Music From Memory

Accessibility: one element of the digital progress that is a powerful addition to many aspects of our lives. There’s also an entitled laziness that can emit from such advances, but not at Music From Memory! The label venture of Tako Reyenga and Jamie Tiller - is above all - a project that offers us all a hard-won access to avenues and sounds that have hitherto remained shaded or eclipsed. It’s always striking that at the core of ‘re-issue’ label mindsets (although MFM do not focus solely on reissues) several important things exist: voracious appetites, passion and confidence. Under the inspirational glare of red light (these folk initially started a 2nd hand store of the same name) there lies a passion and fervent fingering through a truly eclectic range of sounds from the past. Deciding which oddities to release must prove as challenging as finding them, and it is all that lies in such brave curatorial decisions that sets labels like this from others muscling from the same corner. All their releases are physical - 12”s which arrive in your hands adorned with exceptional artwork & design, and alongside the re-issues catalogue are perfectly nestled morsels from the now - no easy feat - certainly something quite uniquely harmonious to this imprint.