Mandragora Records is an artist-run DIY record label that specializes in pure psychedelic noise and experimental musick.
Mandragora Records was formed in 2001 by sound addict and noise magician Erik Amlee (Paradise Camp 23, Crackhouse, etc.) as an outlet for his own recordings amassed over 10+ years and as a publisher of extreme psychedelic music and sonic exotica. The primal vision of the label's oeuvre was expressed through both archival re-releases, including the Ur-Text of
Crackhouse's "I" and the sample wonderland of
Voodoo Mechanics "CHAOTIKA", and the modern works of
Rezanate, Paradise Camp 23, and the
Bull Anus. This initial thrust of weird creeped-out fung was celebrated with the
Mandragora Sampler mix, which cuts up the first 9 releases (including the forthcoming Crackhouse "Rocks" and "sleepy time, quiet time") into a full-length excursion into the mind of Mandragora. The next phase of production came with the critically acclaimed Tryptaphonic Mind Explosion comp,
Robot vs. Rabbit's CD debut, and the "Classic Live" CDR series of mind-bending warts'n'all bootleg recordings.
Real Life reared its beautiful ugly head in 2003, forcing Mandragora to close its doors and keep working on the down low, but they arose again phoenix-like in 2005 with a trio of perhaps more sophisticated albums of pure musick, a new ongoing series of sitar heavy joints, and their 23rd disc reprinting the very first Paradise Camp 23 cassette.
Mandragora continues its dedication to the hypersonic freaksound with new releases from the international underground and its own lineup of psychedelic psuperstars, as well as producing the
Internet radio wonderland
Weirdsville.com.
