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Summersteps Records

commemorating over ten years of obscurity!

About Me

Summersteps Records is a micro-indie label from the backwoods of rural Moscow, PA. Founded by Eric Schlittler and Cassie Rose Kobeski in 1996 as a handmade cassette label and then growing to manufactured CDs, the label labors to expose wild, fragile, obscure and beautiful music. Summersteps has released two homages to Texas based enigma Jandek. Volumes 1 & 2 include contributions from such gifted musicians as Low, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Brother JT, The Mountain Goats, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Bright Eyes, Okkervil River, Six Organs Of Admittance, Retsin and Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple just to name a few. Summersteps also boasts a number of releases by artists including Kid Icarus, Lewis & Clarke and Psychatrone Rhonedakk among others.

Brother JT - Purgatory, Sweet Purgatory
A limited edition 8" handcarved vinyl EP now available!

www.summerstepsrecords.com

Starting in August 2006, to commemorate ten years of Summersteps Records, we decided take it back to our roots. Summersteps began as a handmade cassette label in 1996 with crude and charming releases (we know, not too much has changed). To mark this occasion, we have launched our Summersteps Handmade imprint! A CD-R label dedicated to releasing stuff with a spontaneous vibe. Under this banner, we are releasing some unique projects, demos, lost albums and even some ancient re-issues from our vaults. Taking inspiration from the aesthetic of privately pressed releases, check back every now and again to grab the latest and greatest hits. The series includes a special collection of Jandek covers that did not make the cut for our first two Jandek Tribute CDs, as well as releases from The Marshmallow Staircase, tigers jaw, Psychatrone Rhonedakk, The Green Chair, Kid Icarus, amasa, Doses, Das Black Milk, fantasierock, The SW!MS and tons of other interesting acts & projects.
Two new releases on Summersteps Handmade!


Compilation Blues! features 19 SS Handmade artists & friends delivering new and unreleased music. Featuring such artists as SW!MS, tigers jaw, Kid Icarus, These Elk Forever, Brother JT, Psychatrone Rhonedakk, amasa, The Green Chair and tons more!


Das Black Milk return w/ The Blood of Hell the impossibly great follow up to 2007's The Purple Parade!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/7/2005
Band Website: summerstepsrecords.com
Band Members: Kid Icarus, Psychatrone Rhonedakk, Cassie Rose and The Pickled Punks, Giraffe Hair, tigers jaw, Brother JT, Doses, Youth Aflame (The Choppers), Suetta, Lewis & Clarke, The Green Chair, Louch, The Marshmallow Staircase, Floating Flower, fantasierock, Amasa, My Dad Is A Dinosaur, crap-o-phonic, The SW!MS, Das Black Milk ...etc
Influences: The labels we bought stuff from when we were growing up.
Sounds Like: Psychedelia, Power Pop, Indie, Folk, Obscuro, Outsider, so on and so forth...
Record Label: Summersteps Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Those Pesky Brother JT 8" Records.

We've been getting some requests for our Brother JT - Purgatory, Sweet Purgatory 8" records. To clarify, we are currently sold out of the first batch which was limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. T...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:48:00 PST

Kid Icarus - "Maps of the Saints" back on cassette for a limited time.

Remember when people used to make albums on 4 track recorders and put stuff out on homemade cassettes? We do.The other day we were feeling a little nostalgic for some old sounds and we ended up inadve...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:11:00 PST

Compilation Blues! and Das Black Milks "The Blood of Hell" now available!

Our latest handmade releases are now available at Summersteps Records Handmade. They are COMPILATION BLUES! (a SS Handmade Collection) and Das Black Milk's new record The Blood of Hell.Here's the Tra...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:50:00 PST

Kid Icarus - "Cassette Years" and Brother JT "Sweet Purgatory" EP reviews on foxy digitalis

Read the Kid Icarus "Cassette Years" review here..Read the Brother JT "Purgatory, Sweet Purgatory" EP review here....
Posted by Summersteps Records on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:36:00 PST

Now available on iTunes! tigers jaw - "belongs to the dead" and The Corwood Variations

Now available in digital format 2 more of our most popular handmade releases! ...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:48:00 PST

Das Black Milk "Purple Parade" & Kid Icarus "The Cassette Years" rumbling at Terrascope Online

Some November Rumblings from Terrascope Online"Sounding like The Fall crossed with Early Mudhoney, and demonstrating a healthy disregard for the value of production, Das Black Milk have delivered a cl...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:46:00 PST

SW!MS - Welcome to the Back of Beyond foxy digitalis review

From Foxy Digitalis "The Sw!ms of Scranton, PA play an infectious brand of psychedelic music loaded with pop hooks and fuzzed-out guitars. "Welcome to the Back of Beyond" is a CDR collection of demos,...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:35:00 PST

The SW!MS - "Welcome to the Back of Beyond" now on iTunes!

THE SW!MS - "Welcome to the Back of Beyond" now available on iTunes!...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:24:00 PST

Brother JT - Sweet Purgatory EP reviewed at Aural Innovations

Read It Here.
Posted by Summersteps Records on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:44:00 PST

Free "classic" amasa downloads!

Hot of the heels of his debut live performance, amasa has made some of his older tracks available for free download here. Get 'em while you can and don't forget to check out his new full length at Sum...
Posted by Summersteps Records on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:45:00 PST