- AIP Records
infobox record label
name = AIP Records
founded = 1983
founder =Greg Shaw
distributor =Bomp! Records
genre =Garage Rock ,Psychedelic rock ,Rock and Roll
country = US
url = http://www.bomp.com/aip.html"AIP Records" is a
record label that was started byGreg Shaw 'sBomp! Records , being launched in 1983 to continue thePebbles series . The abbreviation AIP stands for "Archive International Productions". The first 10 volumes in thePebbles series had been released byBFD Records ofKookaburra ,Australia in 1979-1980 and have been kept in print by AIP for many years. Including those in the companionHighs in the Mid-Sixties series – which concentrated on American regional music scenes – there are over 50 LPs covering some 800 obscure, mostly American "Original Punk Rock" songs recorded in the mid-1960s – primarily known today as thegarage rock andpsychedelic rock genres – that were previously known only to a handful of collectors.Two similar series of LPs featuring British music were released in the ensuing years, the
English Freakbeat series andElectric Sugar Cube Flashbacks series . Although LPs are still available from theBomp! Records website, none are being manufactured any longer; and many are now out of print, including all of the Freakbeat and Flashbacks discs."AIP Records" also issued numerous CDs in the
English Freakbeat series andPebbles series , with the first 6 Pebbles volumes being basically the same as the LPs, with bonus tracks. The 6th Pebbles album was actually reissued more appropriately as the 6th CD in theEnglish Freakbeat series , since this LP also featured British music. Most of the later Pebbles CDs were taken from particular regions, like the Highs series. In 2007, "AIP Records" released the Pebbles, Volume 11 CD as the last of the albums in this landmark series.More recently, "AIP Records" has begun the
Essential Pebbles series , thePlanetary Pebbles series and theYou Gotta Have Moxie series . With the exception of an album called "New Fruit" bySky Saxon , former leader ofthe Seeds , all of the AIP releases are in one of these series.ee also
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List of record labels
*List of garage rock and psychedelic rock compilation albums External links
* [http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Categories?category=*+AIP+* AIP Records — Mail Order Site]
* [http://www.bomp.com/AIP.html AIP Records — Historical Information]
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