Release date 7 November 2005
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Celebrating the anniversary of any record label is always a strange thing, as the quality of releases are down to the bands the label chooses to work with. Still, ten years feels like a bit of a milestone. That’s especially true for The Leaf Label, which was launched by ex-4AD ... [more]

Release date 2 September 2002
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A full-length label compilation for the price of a CD single? You may well find yourself Lost For Words at the prospect of such bounty.

Lost For Words is the successor to the enormously popular Osmosis budget-priced sampler from 1999 which ushered in The Leaf Label's second wave of artists, ... [more]

Release date 1 October 2001
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"There's some fierce voodoo going on here..."
Wax magazine 2001

Down the steep narrow stairs to Eardrum's studio demi-monde in Clerkenwell, where you are greeted by the unmistakeable notes of an old Sun Ra tape and a sense of being deep underground.

Enter a blonde wood-panelled recording space (that late at ... [more]

Release date 6 August 2001
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Their first new work in nearly two years, Eardrum return with this strictly limited three track 12" (1500 copies worldwide). On these recordings, taken from sessions that will comprise the group's second album, 'Side Effects' (to be released in October 2001), all instruments are played by the core of the ... [more]

Release date 12 March 2001
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With popular demand and critical appreciation for Yokota's work at an all time high, The Leaf Label imported a limited number of copies of Leaf Compilation, Yokota's first ever mix CD. Released own Yokota's own Skintone label, from which Leaf licensed his other album releases, it was the first time ... [more]

Release date 3 July 2000
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Though often a dark and uncompromising trip, Eardrum's 'Last Light' album was an unmitigated critical success on its release. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Eardrum's heavily percussive fusion of african rhythms, electronics and dub also found favour with like-minded musicians around the world. Everyone from Richie Hawtin and Andrew Weatherall to Jay Swinscoe ... [more]

Release date 25 October 1999
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'Last Light' is the debut album by Eardrum, the group put together by percussionists Lou Ciccotelli and Richard Olatunde Baker. The album is comprised of ten percussion-dominated rhythmic leviathans - the missing link between 23 Skidoo, Afrobeat and Jon Hassell's Fourth World project. Recorded live, the album applies the pioneering ... [more]

Release date 3 August 1999
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'Osmosis' is a 14-track album of new and exclusive tracks from The Leaf Label, available for less than the price of a single. The CD showcases releases by many of the label's recent signings, together with a few exclusive cuts by old favourites such as The Sons Of Silence and ... [more]