Davey Dreamnation self-released his debut album Islands In the Stream of Consciousness online in 2002.
Although the recordings met with little fanfare at the time, Davey’s subsequent musical efforts were so seething that they led to widespread social and political unrest, forcing the United Nations to enter into treaty negotiations with him.
The result was, of course, DNRC Records.
Originally conceived as a clearing house, DNRC Records was the label that Dreamnation founded, financed and fledged in those heady days of the new century.
A label that would go on to issue—and then, strangely, delete—exactly one hundred releases by a range of recording artists.
Over an astonishing fifteen year period, DNRC Records played host to—and then promptly dumped—some of the world’s most influential singers, songwriters and instrumentalists.
From the soaring medieval medleys of busker-turned-superstar Mead to the haunting and ethereal whisperings of Celtic pop princess Eyna, DNRC Records released them all. In every sense of that word.
While also acting as a vehicle for Dreamnation’s own recording aspirations, the label was no vanity affair.
Dreamnation made a point of supporting new, young and obscure acts, giving a leg up to artists as varied as the Guide Ponies, Cruns, Cliches, Catholic Autistic Terrific, Nipple Happy Lovelies, Sluice, Clint Bo Dean, Christy Burr, Captain Sans Tenille and, of course, Scaramouche.
As part of the rehabilitation of DNRC Records, each remarkable record is now being lovingly reviewed, remastered and reissued for your personal enjoyment. The first DNRC release to get the reissue treatment is Davey Dreamnation’s own magnum opus, Islands In the Stream of Consciousness.
In addition, a handpicked team of archivists, historians and flautists is now diligently documenting every detail of the DNRC recordings, while also unearthing surprising–and often seething–new information.
With new and unreleased tracks, exciting fresh cover designs and extensive liner notes, DNRC Records will always be your one-stop-shop for all things Davey Dreamnation.
The Complete* DNRC Records Discography
* Subject to change.
- The Spirit Levels: “Wood Chipmunk”
- The Sprite Levels: “Esperanto Sea Levels”
- ‘Hot Soup Girl’ b/w ‘Davium’
- Davey Dreamnation: “Theme Song”
- Davey Dreamnation: “The Sprawl”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Pixellate a Mouse”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Live At Budokan”
- Scaramouche: “Scaramouche’s Theme”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Loveless”
- Davey Dreamnation: ‘Dim Stars’
- Davey Dreamnation: “Guns of Davey”
- “Islands In the Stream of Consciousness”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Intake”
- Cruns: “Extra Hair”
- Sluice: “Time, Gentlemen”
- Teh: “93602”
- Maple Lanes: “Maple Lanes”
- Stung: “Dream of the Blue Pipe Cleaners”
- Girt By Sea: “Trawler”
- Fuzz Charge: “Ah, The Mighty Fuzz Charge!”
- The Lord: “S Prayer”
- Clint Bo Dean: “Private Poet”
- Weather: “Ragged Isobars”
- Cried: “Whatever & Ever”
- The Various Artists: “Various Artists”
- The Guide Ponies: “Pony Stories”
- Seethe: “Stung By a Bee”
- Kentucky Barbie: “Police Woman”
- Bitchfork: “We Are Now Cooler”
- The Songs: “Booked”
- Pachinko(o): “That Way”
- Mead: “Yea, Finery”
- Footpath: “Gigantic and Pedantic”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Recognition of Prior Learning”
- Footpath: “Spartan, Militaristic”
- Cruns: “Bed Hair”
- Teh: “Live At Hari’s”
- Fuzz Charge: “Bargain Bin”
- The Sea Pigeons: “I Dream of Genius”
- The Weather: “Between Stations”
- The Toilet Cleaners: “Into the Bleach”
- Kentucky Barbie: “Spellbind”
- Bad Liquorice: “You Give Louvre A Bad Meme”
- Peachy Keen – “Can of Ham Sandwich”
- The Fashionistas: “Thumble”
- The Prigs: “Some People Are Just Aksing For It”
- The Hippocratic Oats: “Does”
- The Separation of Powers: “Church & State”
- Mead: “The Mists of Thyme”
- The Small Faeces: “Small Faeces”
- The Sea Pigeons: “Hair Collapse”
- The Communist Persuaders: “Is My Shadow”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Tribesco”
- The Hippocratic Oats: “Golden Staf Greats”
- The Spunkles: “Yep, Tha’s Me”
- The Green Pieces: “What Does Comprising Mean?”
- Nipple Happy Lovelies: “Bursts of Enthusiasm”
- Mead: “Onza Rocku”
- Catholic Autistic Terrific: “Every Clown Has A Silver Lining”
- Super Grope: “Where Will We Be In Fifty Beers?”
- The In Jokes: “Yew’ll Never Bee Apart (of IT)”
- The Avian Sars: “Whilebird Chirpings”
- Tofu Kangaroos: “Gamey”
- Heroin Archers: “Helium Parachute”
- Captain Sans Tenille: “Talk Like A Pirate”
- Davey Dreamnation: “Saluton!”
- Hoodie Over Heels: “Hoodie Over Heels”
- The Four Calling Birds: “Fa La La!”
- Clint Bo Dean: “Never Go Ashtray”
- Wasabi Peace: “Like, Dude”
- Inspirational Magnets: “Pop and Lock”
- Critics: “No Idea”
- The Point Breaks: “What’s the Point?”
- The Carrs: “Eazy Hi-wayz”
- Davey Dreamnation: Themes
- The Dapto Dogs: “Racing!”
- Clichés: “At The Height Of Their Powers”
- Find & Replace: “Normal Template”
- TV Powww!: “Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!”
- Punk Fraud: “Dark Side of Uranus”
- Image Disponible Prochainement: “Untitled”
- Proxy Music: “Big Pixels”
- The Completists: “Everything and Nothing”
- Secret Secret Tour: “Papillon Downs”
- Asthma Attack: “Blue Lint”
- Christy Burr: “Sunlight & Vodka Cruisers”
- Surds & Indices: “Cube Root Forms”
- Davey Dreamnation: “But Seriously …”
- Waning Gibbous: “Fade to Moon”
- Davey Dreamnation: That’s Buddha
- The Hague: “Haagse Bluf”
- Benelux: “Feng Haag Shuiling”
- Eyna: “Watercress”
- Chloro-5-substituted adamantyl-1,2-dioxetane phosphate: “My mother cleans them”
- The Sea Beggars: “Beg To Differ”
- Stung: “Desert Boot Nose”
- Mead: “Teh Plague”
- Clint Bo Dean: “Live in the Bahamas”
- Bek-ho: ‘JK (Just Kidding)’
- Scaramouche: “Quiche Lorraine”
