Public Information was/is a record label I established in 2008 with Lionel Skerratt
In 2008/9 I was working a split week at the British Library Sound Archive and Bleep.com/Warp Records in London. Dream jobs really; properly immersed in electronic music and archives! Working at Warp I started to understand the process of putting out music and began to have a latent interest in doing it myself. A colleague at the BL put me onto Brighton-based Ian Helliwell who was sitting on a ‘pile of old electronics by a bloke called Fred’.
I was at that time going deep into the wormhole of early electronics (Stockhausen, Delia etc) and this sounded intriguing. I met Ian, and so we set about digitising the audio and pulling it together. My good friend at Warp, Lionel, was/is production manager for the vinyl/CD/merch there and so we went in on Public Info together. It took about 18months to bring the Judd release to fruition, meanwhile I approached some newer artists in a similar musical vein and away we went…
Since that release we put out over twenty records of archive and new music from artists based in the US, Europe, Canada and even deepest Siberia. We travelled with events to festivals such as Unsound (Krakow), and Incubate (Tilburg, NE), and DJ’d all over. It was a wild ride. The label lives on in the shadows, with many releases now fully sold out, but still available to purchase digitally on our Bandcamp….
