How about a shirt with your album?

An interesting press release just landed in my inbox: a new label called Friends of Friends releasing digital download albums with t-shirts...an interesting addendum to a previous post that musicians are in the t-shirt business.


This is FoF's first t-shirt.

Their philosophy is pretty interesting:

The concept in short for our inaugural release is FoF invites an artist to join the FoF family by signing on to do a split EP; they in turn invite another musician or group to complete the split release and commission a designer to create the EP's artwork on a limited edition T-Shirt which will include a download card(100% seed paper card; Included will be the release, exclusive remixes and special content: ie videos, mixes etc).

Their first release will come from electronic musician Daedelus and his friend Jogger:

For the first in the Friends of Friends series, FoF has invited a great friend and HERO of ours: Santa Monica based electronic genius Alfred "Daedelus" Darlington whom you may know from his solo work on labels such as Ninja Tune, Mush, Plug Research and more or even more recently with his wife as The Long Lost (also on Ninja Tune).
With the power to choose his cohorts, Daedelus has brought in homies Jogger; Amir Yaghmai and Jonathan Larroquette for their first EVER release! Not only did Alfred attend High School with Amir but the duo are the active live band members of Alfred's The Long Lost project with wife Laura as well as collaborators on his 'Exquisite Corpse" release. He's also managed to bless us with the INCREDIBLE husband and wife art duo Kozyndan for the cover art/t-shirt design. They all 5 are truly friends and we're happy to now call them ours!

Tracklisting for the album:
1. Daedelus - C'est Super
2. Daedelus - LA Nocturn
3. Daedelus - Off to the Races
4. Jogger - Nice Tights
5. Jogger - Litre o' Cola
6. Jogger - Nephicide

Then, if you buy it with the t-shirt, the download card also features:
Daedelus - C'est Super (Michna remix)
Daedelus - LA Nocturn (Eliot Lipp remix)
Daedelus - Off to the Races (Meanest Man Contest remix ft. Cuzzo)
Jogger - Nice Tights (Nosaj Thing remix)
Jogger - Nice Tights (Mexicans with Guns remix)
Jogger - Nice Tights (Grahm of Thunderheist remix)
Jogger - Nice Tights (Keenhouse remix)
and more to come...