Type

An experimental record label co-founded with John Xela.

When: 2003
Stage: Handed on to others
Role: Co-founder

I co-founded an experimental record label with John Xela after we'd been running shows in Birmingham through our Default brand. The label is one of the things I'm most proud of. Unfortunately it never generated sufficient revenues to support both of us full time, and I left it to John to run whilst I worked on other things. The site was by me, and I kept some involvement from time to time.

Exhibited

Sónar 2005: Type Rec. presents, SonarDôme, Barcelona 2005

Around the same time

Type SamplerWriting · 2003
Default at the Bull’s Head, BirminghamWriting · 2003
Mansion ImpossibleProjects ·
Thought ProcessesMusic · 2004

Later in music: Bern.

The Type Records catalogue(119)

Type put out records for seventeen years. Its own site has gone, so the catalogue lives here now: every release, whether or not I had a hand in it.

78 of the 119 have a page of their own here.

TYEP001Deaf Center: Neon City2004
TYEP002Ryan Teague: Six Preludes2005
TYPE001RJ Valeo: September2003
TYPE002Mokira: Album2004
TYPE003Khonnor: Handwriting2004
TYPE004Logreybeam: It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism2004
TYPE005Goldmund: Corduroy Road2005
TYPE006Julien Neto: Le Fumeur De Ciel2005
TYPE007Sanso-Xtro: Sentimentalist2005
TYPE008Midaircondo: Shopping For Images2005
TYPE009Deaf Center: Pale Ravine2005
TYPE010Sickoakes: Seawards2006
TYPE011Helios: Eingya2006
TYPE012The North Sea & Rameses III: Night Of The Ankou2006
TYPE014Mountaineer: When The Air Is Bright They Shine2006
TYPE015Ryan Teague: Coins & Crosses2006
TYPE016Svarte Greiner: Knive2006
TYPE017Xela: For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights2007
TYPE018Xela: The Dead Sea2006
TYPE020Grouper: Way Their Crept2007
TYPE021The North Sea: Exquisite Idols2007
TYPE022Letters Letters: Letters Letters2007
TYPE023Skallander: Skallander2007
TYPE024Zelienople: His/Hers2007
TYPE025Sylvain Chauveau: The Black Book of Capitalism2008
TYPE027Peter Broderick: Float2008
TYPE028Helios: Ayres2007
TYPE029Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek: Cello Recycling | Cello Drowning2007
TYPE030Sylvain Chauveau: S.2007
TYPE033Svarte Greiner: Kappe2009
TYPE034Sylvain Chauveau: Nuage2007
TYPE035Koen Holtkamp: Field Rituals2008
TYPE038Grouper: Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill2008
TYPE039Goldmund: The Malady Of Elegance2008
TYPE040The Alps: III2008
TYPE042Helios: Caesura2008
TYPE043Xela: In Bocca Al Lupo2008
TYPE044Peter Broderick: 4 Track Songs2009
TYPE045City Center: City Center2009
TYPE046William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio2009
TYPE047Mokira: Persona2009
TYPE048Peter Broderick: Home2008
TYPE049Richard Skelton: Marking Time2009
TYPE050On: Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night2009
TYPE052Rameses III: I Could Not Love You More2009
TYPE053Black To Comm: Alphabet 19682009
TYPE054Zelienople: Give It Up2009also TYPE066
TYPE055Richard Skelton: Landings2010
TYPE056The Alps: Le Voyage2010
TYPE057Sylvain Chauveau: Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)2010
TYPE058Indignant Senility: Plays Wagner - Part One2010
TYPE059Indignant Senility: Plays Wagner Volume 22010
TYPE060Indignant Senility: Plays Wagner2010
TYPE061Seasons (pre-din): Your Eyes the Stars and Your Hands the Sea2009
TYPE062On: Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not2010
TYPE063Yellow Swans: Going Places2010
TYPE064Johann Johannsson: And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees2010
TYPE065The North Sea: Bloodlines2010
TYPE066Zelienople: Gone OST2009
TYPE067Yellow Swans: Being There2010
TYPE068Richard Skelton: Landings (bonus disc: Riftmusic)2009
TYPE069Thomas Köner: Nunatak2010
TYPE070Thomas Köner: Teimo2010
TYPE071Thomas Köner: Permafrost2010
TYPE072Thomas Köner: Nunatak Teimo Permafrost2010
TYPE073Altar Eagle: Mechanical Gardens2010
TYPE074Jon Mueller: The Whole2010also TYPE082
TYPE075Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Love Is A Stream2010also TYPE083
TYPE076Heavy Winged: Sunspotted2010
TYPE077Rene Hell: Porcelain Opera2010
TYPE078Rene Hell: Rogue Camera2010
TYPE079Geoff Mullen: Bongo Closet2010
TYPE080Deaf Center: Owl Splinters2011also TYPE090
TYPE081Jazkamer: Chestnut Thornback Tar2011also TYPE089
TYPE083Xela & Jefre Cantu‐Ledesma: Love Is a Dream2010
TYPE085Rene Hell: The Terminal Symphony2011
TYPE088Ezekiel Honig: Folding In On Itself2011
TYPE091Rene Hell: The Hilton2011
TYPE092Jon Mueller: Alphabet of Movements2011
TYPE093*AR: Wolf Notes2011
TYPE094Red Horse: Red Horse2011
TYPE095Clams Casino: Instrumentals2011
TYPE096Indignant Senility: Consecration Of The Whipstain2011
TYPE097Mike Shiflet: Sufferers2011
TYPE098Mike Shiflet: Merciless2012
TYPE100Porter Ricks: Biokinetics2012
TYPE101Pete Swanson: Man With Potential2011also TYPE102
TYPE103William Fowler Collins: The Resurrections Unseen2011
TYPE104Main Attrakionz: 808s & Dark Grapes II2012
TYPE105Vatican Shadow: Kneel Before Religious Icons2012
TYPE107Pye Corner Audio: The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1&22012
TYPE108Zelienople: The World Is A House On Fire2012
TYPE110Pete Swanson: Pro Style2012
TYPE111Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe: Timon Irnok Manta2012
TYPE112Charlatan: Isolatarium2012
TYPE113Hair Police: Mercurial Rites2013
TYPE114Geoff Mullen: Filtered Water2013
TYPE115Nicholas Bullen: Component Fixations2013
TYPE116Work Death: Phone About To Ring2013
TYPE117Fluxion: Vibrant Forms2013
TYPE118Pye Corner Audio: The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3&42014
TYPE119Mike Weis: Don't Know, Just Walk2014
TYPE120Black To Comm: Black To Comm2014
TYPE121Jon Mueller & Duane Pitre: Inverted Torch2014
TYPE122Retribution Body: Aokigahara2015
TYPE123Nochexxx: Plot Defender2015
TYPE124High Aura'd & Mike Shiflet: Awake2015
TYPE125Arash Moori: Heterodyne2015
TYPE126Andrea Taeggi: Mama Matrix Most Mysterious2015
TYPE127Shapednoise: Different Selves2015
TYPE128Basic Rhythm: Raw Trax2016
TYPE129Kane Ikin: Modern Pressure2016
TYPE130Belarisk: Moments In Shapeshifting2016
TYPE131Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting: Undone Harmony Following2017
TYPE132Insha: Dysplazia2016
TYPE133Basic Rhythm: Slewage2016
TYPE134Shapednoise: Deafening Chaos Serenity 2016
TYPE135Basic Rhythm: The Basics2017
TYPE136Arash Moori: Exothermic2020

Assembled from MusicBrainz and from this archive, since neither holds all of it. Catalogue numbers ran unbroken, which makes the blanks meaningful: they are either releases neither source records, or numbers assigned and never used. TYEP001–002 are a separate early EP series.