Clickpop Records garners national attention
In just over one year, Clickpop records has hit it big with its debut release, Idiot Pilot\'s \"Strange We Should Meet Here,\" which was immediately picked up by Warner Bros/Reprise.

/Radio News Articles/ - June 17, 2005 - In business for just over one year, Clickpop Records has already hit a home run with Strange We Should Meet Here, the debut album from the duo Idiot Pilot. Blending elements of twitchy electronica, dream pop guitar melodicism and the primal scream of post-hardcore vocal aggression, Strange We Should Meet Here was Clickpop's inaugural release.
Shortly after it came out, the disc was picked up by Warner Brothers/Reprise, which has re-released the album and signed Idiot Pilot to a multi-CD recording artist development deal, confirmation that Clickpop chiefs Dave Richards and Paul Turpin are two music industry vets possessed of a keen insight into the record-buying public's hunger for adventurous new sounds in popular music.
It was a major achievement for a brand new label and a fledgling band from the small college town of Bellingham, Washington. Located between the musical meccas of Vancouver and Seattle, Bellingham has all the makings of another Athens, Georgia. "There's a huge music scene here," says Turpin. "Everybody's in a band. Everybody goes to see the local bands. But so far, it's all been very insular. The scene stays in Bellingham. That's what we're hoping to change."
Dave Richards had already launched the indie Rebel Alliance label when he landed in Bellingham in 2001 and opened the successful record shop Sonic Index, while simultaneously embarking on a career as a much-in-demand house and down-tempo DJ. Seeking out a facility to record, mix and master Rebel Alliance releases, Richards found producer/musician Paul Turpin, proprietor of Bellingham's top commercial sound studio, Bayside Recording. Idiot Pilot was one of the acts that Turpin had been working with for some time, helping nurture teenage wunderkinder Michael Harris and Daniel Anderson through a variety of stylistic evolutions.
"Those guys had been hanging out at the studio forever," says Richards. "But when I heard the demos for what would become Strange We Should Meet Here, I literally turned my car around and drove to the other side of town, back to the studio, to tell Paul I wanted to help out however I could to get this thing to the world."
"So we decided to form our own label," Turpin continues. "Not a niche label like Rebel Alliance, but a mainstream pop music label. We wanted to create a label that represented where both of us were coming from, something on a higher level than anything either of us had done before or Bellingham had ever seen before. Dave had more of the connections for manufacturing and retail. I had experience in production and studio work. So, putting those things together, we were complementary."
A brainstorming session yielded the name Clickpop Records. "It works on a lot of different levels," says Richards. "It suggests using a mouse and, at the same time, an old, scratchy vinyl record. It can connote a certain style of electronic music, and of course it stands for pop music."
And pop—albeit what Richards terms "somewhat left of center pop"—is the common denominator that unites the diverse Clickpop roster, which includes singer-songwriter Kristin Allen-Zito, all-girl synth punk band the Trucks and space rockers Delay.
"We want to find acts that we feel are deserving of national or international attention," says Turpin. "We are interested in acts that are technologically forward."
"It's a diverse roster, Richards concedes, but we're confident that each of the artists will slot into their own markets. And later on, people will make the connection that they're all coming from the same pool."

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