PRLog (Press Release) –
Dec 21, 2007 – The Australian based international music label, Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of the free label sampler album Limit of Maps.
Limit of Maps is the third volume in the label’s sampler album series, available for free download from the HSR Store. The album includes a wonderful cross-section of Hidden Shoal’s activity over the second half of 2007, and also features a number of as yet unreleased tracks from upcoming 2008 releases.
Many of the tracks are taken from critically acclaimed albums and EPs, a number of which have ended up on best of 2007 lists. Hidden Shoal Recordings was also recently chosen as one of the Top Ten Favourite Labels of 2007 by Textura magazine.
“Finding Hidden Shoal Recordings could rightly claim to be in the top 10 best things that ever happened to me, such is the quality and diversity of their roster.”
-Boring Machine Disturbs Sleep
“Aussie-based Hidden Shoal Recordings is pioneering the brave new world of labels dedicated to digital download albums, dispensing with expensive CD production altogether. With a broad and open-ended repertoire of independent artists from around the world it seems the only criteria is quality.”
-Ambient Music Guide
“another fine example of the label’s rise in the ambient electronica field, as they continually showcase new, innovative artists to the masses”
—The Silent Ballet
The contributing artists on Limit of Maps include Sankt Otten, Slow Dancing Society, Iretsu, Bury the Sound, Beautiful Lunar Landscape, Chris Mason, Monocle, Tangled Star, Toby Richardson, Cheekbone, The Retail Sectors, Glassacre, and Jumpel.
The album is available now for free download from the HSR Store.
Hidden Shoal Recordings is an Australian-based international music label whose current catalogue includes releases that slip between the edges of experimental ambient work, shoegazing pop, post-rock and indie rock. The label has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging new independent music that is not bound by genre or style.
Label Site:
http://music.hiddenshoal.com
HSR Store:
http://agora.hiddenshoal.com
Hidden Shoal Recordings is an Australian-based international music label whose current catalogue includes releases that slip between the edges of experimental ambient work, shoegazing pop, post-rock and indie rock. The label has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging new independent music that is not bound by genre or style. Hidden Shoal Recordings was recently chosen as one of the Top Ten Favourite Labels of 2007 by Textura magazine.
