Effortless Records

David Fair, co-founder of Half Japanese, has died.

David and his brother Jad formed Half Japanese in the mid-1970s and helped create one of the great examples of truly independent music.

Half Japanese went on to influence generations of independent musicians, including Kurt Cobain, who was famously a fan.

RIP David Fair.

Thanks for helping make the world a little safer for weird people with guitars.

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We are slowly putting our back catalog on
Elastic Stage so you can order CD's and Vinyl

CLICK HERE FOR OUR ELASTIC STAGE PAGE

We took our first 2 EPs.... Roger and the Sonic Invasion - and put them together for Elastic Stage - available on CD and 12" Vinyl.


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Our ELASTIC STAGE PAGE - buy CD's and Vinyl HERE


This won't be available on Band Camp or Spotify / Streaming Services - at release this is an ELASTIC STAGE release only.

Silver Veins / Mr Grey
So here's something that was supposed to be released WAY back with Secrets of Memory Man - and just somehow was not.

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Our ELASTIC STAGE PAGE - buy CD's and Vinyl HERE

From Tillson New York, Sean Cortright is a talented singer/song writer/ and performer. I've done a little drumming and a little Mastering for him lately. His EP (which I did not help with) - is very good. Check it out on his bandcamp page - it's called Fifty Thousand Miles .

Sean Cortright's Band Camp Page

It's out and available to stream!

YOUTUBE

SPOTIFY

BAND CAMP

Soon to be on Spotify, Apple
Music, Amazon and all the usual places...

If you've not been following what's been going on - basically I knew Todd Tobias (Circus Devils, Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices) would do a better Master than I can - so I asked him to re-master Wages of War. I'm very pleased with what he has done and hope you will be as well.

Above pic: The unused 2nd draft of the Wages of War album cover.

I am having Wages of War remasted - and properly by none other than Todd Tobias! (Circus Devils, Guided by Voices, and many other Credits). It's what I should have done in the first place.

When I mixed and self-mastered Wages of War - I set out to do it quickly and fairly minimalistically. I didn’t want to smash the album dynamics to the ceiling with a heavy hand. And when I burn and listen to a CD of it on it’s own - I’m fine with it. But it has occurred to me that it does not compete in playlists with other songs and albums, and this is very apparent on services such as Spotify.

I’m thrilled Todd Tobais is coming to the rescue. It’s near impossible to recall the album now that it’s out on 30 different services, so I will simply issue a new Effortless Records ID number to this album and re-release it… possibly with a slightly different album cover and titled WAGES of WAR (The Tobais Master) .