blocksrecordingclub
Blocks Recording Club
Toronto
The □□□□□□ Recording Club is an Artist-Owned Worker’s Co-operative based in Toronto. Our goal is to work together as a musical community to help each other to record and release music that we as a community generate. We believe that working together we can accomplish far more than we ever could working apart and further, that by moving closer to a co-operative economy we’re helping in whatever small way we can, to minimize the harmful effects of capital in the world. The □□□□□□ Recording Club is run by an elected board that is chosen from the body of the co-op. The board as of this moment is: John Caffrey, Brian Joseph Davis, Kat Gligorijevic, Bob Wiseman and Magali Meagher. Our web-goblin is Greg Collins and D. Amos does mail order. Ben Stimpson (and soon Cab Williamson) does most of the general shipping and orders for stores and distro. We’re working on all kinds of other things, mostly dry and organizational, that will probably be ready for next fall. The □□□□□□ Recording Club was founded by Steven Kado and Mark McLean in 2003 as a tapes and mini-cd only label. Shortly after founding □□□□□□ Mark left for Ottawa and the tapes and mini-cds idea left with him. After that Steve ran □□□□□□ with Liisa K. Graham more or less until 2005 when the club incorporated as a worker’s co-op. After incorporation Liisa left and the co-op elected its first Board of Directors: James Anderson, Steve Kado and Matt McDonough (2005). This board was elected at the first □□□□□□ AGM which was held at Christie Pits Park. The second AGM brought two more board members: Katarina Gligorijevic and Bob Wiseman (2006).