This special compilation marks the release of 100 original albums by First Earth Records with our 101st album being an introduction to all our fantastic artists & their collaborative projects of the past decade.

The foundation stone of First Earth Records was established in the meeting of the tribes in Dublin’s underground & alternative music scene circa 2011-2012. A new generation of musicians & artists found each others parallel creativity was ripe for collaboration and before the Winter Solstice of 2012 a new experiment was born in the expansive joy of the improvised music collective sun OM sun. A band who pursued the pure freedom of musical expression.

Out of these collaborations and free experimentation grew a series of musical projects that birthed the creation of First Earth Records. A place where independent artists could create, collaborate and support one another's work in an open network of creative potential.

We took our many projects online and began sharing a cornucopia of musical creations with the world and were delighted to find a new generation of contemporary independent artists around the globe who mirrored our own creative impulse.

Our over riding philosophy has been to make the music we want to hear, the music that is never played on contemporary algorithmic radio. The music presented here is a mix of all styles, techniques and genres. It is everything from folk, rock, electronic, jazz and avant garde. It is music made with love on a journey into the unknown.

We have done our best to distil a near decades worth of work into a compilation that gives a flavour of all our artists and their unique projects. This album offers one track from each artist and unique collaborative project as an introduction to our discography. We hope you enjoy the trip and investigate and support the new artists you discover.

Special thanks to all the great musicians & artists involved over the years & thanks to all those who have been listening.

Keith Re-Generate

6/1/2020


TRACK GUIDE;


1) So Strangely by Zzzazen

Genre: Electronic/Mash Up

Zzzazen is a remix & mash up artist who unexpectedly joined us as we began our Bandcamp project and offered us a wild exploration of sound as a synchronous source of many hidden meanings and messages in the fusion of genre and radio dials spun together with the question... can you find the meaning in the synchronicity?

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/synchronous-orbit

2) Fluorescent Face/Jump In Your Mind by sun OM sun

Genre: Rock/Funk/Psychedelic

sun OM sun was a jam band based project that evolved out of Dublin’s underground scene and formed the basis of the collaborations that created First Earth Records. Featuring Gavin Cooke on guitar, Kevin Macken on bass, Implicix on drums and Keith Re-Generate on synth. This band represented the pure philosophy of making the music you wanted to hear on the radio that didn’t exist. The music created was a combination of pure live spontaneous creation and post live studio experimentation. The unique mix here offers a sample of both sides of the band; live & studio.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sos-the-best-of-the-acid-test

3) My Love by The Strange Band

Genre: Rock/Singer Songwriter

The Strange Band was the most recent platform for Gavin Cooke’s songwriting, long time collaborator with First Earth Records on many projects including playing guitar for Halcyon Daze, sun OM sun & Akashic Fish. The composition here being one of Gavin’s most powerful songs captured in a soaring performance.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/27

4) Xunzi & Mozi Remix by Akashic Fish

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Akashic Fish was an experimental project that acted as a house band for First Earth Records in it’s first phase. Offering a space for collaboration and experimentation in sound creation from electronica to rock and everything inbetween. The track included here is one of two tracks on this compilation, the first offering an example of a pure electronic project.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/journey-so-far-2

5) ROSW3LL by ABSALOM

Genre: Electronic/Trip Hop

From America’s Midwest came the musical project of Jacob Root, ABSALOM. A slickly produced electronic sound of smooth processed synths and trip hop beats, offering another contemporary vision of sound creation we were glad to support and share with the world.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hail-sagan

6) Orwellian Void by Gavin Cooke

Genre: Folk/Singer Songwriter

Here we have an example of Gavin’s solitary acoustic work that takes a look at the strange inhuman systems of the world presented before us. Gavin recorded two acoustic albums for First Earth along with his other projects.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-water-meets-the-sand

7) Save Ferris by Implicix

Genre: Electronic

Implicix was the electronic project of one of the founders of First Earth Records who was involved in many key projects including sun OM sun & Akashic Fish. Implicix brought new glistening sonic & rhythmic structures into the world of electronica for First Earth Records with this piece.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/improvised-electronic-systems

8) Ace of Swords by Bastet Cat (RE) PURRRRCUSSION & ECHO))) UNIT

Genre: Electronic

The mysterious figure of the Neurologick Cat brought new electronic sounds conjured in ceremonies of PURRRIFIED DRO)))NES N PURRS FRO)))M ANCIENT FELINE SPIRIT. An intense musical trip with ancient overtones.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/queen-of-swords

9) Into the Red Ocean by Ambient Re-Generation

Genre: Ambient

Ambient Re-Generation was a new project from Keith Re-Generate, co-founder & collaborator with First Earth Records, that explored new fusions in electronic & analog sound experiments to form ambient worlds behind closed eye lids. This shorter piece gives an example of the work explored in 4 full length albums recorded for First Earth Records.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1-red-earth

10) Bow Wow Live by Halcyon Daze

Genre: Rock/Funk/Psychedelic

Halcyon Daze was Dublin’s greatest live band at their peaking moment of 2011-2013. Featuring the guitar and vocals of Gavin Cooke, Jason McNamara on drums & Daragh Kinch on bass. This live recording taken from their last full length show to date captures some supreme ensemble playing stretching out on one of their best known tunes. Their two studio albums are also available from First Earth Records.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live

11) Your Fuckin’ Tent by M.A.A.T

Genre: Electronic/Dub/House

M.A.A.T was a special one off project from the combined talents of Myrh-Agitation-Astarte-Trinity. First Earth Records was always delighted to play host to unique collaborations and here we have one of the best examples of disparate talents coming together to create something powerfully new in a Dub/House/Psychedelic soundscape imploring you to join in.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lovers-ep

12) Soundtrack For Marching Rev. by Agitation Φ

Genre: Electronic

One of the most unique contemporary artists; Agitation Φ brought many new sound ideas & projects to First Earth from the deep shamanic roots of Europa. This piece gives a great example of her live ritual free-improv acid rave noise cut-up dark psychedelia magick electronica.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/miami-monkey-assault-on-reality

13) Rainbow Prophet Cat Vs False Flag by Rainbow Prophet Cat

Genre: Electronic/Experimental/Fusion

Rainbow Prophet Cat began as another method of combining the live improvising talent of First Earth Records musicians with post jamming processing, fusion and experimentation. Several special electronic/ambient/rock pieces were recorded by this collective and they often noticed there was a false flag being advertised somewhere in the background wavelength of shared sonic space as they jammed.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-prophet-cat-vs-false-flag

14) Electro TV by Moog Monkey

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Moog Monkey was an underground collective that had experimented in methods of recording an improvised group of musicians simultaneously exploring the sound of the Moog synthesizer. Their own huge archive of experimental pieces was shared with First Earth Records for posterity and for a wider audience to discover. This shorter piece of music offers an example of the tones and methods explored.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moog-monkey-2

15) Der Ister by The European Kanon

Genre: Rock/Krautrock/Electronic

The European Kanon was one of the experimental, underground groups in Dublin circa 2011-2013 that lead to the creation of First Earth Records as a platform for new, contemporary sound explorations. This group sought to explore what sounds could be found in the margins between rock & electronics, analog & digital, music & noise. Three albums from their archives were shared with First Earth Records with this track offering an example of their rock/electronic experimentation.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phase-two

16) Diary Death by Sunshine Girl

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Sunshine Girl was the exploratory electronic sound & collage project of Kyle Trujillo who recorded several unique pieces for First Earth Records including this track. Kyle brought new textures twisted into new sound shapes that we were glad to be a part of in an ever expanding sonic search for other contemporary explorers.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eater-maker

17) Rite of Passage/New World Anarchy by DJ Osiris

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

DJ Osiris was a Dublin based DJ who recorded a series of live improvised electronic experiments that were captured with somewhat lo-fi sound. This track is an example of the ever changing pulse of spontaneous creation that was his raison d'être. DJ Osiris also took part in creating live music for the alternative Dublin Fringe Fringe Fringe event with DJ Mark Bark. First Earth also brought DJ Osiris into the studio for the creation of some more polished & processed sounds on ‘Owl of Athena’ but we feel this track best captures the spirit of his work.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rite-of-passage-new-world-anarchy

18) Guitar Odyssey by Cooke & Re-Generate

Genre: Rock/Experimental

Cooke & Re-Generate was an experimental project from Gavin Cooke & Keith Re-Generate who created a trilogy of albums based on guitar & synthesizer experiments. This collaboration was all about seeing how natural and manipulated sounds could be fused together to form new puzzle pieces before being melted together again. This track offers a mini sound odyssey for the listener to undertake.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/funk-on-the-daydream

19) Forgetting Beliefs by Thee Uncondeming Monk

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Thee Uncondemning Monk joined us with the offering of soundwork as a psychick hygienic practice, as Art War, as avant-garde experimental fellow-traveler. His work mixes acousticals such as guitar, hand drums, field recordings, cut-ups, fusing & slumping of electronics, all of which work within culture against the whole of culture. A Reverend of Coyotel Church, a heretical agent of the 23rd current, agent of Thee Network.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/thee-sigilum

20) The Effects of Milk by The Encounter Group

Genre: Rock/Psychedelic/Experimental

The Encounter Group was a one off gathering of musicians who parleyed the immediate feeling of the moment into the instant creation of a new work to share. This guitar heavy groove moves with some spiritual advice about dairy products for your entertainment and education as we encounter the group who’ve already left the building.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/amaterasu

21) Midnight Light/Mouse Levitation by Sexy Baby Mice

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Beneath Dublin’s heady underground musical scene was an even more underground happening that would have remained unnoticed except for the sounds miraculously captured & shared here. From tiny scratches eventually came singing synthetic sounds that sought to breech the vastness between the human and mouse world. Sexy Baby Mice recorded a plethora of psychedelic psounds that psought freedom of the pneuma from the panopticon of plastic people. This track one of the highlights from their Best Of shared with First Earth Records

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sexy-baby-mice-the-human-experiment

22) Genuflectory by Psychohistory

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Psychohistory arrived suddenly with an ever expanding fractal of geometric precision moving beats between sound signals arriving as they departed. A movement through predictions of human predilections through musical time and space.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chimeras-of-deceit

23) Mark Bark Battles the Dark Shark by DJ Mark Bark

Genre: Electronic/Mash Up/Silky Knees

A long time proponent of remaining mid air between the underground scene’s of Dublin & Berlin DJ Mark Bark shared a particularly idiosyncratic vision of contemporary music with First Earth Records. As he says himself “Mark Bark is the intersection of post millennial existential dread and day glow 1980’s optimism in a world of humorous confusion, CHECK IT!”

DJ Mark Bark insisted he was a friend of DJ Osiris and somehow ended up remaking the Dublin Fringe Fringe Fringe Festival in his own iconoclastic image with an uncompromising deployment of his silky knees in which all else continued to slide off and refuse to remain stuck. His first album for First Earth Records captured a side of mash up along with a very long side of the 1980’s gradually being melted by looping free jazz. His second album was an intimate look at the fate of Salome.

He was last seen stalking Michael O’Leary around the Bilderberg car park in the hope of selling his DNA as the basis of a new clone army to man all future Ryanair flights (including crew & passengers).

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/field-of-knees

24) Winter Ov Love by Lien Vøid

Genre: Folk/World/Shamanic

Lien Vøid brought an offering of something totally different with this all acoustic late night shamanic trance exploration of sound as journey & landscape. A droning voyage to inner worlds carried on the vibrations of the Vietnamese Jew’s Harp Dàn Môi.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nihil

25) Golden Spells by Agitation Φ & Lien Vøid

Here the acoustic trance sounds of Lien Vøid are joined by the electric rumbling cosmic bass tones of Agitation Φ for another unique collaborative project First Earth Records were delighted to share.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/turning-into-a-coven

26) Coyote Dance by Coyote & Coyote

A summer solstice recording originally brought together this collaborative project between Keith Re-Generate & Lara Leaf with the recording of shamanic drums and drones. This track featuring the Coyote vocals of Lara Leaf captures a processed electronic sound visage of one of many subtle worlds.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tricksters-tales

27) Psychick Baby, It’s Alright We’re All Indians Now Remix by Agitation Φ & Gavin Cooke & Keith Re-Generate

Genre: Rock/Psychedelic

This special extract & remix from the album of the same name brought together Agitation Φ on bass, Gavin Cooke on guitar & Keith Re-Generate on synth/percussion/production in a vision quest in sound. A collaboration in reaching new places unexpectedly with sonic serendipity.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychick-baby-its-alright-were-all-indians-now

28) Ließ die Hunde des Friedens rutschen by Heidegger's DOG

Genre: Electronic/Mash Up

First Earth Records was established on a basis of pure experimental freedom that offered a platform for finding new sounds in places that no one had ever imagined looking in before and so it was with the arrival of Heidegger’s DOG. An electronic, fusion, mash up project that brought us the philosophical thoughts of Heidegger combined with beats to ask the ultimate question... is the dog in or out of the box?

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dog

29) No No 9 by Cinnabar TEK

Genre: Electronic

Cinnabar TEK was the collaborative electronic project of Implicix & Keith Re-Generate. They created a series of sound experiments that explored the means of musical production. This track captures a live experiment in progress.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/robot-television-eyes

30) The Fatted Golden Calf (Idiot Toy Faces) by {AN} Eel

Genre: Experimental/Avant Garde

From the underground of Toronto came the unmistakable, unignorable, unimaginable experimental musings and dada-ist poetic mutterings of {AN} Eel. As he describes himself... {AN} EeL is all over the map. An Experimental Vocalist & Full Bodies Inhabitant of this Colorful universe. He Make Ood Thiings, You Knoww.w>

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tent-tentacles-man-made-mandibles

31) Grannie's Plastic Bag is Full of Old God's Remix by {AN} Eel & Keith Re-Generate

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

The invisible woven web brought together the hither too unimaginable collaboration of {AN} Eel & Keith Re-Generate. A fusion of electronic exploration with the vocal imagination of {AN} Eel’s muse in creation of technicolor sound worlds.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/burnt-kailash-toast-perfume

32) Planeta by Säure Adler

Genre: Rock/Krautrock/Psychedelic

From Poznań Poland came the organic music making machine of Säure Adler. A contemporary band rooted deeply in the krautrock, underground, industrial and tape culture. They shared a fantastic compilation of their work with First Earth Records and released a new album featuring the vocals of Eliza Dycha which are heard on this track.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/starring-eli

33) The Portal of Sleep by Alonso Durst

Genre: Acoustic/Electronic/Experimental

Alonso Durst appeared from a dream with a soundtrack of rhythmic acoustic guitar pulsing through an electronic soundscape that somehow suggested the illogical logic of the sideways labyrinthine unconscious dream world could be threaded with some sound meaning like a talking Koala offering illumination.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/abstractions-by-night

34) Alien Re-Frequency Remix by Agitation Φ & Tellurian & Gavin Cooke & Keith Re-Generate

Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Psychedelic

A pure experimental work from First Earth Records that emerged from a live ambient recording between Gavin Cooke on guitar & Keith Re-Generate on synth. This experiment was remade and reimagined by Agitation Φ & Tellurian into something completely new with electronics and beats that found the meaning in the journey.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/earth-sound-research

35) A Gleam Of Hope by Owl Yeah

Genre: Experimental/Collage/Vocal

Owl Yeah shared his own compilation of sonic experiments with the album ‘Chor’. We find an abstract choir of human voices creating a resonating collage of sound delivers new connections across the world in this extraordinary work made of many voices.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chor

36) Gods Ov Creation Remix by Lien Vøid & Keith Re-Generate & Gavin Cooke

Genre: Rock/Psychedelic

A fusion of the psychedelic rock guitar of Gavin Cooke, the exploratory synth tones of Keith Re-Generate and the shamanic acoustic sounds of Lien Vøid. These disparate sounds are melded together to great effect in this experimental work

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-body

37) Bizcuitz Party by catɀbiɀcuitɀ

Genre: Electronic

catɀbiɀcuitɀ brought us the realm of Diɀco Biɀcuitɀ Dreamɀ with a phantasamagorical fusion of electronica, analog electronics and violin/sitar extrapolations upon finding a party suitable for felines. The mothership connection found here was one infused in catnip and hypnotic beats.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/di-co-bi-cuit-dream

38) Trails by Rainbow Prophet Cat

Genre: Rock/World

Another highlight from the Rainbow Prophet Cat sessions. This track featuring a spontaneous jam with members of Akashic Fish and the free floating musicians who happened upon a trail thru rock & world sounds.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soft-distortions

39) Clementine in the Fog by Zachary Zena Giberson

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

From Old Town, Maine, USA came an abstract collage of confusion at the temporary suspension of the Federal Government with a plea of ‘Pawn Begone’. Zachary Zena Giberson delivers an extraordinary collage of sound created from electric and acoustic guitar, didgeridoo, casio, television, voice, violin, glockenspiel, kalimba to create something new.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pawn-begone

40) Digital Melody by Solipsis

Genre: Electronic

Solipsis brought us a superbly produced collection of dark ambient, noise, glitch & chill out music in two new albums for First Earth Records. This was music one could easily imagine as a soundtrack for a strange and surreal movie or music to inspire ones own inner movies.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/digital-memory

41) Poly Rabbit Thunder Gods by {AN} Eel & Keith Re-Generate & Jason McNamara

Genre: Experimental/Psychedelic/Percussion

A new sound experiment from {AN} Eel & Keith Re-Generate was joined by the incredible polyrhymthic percussion of Jason McNamara. Jason had been the drummer for Halcyon Daze and one of Dublin’s most visible and talented musicians from the independent music scene. This experimental work explored abstract vocals and deep synth tones that came alive in wild tribal rhythms.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/poly-rabbit-thunder-gods

42) As Innocent As Doves Remix by Akashic Fish

Genre: Rock/Psychedelic

The second recording from Akashic Fish on this compilation offers an example of their more rock/psychedelic guitar driven sound. Here Gavin Cooke joins an experimental collective of musicians on guitar and contributes to the ever shifting sound of Akashic Fish’s astral travels.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/journey-so-far-2

43) Feeling Remix by Q: Source

Genre: Electronic

Q: Source was another unique project First Earth Records was happy to support. A series of EP’s were specially created to represent the 4 corners of Quaternity; Sensation, Thinking, Feeling and Intuition. This remix gives a taste of ‘Feeling’ in this live improvised electronic performance.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-source

44) String Theory by The Doctor Toms

Genre: Electro-Acoustic

Implicix brought together the talents of Jorgen & Mino to form this improvised electro-acoustic trio who specially recorded this track for First Earth Records. They also performed live at the inaugural First Earth Records live happening. Mino also went on to collaborate with Akashic Fish.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-earth-ep

45) I'm a Polar Bear and I Don't Care Remix by Bi Polar Sexual Bear

Genre: Electronic

This intense piece of house electronica was irresistible to First Earth Records and we were happy to share 2 EP’s from the coolest bear in electronic music.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psilon-bear

46) Bungles of Delusion by Agitation Φ & Thee Uncondemning Monk

Genre: Rock/Krautrock/Experimental Electronic

This collaboration marked a celebration of life and the possibilities of networking as disparate sounds and techniques were brought together to create anew. This was a sonic exploration of expression even when taking on familiar guises and modes, genres and styles. These soundworkings were created as an extended meditation and collaboration of two sound magicians pushing what it means to have musicality and to create ritualized chaos magic orientated soundworkings as a form of psychick hygiene.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-middle-o-v-6

47) I Live Underwater by Radek Przepelski

Genre: Shamanic/Experimental

Radek Przepelski created a unique shamanic blues path of his own making with home made instruments and a deep voice from under the earth in this shamanic work. Radek also went onto collaborate on experimental acoustic sounds with Akashic Fish.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-earth-ep

48) I Can't Remember Why I Smoke Amnesia in the Summertime by Electronic Re-Generation

Genre: Electronic

This electronic/dance experiment from Keith Re-Generate formed part of a compilation of experimental electronic recordings for First Earth Records. Here a live recording of pure experimental electronic joy is captured for posterity.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/re-generation-9

49) Last Exit to Nowhere by Whalt Thisney

Genre: Ambient/Experimental

Whalt Thisney is the experimental musical project of Fernando Cerqueira from Portugal. This piece captures his impressionist piano atmosphere, spoken word, drone, experimental, library, hypnotic and escapism music in its essence. A soundtrack for a life passing through the labyrinth.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-stillness

50) Endorphine by InhuM'AwZ

Genre: Electronic

From France came the sound of InhuM'AwZ, the last artist we were delighted to see join First Earth Records network of independent artists in 2019. An original blend of breakbeats and shifting techno patterns combined with analog synths and acoustic recordings brought us the unique, idiosyncratic creations of InhuM'AwZ for a new decade.

firstearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/empreinte-sonore