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	Chemikal Underground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chemikal Underground is an independent record label set up in 1994 by Glasgow, Scotland rock band The Delgados.
		When the second Chemikal Underground single by popsters Bis, The Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP was hugely successful, earning them a slot on Top of the Pops, the label was able to expand.
		Other bands on the Chemikal Underground roster include Magoo, Aereogramme, Cha Cha Cohen, Sluts of Trust, Suckle, the Radar Brothers and more recently Mother and the Addicts, as well as Arab Strap member Malcolm Middleton's solo work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chemikal_Underground (190 words)

	Chemikal Underground Records \| Home
		Chemikal Underground Records is one of Scotland's most successful and respected independent record labels.
		Started 10 years ago in Glasgow, Chemikal Underground was the brainchild of The Delgados and has gone on to launch the careers of Interpol, Mogwai, Arab Strap and Bis to name a few.
		Chemikal Underground Records are proud to announce the release, in February 2007, of Ballads Of the Book, an elaborately ambitious project featuring some of Scotland’s best writers and musicians.
	www.chemikal.co.uk (394 words)

	The Delgados - Biography - AOL Music
		Singer/guitarist Emma Pollock completed the lineup, and after founding Chemikal Underground the quartet issued its debut effort "Monica Webster" in February 1995, earning "Single of the Week" honors in Melody Maker.
		After issuing the Lazarwalker EP on the Radar imprint, the Delgados returned to Chemikal Underground for the 1996 release of the single "Cinecentre." Two more singles, "Under Canvas Under Wraps" and "Sucrose," as well as a U.K. tour in support of Elastica, preceded the October bow of their first full-length effort, Domestiques.
		The album's near-unanimous critical acclaim was echoed by the BBC's influential John Peel, who christened the Delgados "the best in Britain." Named "Single of the Week" by both Melody Maker and the NME, the remarkable "Everything Goes Around the Water" heralded the release of the band's sophomore album, 1998's Peloton.
	music.aol.com /artist/the-delgados/202979/biography (463 words)

	erasing clouds
		"Chemikal Underground was never going to be a vehicle for The Delgados only," states Paul, clearly; The Delgados even recorded their next single on London indie Che Records, ostensibly to help Chemikal Underground foster an identity independent of The Delgados, and also to see how other labels operated.
		The second release on Chemikal Underground was by electro-pop trio Bis.
		It's an arrogant attitude that has certainly paid off, for as idiosyncratic as Chemikal Underground's signings have been, the label has quite definitely captured, even dictated, the zeitgeist for underground rock throughout the 90s.
	www.erasingclouds.com /01delgados.html (1194 words)

	The Delgados - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neglecting to go the traditional route of signing to a record label, the band instead started their own, Chemikal Underground, with which to release not only their records but also other local bands.
		The cost of Chemikal Underground's second release, the single "Disco Nation 45" by Bis, left the cash-strapped label unable to afford another release by The Delgados, so their next release "Lazarwalker" came from the London-based Radar Records.
		This pattern was extended for their fourth album, Hate, which was released on Mantra rather than the band's own Chemikal Underground label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Delgados (751 words)

	AEROGRAMME Glam Cripple EP Chemikal Underground
		Aereogramme - 'Glam Cripple' EP Matador are licensing a new record by a relatively new band, AREOGRAMME for Chemikal Underground.
		Masters of discipline and finesse, their loud-to-quiet-to-loud transitions are a cool enough rollercoaster ride as is. But this Glasgow trio's songs are unusually soulful and affecting in ways we don't associate with "post-rock".
		Their debut Chemikal Underground release, "The Glam Cripple EP" - part of the labels fukd I.d.
	www.2-4-7-music.com /newsitems/july01/aerogramme.htm (563 words)

	Matador Records \| Aereogramme Biography
		Noticed by Chemikal Underground as they slowly started to grace stages around Glasgow in 2000, a relationship was quickly developed and Aereogramme released the magnificent Glam Cripple EP - the first outing of the labels new boutique imprint, Fukd i.d.
		Chemikal Underground simply had to work with Aereogramme on a more permanent and loving basis.
		A deal was finally concluded and the band retired to the studio to record their magnum opus, A Story In White.
	www.matadorrecords.com /aereogramme/biography.html (922 words)

	www.myspace.com/chemikalunderground
		About Us Chemikal Underground Records is the hugely influential independent record label created by the four members of Glasgow's The Delgados.
		For Chemikal Underground, Arab Straps decision to dissolve represents something far more significant than the ending of a bands career: its the end of an era.
		All these stages are represented on their final collection, 10 Years Of Tears, as the band collate an assortment of rarities, live tracks, demos and b-sides for a final, comprehensive and hugely entertaining epilogue to the bands career.
	www.myspace.com /chemikalunderground (2417 words)

	The Long Goodnight \| Music \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		The band's growing popularity has also shed deserved light on Chemikal Underground, the record label they founded and continue to run.
		Home to Mogwai, Arab Strap, Radar Bros., Aereogramme, and Bis, Chemikal Underground is a labor of love for the Delgados; Pollock laughs as she admits they may all have to get day jobs to support it rather than give up on the music they love.
		The band's growing popularity has also shed deserved light on Chemikal Underground, the record label the members founded and continue to run.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=13941 (569 words)

	Eye Weekly - Domestique bliss - 05.06.99
		Then, as the band was heading into the studio to record the follow-up, singer-guitarist Alun Woodward became a papa, effectively bringing his days as an indie goof-boy to an end.
		The fate of the Delgados may have been hanging in the balance during the Peloton sessions, but at the same time the Chemikal Underground roster exploded worldwide.
		Tortoise fans were trading in their copies of TNT for Mogwai's nuclear drone-rock and Arab Strap's suicidal serenades, while the Beastie Boys loved Bis' commie disco-punk so much they scooped up U.S. distribution rights for their Grand Royal imprint.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.06.99/music/delgados.html (728 words)

	bright light ! an unofficial mogwai web site
		both the band's 1997 debut album 'mogwai young team' and last year's 'come on die young' were released on chemikal underground, as well as three singles - '4 satin', 'no education = no future (fuck the curfew)' in '98 and 'mogwai ep' last october.
		joined chemikal underground founders the delgados and labelmates including magoo and arab strap on the bill for the label's fifth birthday party gig at the glasgow garage on march 12, and will play alongside them as hosts of this weekend's all tomorrow's parties festival at camber sands holiday camp.
		are to play a 'short' set at chemikal underground's 5th birthday party on the 12th of march, at the garage complex (the garage, the attic & g2) in glasgow.
	brightlight.youngteam.co.uk /eng/news0007.php (3223 words)

	The Delgados (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This Glasgow quartet has set the bar for their own music quite high, thanks to the quality of the artists featured on their own Chemikal Underground label, which include fellow Scots Mogwai and Arab Strap, and happily, their intricately textured, unpredictable indie pop is just really, really bloody good.
		The group has been at it for nearly half a decade now, issuing a steady stream of glorious releases crammed full of dreamy, guitar-propelled, ever-so-slightly Celtic folk-flavored scraps of pastoral paradise.
		The Delgados have also released Domestiques, their 1997 debut full-length, and numerous shorter players on Chemikal Underground.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/thedelgados.html (306 words)

	Untitled Document
		Employing a brutal dual guitar assault reinforced with white noise, Mogwai shoved a sonic stake through the heart of Oasis' jangly Beatle-chords and reintroduced the U.K. to controlled chaos, much as their heroes My Bloody Valentine had done at the beginning of the decade.
		After a series of singles, in 1997 the band recorded their first full-length effort for the independent label Chemikal Underground (owned by fellow Glaswegian art rockers, the Delgados).
		Young Team, the result of fractious sessions marked by intense internecine feuding, was an amazing debut album, a modern masterpiece of tension-and-release that reinvigorated rock's venerable quiet-LOUD dynamic for the first time since 1991's Nevermind.
	www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/14/endicott2514.html (1296 words)

	Arab Strap, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		The Scottish post-folk duo Arab Strap were formed in mid-1995 by vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton, longtime friends who after years of exchanging cassettes of their respective bands decided to finally begin collaborating together.
		Upon signing to the hip Chemikal Underground label, they i...
		Upon signing to the hip Chemikal Underground label, they issued their debut single, the stark and downcast "The First Big Weekend"; the song was a major critical hit, with Britain's Radio One declaring it the best record of the decade.
	www.goodnoise.com /artist/11486/11486195.html (280 words)

	Aereogramme, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Joining forces to feature acoustic guitars, electronic noises, and tones ranging from soft to screamingly abrasive, the trio released a pair of singles in 1999 on their own Babi-Yaga and toured throughout the year with the likes of Low, Geneva, and Snow Patrol.
		Early in 2000, they signed with Chemikal Underground, the reputable stable of Arab Strap and the Delgados.
		The Glam Cripple EP, released as part of Chemikal Underground's Fukd I.D. series, sold out of its pressing of 2000 within its week of release.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10566/10566376.html (297 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - De Rosa bloom in the Glasgow underground
		De Rosa's debut album Mend is about to be released on underground label Chemikal Underground and they count among their friends - and fans - Arab Strap, The Delgados, Maximo Park and Mogwai, who they recently supported as part of the Triptych festival.
		Alongside names such as Karine Polwart, Vashti Bunyan, Kate Rusby and Idlewild, De Rosa will also contribute to a Scottish poetry and music compilation from Chemikal Underground due out later this year with authors including Ali Smith, Edwin Morgan and Alasdair Gray.
		Alan Barr, who plays cello for Arab Strap, ended up on the album and half way through recording, Chemikal Underground overheard a few sessions and asked to license Mend.
	living.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=892522006 (790 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Delgados: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Pavement and Velocity Girl inspired the dissonant lo-fi sound that took over in the most creative tracks: Leaning On A Cane, a duet between the two singers that is propelled by cello lines, and One More Questions, that swims in xylophone tinklings.
		The album's centerpiece is the negative philosophy of All You Need Is Hate (a surreal revisitation of the Beatles' original), The Drowning Years (the most bombastic song on the album) and Child Killers (a seven-minute existential torture), which justifies the band's success.
		As it is often the case with power-pop, one listens to the first few songs (Everybody Come Down, I Fought the Angels) and then starts yawning, no matter how polite and diligent the rest is. For such an accomplished set of ditties, it is incredibly difficult to listen through till the end of the album.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol6/delgados.html (803 words)

	Arab Strap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The record got the attention of New York's Matador Records, which gave the The Week a U.S. release.
		In 1998 Arab Strap issued their sophomore effort, Philophobia (Chemikal Underground/Matador), another bleak, muttering affair, the title of which literally means "fear of love," pretty much cutting to the lyrical heart of Arab Strap's overall subject matter.
		As might be expected Moffat and Middleton refused to budge an inch, and soon returned to Chemikal Underground, where the prodigal sons were greeted with open arms.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/arabstrap.html (798 words)

	The Delgados - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While failing to earn the same critical notoriety and cultish devotion lavished upon countrymen Belle & Sebastian or Mogwai, the Delgados were in many respects the true epicenter of the contemporary Scottish pop renaissance.
		Through their renowned Chemikal Underground label, the group not only launched the careers of acts from Bis to Arab Strap, but their own recordings rank..
		Malajube; Nanook of the North; Mogwai; Urusei Yatsura; Bis; Arab Strap; The Wedding Present; Mercury Rev; The Flaming Lips;
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,571150,00.html (553 words)

	Compilation2
		And it wouldn’t be the same without a farewell tour, ending appropriately at the venue where the Strap played their first gig:
		Signing to Chemikal Underground, they released their debut single, The First Big Weekend, a tale of Aidan and Malcolm’s adventures on the weekend Scotland were knocked out of Euro ’96, in September of that year.
		A cult classic, it’s included on this compilation along with a recording from their debut live performance.
	www.chemikal.co.uk /news/Compilation2.html (1127 words)

	SONIC UNYON PRESENTS: Aereogramme
		Formed in Glasgow during the late 90s, Craig B and Campbell McNeil roped in guitarist Iain Cook, and one-time jazz percussionist Martin Scott to play drums – a man who even quit his university education in order to concentrate on the behemoth that has become Aereogramme.
		After initial singles on the band’s own label, two full length albums were to follow – both on Chemikal Underground (run by Scottish indie types Delgados) and licensed in North America to NYC's Matador Records.
		A Story In White saw listeners being delighted and confused by its schizophrenic myriad of quiet melodies and noisy outbursts.
	www.sonicunyon.com /aereogramme (796 words)

	Delgados >> Aversion.com
		Mixing breezy indie pop with classical orchestration, the Delgados manage to give their style, similar to that of Belle and Sebastain, a deceptively powerful air.
		Never throwing in with fully orchestrated works, the band's songs use the power of string and brass arrangements without abusing them.
		In addition to the band's musical output, it would found Chemikal Underground Records, one of the UK's most prolific startup indies, giving a home to such successful acts as Mogwai and Arab Strap.
	www.aversion.com /bands/delgados (162 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Review - The Delgados, Arab Strap, Aereogramme
		Even if they weren't, they'd still be notable for founding Glasgow's Chemikal Underground label, the heart of the late-Nineties Scottish musical renaissance that brought us Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, and Arab Strap.
		The dramatic, melancholy undercurrents of string-driven pop nuggets "The Drowning Years" and "Never Look at the Sun" showcase the Delgados as the smart, cutting-edge descendents of the Carpenters: everything Belle & Sebastian want to be, but are too damn precocious to pull off.
		As do Aereogramme, fellow Glaswegians on Chemikal Underground and Matador.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-04-18/music_phases.html (452 words)

	Arab Strap bios
		Thirteen songs that recount tales of love gone wrong, narratives of spite and vengeance--fear not, there are moments of humor--all set to the most unadorned and breathtaking of arrangements.
		The Week Never Starts Round Here LP (Chemikal Underground, 1996)
		The Girls Of Summer EP (Chemikal Underground, 1997)
	www.matadorrecords.com /bios/bio_arab.html (281 words)

	Delgados: Domestiques: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Tempered; Not Tamed" off The Delgados' 1997 debut album, Domestiques, begins with a French-language shoutout to Chemikal Underground Records.
		The band wasn't just promoting the label that their core songwriting duo, Emma Pollock and Alun Woodward, started in the early 90s; they were also giving props to the then-nascent Scottish scene, which included Chemikal signees Arab Strap, Bis, and Mogwai, and which peaked during the latter part of that decade.
		It seems odd to compare these early songs to the band's more recent work, as they could belong to another band entirely.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/16963/Delgados_Domestiques (424 words)

	De Rosa - 'Mend' (Chemikal Underground) Released 19/06/06 - Entertainment News, Reviews, Competitions - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		De Rosa - 'Mend' (Chemikal Underground) Released 19/06/06 - Entertainment News, Reviews, Competitions - Entertainmentwise
		De Rosa - 'Mend' (Chemikal Underground) Released 19/06/06
		Consoles snapped up in record speed at midnight launch...
	www.entertainmentwise.com /review?id=18610 (703 words)

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