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• AIP Records is a record label that was started by Greg Shaw’s Bomp! Records in 1983 to continue the Pebbles series, as well as other releases.

AIP Records

Record Label

Parent Company:	Bomp! Records
Founded:	1983
Founder:	Greg Shaw
Distributor:	Bomp! Records
Genres:	Garage rock · psychedelic rock · rock and roll
Country of Origin:	U.S.

AIP Records is a record label that was started by Greg Shaw‘s Bomp! Records in 1983 to continue the Pebbles series. AIP stands for “Archive International Productions“. The first 10 volumes in the Pebbles series had been released by BFD Records of Kookaburra, Australia (most likely a fictitious label name to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits) in 1979–1980 and have been kept in print by AIP for many years.

Including those in the companion Highs in the Mid-Sixties series – which concentrated on American regional music scenes – there are over 50 LP’s covering some 800 obscure, mostly American “Original Punk Rock” songs recorded in the mid-1960s – primarily known today as the garage rock and psychedelic rock genres – that were previously known only to a handful of collectors.

Two similar series of LP’s featuring British music were released in the ensuing years, the English Freakbeat series and Electric Sugar Cube Flashbacks series. Although LP’s are still available from the Bomp! Records website, none are being manufactured any longer; and many are now out of print, including all of the Freakbeat and Flashbacks discs.

AIP Records also issued numerous CDs in the English Freakbeat series and Pebbles series, with the first 6 Pebbles, volumes being basically the same as the corresponding LP’s, with bonus tracks. The 6th Pebbles, album was reissued more appropriately as the 6th CD in the English Freakbeat series, since this LP also features British music. Most of the later Pebbles CD’s were taken from particular regions, like the Highs in the Mid-Sixties series. In 2007, AIP Records released the Pebbles, Volume 11 CD as the last of the albums in this landmark series.

AIP Records has begun the Essential Pebbles series, the Planetary Pebbles series, and the You Gotta Have Moxie series. With the exception of an album called New Fruit by Sky Saxon, former bandleader of the Seeds, all of the AIP releases are in one of these series.

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See Also

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• List of record labels

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References

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External links

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• AIP Records mail order site: https://web.archive.org/web/20070510112242/http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Categories?category=+AIP+
• AIP Records historical information: https://web.archive.org/web/20070409163407/http://www.bomp.com/AIP.html

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