The Explorers Club 2010

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The Explorers Club is a collaboration between LOAF recordings and Arctic Circle

Together we plan to bring you The Explorer’s Club, a series of special, one-off singles released once a month from 30, or so artists from the four corners of the globe. Iceland, Germany, Japan, Scotland, America, Ireland, France and Australia are just some of the places that these maverick composers and performers hail from.

We were delighted to have such great and established contributors to this project as The Mercury nominated Sweet Billy Pilgrim, the multi talented instrumentalist Peter Broderick, one of Scotland’s best kept secret Bill Wells (as The National Jazz Trio of Scotland), the ever-so-lovely Kama Aina and a piano driven track by Johann Johannsson.

We were privileged to work with such a diverse range of acts, represented by some of the most interesting labels around; Bella Union, Type, Static Caravan, Front & Follow, 4AD, SamadhiSound, Willkommen Records as well as our own blend of ‘Domestic Pop’ thrown in to the mix with contribution by LOAF’s own Montreal-based Oen Sujet and our handsome ‘hommie’ Vincent Oliver.

All of the artists involved create music inspired by the unknown. Our intrepid adventurers travel without maps into the hinterland to bring you back audio treasures capable of transporting your mind to another plane.

But Explorer’s Club isn’t only offering a selection of our favourite established acts. We’ve also been forging into the unknown to bring you some hand-picked, uncharted beauties such as Snowbird (new project of Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen), Mint Julep and Soren Bigum, for whome Explorer’s club will be their debut release. Others are entering into new worlds of collaboration; Andy Nice & Isnaj Dui, Minotaur Shock & J Underwood, Ted Barnes & Emily Barker, Plus Plus & Hybernation and the stunning collective effort of Hauscka & Stephan Schneider.

So why not join us and explore a universe of music from the comfort of your own listening space.

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Hear are the explorer’s club so far:

Listen to the Explorers Podcast:

Welcome to the Explorers Club I podcast. Contained within is an exclusive interview with Tim Elsenburg (from Sweet Billy Pilgrim), Peter Broderick and Ryan Teague will tell us more about their contributions to this year long musical adventure

Welcome to the Explorers Club II podcast. Contained within is an exclusive interview with david Edwards (from Minotaur Shock), Simon Raymonde (from Bella Union) and Keiron Phelan (from Smile Down Upon Us) will tell us more about their contributions to this year long musical adventure.

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