Erased Tapes Records

Erased Tapes Records is a record label based in London.

History

The label was founded in February 2007 by the German Robert Raths. The focus of the publications is on the avant-garde - New music between minimal music and electronic music. Raths defines his label as a " melting pot of innovative and imaginative musician ".

Among the most famous artists of the label include the German Nils Frahm, the American Peter Broderick, Lubomyr Melnyk of Ukrainians and Ólafur Arnalds of Icelanders.

Ólafur Arnalds made ​​aware of this in the time since 2007, with several failed music projects. In April 2009 Arnalds, which consists of seven songs project Found for example, published songs. The aim was to record a song a day within seven days and to disseminate it immediately and via Twitter and Facebook. Fans, it was then possible to publish inspired by the music of artistic works on Flickr. The pieces of Found Songs project were subsequently released as an EP on August 28, 2009.

2012 was released on Erased Tapes Another Happy Day Arnalds first soundtrack for a Hollywood movie. The family drama starring Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth and Demi Moore is the cinema debut of Sam Levinson, son of the famous U.S. director Barry Levinson.