Tenth Planet Records

TENTH PLANET RECORDS

To the surprise of the folks at Record Collector, numerous Klubs fans responded to the mention of the band; they were even contacted by one of the original bandmembers, Norris “Noz” Easterbrook. Within months, Tenth Planet Records rushed a vinyl-only album called Midnight Love Cycle to market; the 1,000 discs in the pressing were nearly sold out when Record Collector justly named the record “Album of the Year” for 1999, ahead of releases that year of albums by much better known bands like Fleetwood Mac and Small Faces.

(July 2013)

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Chimera recorded something like 20 songs (variously reported as being in 1968, 1969 and/or 1970) in an acid-folk style for a planned album that remained unreleased for decades, while picking up legendary status among psychedelic record collectors. After having several bootleg pressings, the album (10 songs) was finally officially released by Tenth Planet Records in 2002 in a limited edition (1,000 numbered copies) of 190-gram LP’s; that is the one that I picked up years ago. More recently, Wooden Hill Records issued a more complete CD of Chimera’s music in 2004 that includes 19 tracks.

(November 2013)