To celebrate their long awaited UK headline tour (dates here: www.myspace.com/foals) we are proud to release a stunning new mix of Olympic Airways. The single is available to pre- order on the following formats, with some truly exceptional new b-sides and remixes from our friends at Kompakt Reocords.

CD = Olympic Airways (single version) // Glaciers 7” = Olympic Airways (single version) // Unthink This Download remix EP = Olympic Airways (single version) // Olympic Airways (Ewan Peresons Return to the Villa of Joy Remix) // Olympic Airways (Supermayer Remix) // Olympic Airways (Diskjokke Remix) 7 Digital are also featuring an exclusive from the Last FM remix competition winner.

You can pre-order both the physical formats here for only £3: Digital will be available week of release.

And the original version is on the album ANTIDOTES available everywhere now. Keep those eyes peeled for a very special split 12” available at the shows only between Foals and Holy Fuck!

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Transgressive Publishing’s star pupils return with the follow up to their much loved debut album, containing the singles Bitchstealer and Boy Did She Teach You Nothing.

This Youtube Vid

Is just one reason to buy this delight...

Rough Trade have the pre-order... The band are also out on tour in Oct to support the release so check www.myspace.com/donkeystock for the dates...

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Album. Released. This. Year. For. Real. Check out snippets of this classic debut at www.myspace.com/burningpilot The first single from the album Accelerate is augmented by some exceptional remixes from James Rutledge and Adventures Close to Home and will be available to download shortly. Keep ‘em peeled.

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We are proud to announce the debut album from Liam Finn. This stunning artist has the songs to change your life and the rabid experimentalism to keep you guessing until the very end... perhaps the most addictive album of the year. You can download the album from today on itunes. And the CD, in fully biodegradable packaging will be released next week in all good record shops. We are also putting the finishing touches to a deluxe edition which is completely stunning, and available to pre-order HERE. This Double vinyl set contains 6 bonus tracks not on the CD version, along with a 19 track CD version of the album, a Pinhole Camera and a high quality photo booklet. We also have in stock the 7” Second Chance, which contains a different photo taken by Liam, and a packet of seeds. plays alongside Bat For Lashes.

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What constitutes a record? I mean, does a little plastic disk have any relevance to the astounding aural cacophony you experience when it’s played? Nope of course not. But as you know, at Transgressive we’ve always been about enhancing the experience of our acts music with amazing packaging. Be it the insane cover of the Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man opus, or even the denim covered 7” we put out for Jeremy Warmsley’s Dirty Blue Jeans, we’ve always been about pushing the boundaries and giving you something really special and collectable to enjoy with our life changing sounds.
And so now, we’re proud to announce the debut release from Esser on Transgressive:

The Headlock T-shirt.

Headlock, an astoundingly fresh slice of good clean fun, that will instantly be one of those songs that you feel you’ve known your entire life, is coming out on a very special EP in the form of the coolest looking t-shirt we’ve seen since Madonna got in that punch up. The catalogue number is TRANS082, the T-shirts in 3 sizes, and each individual one has a code through which you can download the EP:

1. Headlock
2. Baby It’s A Boring
3. Headlock 12” version

Naturally, it’s limited edition, so move fast.... It’s initially available on the Transgressive Hot Summer Tour, on which Esser is performing, and you can also order it direct here: www.esserhq.com

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We are thrilled to announce the first ever "Transgressive Hot Summer Tour", taking place across the whole UK in July – think of it as a mega cheap festival, in your local town, without any crusties!
This is your first chance to see the new wave of Transgressive signings, in thrillingly intimate surroundings.
Naturally, this astoundingly diverse bill features: ESSER, LIAM FINN, SO SO MODERN, and OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN, as well as long-standing Transgressive favourites JEREMY WARMSLEY and ABSENTEE.

Each gig, will have four or five of these bands playing for a measly £7.00 regionally in advance, and £8.50 in London, from all good outlets and retailers, as well as the venues themselves.

JULY 2008

4 Oxford Zodiac (14+):

– Jeremy Warmsley, Esser, Absentee, So So Modern

5 Leicester Charlotte (14+):

– Jeremy Warmsley, Liam Finn, Esser, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, So So Modern

6 Nottingham Bodega (14+):

– Jeremy Warmsley, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern, Absentee

7 Sheffield Plug (14+):

– Jeremy Warmsley, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Esser, So So Modern, Liam Finn

9 Leeds Brudenell (14+):

– Jeremy Warmsley, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern

10 Manchester Night & Day (18+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern

11 Liverpool Academy 2 (16+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Absentee, Esser, So So Modern

13 Cardiff Ifor Bach (14+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Absentee, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern

14 Bristol Thekla (14+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern

15 Birmingham Bar Academy (14+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern

16 London Cross Kings (14+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern + ?????

17 Brighton Audio (16+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Absentee, Liam Finn, Esser, So So Modern

19 Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (16+):

- Jeremy Warmsley, Absentee, Liam Finn, Esser

Due to the mammoth line-up on the nights, the average door-time will range between 6pm and 6.30pm – check local venue for details, including curfew information (generally between 10pm and 11pm)... and running order will be decided on the night, so get there early so as not to miss out!

At all dates on the tour a very special Transgressive Merch Stall will be erected, featuring an extensive array of exclusive souvenir offerings from each act, not to mention a limited edition tour-only EP comprising music from every act on the jaunt.

Transgressive's co-promotion partners are Eat Your Own Ears and DHP – the team behind the Dot To Dot Festival.

You can also buy tix here, and help out Oxfam too!

That's right! "A Larum" is finally released unto the world on cd, download and stunning pop up vinyl.

4/5 in Mojo, Q, OMM and 8/10 in NME are some pretty good reasons to part with your cash, as well as the fact it contains the singles The Box, Leftovers, Eyeless in Holloway and of course Tickle Me Pink, as well as many of the live favourites he's been touring round the country recently.

The pop up vinyl defies belief as perhaps the most beautiful record ever made. The gatefold opens to reveal a stage on which you can pop out the included characters and play. It also features another story and poems, and of course the album on stunning double vinyl.

Here are some links to pre-order these delights! CD or Vinyl!

We are so proud to welcome (back) Ben Esser into the Transgressive crew. Following his almighty debut single on Merok Records; the fantastic paean to the expressions of love, Esser now makes Transgressive his long term home.

We'll be following up that single with something mighty special, but in the meantime you should check out his myspace and buy tickets to see him on the fantastic Transgressive Hot Summer Tour... You won't be disappointed!

 

Jeremy Warmsley has been busy... far busier than he lets on from his ace online tv show. Whilst putting the finishing touches to his new album, produced with Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire/Bjork...) he also found the time to record this very special double a-side 7”. The first song, a stunning duet with one of his good friends and collaborators entitled “The Boat Song”, and the latter a cover of New Order’s “Temptation” that thrilled many at last years Reading Festival.

In typical “get ‘em while they’re hot” style, this will only be released on 500 limited 7”s: pre-order now from this site.

Neither of these songs will appear on his new album.

The greatest Trans 7” ever?
Ok, so we thought we could do something really special, to get back to the essence of what makes a Transgressive 7” important... something that personally and directly links you to the artist in a really special manner, and making a unique and individual record...

With this in mind, Young Knives have recorded a very special 7” direct to the Lathe – using NO recording studio at all – simply; through two stereo mikes, and down onto the vinyl – and they sound incredible....

We’ll have links to video footage of this unique piece, (which hasn’t been done commercially since the 70’s) up soon, but in the meantime, you earlybirds can pre-order here.

In the interests of quality and value, you can also buy a 4-track CD EP of “Turn Tail” which has three insanely good new songs and the immense title track.

So, we’ve been scurrying around and made one of our most important signings ever: Liam Finn, is an astounding artist and gloriously unique.

I can gush for hours but you’re probably better off checking out his latest performance on Letterman in the States.

We’ll be releasing his album faster than you can say “oh my god, he’s changed my life in the same way as the Shins did to Darth Vader’s Ma in the Garden State”.... but the first release will be the inspired “Second Chance” on a 500 only 7”, each with a unique photo on the cover taken by Liam himself. We’re even giving away a packet of seeds for all that pre-order it direct from us on our website.