Label series / H.Y.R. 001-004
The Hate You Years
Before October Party Records there was Hate You Records. Four catalogue numbers between 1995 and 1998: a Punishment Park cassette, two split 7-inches with bands from the States, and one compilation CD made with a friend in London. This is where the whole thing started.
Where it started
Hate You Records, 1995-1998
I started a label because I was impatient. Punishment Park had recorded Blendwerk, and finding somebody to release it went slowly. I was also tired of all the mess I had run into with other companies, not least in Germany. So I did it myself. There was no vision, no mission and no goal for the company itself. I wanted to make my own things on my own label, and I wanted to answer to nobody.
The cassette came in June 1995, in exactly 512 copies, with the kind of fold-out cover only a cassette can have. All of them were sold or used as promotion, and most travelled out of Norway. Today it must be called a rarity. Then came the two 7-inches with friends from the States. Time Bomb EP with MU330, 1,000 copies in May 1998. Nothing Lasts Forever EP with Link 80, 750 copies in August 1998. The last release was the compilation Genetic Mutations Vol. 1, made with my good friend Andy Kline and his DHMG in London. It came in 1,000 copies, and most of them ended up in the UK and central Europe.
By then the name felt a bit corny to me. I was not so angry anymore. In this period I had also become father to two children, both born in October, so October was my party month of the year. What could fit better than October Party Records? In November 1998 Hate You Records became October Party Records. Four catalogue numbers was all Hate You got.