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Out Friday: Various Artists, Round 7
GLBR07. Nine tracks on three 12 inches, seven of them with the number in the title.
Seven Years tour: dates
Ten nights from October to April, from Brixton to Glasgow and back to fabric.
Berlin clubs and the break-even figure
A Clubcommission study says about six in ten Berlin clubs broke even last year. How that looks from a bookings desk.
Föhn: the string session, and the end of Blitz
Notes from the string session in a Giesing church, and a shorter note on the Munich club that closed this week.
Interview: Frieda Lux
Nachtbus is out. In her Leipzig kitchen, on night buses, a rotary mixer in pieces and a contact mic on the window of the N10.
I.Boat, 2011 to 2026
I.Boat was put into liquidation last Wednesday. Yanis Belkacem and Théo Marchand of Les Quais worked on the boat before they did anything else.
House in Germany and France: closing times and kick drums
Camille Aubert and Lena Vogt have disagreed about this since 2022. Her account, with Lena's replies.
Out now: GLB Plays GLB (GLB050)
Double 12 inch of label artists covering each other. The catalogue moves from 35 to 50 for the sixth birthday.
Paris desk opens
The label now has a desk in the 11th, run by Camille Aubert.
Noé Castaing, La Corniche: summer 2025
GLB033 came out in July and travelled further than planned. Nineteen dates and a third pressing later, a note on what happened.
Clearing Presqu'île
The licensing behind Sacha Vidal's album: forty-seven samples, a wound-up publisher, a daughter in Saint-Étienne and a bass line that had to be replayed.
The cost of a 12 inch
The sums for a 500 copy 12 inch, and why the label keeps pressing.
Anselm Reuter at Watergate
Anselm Reuter played the Waterfloor on Friday, weeks before the club closes.
GLB5 tour: diary
The fifth birthday tour, five cities over five weekends in one hired van.
Interview: Anselm Reuter
Ahead of Heizkraftwerk, on tuning that drops with the temperature, a two-euro contact mic and why an hour is no use to him.
Les Quais, Bassin à Flot: how the sides were swapped
A year on from GLB014, and with its fourth repress just in, the story of the test pressing.
Lost: record box, ICE from Hamburg
A record box was left on a train after Nachtfähre in Hamburg. Here is the inventory filed with lost property.
GLB Records boat party: I.Boat, Bordeaux
Les Quais and Noé Castaing on a converted ferry on Saturday. About 600 on the list and room for 400.
The house sleeve
Jonas Weber on the GLB sleeve: the die-cut, the board and four years of matching one shade of yellow.
Sacha Vidal at Nuits sonores
A two-hour day stage set in Lyon this month, and the booking figures before and after it.
ADE 2022: first GLB Records showcase
Four artists, eleven meetings and a room near the water at Amsterdam Dance Event.
New imprint: Coln. Out now: Aline Roux, Chantiers
COLN001. A second label for ambient and downtempo records, starting with an album of shipyard cranes.
Berlin office opens
GLB Artists now has an office in Neukölln and a head of bookings.
Pressing delays: where the records are
Test pressings that take months, slots booked before the music exists, and the vinyl queue as it looks from a small label.
Demos: three tracks, links only
What the label asks for, how demos get listened to, and the voice note that led to its newest signing.
Loudness at 5am
Sixteen months off has left everyone's ears out of practice. A note on level, fatigue and why it rises towards dawn.
The Long Count returns: fabric, Room 2
The first Long Count in sixteen months, with Anselm Reuter and Frieda Lux, three and a half hours each.
The Balcony Tapes: final figures
Twelve home-recorded mixes, April to December, pay what you like. What came in and where it went.
Out now: Sacha Vidal, Traboules
GLB003, and how it was finished on USB sticks sent by post between Lyon and London.
Cancelled: The Long Count, Rex Club, Paris
The first Paris Long Count was due on Saturday 14 March. France closed its clubs from midnight that night.
The Long Count: Phonox, 7 December
The first party. About 200 people, one DJ, six hours.
GLB001 sold out
Three hundred copies in three weeks. No repress planned for now.
Out now: Anselm Reuter, Köpenicker Dub
GLB001. Three tracks on 12 inch, 300 copies.