As some of you already know, Ozonokids was meant to stop its production during this year 2011. To those who don’t know and before i explain the reasons, i need to talk about where it all came from:
Ozonokids was started by myself as a small distro during year 1998 / 1999. Two very close friends joined almost immediately, Dalmau Boada and Siria Gomez. It finally turned “officially” into a record label during year 2000, after teaming up with Jose L. Dominguez (aka Italiano) who was running half of the punk label DIY Product at the time. Later that year Marc Molina also joined the team and we were five people on and off for a few years. From then onto year 2003 everybody slowly dropped off the project for diferent reasons. Since then it has been just myself taking care of it all. The way things have worked since that moment have mutated considerably but mainly it has been one of a very compulsive and disorganised nature, which in a lot of ways has become the main spirit of the label. Now, the main reason why i am quiting, the problem i’ve had to deal with is that the project itself has consumed more time, effort and money than i’ve had during all these years. So that, due to the nature of the project since its beggining made me decide to quit. It was a couple years ago that i decided that it needed a deadline. So i chose year 2011 as the awaited end.
The Future:
After this last two batches of releases, including the Mattin LP, Carn de Porc, Coàgul, Terminal Babilonia cassettes and the Ozonokids Magazine #2 nothing else will ever be released on the label. I decided to cancel the release of the Weyes Bluhd CDR because i can’t manufacture the release the way i intended to do it originally, and, considering it was a reissue, i thought it wouldn’t really make a big difference.
The official website will stop working as a catalog eventually, and all the Ozonokids releases will be found in some distributors and stores. I will keep posting a list of all of them. All available releases and the distributed material on the catalog will still be found on my discogs store catalog, but it will be disabled during January, February and March of 2012.
Some people have insisted i should not quit and i really appreciate your concern and support but i believe that you will also appreciate the changes when they come. I am already working on a new project, where part of the work will be producing sonic archives amongst other productions. I will also post information about that real soon. I am also working on a retrospective of Ozonokids with a publisher from Barcelona, in the form of a book that will be produced during 2012 and hopefully will see the light during the same year.
This is a very important step in my life as much as it has been being part of this project for so long. I never guessed it would make it this far.
I am very grateful to all of you, the artists for being always so patient and understanding, our friends, the “costumers” who also had lots of patience in this big chaos that Ozonokids has sometimes been since the beggining, involving long ass delays, chaotic trades and whatnot. To all the friends and people who have helped and been psyched, showed their support, attended shows, listened to the records, distributed them, played them in their radio shows, …
Thanks.
Arnau Sala – Ozonokids, December 2011
http://www.ozonokids.com
* top photo by Adrià Cañameras, 2008
