Resipiscent

Resipiscent is an independent record label based in San Francisco California. The label was founded in 2005 by James Decker and Thomas Day.

The label publishes a wide range of experimental music and film. Most of its releases are extremely limited editions involving handcrafted package art. Liz Allbee's "Quarry Tones" release is packaged in heavy hand-sewn felt with flowers and shredded circuits scattered inside. Smegma's Live 91-93 relies on dumpster-dived mainstream CDs that the band then defaces to serve as packaging. The Anti-Ear Tre Picoli release appears to be a 7-inch record but contains two mini-CDs and one mini-DVD. Aaartfystte's 22 Short Noise Videos comes in a four-color silkscreen package embellished with hand-carved relief prints by Maw Zuffler. The double CD compilation String of Artifacts requires listeners to solve a word jumble and then a crossword puzzle in order to decode the track listing, with some bands adding to the puzzle by imitating the style of other bands. The Bran(...)Pos "Quaak Muttar" package is a crude but functional pinball machine for which track indexes serve as scoreboard.

The label name revives a word that had fallen into disuse. "Resipiscent" means "a return to one's senses following a brutal experience". Its tagline is "Unburying the meanest in criminally obscure sound."

Roster

 * 0th
 * Aaartfystte
 * Anti-Ear
 * At Jennie Richie
 * Audrey Chen
 * Ava Mendoza
 * Black Mayonnaise
 * Bran(...)Pos
 * Cactus
 * Core of the Coalman (Jorge Boehringer)
 * Critical Monkey
 * Earwicker
 * Fat Worm of Error
 * Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
 * Kenta Nagai
 * Liz Allbee
 * Loachfillet
 * Masonic Youth
 * Midmight
 * Miya Masaoka
 * Nerfbau
 * Noel Von Harmonson
 * Occasional Detroit
 * Peter B
 * Porest
 * The Ritualistic School of Errors
 * Scott Arford
 * SIXES
 * fetish
 * Smegma
 * Tarantism
 * Xome, Tralphaz, Eco Morti