Magnet Magazine - 15 In Philly: Siltbreeze Records

Although not a Columbus label, Siltbreeze out of Philadelphia is an important supporter of the Columbus music scene going back decades, with ties that bind the Gibson Bros. and Times New Viking. Magnet Magazine provided a nice primer on the label in 2009, here is some of that:

Siltbreeze’s aesthetic was all over the stylistic and geographical map, from the cracked country of Ohio’s Gibson Bros. to the overloaded Philly skronk of Blue. The label’s biggest finds, however, were avant-garde New Zealand artists such as Alastair Galbraith and the Dead C. 

“New Zealand was churning out all sorts of strange and personal folk and noise music that no one was paying attention to in the early ’90s,” says Jay Hinman, editor of music zine Superdope. “Siltbreeze got the Dead C stuff out in America first, and over the next few years, people really started taking notice.”