TDRS Music

Infobox record label
name = Travis Dickerson Recording Studios


image_bg = Black
parent =
founded = 2000
founder = Travis Dickerson
status =
distributor =
genre = Rock Avant-garde music Experimental Music Punk rock
country = Flag|US
location = Chatsworth, CA
url = http://www.tdrsmusic.com/

Travis Dickerson Recording Studios Music is a label founded by musician and producer Travis Dickerson. The label is characterized by the way it sells records. Every record it sells is shipped directly to the buyer. Over the years TDRS has released many albums and in 2007, Buckethead released several paintings through TDRS's web page, which also sells shirts, posters and stickers related to the artist. The label mainly sells normal CDs, and has a Download Store with reduced prices and otherwise unavailable material.

Recent Works

TDRS has been releasing several albums in 2007, specially with Buckethead who in February released a 13 CDs box set called In Search Of The that is hand-drawn by the artist himself (until the copy 999, the rest are all the same drawings), later in March released a CD called Pepper's Ghost, in August a re-issue of the demo tape Bucketheadland Blueprints was made aviable in a reular and a personalized editions and in October released 3 CDs with Buckethead Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot, Cyborg Slunks (the cover was hand-drawn by Buckethead himself) and Kevin's Noodle House with the drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, in December Travis Dickerson (founder of the label and Buckethead released a secuel to their last album Chicken Noodles II and released a regular edition of Cyborg Slunks. Buckethead also released some paintings 5 different paintings with 100 copies each weresold though the web site.
Buckethead's anagram Death Cube K also released several albums in 2007, the first one was released in August and was called DCK and the cover was also lettered and numbered by Buckethead (only 400 of this CDs were made, later a more regular edition was aviable), this CD is also commonly mistaken with the upcomming album Torn from Black Space (this album has no specific date for his release). Then released a box set of 5 CDs called Monolith, each CD with only one song of 40 minutes each aproximatedly.

In 2008, TDRS has released 2 albums of the actor Viggo Mortensen called "At All" and "Time waits For Everyone". The label also released new Buckethead themed shirts and hats that can be bought in the web site. Dickerson announced a new album called Running After Deer that is going to be released in mid august of 2008, it has the collaboration of Alix Lambert, Buckethead, Paul Eckman, D.J Bonebrake and Samuel Stewart.
In September 11, a strange logo apreared on the website of the label's forum side of the new releases, its called Yan Kàn and there is a symbol that was later changed , they kept the symbol and added the face of a dragon behind it, fans discovered that the symbol means "Dragon". On September 15 the picture was updated and added the face of a Dragon and on September 16 they added the body of the dragon, a fan leaked 3 samples of the album and on September 17, Travis announced 3 albums will be released, 2 of them are Tour Cd of Buckethead Albino Slug and Bolt on Neck by the "Frankenstein Brothers" that consist on Buckethead and That 1 Guy, the other one is called The Dragons of Eden and it a project with the drummer Brain and Buckethead, it was released that same day.

Artists that have released under TDRSmusic

* Linda Ronstadt
* Jethro Tull
* Buckethead
* Viggo Mortensen
* Bill Laswell
* Thanatopsis
* Vince DiCola
* Cornbugs
* Tony Gilkyson
* Lysa Flores
* Everblue
* Shin Terai
* Thread
* The Plimsouls
* Eliza Gilkyson
* Phil Alvin
* All-4-One
* Michael Blake
* D. J. Bonebrake
* Camille Bright-Smith

Records Released on the Label

* Buckethead
** Funnel Weaver
** Population Override
** Electric Tears
** The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
** Bucketheadland 2
** Island of Lost Minds
** Inbred Mountain
** Crime Slunk Scene
** Pepper's Ghost
** In Search Of The
** Cyborg Slunks
** Kevin's Noodle House
** Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
** Bucketheadland Blueprints - Reissue & Personalized Limited Edition
** Albino Slug

*Death Cube K
** Tunnel
** DCK
** Monolith

*Cobra Strike
** 13th Scroll
** Cobra Strike II - Y, Y+B, X+Y

*Thanatopsis
** Thanatopsis
** Axiology
** Anatomize

*Shin Terai / Shine /Shine.E
** Unison
** Light Years

* Deli Creeps
** Dawn of the Deli Creeps

*Buckethead & Travis Dickerson
** Chicken Noodles
** Chicken Noodles II

* Cornbugs
** Brain Circus
** Donkey Town
** Rest Home for Robots
** Skeleton Farm

* Vince DiCola
** Artistic Transformations
** Falling Off A Clef
** Piano Solos
** The Protoform Sessions
** Thread
** In-Vince-Ible

*DPI
** Pity The Rich
** Found Objects

*Viggo Mortensen
** Pandemoniumfromamerica
** This That and the Other
** Please Tomorrow
** Intelligence Failure
** 3 Fools for April
** Time waits For Everyone
** At All

*Everblue
**Everblue

*Lysa Flores
** The making of Trophy Grrrl

*Tony Gilkyson
** Goodbye Guitar
** Sparko

*Lindy Dickerson
** Carry Me Away

*Bill Laswell
** Soup Live

*Gorgone
** Gorgone

*Alex Lambert and Travis Dickerson
** Running After Deer

*Buckethead, Brain and Travis Dickerson
** The Dragons of Eden

* Frankenstein Brothers
** Bolt on Neck

*D. J. Bonebrake
** That Da Da Strain

*Camille Bright-Smith
** The Great Divide

Download Store Albums

*Buckethead
** Pepper's Ghost
** Crime Slunk Scene
** The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
** Inbred Mountain
** Day of the Robot
** Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse
** Island of Lost Minds
** Population Override
** Funnel Weaver
** Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
** Cyborg Slunks

* Buckethead with Bryan Mantia

** Kevin's Noodle House

*DPI
** Found Objects
** Pity The Rich

*Buckethead & Travis Dickerson
** Chicken Noodles
** Chicken Noodles II

*Thanatopsis
** Thanatopsis
** Axiology
** Anatomize

*Viggo Mortensen
** Pandemoniumfromamerica
** This That And The Other
** Please Tomorrow

*Gorgone
** Gorgone

*Death Cube K
** Dreamatorium
** Tunnel
** Disembodied

* Vince DiCola
** Artistic Transformations
** Piano Solos
** Thread

*Cobra Strike
** 13th Scroll
** Cobra Strike II - Y, Y+B, X+Y

*Cornbugs
** Brain Circus
** Donkey Town

See also

* List of record labels

References