Of National Importance Records

26/03/2018

www.ofnationalimportancerecords.co.uk

Independent recordings since 2009. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, North of England. “Of National Importance Records are starting to show that they’re worthy of their name. While focusing on acts in their

07/05/2017

"I’d place Lyndon Scarfe’s solo material closer to the IDM genre than the post-punk where he forged his reputation. His own music is downtempo and there’s a fair bit of drone, but it’s also fresh and interesting." Thank you [sic] Magazine for the little review of Lyndon Scarfe's latest Album. http://www.barnsleycivic.co.uk/events/the-royal-photographic-society-international-print-exhibition-159

Music from that very album is also featured in this exhibition at the The Civic, Barnsley which we'd highly recommend if you're Yorkshire based:

10/02/2017

The second release from Lyndon Scarfe through ONI Records, and Lyndon's second "fake" soundtrack album, is released today as a digital download. Music for a Lost Film: Volume 2 can be streamed or or downloaded or a "pay what you like" basis via Bandcamp:

https://ofnationalimportancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-lost-film-volume-2

2014's album 'Music for a Lost Film' released via blocsonic - though not officially a soundtrack - was written, created and sequenced with an imaginary film in mind. Repeating motifs and phrases, atmospheric pieces sitting alongside dynamic work, a variety of moods and an ever changing landscape, it was compared in style to the soundtrack work of Cliff Martinez, John Carpenter & Clint Mansell Composer – available to download from www.blocsonic.com/releases/bsog0033

This second volume follows the approach of the first volume but is more focused, with an intentionally narrower range of textures, tones and styles, less obviously an electronic piece and emphasising strings and noise to create a more atmospheric work.

Note to any budding film makers: Permission is automatically granted for this work to be used (with attribution) for non-commercial purposes. For any commercial use please contact: [email protected]

20 track album

27/01/2017

Of National Importance Records is sort of back for a bit! And there's obviously new music...

Layers is an EP of ambient/experimental/electronic music from Lyndon Scarfe guitarist in The Black Lamps and keyboard player for The Danse Society in a former life.

You can download the 3 tracks for free below:

Bandcamp: https://ofnationalimportancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/layers-ep-2
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ofnationalimportance/sets/layers-ep

Layers precedes an full album of music from Scarfe (which will be released on the 10th of February through ONIR) and is the follow up to 2014's 'fake' soundtrack album 'Music for a Lost Film'. You can download that and more, for free, from blocSonic here: http://blocsonic.com/releases/bsog0033

Lyndon is also part of the duo [retreat] who's debut material you can find here: https://retreat-music.bandcamp.com/releases

Note: Layers is released under the creative commons licence which basically means you can do whatever you like with it (and if you do, we'd probably like to see/hear it) unless you intend to get rich off it - in which case you should get in touch so we can share the spoils.

3 track album

25/07/2016

3 track album

17/06/2016

07/01/2016

[sic] Magazine editor Brett Spaceman names his top albums of 2015 and The Black Lamps get a fairly decent mention. Very chuffed.

the end of music

28/10/2015

This time last year, the Live In Barnsley festival team were taking public votes for the inaugural Barnsley Music Awards; and while there is yet to be any announcement for a 2015 awards, it is also...

12/10/2015

"It's like coming home to the kitchen and a delicious new fragrance with familiar ingredients. " Quite wonderful words from John William at De Subjectivisten on The Black Lamps.

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04/07/2015

Thank you MUSICLETTER.IT

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19/06/2015

19/06/2015

LIVE in Barnsley is tomorrow and Aztec Doll will be playing their first gig in an age at The Underground at 7:00. Of the local lot, and in a completely fictitious world where time wouldn't prevent us from doing so, we'd also recommend catching BRUJA (Vouduo at 3:00), Mark Jackson's Criminal Waste of Talent (Walkabout at 6:00), Del Scott Miller (Funky Buddha at 7:00) and Richard Kitson (Igloo at 7:30). From those other places, Bi:Lingual (Digital at 6:30) have got to be one of the most entertaining bands around at the moment. Enjoy. www.liveinbarnsley.co.uk

27/05/2015

Tom Robinson played McCarthy Vigil's 'Queen Second, Money First' on his BBC6 introducing show this week and also included it on the Fresh On The Net podcast which you can download here: http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2015/05/mixtape20150515/

What about that.

from the album Misophonic Minds: Another Corner of Barnsley Counter Culture

11/05/2015

Misophonic Minds: Another Corner of Barnsley Counter Culture

19 track album

02/05/2015

"Misophonic Minds really is a glimpse into the kind of musical quality you can expect to find in this town; brimming with talent, ideas and experimentation that is little talked about." Alternative Barnsley

For the last five years, and since their first compilation release, Of National Importance Records (ONI) has continuously released some of the best music to come out of Barnsley in the last thirty ...

28/04/2015

'Sinister' by Tender Firs. Available to download here: https://ofnationalimportancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/misophonic-minds-another-corner-of-barnsley-counter-culture

Words and Music by Tender Firs. Recorded by Rory Garforth and Chris Haigh. Available for download at ofnationalimportancerecords.bandcamp.com as part of the ...