…Enter the Numero Group. Foun­ded by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shi­pley in 2003, the three self-proclaimed “record obses­si­ves” deci­ded to approach the record busi­ness back­wards. No cor­po­rate hie­rarchy; no com­pany sta­tio­nary. Just a big pile of music that no one had ever heard of.

The mis­sion was sim­ple: to dig deep into the reces­ses of our record collec­tions with the goal of fin­ding the dus­tiest gems beg­ging to be relea­sed from their exile on geek street. No lon­ger would $500 sin­gles sit in a temperature-controlled room dying for a chance to be pla­yed. No more would the artists, wri­ters, and entre­pre­neurs who made these records hap­pen go unk­nown and unappreciated.

Numero relea­ses are sound with subs­tance, living at the nexus of song and story. Scru­pu­lously researched, pains­ta­kingly re-mastered, and with an atten­tion to detail that is unmatched in the reis­sue field, the end result is a top-of-the-line com­pact disc.

There is no “Numero” sound; ins­tead, Numero offers an aesthe­tic. A shelf of Numero discs feels less like a “record collec­tion” and more like a library. The library to date is a mix of thrift shop soul, skinny tie pop, Beli­zean funk, and hill­billy gos­pel. Numero makes records for peo­ple who may have everything from indi­ge­nous Cen­tral Ame­ri­can drum­ming to Cana­dian chan­teu­ses stac­ked next to their CD players.

This track is from their third release “Eccen­tric Soul: The Ban­dit Label” and this par­ti­cu­lar track is towards the end — merely a rehear­sal. I ins­tantly fell in love with this song, I implore you to lis­ten to it.

Title: 18. If I Had A Little House (Rehear­sal)

Artist: The Majes­tic Arrows

Album: Eccen­tric Soul: The Ban­dit Label

I’m just using this little post to upload one of the sexiest songs I have heard in a long time whilst trying out some new code gene­ra­tion tech­ni­ques to make pos­ting mp3 pre­views a little quic­ker and more fluid:

Title: 09. Deat is the Road to Awe

Artist: Clint Man­sell

Album: The Foun­tain

My second mix tape for you all. I’ve gone for the dark haun­ting lullaby-noise theme that cele­bra­tes both the fear and won­der of the night. I let loose some of the sca­rier tracks in this, so be warned.

A Last​.FM free down­load once again. This time from my friend and res­pec­ted music maker Wixel other­wise known as Wim.

This track is called “A Decem­ber Goodbye” and is from the “Heart” release. It is 7 minu­tes of bliss and is one of my favou­ri­tes from the album:

8 tracks of melancho­lic acous­tic gui­tars and warm elec­tro­nics — a very per­so­nal and intros­pec­tive record that might remind you of bands like the not­wist, the remote vie­wer, xela, album leaf, de por­ta­bles; the cd comes in a car­ton box with a beau­ti­ful poster!

For latest release details and tour infor­ma­tion I sug­gest hea­ding over to the offi­cial Wixel site.