Rubellan Remasters

24/11/2025

STOCK ALERT:
There are only 13 sealed copies left of the Visage 'Beat Boy - Cassette Remix Edition' CD. Grab your copy before it's gone:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/RubellanRemasters

11/11/2025

For those familiar with my pre Rubellan Remasters label history, or those who watched my label's multi-part history on YouTube, you'll know I worked with several indie labels prior to starting my own label. After a several year hiatus, in 2015 I was contacted by a then-new label called Futurismo to work on their reissues of the Suburban Lawns material, and it was this that sparked my interest (again) in starting my own label. I remastered a number of Futurismo titles up to and including the first several releases on my own label.

After their own hiatus, Futurismo reactivated around the time I was deep in the throes of my own label's peak. They did tap on me from time to time to assist with the occasional mastering and remastering gigs, depending on how much the source material needed addressing and what they had budgeted. In some cases, I would just balance and level files for production or prep files for LP cutting. Other times, it was the heavy and intensely focused full on remastering job that I would do for my own releases. I rarely mentioned any of these at the time, and sometimes even went uncredited if only the basic mastering tasks were requested.

Since my label folded, I have continued to work with Futurismo on the occasional project, including a cool Paisley Underground compilation LP and CD with bands like The Three O'Clock, The Bangles, Game Theory, Rain Parade, etc, and am currently working on another project for them. If you haven't heard of Futurismo or hadn't checked out their catalog, you might want to give them a look. Below are some of the titles I'd worked on (to some degree) since 2023, some of the artists I hadn't heard of myself at the time:

Alan Vega - 'Just A Million Dreams'
Surf Punks - 'My Beach' and 'Locals Only'
Strange Party - 'Sleepwalking Through Life'
Various Artists - 'Twisted Dream Machine: The Paisley Underground'

And a new reissue of the Devo 'Recombo DNA' package I did some work on back in 2017.

https://www.futurismoinc.com/category/releases

22/07/2025

One year ago today. Not what you would call a celebratory anniversary, but there you go. If anything, it's gone by fairly quickly.

22/06/2025

Episode 10, THE FINAL CHAPTER, is now online. This wraps up the series of which will likely be the most unfiltered look into a side of the music business ever, and why it's been falling apart for years. For those who have had the endurance to sit through the entire length of the series, you might want to pull out a favorite comedy to help shake off the trauma of the experience, but I appreciate your interest. Time for me to put this behind me and take a nap for the next month or two.

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

17/06/2025

Episode 9 is now available. Betrayal and revelations, the decline has begun. The series will wrap up with the final episode next week.

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

11/06/2025

Episode 8 is now available, nearing the end of the journey. More Triumphs, Challenges & Changes:

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

05/06/2025

Episode 7 is now available. Things are starting to get heavy:

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

29/05/2025

Episode 6 is now available. The Struggle Is Real:

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

22/05/2025

Episode 5, now posted, delves into denials and some of the reasons behind them, my first ventures into vinyl manufacturing, along with trolls and cyber-bullies:

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

15/05/2025

I must admit, I'm really pleasantly surprised with how much people have been enjoying the history of the label miniseries. For your viewing pleasure (or horror), Episode 4 just dropped:

This miniseries chronicles the story of the Rubellan Remasters reissue label, active from 2018-2024. The label was a one-man show labor of love by Ohio music...

08/05/2025

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be horrified!

After pondering the idea of a video podcast/miniseries chronicling the journey of Rubellan Remasters from enthusiastic start to tragic end, I've gone back and forth with the idea. Going through old emails and preparing a timeline of events, I was reminded of how unbelievably turbulent the last several years had been. It definitely was a horror story driven by passion and determination, until there was nothing left. As many of you know, it's not been a pleasant country drive in the least, and certainly did not have a Hollywood ending. And while I've shared some of the challenges faced, you have no idea how many things were constantly thrown during the process, and the seemingly insane desire to continue throughout... until now.

Not having done something of this nature before, it was a series of stops and starts, scrapping the whole thing and then restarting. Reshooting and re-editing. Like with the label, the miniseries is presented with a DIY homegrown everyman feel, as I have no intention of becoming a full time youtuber. This is about sharing the story in a more pictorial, human way than a simple blog, since it's really the only way get the impact across.

While I had my doubts if this would even be interesting to anyone, I had a number of former buyers preview the first episode to see if they enjoyed it and would like to see me continue. Every viewer said they were engaged and certainly wanted more. So, I've gradually chipped away at a couple more episodes, each approximately an hour, with the anticipation it will take about 10 episodes to complete the story. No idea how often new episodes will be completed and posted, but I expect maybe weekly.

It is chronological so make sure to start with Episode 1.

https://www.youtube.com/

01/04/2025

I was digging through some old documents, emails and files today, as I'm giving serious consideration to putting together a miniseries that I'd post on YouTube going through the history of the label, from the fumbling start, through each release and the challenges and dramas that faced each one, up to the final curtain call.

During my excavation, I found this very short teaser trailer that I put together (in my naive excitement) back in 2017 well before I even had a release out. Can you guess what song intro was altered for the brief soundtrack? I'm not sure if I ever posted it at the time but it brought me back to the start, which was apparently the first days of May 2017.