Abridged Pause Recordings

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idea of starting a new label, completely apart from Mortification Records, came in January of 2008. had previously created Mortified Productions in October of 2007 and that folded in December of 2007 or January of 2008.

Indie label motivated by the coming trend which wasn’t really a trend at the time at least for me since I came from a metal background. I was discovering a completely new genre

Band of horses
Monsters of folk
Maybe more bands from Rox?

it’s possible that the compilation was worked on during the transition from Mortified Productions to Abridged Pause Recordings, because I vaguely recall telling someone that I was working on this as MP but that I would release it under a new record label name.
also i probably wanted a new name for an indie label
I made a Notepad list of a bunch of potential label names
the name Abridged Pause Recordings was chosen in early February of 2008. (submitted it to RYM on February 12th)
https://rateyourmusic.com/labels/profile_history?label_id=19613
Transatlantic Recordings was considered
The reason for using “Recordings” in the name, as opposed to “Records” or “Productions” (which I had already used through Mortification Records and Mortified Productions) was influenced by two record labels that I really respected and looked up to at the time: Eulogy Recordings and Ipecac Recordings. It’s also possible that I wanted something that stood it apart from Mortification Records and Mortified Productions.

after VE ep release, what did I do? release was delayed because of artwork, finally came out March 14th, but then what?
maybe some promo in April once artwork was actually done and release date was backdated.
move to De Lanaudiere in May and have issues with recording stuff on my computer. remember having issues for like a year (finished Travels in June of 2009)
worked on Human Infect over winter/spring of 2008
june-september made plans for split with Ethereal Beauty (planned for APR already)
Jeremy tells me he needs some bands for the website design, didn’t want to make a website without content. So I started looking for new bands to sign (I originally wanted to launch the label before signing bands)
late August or early September I found Dreams of the Drowned and Black Autumn and changed label direction from Indie to atmospheric black/sludge (metal https://rateyourmusic.com/labels/profile_details?id=32007)
at first I didn’t want to do a compilation on APR, because I had had such bad luck with the Triskalyon Promo Pack on MR and with the Mortified Productions compilation.
I eventually decided to do a compilation to introduce the record label and gather a better fanbase and showcase the genre I was going for and to gain some time since Dreams of the Drowned wasn’t finishing up the album promised and Black Autumn wasn’t ready yet.
probably started working on Diluvian Temperals in late 2008, maybe December.
it was originally supposed to come out in April of 2009.
only came out in August of 2009.

 

Discovered Black Autumn in August/September of 2008, fell in love with the song “Ophelia” on Myspace. “Rivers of Dead Leaves” wasn’t out yet, it only came out in December of 2008 and I wanted to release it but he had already agreed with Antichristian Front Records. So we made plans to release his next full-length, which took some time and was eventually released as “Aurora” by another label because I didn’t have the funds.

 

Events missing dates:

Between April and September of 2008 I changed the Mortification Records Myspace page into the Abridged Pause Recordings Myspace pages

 

Timeline:

  • 2008-01 Idea of new label to release indie rock instead/parallel to Mortified Productions for metal
  • 2008-01 Come up with name Transatlantic Recordings
  • 2008-02 Come up with name Abridged Pause Recordings
  • 2008-02-12 Submit Abridged Pause Recordings page on Rate Your Music
  • 2008-03-13 Meet Dukes of the Archipelago at concert and talk to them about working together later that week on Myspace
  • 2008-03-22 Fold Mortified Productions officially
  • 2008-03-25 Facebook post to Jeremy Roux’s wall “i want the AP recordings website to be reminiscent of the way i did the Eternel page http://www.myspace.com/triskalyon clean, fresh, inspiring, and beauty, yet i want the JR feel to it”
  • 2008-06/07 Jeremy Roux designs the first Abridged Pause Recordings logo
  • 2008-07-03 Jeremy Roux designs the first version of the website
  • 2008-07-03 Jeremy Roux Facebook message: “dude, got some more mockups to show you… lemme know when u got time to discuss them”
  • 2008-08-13 Create PayPal account
  • 2008-08-27 Dreams of the Drowned demo is released
  • 2008-09-07 Website domain http://www.abridgedpause.com is registered
  • 2008-09-07 Create alex@abridgedpause.com email
  • 2008-09-10 Send Dreams of the Drowned’s modified (stretched) website artist image to Camille
  • 2008-09-16 Change RYM entry from “indie” to “Atmospheric Black Metal, Post-Rock, Shoegaze” and add Black Autumn, Dreams of the Drowned, Ethereal Beauty and Vision Éternel as bands
  • 2008-09-16 Personal Facebook status update: “is siked about Abridged Pause Recordings”
  • 2008-10-11 Work on the Abridged Pause Recordings website with Jeremy
  • 2008-10-19 Website http://www.abridgedpause.com goes live
  • 2008-10-29 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Last.fm page
  • 2008-11-13 First news post on abridgedpause.com
  • 2008-12-31 Personal Facebook status update: “is putting together a HUGE comp for the label”
  • 2009-03-23 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Twitter profile
  • 2009-03-25 post on Twitter “APR Compilation comin real soon”
  • 2009-04-11 post on Twitter “Dreams of the Drowned to wake up this morning!”
  • 2009-Summer Website http://www.abridgedpause.com goes offline “under construction”
  • 2009-05-30 post on Twitter “Abridged Pause website almost done being updated. check out the current additions (new band pages, media, news about upcoming release)”
  • 2009-06-16 Vincent Cassar sends in the artwork for Diluvian Temperals
  • 2009-06-16 Personal Facebook status update: “Abridged Pause Recordings is gonna be a huge success! i know it 😛 lots coming in 2009. LOTS!”
  • 2009-06-17 post on Twitter “shit load of stuff to come VERY soon! keep your eyes close. very close, kus if you miss it, youll regret it”
  • 2009-06-24 post on Twitter “sngs have been added to the myspace player! http://www.myspace.com/abridgedpause”
  • 2009-06-28 post on Twitter “Diluvian Temperals tracks are done getting mastered, artwork is done. Website is getting remade, and other releases are being planned. SOON!”
  • 2009-07-06 post on Twitter “new songs on the player! http://www.myspace.com/abridgedpause”
  • 2009-07-10 post on Twitter “creating the music players for the new APR website.”
  • 2009-07-12 Personal Facebook status update: “Business plan, after day one: 9 pages long.”
  • 2009-07-17 Personal Facebook status update: “Sooo much good shit coming out this summer for me! Soufferance: 1 EP, 1 LP VE: 2 EPs getting reissued. APR: 3 albums, plus followed by a load of vinyl releases”
  • 2009-08-10 post on Twitter “website is almost done!”
  • 2009-08-12 post on Twitter “flyers for the first two releases are done! soon, very soon….”
  • 2009-08-24 post on Twitter “It’s finally out! Check out the first two releases of APR which are now out for free download! http://www.myspace.com/abridgedpause”
  • 2009-08-24 Release Diluvian Temperals and Sea of Abandoned Polaroids
  • 2009-09-20 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Facebook Group
  • 2009-09-20 post on Twitter “add our new facebook account! http://www.facebook.com/abridgedpause”
  • 2009-09-21 post on Twitter “going food shopping, listening to the new Kailash! vinyl version of the album to be expected in early 2010 on APR!”
  • 2009-09-23 post on Twitter “couple things left to fix on the site, but most of it is all good! http://www.abridgedpause.com”
  • 2009-09-23 post on Twitter “our website is progressing! YAY! expect it to be big! i mean BIG! like hydrahead records big!”
  • 2009-09-24 post on Twitter “preparing for the next 2 APR releases. you can check them out on our website! http://www.abridgedpause.com. also working on a webstore!”
  • 2009-09-28 post on Twitter “things are gonna be a little slow for the next couple weeks, but we will be back!”
  • 2009-10-08 post on Twitter “preparing for the next releases soon!”
  • 2009-10-11 post on Twitter “moving in a few hours… new apartment, here we come :(“
  • 2009-10-18 post on Twitter “finally has internet back! APR back to work”
  • 2010-01-07 post on Twitter “smehow, APR is not dead yet! I know we havent been giving you guys enough news, but i hope 2010 will be a better year for us! here we go!”
  • 2010-02-18 post on Twitter “2 new releases coming real soon on Abridged Pause. they are revealed on our myspace! http://www.myspace.com/abridgedpause”
  • 2010-02-19 Create abridgedpause@gmail.com email
  • 2010-02-23 post on Twitter “new songs have been added on the myspace player! check it! tell all your friends! http://www.myspace.com/abridgedpause”
  • 2010-02-23 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Youtube account
  • 2010-03 Website http://www.abridgedpause.com goes live again, Jeremy Roux updates the designs of the first version.
  • 2010-03-09 Register Abridged Pause Recordings as a legal company in Quebec, business number 2266442682, Les Disques Pause Abréger
  • 2010-03-09 Release Abondance de périls and Beyond the Dune Sea
  • 2010-03-29 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Facebook Page and delete the old Facebook group
  • 2010-03-29 post on Twitter “Abridged Pause is now on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Abridged-Pause-Recordings/110450902307237”
  • 2010-03-29 send out message to Facebook Group fans “Hello, this is Alex from Abridged Pause Recordings. I am attempting to delete the Abridged Pause Recordings group on facebook, in order to create a new page.However for some odd reason, i was not able to delete you from the members list. There are no way to actually delete facebook groups manually, but facebook does automatically delete them once all memebers have left or been deleted from the group. so i was wondering if youd be able to manually leave the group called Abridged Pause Recordings.”
  • 2010-04-01 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Bandcamp page http://www.abridgedpause.bandcamp.com
  • 2010-04-01 Abridged Pause Recordings Wikipedia page flagged for deletion
  • 2010-04-07 Abridged Pause Recordings Wikipedia page deleted
  • 2011-12-31 Create Abridged Pause Recordings Google+ page at https://plus.google.com/+Abridgedpause
  • 2012-01-16 I redesign the Abridged Pause Recordings Bandcamp page
  • 2012-01-30 Website http://www.abridgedpause.com Jeremy Roux designs the second version.
  • 2012-03-14 Release The Last Great Torch Song and Past Changing Fast: Faster Ahead
  • 2012-04-17 Create abridgedpause@yahoo.com email
  • 2013-08-14 Release Travels
  • 2013-08-19 Merge How Can They Intend to Heal, Sadness By Name and Abridged Pause Recordings News together as the Abridged Pause Blog
  • 2013-09-03 I re-design the second Abridged Pause Recordings logo
  • 2013-09-27 Registered Abridged Pause Recordings for Post Canada Venture One Small Business Program
  • 2013-11-14 Release Bonjour Tristesse and Adieu Tristesse
  • 2013-12-27 Register Abridged Pause Publishing (Archivage Pause Abréger), Abridged Pause Archiving (Les Editions Pause Abréger) and Abridged Pause Blog (Blogue Pause Abréger) as legal companies in Quebec
  • 2014-02-22 I re-design the Abridged Pause Recordings Myspace page
  • 2014-09-12/13/14 Website http://www.abridgedpause.com Jeremy Roux designs the third version.
  • 2014-10-15 Release Memories of a City
  • 2015-02-14 Release Echoes from Forgotten Hearts
  • 2015-08-27 I re-design the third Abridged Pause Recordings thumbnail logo
  • 2015-08-29 Release Phase One (2006-2009)
  • 2015-09-28 Release Luna Subortus
  • 2015-11-26 I re-design the fourth Abridged Pause Recordings thumbnail logo
  • 2016-01-03 I re-design the fourth Abridged Pause Recordings logo
  • 2016-05-24 Stopped renewal of Quebec business registration
  • 2016-12-10 Create abridgedpause@hotmail.com email