Resipiscent is an independent record label based in San Francisco California. The label was founded in 2005 by James Decker and Thomas Day.

The label publishes a wide range of experimental music and film. Most of its releases are extremely limited editions involving handcrafted package art. Liz Allbee's "Quarry Tones" release is packaged in heavy hand-sewn felt with flowers and shredded circuits scattered inside. Smegma's Live 91-93 relies on dumpster-dived mainstream CDs that the band then defaces to serve as packaging. The Anti-Ear Tre Picoli release appears to be a 7-inch record but contains two mini-CDs and one mini-DVD. Aaartfystte's 22 Short Noise Videos comes in a four-color silkscreen package embellished with hand-carved relief prints by Maw Zuffler. The double CD compilation String of Artifacts requires listeners to solve a word jumble and then a crossword puzzle in order to decode the track listing, with some bands adding to the puzzle by imitating the style of other bands. The Bran(...)Pos "Quaak Muttar" package is a crude but functional pinball machine for which track indexes serve as scoreboard.

The label name revives a word that had fallen into disuse. "Resipiscent" means "a return to one's senses following a brutal experience". Its tagline is "Unburying the meanest in criminally obscure sound."

Roster

• 0th
• Aaartfystte
• Anti-Ear
• At Jennie Richie
• Audrey Chen
• Ava Mendoza
• Black Mayonnaise
• Bran(...)Pos
• Cactus
• Core of the Coalman (Jorge Boehringer)
• Critical Monkey
• Earwicker
• Fat Worm of Error
• Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
• Kenta Nagai
• Liz Allbee
• Loachfillet
• Masonic Youth
• Midmight
• Miya Masaoka
• Nerfbau
• Noel Von Harmonson
• Occasional Detroit
• Peter B
• Porest
• The Ritualistic School of Errors
• Scott Arford
• SIXES
• skozey fetish
• Smegma
• Tarantism
• Xome, Tralphaz, Eco Morti

See also

• List of record labels

References

External links

• Official site
• SFWeekly review of Resipiscent release party