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Secretly Distribution is proud to help introduce one of the UK's most proactive and industrious independent music retail projects to North America, furthering a shared love of music – and making sure people listen.
In partnership with Sacred Bones Records, Mort Garson's electronic masterpiece, Mother Earth's Plantasia, will be released in the US as a Dinked International Edition on September 4th, in celebration of the album's 50th Anniversary. Released in 1976 during the height of the indoor plant craze sparked by The Secret Life of Plants, Plantasia was created as "warm earth music for plants… and the people that love them." Recorded using the then new Moog synthesizer, the album blended whimsical melodies, lush electronic textures, and Garson's imagination into a one of a kind tribute to the natural world, gaining an enormous cult following decades after its release. What was once a strange artifact of 1970s plant-mania has become a true evergreen, flourishing far beyond its original moment.
The inaugural Dinked International releases, announced earlier this summer, were reissues of Pixies' Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde, both containing previously unreleased bonus tracks. Dinked has also collaborated with Matador Records on an edition of This Is Lorelei's The Singer In My Band, and Dead Oceans on an edition of Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend.
Sacred Bones Records, Dead Oceans, 4AD, and Matador are thrilled to work with Dinked to expand its operations to a new, international cohort of equally passionate and forward-thinking independent retailers, and reaching a wider group of global fans.
Run by Natasha Youngs (Resident Music, Brighton) and Rupert Morrison (formerly of Drift Records, Totnes), Dinked UK is a not-for-profit collaboration and collective of 36 like-minded, passionate, independent record shops geographically spread across the UK and Ireland, and now 15 more in the US. Over its past eight years, Dinked has worked on 400+ new release campaigns and 30+ special archive editions that have led to 250,000+ records sold for artists of all sizes and sounds, continuing to prove that independent music companies are stronger together.
"Secretly Distribution has long been a fan of Dinked and its focus on bringing independent labels, fans, and retail shops together to support those artists who are making the world's most exciting music. We are thrilled to participate in the next chapter, as they expand internationally, working with some of the US's most forward-thinking retailers."
-Shelly Worcel, Director of Physical Account Strategy at Secretly Distribution
"Dinked are absolutely delighted to work for the first time with a set of USA based partner stores. These first Dinked International Editions will be available at fifteen retailers in North America who very much share the Dinked ethos and will be working alongside the UK's most proactive and industrious independent music retailers to expand the network and the Dinked International series."
-Rupert Morrison, Dinked
"Collaborating with other independent retailers has always been one of my favorite ways to build community in this industry. It's been amazing working with the UK DINKED team to create thoughtful and engaging exclusive releases that we'll be able to offer here in the US."
-Dan Drinkard, Seasick Records, Birmingham AL
Every custom-pressed Dinked Edition delivers a unique fan experience through creative packaging and content. Limited to 1,500 copies, the Dinked International Edition of Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia marks the album's 50th anniversary with an exclusive Spruce vinyl pressing, a plant journal featuring the original Mother Earth's Indoor Plant Care Booklet and a digital download presented on a real seed-paper card, available at the following 15 independent record stores throughout the US.
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