About Knife Slits Water and Le Club Suburbia
Knife Slits Water: independent record label
Knife Slits Water is an independent record label and distro based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We only release small quantities of our own favorite bands that come from a from a broad range of ‘underground indie culture’. Each release has an exclusive, small quantity pressing with a special design.
How to contact us, distribution, trades and wholesales
Trades will be gladly taken into consideration. Wholesaling is much appreciated. Please get in touch: knifeslitswatermusik@gmail.com. If you have a label of your own and want us to distribute your records, please send us an email too. If you have any tips regarding distro’s, (online)stores, etc. that should really carry our records, get in touch!
Most of our releases and ditro items are available at International Independent Bookstore Fort van Sjakoo in the centre of Amsterdam. Our releases are carried by the following distro’s / stores as well: Da Capo Records (NL) – Distortion Records (NL) - De Graanrepubliek (NL) – Independent Outlet (NL) – Recordfriend (NL) – Altin Village & Mine (D) – Bis Aufs Messer (D) – Monotonstudio Records (D) – Narshardaa Records (D) – React With Protest (D) – Sabotage Records (D) – X-Mist (D) – Deleted Art/Store (S) – Moptaco Dics (S)
Le Club Suburbia: underground indie concerts
Le Club Suburbia brings you innovative and stimulating musicians from a broad range of global underground indie culture.
Le Club Suburbia…
…a concert programming group in Amsterdam, organizing most of our events at a venue called OCCII, just southwest of our city’s centre. Our aim is to provide a stage and hospitality for non-commercially touring bands and to select the freshest sounds of the indie underground.
In all honesty, our concerts are set up quite far away from what might be called Suburbia, especially the one portrayed in Penelope Spheeris’s 1984 film, whose name we adopted for our activities. Suburbia, then, must be taken metaphorically: we organize shows for bands that just won’t make it (yet?) to the bigger commercial venues you’ll find closer to or within Amsterdam’s grachtengordel.
Call us romantics or naïve; we focus on bands and music that, until a couple of years ago, could rightfully be filed under indie. Indeed, processes of gentrification are not only going on in real estate, but also in music: indie is now a genre, an aesthetic adopted by major labels (just like in cinema: what does the name Warner Independent Pictures even mean?). You’d almost forget that there are still truly independent and stimulating musicians out there!
Info and bookings:
Geert-Jan – Maarten – Caspar – Rynke graphic design [website]
…with help of lots of other friends!
info@leclubsuburbia.org
Some of the bands that played at Le Club Suburbia since 2004 include:
1) From the Netherlands:
About, About Paris, Adept, Adolf Butler, Am Square, Anaphylactic Shock, Appie Kim, Arms & Legs, Barre Bizarre, Chickas Ariba, Cotopaxi, De Nieuwe Vrolijkheid, Dusty Blinds, Empire Cheese, Eva Braun, Firestone, fr.ro.st, Fuz, Fyoelk, Ice Cream Eating Motherfuckers, The Julie Mittens, Karaktermoord, Katadreuffe, Kismet, Laser Poodle, Magnetronix, Malle Pietje and the Bimbos, Jozef van Wissem, .man, Meldy Peaches, Orphax, Pfaff, The Puddle Parade, Real Room, Schotel van de Dag, Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka, Silver Salts, Silver Souls, Spilt Milk, Sweet Empire, Sweet Sweet, Tenement Kids, Thank Christ for the Bomb, The Heights, The Moi Non Plus, Union Town, The Walt, The Wolf, Death and the Acorn, Twombly.
2) From the United States of America:
Anavan, Awesome Color, BARR, Burial Hex, Cave, Chris Leo & Vague Angels, Chris Forsyth, Core of the Coalman, Crystal Stilts, Das Oath, Die Princess Die, Ecstatic Sunshine, Finally Punk, Gary War, Glass and Ashes, Get Hustle, Head of Wantastiquet, Haram, Hawnay Troof, Japanther, Jason Urick, Magik Markers, Melted Men, Meneguar, Mika Miko, MV&EE, Age, Numbers, Obits, Partyline, Pocahaunted, Rah Bras, Religious Knives, Samara Lubelski, Sic Alps, Sixteens, Spacehorse, Starving Weirdos, Sun Araw, Tara Jane O’Neil, Teeth Mountain, The Chinese Stars, The Good Good, The Flesh, The Jai-Alai Savant, The Yellow Press, U.S. Girls, Wavves, Wives, Wolves in the Throne Room, Woods, XBXRX.
3) From Sweden:
Chronic Heist, Cut City, Jailhouse Fuck, King Kong Kobra, Laagrluv, Seven Feet Four, Tar … Feathers, The Je Ne Sais Quoi.
4) From Germany:
Airpeople, Amtrak, Herpes, Schneller Autos Organisation, Song & Dance, Ten Volt Shock, Tschilp, Zisch Zosch.
5) From Canada:
Aids Wolf, The Creeping Nobodies, Les Georges Leningrad, Ghettonuns, Pony Up.
6) From Belgium:
Bear Bones Lay Low, Ignatz, Sylvester Anfang II, White Circle Crime Club.
7) From the United Kingdom:
Hunting Lodge, Nackt Insecten.
8) From Finland:
Echo Is Your Love.
9) From Portugal:
Gala Drop.
10) From France:
The Feeling of Love, High Wolf.