IF100: 15 Years of IF?

[Andrez]

Hey all,

We thought this may be relatively newsworthy and therefore OK to mention here - next month, on December 14, IF? Records (http://www.discogs.com/label/If%3F) will be releasing catalog number IF100, the label's 100th release since its inception in Melbourne 15 years ago.

To celebrate this minor milestone, we're pulling together a compilation of Melbourne producers including some of the original IF? artists like ZEN PARADOX and TR-STORM (who appeared on the first ever IF? release, the Zeitgeist compilation in 1995), G3, aka GUYVER 3, who had the first solo artist release (Perception Camera) through IF? in 1996, myself as LITTLE NOBODY (first appearance on Zeitgeist 2 in 1996), ISNOD (who designed the Zeitgeist 3 cover in 1997 and featured on Reaction Hero in 2001), plus DJ FODDER (responsible for the 'Cocaine Speaking' phenomenon conjured up in 1999 and since remixed over 30 times by Mijk van Dijk, Dave Tarrida, DJ Hi-Shock, Pocket, Captain Funk, Jason Leach, Pnau, DJ Warp, etc, etc).

While IF? always has tried to be about change and diversity, we still call Melbourne home and that's represented here by our storming, reasonably more recent Melbourne posse that includes excellent artists like BEN MILL, ENCLAVE, ALKAN, CRAIG MCWHINNEY, KODA and KULTRUN - plus other people TBA.

While it's nice to have a leg over history, it's these people who continue to bamboozle the senses in innovative new ways and are just as essential to the IF? approach to muzak.

And all these guys are independently creating their own remarkable inroads, like Craig McWhinney with the HAUL collective, Kultrun with BeatGeek, and Enclave, Koda and Ben Mill with Elektrax - so definitely take the time out to check their own directions.

It's one of the reasons why the comp is subtitled MELBOURNE-MADE.

Think a wide swath of electronic diversity, from straight proper techno to more glitch-oriented stuff.

Anyway, without further waffling, as I mentioned the compilation will be released in December, and more info about the beast, as it unravels, can be checked out here:

http://if-records.weebly.com/if100.html

Peace out.

[Cupe]

wow 15 years

Nice one man

[ChevChelios]

Heeeeeeeeectic, prawps