very memorable night.

Nashville @ the 5 Spot ... the 2nd night of the Mattoid tour. It was a decent turn out and the Nashville Scene did a feature on the show. I played pretty bad this night (sorry to anyone really wanting the killer dogme show). Needless to say, the Basement will be the next venue to play in Nashville. Grimeys peeps were good to me.

Athens @ Flicker Bar ... Athens totally rocks and I had a blast with most of the local crew there. Music appreciation : Jason Nesmith passed on Skip Spence, 00100, Daniel Johnston, and Harry Nillson. Good for the road....

Atlanta @ Lennys Bar ... best dive bar on the tour. Great night with loads of weird and trippy psyche folk stuff. Half Pipe was dope!

Tallahassee @ Beta Bar ... best weekday show! Sarah Moore opened up and it was her first show ever. So good and sweet. My set was solid and I had a blast. Tally girls rule. Something about that Florida sun and college atmosphere.

Orlando @ Will's Pub ... solid show and awesome to see History, who are friends of mine. Bad Bear was really awesome as well. I also met 2 german girls who happened to be from chicago. very surreal experience.

Miami @ PS14 ... wow this was a fucking different and rockin night. I played at 1am and they had DJs spinning the best indie rock and deep hip hop cuts. Party lasted til 6am. oh this was the miami experience. awesome show!

Savannah @ Sentient Bean ... mellow show and had a day off. but thank god for old friends. totally got to chill in this lovely quaint town. also Unsolved Mysteries were cool... thanks jon! 

Asheville @ Club Hairspray ... definitely the most surreal and weird show of the tour. I played at a bi-sexual dance club. so most of my set was beat oriented and dancey. Everyone was cool and I got to play some mad pool. but pretty trippy.

Raleigh @ Bickett Gallery ... amazing space and awesome to play with David Karsten Daniels and Kapow Music (Jon Ribo). I went to High School with those guys and it was a treat to play together.

Norfolk @ Relative Theory Records ... hands down the coolest record store on the east coast! I love the staff and selections... I picked up rare Liars 10" and Konono #1 / Dead C split. It was dope... and best of all we ran into a Pig Roast at 2 in the morning. Hear are pictures...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/c_oberry/album?.dir=/e601&.src=ph&.tok=phZoQsEBhiDIncDw 

Washington, DC @ 611 Florida ... awesome DIY House show, I played with all grind core / noise bands and it was great. By far the most aggressive and dirty Dogme set. Punk rock in the air... then spent the next day at the Dada exhibit... killer

Baltimore, MD @ Current Gallery ... great space, Among Wolves are best band in Baltimore. I totally dug their stuff. and overall, got to smoke out and chill.

so that is the highlights of the first half. one more leg to go.

thanks to everyone's help on tour.

nick

Part alt-blues frontiersman, part home made Sellotaped electro experimenter, Dogme 95 spills out an unsettling musical stream of consciousness from a densely private lo-fi world. Cheap keyboards and drum machines (complete with fill-button breaks) clump away behind mesmeric, semi-catatonic chants, delivered at a slurred tangent to normal musical notes.

In fact Dogme 95 (or Nick as he’s also known) is entirely liberated from the normal customs of singing in tune or playing in time. “Voices colliding without any other reason” as he puts it. Songs begin, slow down and lurch to a halt in a Casio clatter, only to take off again into another slowly unwinding spiral of melancholy mantras.

'Arcadian Hymns' is a series of darkly primitive blues moans lightened with the odd (and sometimes very odd) trace of synth pop. It is nature’s antidote to Moby. Don’t listen to it on your own in the dark.