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Cargo Distribution's Very Friendly label aims to put out quality releases which cross new & exciting underground sounds over to a wider audience thriving on confounding listener expectations. Launched in the summer of 2003 with Merzbow's Cycle album (having distributed over 70 Merzbow releases it was only fitting) Very Friendly's roster will expand in 2005 to include FortDax, Amp, 2 by Bukowski, Drop The Lime & Enduser plus further volumes of the "From The Earth To The Spheres" series.

(Biography Last updated 13 December 2004)



Latest 20 releases by Very Friendly – Browse all 38 releases by Very Friendly

Threeby Saturation Point

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Release date 24 September 2007
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Having almost given up on the changing power of music, and inspired by an insomniac crawl through the Tate Modern, Saturation Point were formed in 2005. A face-to-face encounter with the work of abstract expressionist, Rothko, led to their creation and development, improvising slabs of sound, forever evolving, and best ... [more]


Musical Therapyby Sickboy

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Release date 18 June 2007
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The long-awaited third album by Belgium's biggest breakcore artist Sickboy Milkplus. With a unique and fresh sound, this 8 track album doesn't fail to surpirise you with its efforts to combine fun and raw breaks. Some say this isn't the usual Sickboy we can expect - others say you can ... [more]


Super Roots 8by Boredoms

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Release date 26 March 2007
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It would seem that they took the title literally, as the otherwise majestic track is sliced into thousands of pieces by 250 BPM beyond-gabber drum programming. Yann Tomita's blissed out “Laughter Robot's Hemp Mix” helps to bring the track back to earth, with spacy, phased percussion and heavy electronic dub ... [more]


Super Roots 6by Boredoms

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Release date 26 March 2007
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Aside from a harsh noise buffer in opener “01,” some slicing cymbal in “13,” and some squeaking ape stomp in “14,” Super Roots 6 is the gentlest of any Boredoms release, a collection of static and minimally fucked-with beats, sometimes juxtaposed with world music loop overlays. Eye, Hira, Yamamoto, Yoshimi ... [more]


Super Roots 7by Boredoms

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Release date 26 March 2007
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7 will sound familiar to Mekons fans; ostensibly, it's an extended cover of the group's second single, “Where Were You?” The gods and goddesses of the rave had their way with the Boredoms by its 1998 release date, particularly in its exuberant, 20-minute “Boriginal” mix (numerologically helping to ... [more]


Super Roots 3by Boredoms

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Release date 8 January 2007
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It's unknown which members participated in the Japan-exclusive releases Super Roots 3 and Super Roots 5, but both discs share a similar aesthetic: ceaseless pummeling.

Both consist of one long track apiece; Super Roots 3's “Hard Trance Away (Karaoke of Cosmos)” rages forth with a full half-hour's worth of unimpeded, ... [more]


Super Rootsby Boredoms

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Release date 8 January 2007
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At the time of its original release the group was championed by Sonic Youth and Nirvana , and signed to a multi-album deal stateside with Reprise, culminating in the release of their groundbreaking album Pop Tatari and a slot on the 1994 Lollapalooza tour.

Super ... [more]


Super Roots 5by Boredoms

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Release date 8 January 2007
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Divesting itself of anything rhythmic, Super Roots 5 consists of one 64-minute freakout called “GO!!!!!,” which is perhaps the centerpiece of the series.

“GO!!!!!” is sublime, sublimated crash for the end times, a mélange of churning guitar, electronics, crashing cymbals and bowed percussion. The track is endlessly inventive and in ... [more]


America Mysticaby Jackie-O Motherfucker

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Release date 2 October 2006
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The line-up includes Montreal musicians Fluffy Erskine and David Bryant, as well as long time JOMF members T. Greenwood and Brooke Crouser. Also appearing in these recordings are Jeff Mooridian, Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Jessie Carrot, Theo Angell, Samara Lubelski, Josh Stevenson, Genevieve Delinger, Alexander Tucker and Andy Cvar, with ... [more]


Aby Afrirampo

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Release date 4 September 2006
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Ultra lunatic girl duo Afrirampo have neatly filled a long-standing idiot-savant gap on the Osaka underground scene. The girl's career to date has been unprecedented: Since their formation as a duo in 2002, the two sisters of Osaka's Afrirampo have enjoyed something of a meteoric rise through the avant-rock underground, ... [more]


Monarcanaby Diane Cluck

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Release date 10 July 2006
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Diane Cluck's music is more sophisticated than many artists of the genre. Played using acoustic guitar, piano, organ and xylophone and influenced by Satie and Kate Bush, her music also uses discordant effects and demonstrates a confident grasp of dynamics. Her song Monte Carlo appeared on the Rough Trade compilation ... [more]


Pretty Girls Make Ravesby Kid606

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Release date 6 June 2006
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Pretty Girls Make Raves is a 45 minute tribute to analog synths, overdriven vocals, baltimore club and throbbing bass heavy techno music. Anyone who has been to one of Kid606's recent high energy live performances has heard some of these songs, created specifically to keep the bassbins thumpin and the ... [more]


Letters From The Earthby No Neck Blues Band

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Release date 8 May 2006
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One of the most enigmatic, mysterious, and defiantly anti-commercial groups to emerge from the New York loft scene during the '90s, the No-Neck Blues Band formed in 1992 around a consistent core of multi-instrumentalists who have stubbornly and admirably insist on individual anonymity.

Incorporating element of folk, drone, psychedelia, free ... [more]


Complexionby Sunburned Hand of the Man

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Release date 27 February 2006
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Very Friendly (in collaboration/co-operation with Spirit Of Orr) are honored to offer you 2005's Complexion for the first time on CD (and their first UK release) originally released on a limited run of 1000 vinyl copies.

Another psychic gangbang from New England's finest fever dream peddlers. This recording contains futuristic meditations ... [more]


Diversby FortDax

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Release date 13 February 2006
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Nigh-on three years after Folly and at least 18 moons since the John Peel session where the ideas were first aired, Darren Durham returns under the FortDax moniker with his somewhat-overdue new album.

No, he's not entirely sure where the time went either... what can be said for certain though is ... [more]


I Am The God Of Hellfireby Bong-Ra

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Release date 28 November 2005
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Like the Devil playing the harp to unknowing angels, it's become clear that every new Bong-Ra release manages to trick and tackle his listeners by taking groundbreaking new steps. There's no time for repetition or conformity, but a continous exploration into the sounds and styles which fascinate him most, flirting ... [more]


From the Earth to the Spheres Vol 4by Christina Carter & Andrew MacGregor/My Cat Is An Alien

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Release date 24 October 2005
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The latest volume of the From the Earth to the Spheres series, set up by Italy's My Cat Is An Alien, sees the brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio split the release with the American queen of psych-free-folk music Christina Carter (Charalambides, Scorces), and her debut as the new duo-project with ... [more]


Yzordderrexby 2 by Bukowski

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Release date 26 September 2005
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As band member George once claimed, “if we saw each other all the time, we might have written 30 albums a year”. So with the long distance relationship going, the new album Yzordderrex, the follow-up to 2003's Drink From My Bastard Grail, took a modest 2-years to make.

Despite the band's ... [more]


Crumbling And Respondingby Eight Frozen Modules

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Release date 20 June 2005
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Combining dark and light in a way that intimidates yet moves the listener to a greater understanding of Eight Frozen Modules' sonic destructiveness.

Hightlighting the album with the intense scorching dancehallish mania of Drills For Devil Dub, the clever electro madness of Your Novelistic Career and the deep spacious ambient ... [more]


Masri Mokkassar: Definitive Worksby Mutamassik

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Release date 4 June 2005
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This release collects much of Egyptian born Giulia Loli’s best work, including previously unreleased material, all of it combusting with her signature border-defying, avant-dance energy and featuring guest appearances from 4th Pyramid (Def Jux), Morgan Craft & Cyre Unique.


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DIANE CLUCK UK tour

25 July 2006

New York-based singer-songwriter, Diane Cluck is due to embark on a UK tour at the end of July. Her sophisticated style outshines many of her co-conspiritors of the Antifolk scene, as can be witnessed on her latest album, Monarcana , released on Very Friendly this month.

Diane Cluck – UK tour July/August '06
July
Sunday 30th : The Luminaire, London
Monday 31st : TBC

August
Tuesday 1st : The Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
Wednesday 2nd : The Adelphi, Hull
Thursday 3rd : The ... [read full article]


PostEverything get VERY FRIENDLY!

17 December 2004

PostEverything have another new addition to their list of labels and these guys are, quite literally, Very Friendly. Cargo Distributions (UK) formed Very Friendly in the summer of 2003 with the aim to release music which brings “new & exciting underground sounds over to a wider audience thriving on confounding listener expectations?... A good aim, in our opinion. We think you’ll agree.

Their already impressive roster includes the likes of Thurston Moore , Merzbow ... [read full article]


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