Telephone Explosion Records

It's not that somebody hasn't died, but an institution is going by the wayside.

And that is the record label Telephone Explosion Records.

They announced they're shutting down operations.

You know, I assume there's a million reasons for this.

The power of music.

Power of music is huge.

Thank you, Telephone Explosion Records.

What's this episode about? Bundock? Let's go.

But we're going to be listening to the closing track, one that's called Orb Palace.

This was released about a year ago, but... was released on Telephone Explosion Records, who announced a week ago today that they are wrapping things up at the end of this year.

So I figured it's worth dipping into a little bit more of their catalog over the coming weeks.

So again, Eucalyptus, The Artist, Topology of Time, and Up Express, etc.

Yeah.

Surprisingly good stuff.

And we started off with eucalyptus on telephone explosion records and album that they put out a year ago titled topology of time and up and express, et cetera, brings us to right now, eight 31, the eight 30 throwback is going to be going back to the year in 1970 and and the album Earth Rot by David Axelrod.

It is a little bit of an apocalyptic... more than a little bit of an apocalyptic album, so maybe an odd choice for a holiday Monday, but for some reason, Axelrod just popped into my head at the end of the day yesterday when I was trying to decide what we should be listening to.

The song that we heard was called Iyer and definitely pulling some influence from that minimalist kind of composition style.

I had a different track planned to come next, but I was just flipping through Instagram and noticed a message from Telephone Explosion Records that they are sadly shutting down after 19 years and 149 releases.

2007 to 2026 is the run of one of the great Canadian labels.

Too many artists for me to even start to really mention, but anyone from... folks like the Badge Epic Ensemble, to various Andre Ethier projects like Fresh Pepper, to Calgary musician Jairus Sheriff, who released both Water and Tools in 2022 and Basis of Unity in 2025 on that label.

Wow, the time has very much gotten away from me.

It is 7.51.

Probably slipped away a bit because of playing a couple of tracks in there from Telephone Explosion Records who announced this morning that they are wrapping things up as a label and spending the rest of this month with some increasing sales starting at 25% off to 75% off through their whole catalog.

Definitely recommend you check that out.