It’s been a great year of releases and concerts, with records from longstanding artists such as Lothar Ohlmeier, Maurizio Ravalico, Rudi Fischerlehner, Alex Bonney, Ollie Bown and Isambard Khroustaliov as well as new collaborations with Jasmine Morris, Mieko Shimizu, Jem Doulton, James Allsopp, Olaf Rupp, Frank-Paul Schubert and Will Glaser.
We’ve also had some great concerts to celebrate the release of Scarla O’Horror and Icarus’ new albums at New River Studios. Huge respect to them for keeping their venue open to the truly independent DIY music scene in all its wonderful guises and also to the artists who joined us for those nights; Matt Cargill, George Crowley, Dan Conway and Derek Storm in particular. Huge shout out to Andrew Plummer too, whose sage advice and skills at spreading the word about the work of the label and artists through his Limited Noise PR moniker is invaluable.
A massive thanks too to all of the photographers, artists and designers we’ve worked with this year; Thomas Peter, Philip Davies, Gareth Humphreys and Joji Koyama, it’s been a real joy to have such great artwork feature alongside the music.
Alongside NA releases, this year we also made available the entire Icarus back catalogue as free downloads via https://icarusarchives.bandcamp.com/ It’s been quite humbling to reflect on the fact that the seeds of Not Applicable were sown almost 25 years ago with the first NA release; Icarus’ ‘Misfits’.
Lastly, thanks to all of our supporters out there buying the records and coming to the concerts. 2025 is already looking really exciting; hope to see you out there! In the meantime, seasons greetings.
