Flashback Records

BONA RAYS LIVE!

We're doing our first gig of the year down in New Cross on Saturday 3rd February, supporting Art Trip and the Static Sound.

Great to be back playing live regularly - more shows to follow real soon!

Art Trip and The Static Sound
https://arttripandthestaticsound.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/arttripandthestaticsound/
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Bona Rays
https://bonarays.bandcamp.com/album/poser
https://www.instagram.com/bona_rays/
Cold Caller
https://coldcaller.bandcamp.com/album/its-history
https://www.instagram.com/coldcallerband/
https://newcrosslive.com/.../art-trip-and-the-static-sound
DICE - https://link.dice.fm/w7f219a9772d
Tickets will be £7 in advance and £10 on the door

Art Trip and the Static Sound And that’s what make Art Trip a particularly intriguing element on the current scene; their knack for societal commentary, righteous anger and political rage but pulling from a broader musical palette than just ‘70s punk. With a blistering stage presence that manages to be both confrontational a...

Two Tracks from our compilation featured on Artrocker Radio this week! Tribazik and Art Trip.

Artrocker Radio 9th June 2020 Another weekly Artrocker Radio Show brought to you from the armchairs of Lewis and Paul in lock-down. Major feature this week is all the compilations that have been made available to raise money for Covid-struggling causes. And for under £40 you can both access a huge number of excellent tracks AND...

For the last ten weeks, Flashback has been running on mail order only, as the shops have been shuttered owing to the Covid-19 lockdown. As with so many other businesses at present, this clearly places the long-term future of the stores in jepoardy, and even whilst we’re making tentative plans to re-open with social distancing in place in mid-June, it’s likely to be a tough situation for all forms of retail adjusting to the new landscape.

However, Flashback also naturally has more than its fair share of musicians in its ranks, and they’ve come together to create a compilation of transformative sonics to respond to the crisis constructively the only way they know how. The result is this compilation, released on Bandcamp for Friday June 5th, which traverses down a wild variety of stylistic pathways whilst always remaining in thrall to the guiding force of psychedelia. Just as the word Flashback so often relates to a third-eye cleansing experience that unites past, present and future, this collection of tracks forms quite the trip.

These 18 tracks from staff members and their friends alike run the gamut from a whacked-out psych jam from Comet Gain to beatific psych-pop (For Breakfast, JC Flowers, Art Rip & The Static Sound) and all the way to excoriating noise (Elevator Fliid, Fu***rs In Flames) The sphere of this compendium is as comfortable with prog-tinged indie rock (Dinted, whose video for ‘Endless Truth’ will also be released in conjunction with this release) as it is with otherworldly experimentation (Swarm Of Bees, Samuel Barton).

There’s heavyweight catharsis to be had here from Burden Limbs, Zantur and Trabazik, coruscating beats and technofied shapes from LexLuthorVandross, Sulaco and Nils Hellstrom, cinematic soundscapes from Deathcount In Silicon Valley and Greazor and mercurial rock from Red Horses Of The Snow.

All of these rare delights - almost all of which are previously unreleased and put together specifically for this collection - is available for £5 - or whatever the buyer feels appropriate - and all proceeds from this release will go towards the shop investing in anti-virus protection materials to make sure that when we do re-open the business it’s the safest possible environment for customers and staff alike.

Thanks to Bandcamp for Waiving Fees this Friday.

Thanks to all the Bands who contributed their excellent Lockdown music to this project, without whom…
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Using Lockdown To Make Music To Play Lockdown To, by Artists For Flashback 18 track album

Friday 5th June from 8am - Artists for Flashback will be releasing an 18 track compilation by bands associated with Flashback Records, to raise funds for buying anti-virus protection equipment to ensure the shops are safe for both staff and customers when they reopen their three London Record Shops shortly. Links to follow

Now available on multiple streaming and download channels.

March Red Horses of the Snow · Album · 2020 · 8 songs

Many thanks to the wonderful Mick Dillingham, Todd's brother for helping out with this release and for his amazing psychedelic artwork for the album.