THE SHEEP RECORDS STORY #2: MONSOON "AND NOW..." (1997)

Sheep Records was a Swiss underground label specialized in Garage-Rock, Surf, Lounge and other Rock'n'Roll oddities. Run by Christian Müller from Zürich, along with friends Andi Frick and Andreas Egi, it was active from 1996 to 2004 and published about 30 releases, mostly on 7" vinyl singles.

In october 2006, after about two years of hiatus, all the contents of the now defunct Sheep Records website were deleted from the Internet, and replaced with a blank page announcing that "Der Kebab ist gegessen" ("The kebab is eaten"), a last goodbye and a reference to the label's cataloguing system that included the prefix "kebab" for vinyl releases and "gigot" for CD releases.



The second Sheep Records release was a 7" picture disc by Monsoon, a short-lived side project that included ex-members of the Swiss bands Run Chicken Run and Bishop's Daughter. The single was released in June 1997 and was limited to 500 copies. This was Monsoon's only official release.

Here's the track list and a few notes for this release:

01. And Now... (7:02)
02. 'Cause They Know What You Don't (7:20)

Produced by: Mainstudios, Suisa
Foto: Susi Rodmer
Grafik: Code ZH
File under: "Swiss underground legends of yore"

A psychotic embracement, symphonic in it's derangement...



Both tracks were remastered from vinyl in April 2012 and are available in FLAC lossless format or high-quality 320 Kbps MP3 files, both formats include scans of the original item in PDF format. Please have a look at the comments for the download links.

More information about Sheep Records is available here:

http://www.surfnroll.de/interviews/sheep/sheep.html

The Sheep Records story will continue in the next months. All your inputs are more than welcome, if you want to get in touch please write to stereocandies [at] hotmail [dot] com or leave a comment in the box below, thank you!