EP/56: ARCHIVAL FINDS
Mining the Past for Gold with Archival Label The Numero Group
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Back before streaming services, and before the internet ushered in widespread distribution, great music could be overlooked for one reason or another. Enter The Numero Group: an archival record label that researches and preserves musical gems by artists and entrepreneurs who found little commercial success upon their material's initial release.
Numero creates compilations of previously released music, reissues original albums and creates album reconstructions from a variety of musical genres. Here to tell the Numero story is Ken Shipley, a former A&R manager for the equally eclectic Rykodisc label and one of Numero’s founders. Ken joins us from Los Angeles. And joining us from Chicago is Tim Zawada, Numero’s Managing Director.
Find the Numero Group at numerogroup.com, on Spotify @numerogroup and on social media @thenumerogroup.
About KEN
Ken Shipley co-founded reissue label the Numero Group in 2003 with Rob Sevier in Chicago. In the growing noise of the so-called reissue field, the Numero Group remains distinct in its quality: deeply researched, expertly resuscitated and lavishly packaged box sets, playlists and ephemera of historic music from the 1950s-1990s. Since its founding, Numero has committed to unearthing precious lost sounds for new audiences, with an unparalleled ear for potential and spirited eye for detail. With hundreds of titles in Numero’s diverse catalog of LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, 12-inch singles and playlists, each production illuminates the often herculean efforts of individuals who sang, played, recorded and peddled their art to little fanfare in its day. Ken is a former A&R manager for the equally eclectic Rykodisc label.
About TIM
Tim Zawada is the Numero Groups’ Managing Director. Tim has a lengthy rap-sheet as a DJ, Record Producer and Label-Owner plus one of the founders of now-global Boogie Munsters DJ Collective. His passion for helping to shape and inform the evolving state of the contemporary boogie scene is evidenced in his tour itinerary, residencies and release schedule. He's put out over 100 vinyl projects hitting all corners of the electronic disco spectrum across the Star Creature and Tugboat Edits labels. He has deep crates and can mix well, knowledge and skills regularly displayed at festivals and clubs across North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to the nightlife scene, he hosts the daily Star Creature Vibes Radio broadcast on 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio or streaming globally. Other recent ventures include his foray into the "Exercise Tape World" with Volumes 1 & 2 of Contemporary Jacuzzi Aerobics plus his official biker themed mixtape series titled Street Glide Volumes 1-6.
Guest Music Picks
Ken wants you to check out Stereolab and Ui's 1998 cover of Brian Eno's St. Elmo's Fire & Tim says you should check out Valley of the Sun (there’s a selection on our Guest Picks Spotify Playlist).
