Continuing into the present, while we also host virtual mixtapes and dubs, in a somewhat more official capacity we got into research & preservation. With the release of On the Air with Guido Sinclair, as well as Variety In Motion, we've entered a new phase of archival operations, outside of social media and streaming platforms.
Associated Acts (A-Z):
Eureka Brown
The Deebster
Digitalia Records
Groove Timber
Happy Blues Orchestra
The High Street Orchestra
The Invisible
Jeck
Tom Paynter
Quackatron
Royal Electric
Scooter
Beat Sinclair
Guido Sinclair
Elmo Townsend
Polehouse (The Digitália Command Center)
(the actual Polehouse [0], that the [Digitalia] recording studio was named after was a clubhouse on stilts, "essentially a treehouse minus the tree" as Doug Hoepker once put it, that was so close to the [old] East Urbana Parasol location that you could literally see it through the foliage)...
The New Street duplex, which was some time host to the Pi Omega Omega Formal, originally housed the recording studio that came to be known as Polehouse (1), and it was there that the earliest Groove Timber sessions were recorded as well as the first Here It Comes sessions...
Tractor Kings unofficially mixed their first album Sunday Night with Swoon front man Joe Stover at Polehouse (2)—which was at that time a wing of the kitchen in the house where (T.) Duke lived with Kris and Karl (Bauer, of The Invisible); the location where the Bauer's hosted their first in a series of annual 4th of July parties—where The Tractor Kings agreed to perform a free show with The Blackouts and Parasol Records label-mates The Violents...
The only non-demo (Invisible) album that was actually pressed was the debut, Here It Comes, which was mixed and mastered at Private Studios by Bauer brothers landlord Jonathan Pines (the main Polehouse [3] location was next door to Private), who has mixed much of the music on Polyvinyl, including Japandroids and Of Montreal, and who co-engineered the Billy Bragg & Wilco album Mermaid Avenue Vol. II which was nominated for the Best Contemporary Folk Album Grammy in 2001...
When The Invisible became Royal Electric, and eventually disbanded, following a series of shows that included the 3rd Pygmalion Music Festival, the Polehouse (4) studio name was retained, while the Big Jolt label name was dropped, with the launch of Digitalia Records, for the first Eureka Brown recordings. Over the years that have followed, there's been a 5th, 6th, 7th, & 8th Polehouse studio location, leading to the 9th and present location, on the outskirts of Eugene.