Ecstatic Peace! is a

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based in Easthampton,

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, founded in 1981 by American musician

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Mo ...

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. The label name is borrowed from a line in

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's 1968 nonfiction novel '' The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test''. The label's releases are eclectic and often experimental or avant-garde. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch. Ecstatic Peace! has released more than 200 LPs, cassettes, 7"s, and CDs, of both highly established and fledgling artists, including Hush Arbors,

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, Free Kitten, Arthur Doyle, Dredd Foole, No-Neck Blues Band, Nels Cline, Notekillers, Magik Markers,

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, Pagoda, My Cat Is An Alien, Monotract, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Violent Soho, and many more. In February 2006, Moore signed a deal with

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to distribute the label's albums. The label's website was hacked at some point during the latter half of 2012. Since 2015, the site's lone page says "Thanks for checking in. Have a good day." As of 2022, this was its last update. Ecstatic Peace! has released three records since 2014, all of which are Thurston Moore recordings.

References

A perfect partner: An interview with Ecstatic Peace’s Andrew Kesin
Saucer Like interview

External links

Official site
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See also

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