Transparent (Records/Blog)

21/11/2011

You can now purchase all of our in-print releases directly from the Transparent shop - grab the ones you're missing!

http://transparent.dominorecordco.com/transparent/singles/

20/11/2011

Back from our "Sleep Paralysis" with Gabriel Bruce's brilliant new video:

http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/976/sleeping-alone

To anyone who noticed our cold turkey blog detox, we’re very sorry for laying dormant in this small corner of the internet over the past few weeks, but what more apt way to crawl out from bleary-eyed hibernation than with this Ferry Gouw directed video for the carefully building, cavernous and catha...

21/09/2011

Brand new Kindness on the blog! "Cyan" is the first new track in nearly two years: http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/974/new-girl

A few days ago we received an unexpected 12” package with a sparsely worded press release that simply read ‘ Kindness – Cyan’. Since getting obsessive over the terminally grooved-out Swinging Party on these pages back in Oct 2009, this was the first we’d thought about Adam Bainbridge in quite a whil...

07/09/2011

Head over to the Guardian Music blog now to hear exclusive premiere of our next single by Leopard of Honour (TP030):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/sep/07/leopard-honour-palais-royal-blue

Getting kicked out of his lo-fi garage band was the best thing that ever happened to this sleek synth artist

26/08/2011

Blood Diamonds plays his first North American show tonight at Glasslands. To celebrate, here's "Move The Stars" the b-side of our "Grins" 7" - - out this week (more info here: http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/972/star-dusted)

Independent Record Label based in London since 2009. Releasing records by: Washed Out, Perfume Genius, Smith Westerns, Yuck, How To Dress Well, Holy Other, Purity Ring, Keep Shelly In Athens, Airbird,

19/08/2011

Deptford Goth remixes "Grins" by Blood Diamonds. "Grins" 7" out on Monday 22nd of August (order here: http://bit.ly/r3QmGk)

Independent Record Label based in London since 2009. Releasing records by: Washed Out, Perfume Genius, Smith Westerns, Yuck, How To Dress Well, Holy Other, Purity Ring, Keep Shelly In Athens, Airbird,

12/08/2011

Introducing a strange, sweet little pop song from Newcastle's Fax Machine: http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/968/starring-role

Just had our attention diverted in the direction of this strange, sweet little pop song courtesy of Newcastle’s Fax Machine. The zoned-out, languid vocals wander through a weird, bipolar, shape-shifting patchwork of a melody on introductory track “1981”.

12/08/2011

Internet shy No Ceremony hit the cathedral chords on their first track "Hurtlove": http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/967/wrong-key

It’s becoming a bit of a regular occurrence for tracks to drop on the welcome mat of our mailbox with the minimum of fanfare and it was off the back of a wordless correspondence that we came across the cathedral chords and chopped, down-in-the-dumps vocals of “Hurtlove” by attention-shy Manchester (...

11/08/2011

Stay+ remix Computer Magic's "End Of Time" into a joyous dancefloor anthem: http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/965/dance-away

Transparent favourites Stay+ introduce us to their softer side before eventually injecting their dancefloor-pleasing brand of adventurous electronics to transform Computer Magic’s “End Of Time” into an triumphant, no-frills, arms-in-the-air anthem.

26/07/2011

Check out this video of the brilliant King Krule (formerly Zoo Kid) playing "Has This Hit" at Midi Festival on Saturday: http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/966/coming-thru

Last Saturday evening we found ourselves in the south of France at the picturesque Midi Festival watching precocious teenage tearabout Archy Marshell breathe life into his newly assumed monicker King Krule (formerly Zoo Kid). A life-affirming weekend was topped off by this slow-building, sullen-hear

20/07/2011

Check out Leopard of Honour's remix for our next single, "Grins" by Blood Diamonds:
http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/964/soft-attacks

Manchester’s Leopard of Honour known to his mother and close friends as David Roocroft gently kneads our forthcoming single by Blood Diamonds, “Grins”, into a faded photocopy that manages to be even more of a grooved out, carefree lounge jam than the original.

30/06/2011

We're hosting one of four new Fanzine songs being premiered today, the fragile & shimmering "Rocket Fuel": http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/961/been-better

What better way to gently stroll our way into the sunshine daybreak than with some early-morning “Rocket Fuel” provided by London’s compulsively listenable Fanzine. This is a classic two minute pop song stripped back to its wonderfully simple, fragile core with soothing, unshakably intimate vocals l