Finders Keepers Records

The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience. With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside her recently liberated WBAI / Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all. What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world, which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations / live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record. With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.

Andy Votel - Music To Watch Girls Cry (2003) by Finders Keepers Records

EUROPIUM ALLUMINATE - ANDY VOTEL JANE WEAVER MIXTAPE 2010

ANDY VOTEL - MONDO CARNE VAL MIXTAPE 2016

Andy Votel - Charlatans DJ set LEEDS 15_5_22

First Broadcast of NTS Radio 7th Feb 2021. All tracks use samples that appear on Finders Keepers Records catalogue between 2005 and 2022. Mixed by Andy Votel.

Volume 2 of Andy Votel's Brazilian Psych Mix (following Volume 1 that was originally released by Far Out Recordings) featuring MORE rare vintage vinyl from the Som Livre / RGE catalogue.

Available to stream during International Womans Day. 8/3/2022

ANDY VOTEL - RANDOMONIUM NTS RADIO SHOW- FEB 26 2022 by Finders Keepers Records

Happy Easter 2021 from all at Finders Keepers Records.

REST IN PEACE - PETE MITCHELL(11 December 1958 – 12 March 2020) RARE FILM MUSIC ON VINYL LIVES HERE !!!

Andy Votel - Randomonium Jan 2021 by Finders Keepers Records

Alain Pierre - Notions Excerpt by Finders Keepers Records

Episode 49 of Andy Votel's monthly RANDOMONIUM show for NTS. All previous shows are archived on the NTS website.

MORE FREE LOCKDOWN MIXTAPES FROM THE ANDY VOTEL / FINDERS KEEPERS ARCHIVE. THE EYE IN THE SKY SAYS WE CANT TRAVEL UNTIL AUGUST 2020 AT THE EARLIEST... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOUR EARS AND YOUR IMAGINATION CAN'T GO ON A TRIPPPP! //// "A bewitching hour of ALL WAX pre-vamped vintage Hindi horror from the Desi-Dracula's music cabinet featuring rare tracks from Bappi Lahiri, R.D. Burman, Usha Khanna and Sapan Jagmohan" - butchered by resident werewolf Andy Votel.

MORE FREE LOCKDOWN MIXTAPES FROM THE ANDY VOTEL / FINDERS KEEPERS ARCHIVE. THE EYE IN THE SKY SAYS WE CANT TRAVEL UNTIL AUGUST 2020 AT THE EARLIEST... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOUR EARS AND YOUR IMAGINATION CAN'T GO ON A TRIPPPP! //// A SOLID HOUR OF ALL VINYL PSYCHEDELIC SWEDISH MEATBALLS AND UNPRONOUNCEABLE PROGG (WITH TWO G'S) FROM THE DEEPEST CORNERS OF ANDY VOTEL'S BENDING EXPEDITS.... "Jag älskar Swedish Progg"

MORE FREE LOCKDOWN MIXTAPES FROM THE ANDY VOTEL / FINDERS KEEPERS ARCHIVE. THE EYE IN THE SKY SAYS WE CANT TRAVEL UNTIL AUGUST 2020 AT THE EARLIEST... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOUR EARS AND YOUR IMAGINATION CAN'T GO ON A TRIPPPP! FAR OUT / FAR EAST / IT'S TIME TO UNLEASH THE BEAST FROM THE EAST.

MORE FREE LOCKDOWN MIXTAPES FROM THE ANDY VOTEL / FINDERS KEEPERS ARCHIVE. THE EYE IN THE SKY SAYS WE CANT TRAVEL UNTIL AUGUST 2020 AT THE EARLIEST... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOUR EARS AND YOUR IMAGINATION CAN'T GO ON A TRIPPPP! ALL VINYL PERSIAN PROGRESSIVE POP FROM THE PRE-REVOLUTION PSYCHEDELIC-SOUL SOLUTION.

LOCK DOWN? HOUSE BOUND? Let's go for a headphone road trip to Germany with Andy Votel. Celebrating the 2002 "shoe-gazing" excursion to The Dusseldorf Footwear Fair that lead to the birth of the Oi-Polloi clothes shoppe in Manchester.

LOCK DOWN? HOUSE BOUND? Here's another headphone road trip from the archives. Taken from the COCK DIESEL cinema nights that B-Music DJ's (mainly Sean Demdike and myself at the time) did in Manchester / Barcelona / Melbourne / Los Angeles using countless motorcycle themed records and VHS footage.