A brief history...
Mash Down Babylon Recordings is a boutique vinyl record label. It is still and has always been run out of a little garage in sunny Long Beach California. We release albums we like by people we love :)
MDB Recordings was started in early 2002 with the sole purpose of putting out the Seekret Socyetee record, "The ILL Word". I had been writing and recording it in my mom's garage along with my two buds, Noel and Leron (VITAL and Maylay). All of us being sick of the general over corporatization of the music industry led me to starting my own label, one that existed without contracts and bureaucracy and instead focused on creativity and expression.
MDB has released many records over the years, all on handshake deals, and while I can't say we ever made any money I think we managed to effectively document many wonderful moments of sonic experimentation, genuine emotion and friendship.
Anyway as always we are a label owned and operated by the musicians and artists who create the music. All your support goes straight back to the people who have created the art found here and we appreciate it very, very much.
Much respect, Matt
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For now and always the future is unknown, it is but living to go forth and see. To take the impact of legacy, the eye blink euphoria that is to exist. To wander and toil, wonder and grieve. There will never be an answer, just unlimited questions of our origin, of our purpose and maybe that’s all this is: just a permanent trial run, checking boxes before time runs out, to be as free as possible, to dream and be extraordinary. Maybe there is no such completion and therein lies the ultimate beauty. The awe and vastness, a trillion points of light, careening thru space eternal…
MDB Records /MATT EMBREE
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