- WTII Records
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WTII Records Founded 2001 Founder Bart Pfanenstiel Genre Electronic music, industrial music, ambient music, post-punk Country of origin United States Location Chicago, Illinois Official Website http://www.wtiirecords.com WTII Records is an independent record label set up in 2001 by former WaxTrax! General Manager, Bart Pfanenstiel,[1][2][3] to relive the spirit of WaxTrax!'s early music.[4][5] WTII’s releases span a wide variety of musical styles, but the primary focus is electronic based pop, synthpop, electro, industrial, indie rock, trip-hop and ambient noise. The label has released material from artists such as Stromkern, Beborn Beton, The Gothsicles, Dessau, Attrition, In Strict Confidence, Monstrum Sepsis and HMB.
WTII’s artist’s have completed several US tours as both a headliner and support, performed at numerous festivals and played hundreds of one offs across the globe. Their music can be heard in the background of MTV's Made, MTV's My Super Sweet 16, MTV's Trailer Fabulous, A&E's Biography, SpikeTV’s Death Guild, Vh1’s Driven and in numerous shows on the Discovery Channel and TBS.
Monstrum Sepsis has had tracks in these motion picture DVDs: Spider-Man 2, The Matrix: Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions while also in the video games: Project Gotham Racing, Punisher, Red Faction and The Matrix Online along with other WTII artists.
The label has one sublabel Bit Riot Records[5] and is distributed by Nail Distribution in the US and Canada.
In 2006, to celebrate the label's 5th Anniversary WTII released a promotional compilation entitled "The 5 Year Hits" also known as the "WTII 5th Anniversary Compilation." The album was compiled by Chicago DJ Jeff Moyer and Pfanenstiel, mixed by Moyer, engineered by Chicago DJ Pulz-8, mastered by Chris Randall of Sister Machine Gun and featured tracks by nearly the entire 2006 roster. [6][7][8]
Contents
Roster
WTII Records Roster
- Acumen Nation
- am.psych
- Arcanta
- Attrition
- Backlash
- Beborn Beton
- Controlled Fusion
- cut.rate.box
- Dessau
- HMB
- In Strict Confidence
- Klutæ
- La Floa Maldita
- Melotron
- Method Cell
- Monstrum Sepsis
- PTI
- Regenerator
- Rein[Forced]
- State of the Union
- Stiff Valentine
- Stromkern
- The Gothsicles
- The Qualia
- The Thought Criminals
- Trigger 10d
Bit Riot Records Roster
- Be My Enemy
- Breath And Decay
- Common Man Down
- Cyanotic
- Deconbrio
- DEFCON
- Everything Goes Cold
- mindFluxFuneral
- Torrent Vaccine
Releases
Release Artist Album WTII 001 In Strict Confidence Love Kills WTII 003 Controlled Fusion Patient Zero WTII 004 Arcanta The Sacred and the Profane WTII 007 Various Artists The Resurrection WTII 008 HMB Great Industrial Love Affairs WTII 009 State of the Union Black City Lights WTII 010 Stromkern Armageddon WTII 015 Trigger 10d The Difference is a Boy WTII 016 cut.rate.box Dataseed WTII 017 cut.rate.box New Religion (Digital Only) WTII 018p Beborn Beton Selections from Tales from Another World (7 song promo only) WTII 018 Beborn Beton Tales from Another World 2xCD WTII 019 Regenerator War WTII 020 Stromkern Re-align EP WTII 021p La Floa Maldita Selections from Salut Jacques (5 song promo only) WTII 021 La Floa Maldita Salut Jacques 2xCD/DVD WTII 022 Monstrum Sepsis Deep Sea Creatures WTII 023 State of the Union Inpendum WTII 024 Trigger 10d But the Girl's the Same EP WTII 025 Monstrum Sepsis Doors & Windows EP WTII 026 State of the Union Timerunner (single) WTII 027 Various Artists Resurrection 2 WTII 028 Stromkern Flicker Like a Candle WTII 029 Stromkern Dammerung im Traum WTII 030 PTI Blackout WTII 031 Stromkern Light it Up WTII 032 Stromkern Stand Up (single) WTII 033 PTI Exhaust WTII 034 Monstrum Sepsis Movement WTII 035 Backlash Lodestar EP WTII 036 Backlash Heliotrope 2xCD WTII 040 Acumen Nation Nation What the F**k WTII 041 Stromkern Reminders (single) WTII 042 Various Artists WTII 5th Anniversary Compilation "The 5 Year Hits" (promo only) WTII 045 The Qualia Nevada's Greatest WTII 046p The Qualia / Backlash Split Better Single/Escalator People Single (promo only) WTII 047 Stromkern Hindsight (Featuring Victoria Lloyd) (single) WTII 048 State of the Union Evol Love Industry WTII 049 Monstrum Sepsis Artifacts WTII 051 The Thought Criminals Die Young: Stay Pretty WTII 052 The Gothsicles Sega Lugosi’s Dead WTII 053 Dessau The Truth Hurts WTII 054 Various Artists Resurrection 3 (Digital Only) WTII 055 The Thought Criminals All the Freaks (Digital Only Single) WTII 056 The Qualia Secret Weapon WTII 057 Trigger 10d Trigger 10d WTII 058 am.psych Side Effects EP WTII 059 Attrition Wrapped in the Guise of My Friend WTII 060 Trigger 10d A-List (Digital Only Single) WTII 061 The Qualia Station Wagons (Digital Only Single) WTII 062 Attrition The Wrapped EP (Digital Only EP) WTII 064 Method Cell Curse of a Modern Age WTII 065 Stiff Valentine America Bleeding WTII 066 The Qualia Memorial Gore WTII 067 Klutæ Electro Punks Unite See also
References
- ^ Wax Trax! Records (Chicago Sun-Times "Centerstage Chicago" ed.), Chicago, Illinois: Sun-Times Media Group, http://www.centerstagechicago.com/music/whoswho/WaxTrax!Records.html, retrieved March 24, 2011
- ^ "Wax Trax! Luminary William Tucker Takes Own Life", CMJ New Music Report (Great Neck, New York) Vol. 58 No. 11 (621): pp. 3, 16, 7 June 1999, http://books.google.com/books?id=oGdXOgiDmIcC&lpg=PA16&ots=nGowWvM675&dq=Bart%20Pfanenstiel&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=Bart%20Pfanenstiel&f=false, retrieved March 24, 2011
- ^ Saeger, Eric W. (3 March 2011), Method Cell, Curse of a Modern Age, March 3–9, 2001; Vol.11, No.9 (The Hippo [digital edition http://www.hippopress.com/past-issues/61 ] ed.), Manchester, New Hampshire: Hippo Press, p. 43, archived from the original on March 8, 2011, http://www.hippopress.com/read-article/method-cell--curse-of-a-modern-age-, retrieved March 24, 2011
- ^ Rahim, Amirah; Amburn, Kali (2006), WTII Records Old School Values, New School Sound, Rock*Star Journalism, http://rockstarjournalism.tripod.com/id56.html, retrieved March 24, 2011
- ^ a b WTII Records Official Site, http://www.wtiirecords.com, retrieved March 24, 2011
- ^ WTII 5th Anniversary Compilation "The 5 Year Hits", on Discogs, http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-5-Year-Hits/release/1122679, retrieved May 9, 2011
- ^ WTII 5th Anniversary Compilation, WTII, http://www.wtiirecords.com/releases/release.php?pid=wtii042p, retrieved May 9, 2011
- ^ WTII 5th Anniversary Compilation, on 8-Trax Recordings, http://www.8-trax.com/page5/page5.html, retrieved May 9, 2011
External links
- Official site
- Official Myspace page
- Official Facebook page
- Official Reverbnation page
- Official Twitter page
Categories:- American record labels
- Record labels established in 2001
- Industrial record labels
- United States record label stubs
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