Most radical walk their nights scrolling done streaming apps half-asleep, letting the algorithm shove the aforesaid dead-eyed sludge into their headphones. Dustin Pike spends his digging done Bandcamp similar a antheral possessed, hunting for records that inactive person humor successful them. That hobby became Ghost Mutt Records, a DIY vinyl statement Pike launched successful 2022 from a refusal to fto undiscovered euphony vanish into the integer void.
Pike is an electrical technologist by trade, but Ghost Mutt Records is his idiosyncratic crusade. Since launching the label, he’s pressed and distributed 18 releases, including albums from San Francisco alt-rockers Black Lab, Swedish melodic decease metalists Marionette and prog-metal outfit Disperse. Now, Pike has turned his attraction to Las Vegas’ multifaceted euphony scene, moving with section shoegaze emo set Same Sun Here connected its debut EP, Good Grief.
“You’ve gotta person the euphony dependable bully connected vinyl,” Pike says. “That’s paramount. You’ve got to wage the artists due to the fact that I’m utilizing their music, and conscionable bash justness to everything and not chopped corners, but besides effort not to overspend connected everything.”
The process is intense. Pike gathers maestro files from bands, gets the euphony mastered specifically for vinyl, works with artists connected packaging, and coordinates accumulation done plants similar Pirates Press, Dunk!, Mobineko and Precision Record Pressing. The startup costs unsocial onshore determination betwixt $7,000 and $8,000, each retired of Pike’s ain pocket. His girl besides designed the label’s logo, giving the cognition different furniture of handmade spirit.
For Pike, each grounds starts with a idiosyncratic connection: “I person to similar the music,” helium says. “I consciousness similar these are each for me.”
That devotion keeps him searching for artists extracurricular the algorithm, and helium has precocious hopes of supporting adjacent much section artists down the line.
Same Sun Here’s EP volition beryllium disposable connected vinyl astatine the band’s merchandise amusement astatine section crippled store Shall We Play connected May 23. Pick 1 up and tune into 1 of the scene’s astir dynamic up-and-coming projects, oregon bid different medium from the statement straight astatine ghostmuttrecords.com.
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