SHALL0W DiVE REC0RDS
Logo by Reyna Gallardo
SDR is a bedroom seedling & an inevitable belly flop! So, please… Handle with scare! Like Aphrodite sprung from the seafoam, the shallow dive leaps to faith <3
Shallow Dive Records is a Santa Cruz-based diy record label that supports outsider artists who are too weird, marginal or lo-fi to be supported by other labels. For our first release, we launched a campaign to help Sam Empasis, oldened stoner & local hippie karate apprentice, release his debut record on vinyl & compact disc. You can watch the mini-doc we made on Sammy below.
After successfully funding and releasing Sam’s debut record, we have continued the trend by releasing music from local artists on vinyl, cassette, compact disc, and digitally. We specialize in comps, debut & sophomore releases, and low-fidelity sounds.
~ Releases ~
Sam Empasis - ‘The Kidd Returns‘, ‘The Blues Starts Here!’ & ‘Haight Street Kid’ (vinyl, compact disc & digital)
No Boot Straps - ‘an illustration of containment’ (digital)
Rounded - ‘Big Deal’ (cassette, digital)
Superbloom - S/T (digital)
Cool Loge - ‘Snowed In’ (digital)
Rip Florence - ‘DEMOS’, ‘Smash Yer Head on the Junk Rock’, ‘@ the HOSPITAL of rest & DREAMS’, ‘Joy in Living “Say Cheese & Die!!”’, & ‘Berlin Bloos!’ (cassette, compact disc & digital)
Crocodile Tearz - S/T (cassette, digital)
Laurence White - ‘blue eye’ (digital)
Kay - ‘one candlelight’ (digital, compact disc)
Vee Ivy & The Conures - ‘Stamp Collecting’ (digital)
Compilations - ‘Little Big Town’, ‘Cry of the Fish’, ‘Stay Gold!’ (cassette, digital)
Click here to listen
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*Original logo design by Rooney Farris
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