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rich whitman
@richwhitman.bsky.social
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Poland (boo) based musician and co-label head. Love da movies.

Label: https://oklarecords.com (accepting demos!)
Music: https://wounds.bandcamp.com
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richwhitman.bsky.social
First Bandcamp Friday of the year is upon us and with it, our annual shelf sweep. Come help us make room (and pay for) the upcoming releases.
Use the code 'february26' for 45% off our cassettes. Don't worry about digital albums, they will be Pay-What-You-Want so pay as much or as little you'd like.
okla records
Label focusing on leftfield music - ambient, drone, field recordings, and all manner of experimental sounds. Demos welcome.
oklarecords.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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bluetapes.bsky.social
Trupa Trupa Jolly New Songs!

2xLP down from £29 to £11!

CD down from £14 to £4!

Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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leerosevere.bsky.social
BUY TAPES
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Thank you for featuring both of our Batch6 albums.

Get reading!
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Happy release day to these two gems, out now on digital DL and cassette. Streaming next month.

@phxsys.bsky.social - Empty Space Symbols

Tomáš Šenkyřík & Pavel Zlámal - 306
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
The last batch for the year includes artists we were itching to work with for some time now.
Albums will be released digitally and on limited cassette on the 31st of October 2025. Pre-orders are live now.
Our trademarked batch offer returns as well - get both cassettes for 15 euro.
oklarecords.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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mondoj.bsky.social
WHAT?

From now until the end of the week 45% off everything

We’re clearing the shelves to make space for new music.
Use code "what45" at checkout.

mondoj.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Nothing special for BC Friday on Okla, buy our cassettes please!

We're posting BC codes to our "Community" however.
oklarecords.bandcamp.com/community

More news soon. If you have any sort of venue for expression and would like to hear what we have in store hit me up. Promo's going out soon.
okla records' Community
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oklarecords.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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manjaristic.bsky.social
This gorgeous vinyl is OUT!
Initiated, produced, and nurtured by the phenomenal Next // Advanced Music Festival from Bratislava, which brought Anja Lauvdal and me on this journey of music and companionship.
FROM ISLAND TO ISLAND, by Anja Lauvdal & Manja Ristić
2 track album
nextfestival.bandcamp.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Albums are out!
www.oklarecords.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
We’re happy to present two albums from our beloved (cough) Poland, an eclectic long-form drift through a horizon flattened by the immense perspective of time, and a discordant entity playing by its own rules, clashing digital precision with analogue rawness.
The albums release this Friday, the 27th.
June 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Zapomniałem zapostować, by czy ktokolwiek to widzi? Kto wie!
Drugi odcinek naszego filmowego podcastu PODWÓJNE UDERZENIE wylądował w zeszłą środę i dotyczy filmu Williama Friedkina "Cruising".

Słuchajcie tam, gdzie słuchacie podcastów.
linktr.ee/podwojneuder...
May 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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mutebranches.bsky.social
I reminded the world about my latest album on Twitter, so I thought I'd do it here too where posts are able to get actual, like, engagement. V proud of it in any case: when recording, it was the first time I felt srsly confident playing the ideas in my head

oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/us-wit...
Us Without the World, by Mute Branches
9 track album
oklarecords.bandcamp.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Orders have been extremely slow (or rather non-existent) and it seems our post reach on Instagram has been slashed to bits. Golly...
Suddenly, the five-year plan we have for Okla seems more like a dream but what can you do. We have awesome records coming up late June, hope they land in good ears.
May 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Halo dzień dobry, jako prawdziwy białas rozpoczynam podcast. Gadamy o filmach raczej mniej znanych, zmóżdżamy się a na koniec dokładamy do tego double feature a raczej PODWÓJNE UDERZENIE.

Pierwszy odcinek jest już dostępny. Kolejne co środę.
linktr.ee/podwojneuder...
May 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Bandcamp Friday @ Okla:
Two new cassette bundles at reduced price and full digital discography as Pay-What-You-Want.

oklarecords.bandcamp.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Mute Branches included in the latest Phantom Circuit show, thanks a ton <3
April 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Lovely review of one of our latest. Thanks a ton.
April 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Batch4 rep inside - @mutebranches.bsky.social & Heroarky
chacinski.bsky.social Bartek Chaciński @chacinski.bsky.social · Mar 30
Nieco spóźniona, ale ciągle weekendowa playlista. Miłych wrażeń.

👉 POLIFONIA (Bandcamp/YT)
polifonia.blog.polityka.pl/2025/03/30/t...

👉 SPOTIFY
open.spotify.com/playlist/1gb...

👉 TIDAL
tidal.com/browse/playl...

👉 DEEZER
www.deezer.com/us/playlist/...
March 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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richwhitman.bsky.social
Batch4 on okla is out today. We've got two belters from opposite spectrums.. or are they? @mutebranches.bsky.social explores the external through post-post-rock lens and Heroarky maps a journey of healing through field recordings and synth lowercase sounds.
Cass and digital dl now. Streaming later.
March 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Batch4 on okla is out today. We've got two belters from opposite spectrums.. or are they? @mutebranches.bsky.social explores the external through post-post-rock lens and Heroarky maps a journey of healing through field recordings and synth lowercase sounds.
Cass and digital dl now. Streaming later.
March 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
richwhitman.bsky.social
😍
oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-...
March 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
@mutebranches.bsky.social right where he belongs, among other awesome space ambient artists. Dig in!
March 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
richwhitman.bsky.social
Check out another proper Phantom Circuit and thank you for featuring our music! Heroarky into Aidan Baker, hmm what a nice combination...
March 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM