Digital Vomit Records
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| Digital Vomit Records | |
|---|---|
| Founded | December 2005 |
| Founder | James Miller |
| Genre | Electronica IDM Mashup |
| Official website | http://www.digitalvomit.com |
Digital Vomit Records (DigiVom) is a worldwide musical collective and record label, established by Chicago-based electronic musician James Miller (Solypsis) in late 2005, following the collapse of his short lived label Couch Fort Records. Miller had become repulsed by the alleged elitist attitude taken in electronic music, and felt that all artists, from the internationally renowned to the unknown bedroom producer, are equal[1]. Following on from the success of the Couch Fort Records release Can Buy Me Love, a non-profit, payola-style compilation in which a group of artists linked by V/Vm Test Records online forum paid $40 to appear on a CD, in return receiving a percentage of the time on the disc and of the products themselves, Miller created DigiVom as a way of allowing artists to fund their own releases and, in theory, use the power of the collective to promote the release worldwide online.
As well as the continuation of the Can Buy Me Love series, volume two of which was curated by Miller, and volumes three and four by Essex-based producer Lee Ashcroft (Mixomatosis), the label has seen a number of themed compilation albums, covering areas such as the 1990s, H. P. Lovecraft (in collaboration with Cock Rock Disco) and children's songs, a 7-inch variation of Can Buy Me Love (Dry Heaves), remix collections (such as Miscellaneous Deviations) and solo albums by artists including conceptual artists I Could Do Better Than That, 7u?, Mixomatosis, Big In Albania and Thee Crumb.
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[edit] Dry Heaves
Following the release of Can Buy Me Love 2, Canadian producer Andrew Alain (Max Machismo) suggested a continuation of the payola-style compilations, moving from CD to vinyl, entitled Dry Heaves. As with Can Buy Me Love, artists paid to appear on the 7-inch record, with the promise of receiving a share of the 1000 copies of the release. Following Alain's receipt of the tracks and money, a turnaround was expected of approximately two to three months. This initial deadline came and went, the delay being attibuted (by Alain) to faulty test-pressings. However, following email communication between Alain and label-founder Miller, it became apparent that not only had no test-pressings ever been made, but it was alleged that Alain had spent the money on alcohol and cocaine [2]. Nothing further was ever heard from Alain, and the money was lost. Unwilling to let the release fade into obscurity however, contributors Guy Sterling (7u?) and Mitch Hilton (Junkshop Coyote) worked together to fund and release the record. Although it was a much smaller edition (300 copies) and participants only received a tiny fraction of what they had paid Alain for (due to the need for the financers to recouperate some of the money lost), this event is seen retrospectively as a powerful example of the collective coming together and overcoming a situation that risked compromising the integrity of the label as a collective of equals, as per what Miller had set out to do in founding the label. It was over a year between Alain's initial inception and the eventual release.
[edit] Discography
The order of the catalogue numbers does not necessarily their order of release.
| Cat No. | Title | Artist | Format | Year |
| DVR001 | Purge | Solypsis | DVD-R | 2005 |
| DVR002 | Can Buy Me Love 2 | various | 2xCD | 2006 |
| DVR003 | No Time For Love 2 | various | MP3 | 2006 |
| DVR004 | Can Buy Me Love 3 | various | CD | 2006 |
| DVR005 | Split EP | Solypsis / Chau Project | MP3 | 2006 |
| DVR006 | Dry Heaves | various | 7" | 2007 |
| DVR007 | The Best Of Season One | I Could Do Better Than That | CD-R | 2006 |
| DVR008 | Top 40 | 7u? | MP3 | 2006 |
| DVR009 | Cthulu Dildonomicon | various | MP3 | 2006 |
| DVR010 | Can Buy Me Love IV | various | 2xCD | 2007 |
| DVR010X | Love Is Dead E.P. | various | MP3 | 2007 |
| DVR011 | Very Unprofessional | Mixomatosis / various | CD-R | 2008 |
| DVR011q | Even Unprofessionaler | Mixomatosis | MP3 | 2008 |
| DVR014 | Miscellaneous Deviations | various | MP3 | 2007 |
| DVR015 | Guide To Successful Party Training | various | CD-R / MP3 | 2008 |
| DVR016 | Nonagenarian Nasties | various | MP3 | 2007 |
| DVR017a | One Person's Tragedy | Teterom | MP3 | 2007 |
| DVR018 | Iconoplastic | Big In Albania | MP3 | 2007 |
| DVR022 | When I Was King Of The Wilderness | various | CD | 2008 |
| DVR026 | Awful 2006/2007 | various | MP3 | 2008 |
| DVR028 | Tara's Adventure Remixes | Uncivilized | MP3 | 2008 |
| DVR029 | Subsonika | Subsonika | MP3 | 2008 |
