Laser Focus #5: Mistake By The Lake
4.1.14 by Tabs Out
With heavy hometown pride Mistake By The Lake has been a Cleveland noise staple for over seven years now. Their releases have mainly been by local heads like Skin Graft, Tusco Terror, Rot Ton Bone, and Relentless Corpse and nearby Midwestern jammers like Wolf Eyes and Andrew Coltrane. We caught up with label head Andrew Kirschner and talked about MBTL’s early days, his mind/body/soul hiatus from the imprint, and recent return to the dedication or pumping out bleak, rust belt (and now worldwide) sounds. Find out where the label is headed, if Kirschner needs to poop in a bag for the rest of his life, and how he ruins everyone’s chill times at the Hanson Records store. Plus some tapes!
The tapes we played:
Andrew Kirschner from split C20 w/ Oneohtrix Point Never (2008)
Oneohtrix Point Never from split C20 w/ Andrew Kirschner (2008)
David Russell from “Catholic Guilt” C20 (2010)
Reluctance “Weary Souls On Troubled Soil” C30 (2013)
Aaron Dilloway from “All Of Them Spies” C30 (2013)
Moltar “Oval Encounters” C40 (2014)