Slipped Discs

Recently, I read an article in Wish Magazine about the reissues of out-of-print recordings by independent labels. The piece was titled Slipped Discs and it's one of the more interesting things I've stumbled upon. Here's an excerpt:

"It's a phenomenon that has emerged predominantly in the underground music industry. While major record labels sit idle on vast libraries of out-of-print recordings, oblivious to the music's value and unconvinced of its profitability, record collectors have been setting up their own independent labels and hunting down the rights to lost classics, determined to introduce them to a new generation of listeners, whether it makes them money or not."

One such lost classic is the soundtrack to Ron & Val Taylor's Inner Space, composed and conducted by Sven Libaek. I've been after this album for some time after learning that five of Libaek's compositions featured in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Votary Records reissued this particular print and it's just awesome. The fact that this soundtrack has been so hard to find and near impossible to obtain until now makes the music all the more fulfilling. Below, I've included links to the labels mentioned in the article in the hope that you might browse their catalogues and find a treasure of your own:

http://www.tompkinssq.com/
http://www.time-lagrecords.com/
http://www.runtdistribution.com/water.html
http://www.cvibes.com/
http://www.instinctivetravels.com/basementdigs/
http://www.myspace.com/theomnirecordingcorporation