One Hand Clapping Records
Ridiculus, Insolitus, Tristis, Pulcher
An invented record label and the deep, interconnected universe it keeps — thirty bands across folk, soul, EDM, chanson, K-pop, exotica, metal and stranger weather. Every one of them is real in here. Pull a thread.
Every record here is the sound of one hand clapping.
The Roster
34 live · 37 actsEach act plays a different corner of the house. The lit ones have rooms you can walk into now; the rest are arriving. Four carry the MADS mark — the Moonrise Alternate Dimension Studio, where bands meet their photo-negatives.
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On the Shelf
12 ACTS · RECORDS LIVEOUT NOW
Flamingo Cigarette
MADS twin of Stoned Flamingo · multilingual retro-orchestral lounge, seven aliases
Latest — Loving It
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The Terrycloth Robes
Yacht-rock and blue-eyed soul · the gentle morning-after
Latest — Check Out Is At Noon
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The Paper Mothers
Uncanny lullaby-core trio · cradle songs for adults who remember
Latest — Insomnivore
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The Cardboard Cosmonauts
Lo-fi bedroom-pop trio · the comics band, on the bedroom floor
Latest — Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
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Le Chat Noir
Italian crooner persona · the hunt, never the kill · samba at 4 a.m.
Latest — Luna di Limoncello
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Les Petites Oreilles
Parisian quartet · 1960s yé-yé / chanson / retro-lounge
Latest — Des Chansons Pour Un Tigre
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Dr. Thrillho
Solo EDM producer-performer · the happy android
Latest — We Apologize For the Inconvenience
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The Velvet Jellyfish
Soul collective · six rooms of American soul, one velvet painting
Latest — Subtlety
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The Spaceman Spiff Quartet
Vintage space-age pop · the box is the ship, belief the engine
Latest — The Interior Universe
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Stoned Flamingo
All-instrumental world/lounge kitchen · faceless by design
Latest — Unnecessary
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SAJA
Solo instrumental guitar virtuoso · flamenco / gypsy-jazz fire
Latest — Dust Meridian
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Becca Bae
Solo singer-songwriter · confessional, close-miked, strong and bruised
Latest — Hours and Hours
↗ARRIVING
Staged & Tuning
22 ACTSCOMING SOONMADS
Bubblegum Bullets
MADS · bubblegum × UK-drill trio · sweet that will hurt you
↗COMING SOON
Canto Primaília
Brazilian trio · MPB / Tropicália · three voices leaning in, in the madrugada
↗COMING SOON
Chad Fontleroy
California pop-punk / ska four-piece · 2001 snot, the Jerry-Finn pocket
↗COMING SOONMADS
CL3O
MADS · angry-robot riot-grrrl · the photo-negative of Dr. Thrillho
↗ARRIVING
Francis X. Neon
Orbital-casino AI crooner · cyberpunk lounge · the house always wins, then it learns to sing
↗COMING SOON
Ghost Lemonade
K-pop girl group · dual GHOST / LEMON concept
↗COMING SOON
Good Noise
Convalescent-home quintet · 'Body Tempo' · instrumental, elastic, felt
↗COMING SOON
i Canari Blu
Bologna nerd-pop quintet · café-pop under a canary nightlight
↗COMING SOON
La Banda de los Muertos
Nine-piece Día de los Muertos ensemble (+ Mole the xolo)
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La Môme Spectrale
MADS · chanson hantée × Berlin techno · the dead do not leave the dance floor
↗COMING SOONMADS
Pas Devant
MADS · Left-Bank cabaret-noir · the room the little ears were sent from
↗COMING SOON
Phrog Marmalade
Jam band · one unfinished song since a 2014 campground
↗COMING SOON
Smile Brigade
Mascot jingle-core · cheer performed as civic law
↗COMING SOON
The Field Recorder Society
Chartered folk society · record the songs where the songs happened
↗COMING SOON
The Heriot
Five witches · five schools · folk-rock / art-pop / Latin alt
↗COMING SOON
The Lorelei
Four-voice deep-sea house band · sung in VELUA
↗COMING SOON
The Night Owls
Supper-club jazz trio · the eternal 2 a.m.
↗COMING SOONMADS
The Xerox Underground
MADS · comic-shop band · genre is a variable, ink is forever
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Thünderpänts
Classic-metal quartet · NWOBHM · the awe under the anger
↗COMING SOON
Tin Pan Pegasus
Theatrical comedy songbook · songs built to order, the workhorse that flies
↗COMING SOON
Xaló Seraphini
Solo exotica composer-bandleader · the trampoline engineer who composed the cosmos
↗PAGE COMING
Romy
Solo · glam trip-hop noir · secretly four years old
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The Vaudeville Cabaret
Yiddish-theater klezmer cabaret · the show goes on, for the dead
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Cynn
Solo · cellar drone-rock · two chords, an electric viola, and a fountain pen
THE ARCHIVE
Filed, Resting, or Working by Appointment
4 ACTSIN THE ARCHIVE
bunnyslippers
In-house remix persona · a pair of slippers, not a person
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Ezra Santiago
Solo film composer · cinematic scores, no fixed genre
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The Treehouse Trio
1970s public-TV educational jazz · teaching as love
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Vesper Stilton
Solo persona · a ghostwriter who became a band
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