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Bringin’ the goods and giving them away! Free Basin’ Fridays is here.

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Illustration by Drew Christie

Addicted to records? Then mark your calendars for “Free Basin’ Fridays!” Each Friday on our blog, we’ll announce giveaways of new releases, selections from our back catalog, ephemera, and other limited items. In honor of the late great Kearney Barton, this week we’re giving away a massive Wheedle’s Groove package (over a $100 value). For your chance to win, leave a comment below and be sure to include your name and email address (kept private) so we can contact you! Winner is announced next Friday 1/27! Don’t sleep on this one!

Giveaway includes:

Wheedles Groove: Seattle’s Finest In Funk & Soul 1965–1979 Limited Edition 45s Box Set (x10 45s)

Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest In Funk & Soul 1965-75 (CD)


Kearney Barton (CD)

Wheedle’s Groove Documentary (DVD)

Seattle SuperSonics Replica Trading Cards (16 cards in set, limited edition of 100)


Be sure to check out the blog every Friday at 12PM PST for Free Basin’ Fridays and your chance to stock up on the good stuff…for free! And big thanks to our bud Drew Christie for doing the illustration for the series. Check him out here!

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Free Basin’ Fridays – Michael Chapman!!!

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Thanks to everyone that left comments for our Wheedle’s Groove giveaway for the premiere of Free Basin’ Fridays. There were so many good ones but Chris Celeste had us in stiches with “TGIFBF!” That’s our new Twitter hashtag for this series! Big winner was out of Kansas by the name of Jeremy. But don’t sweat, you’ve got another chance to pick up some quality wax…for free, every Friday!

This week, in celebration of Michael Chapman’s 71st birthday on Tuesday and the our new reissue of his debut album, Rainmaker (out now!), we’re giving away not one but two LPs! Yup, enter for your chance to win a deluxe 180-gram copy of Chapman’s aforementioned debut, Rainmaker (LITA 079) and last year’s reissue of his follow-up, Fully Qualified Survivor (LITA 060), both originally released on Harvest Records in 1969 and 1970, respectively. With these two puppies in your collection, you’ll be smiling for miles.

So, leave us a comment below for your chance to win. Don’t forget to put in your email address (kept private) so we can contact you if you’re the winner. To keep things fair, please don’t enter if you’ve won a giveaway of ours in the last two months. We do these every Friday, every week, so plenty of chances to pick up some goodies. The winner for this giveaway will be announced next Friday at 12pm PST. See you then!

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Free Basin’ Fridays…Modern Classics Recordings edition

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

All right kids. It’s Friday and it’s time to get free. This week we’re doing a special giveaway for one of our newest imprints, Modern Classics Recordings. We’re gettin’ all 90s on your ass today…so this is your chance to get your hands on our deluxe LP reissues of Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs (MCR 900) and Morphine’s Cure For Pain (MCR 901). So you know the drill, leave a comment below with your favorite Modern Classic or a memory about these albums and we’ll announce the winner next Friday. Boss!

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Free Basin’ Fridays – Grab some BBQ with Wendy Rene!

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Oh yeah, the hits just keep coming. For this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays giveaway, we’re gonna float one lucky winner both a CD and 2xLP copy of our latest release Wendy Rene After Laughter Comes Tears – Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965 (LITA 080). You know the drill, leave a comment below (favorite BBQ joint in Memphis? Fav Stax song/artist/story? First time you heard Wu-Tang’s “Tearz” which samples Wendy Rene?) and don’t forget to include your name and email so we can contact you if you win! Winner announced on Twitter and Facebook on Friday 2/17 at 12PM PST!

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Free Basin’ Fridays – Listening to movies with CINEWAX!

Friday, February 17th, 2012

We’re all huge movie fans…and obviously huge music fans so it was a no brainer that we’d start our own film imprint, CINEWAX! Launched with the haunting Winter’s Bone soundtrack (featuring Marideth Sisco & Blackberry Winter, John Hawkes, Bo Brown, Van Colbert and more) and score (composed by Dickon Hinchliffe) in 2010, we’ve since released on DVD the Wheedle’s Groove documentary by Jennifer Maas and late last year Dickon Hinchliffe’s soundtrack to the film Project NIM. So for this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re giving away a copy of each of the above releases. That’s right, you’ll get the Winter’s Bone soundtrack (on CD) and the score (digital download), plus the Wheedle’s Groove DVD and the Project NIM soundtrack (CD)! For your chance to win, leave a comment below (tell us your favorite soundtrack or what soundtrack you think we should release/reissue) with your name and email address. Winner will be announced next Friday 2/24!

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Free Basin’ Fridays – even the “Design” is “Free”

Friday, February 24th, 2012

What’s that? Are we getting all cryptic again? Well, let us speak plain – for this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays we’re loading you up with the softest soft-psych this side of a pin wheel lollipop, The Free Design. Out of print on CD for the last few years, copies of our reissues of these seminal albums were fetching upwards of $50 on Amazon, but now we have them back in print with more accessible prices.

To celebrate this, we’re giving away the first five albums on CD. Nice heavy stock digipaks with detailed liner notes, rare photos, and lovingly remastered audio (not to mention all the bonus tracks). The list includes:

For your chance to win, leave a comment below (favorite Free Design song/album, when you first heard the Free Design, etc.) with your name and email address. Winner will be announced next Friday 3/2!

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Free Basin’ Fridays – “Listen, Whitey!” CD+Book / 2xLP+Book GIVEAWAY

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

For this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re celebrating the release of Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974, Pat Thomas’ definitive book and “soundtrack” of the Black Power movement and era. Listen, Whitey! is a cross-cultural overview that sees Bob Dylan’s out of print 1971 single “George Jackson” reissued for the first time along with several selections from Motown’s long forgotten ‘Black Forum’ label – Motown’s early 70’s Black Power militant imprint that has never been documented until now with provocative recordings from SNCC spokesman Stokely Carmichael, outspoken African-American poet Amiri Baraka, Black Panther Party singer/songwriter Elaine Brown and so much more.

So this week we’re giving away a package that includes either the CD and Book OR the 2xLP and Book. The choice is yours. For a look at these gorgeous packages, check out the What’s Inside? videos here and then send us some love in a comment below (include your name and email address) for your chance to win!  Winner will be announced next Friday, March 9th at 12PM.

Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 (Published by Fantagraphics – OUT NOW!)

Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974 (LITA 081 – CD | 2xLP | Digital – OUT NOW!)

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Free Basin’ Fridays – THAI FUNK VOLUME 1 & 2

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Illustration by Drew Christie - http://www.drewchristie.com/

A few months back we unleashed unto to world the two volume set Thai Funk Volume 1 and Thai Funk Volume 2 . Originally released as limited CDs by ZudRangMa Records in 2009, our vinyl-only editions sport newly remastered audio, double LPs housed in nice ‘n’ heavy “Tip-On” Stoughton jackets with rare album covers, download cards, PLUS hand-stitched cloth bags. Style for miles and flavor for days. If you don’t have these yet (both pressings are nearly sold out), then here’s your chance to pick up both volumes for the price of free. You’re welcome.

For your chance to win, leave us a comment below with your name and email address (kept private). Tell us about your favorite Thai dish, restaurant, band, city, etc. Let us know what you’re thinking! Winner picked at random and announced next Friday, 3/16 at 12PM PST.

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Free Basin’ Fridays – Bo Diddley!

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Earlier this week we launched Future Days Recordings–our newest imprint–with the release of Bo Diddley’s blues-psych-funk classic, The Black Gladiator. Bootlegs of questionable source (both on the audio and legal end) have been floating around for years but with this CD-only reissue, The Black Gladiator is finally in print with in-depth liner notes (by Scott Schneider) and newly remastered audio (from original tapes, transferred at 24bit/96kHz). So for this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re giving away a copy of the CD to one lucky winner.

For your chance to win, leave us a comment below with your name and email address (kept private). Tell us your favorite Bo Diddley song, album, lyric, etc…show Bo some love! Winner picked at random and announced next Friday, 3/23 at 12PM PST. See you next week!

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Free Basin’ Fridays – “Melody Nelson” limited edition shirt/album package!

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Illustration by Drew Christie - http://www.drewchristie.com/

For this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re celebrating Serge Gainsbourg and his master opus Histoire De Melody Nelson (LITA 040). So, we’re giving away, to one lucky winner, a limited edition “Melody Nelson” t-shirt (American Apparel, sizes S, M, L, XL, available) and a copy of the CD or LP. The tee features a drawing of the album cover by Drew Christie and was originally only available at the Serge Gainsbourg tribute show at the Hollywood Bowl last August. The shirts sold out by the night’s end but now we’ve repressed another limited run, which will be available next Tuesday at LITA-LTD. Of course, how can you go wrong with the CD or LP reissue either?

For your chance to win, enter your name and email address (kept private) along with a comment below. Tell us your favorite Serge song, album, lyric, or moment even. Winner will be picked at random and announced next Friday, 3/30 at 12pm PST. Bon chance!

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