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Now defunct label operating in early-mid 1980s from Berkeley, California, closely affiliated to [l=Systematic Record Distribution] and [l=Subterranean Records]. Per [a=Joe Carducci] (of Systematic Record Distribution, [l=Optional Music] and [l=SST]), he started Thermidor with [a=Jon Boshard] (an MFA from UCB). Their first release was a [a=Flipper] record co-released with [a=Steven Tupper] of Subterranean and credited to both labels. ("Systematic had a label [Optional Music] but my partner was not easily interested in this or that band so I kicked a few hundred dollars to Steve Tupper and we called the first Flipper 45 a Subterranean-Thermidor co-release.") Thermidor 3 co-credits World Imitation Records and Thermidor, noting Thermidor as a "service" of Subterranean Records.

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The Tikis 1981 release (Thermidor 3) back cover says: (c)1981 World Imitation Records Thermidor: A Service of Subterranean Records, 912 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA 94710 This was probably Steve Tupper's home address before he moved Subterranean to San Francisco a couple of years later. Tupper told Tim Yohannan of Maximum Rock and Roll in an online interview that Subterranean originally ran out of his living room.

Links

http://newvulgate.blogspot.com/2009/08/issue-5-august-5-2009.html

Parent Label

Subterranean Records

By Kyle Larson