If the Format works, why change it ?

We manufactured these two rather similar formats a few years apart. Apparently Numero liked the Titan format so much (turned edge slip case, booklet and four jackets) they used the same format for the recently released Kid Is Gone project.

 

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(It's All Pop)

 

(Kid is Gone)

 

The Titan project "It's All Pop", Numero 024, utilizes a 2 color printed and matte film laminated turned edge slip case, carefully enclosing the white-lined .110” graphic board. Inside you’ll find a 20 page + cover perfect bound booklet capturing many image of the 8 bands and extensive commentary by the label’s founders. Four .020 SBS 2 color record jackets hold the four LPs.  The rather dramatic dubbed in red accents add a highlight you'd normally expect from a band on a budget.

 

 

Numero Notes:

From 1978-1981 the Titan label issued only eight records, but over the years their tiny catalog has crawled to the top of power-pop want lists worldwide and appeared on scads of bootleg cassettes, building a legacy to rival L.A.’s Bomp or New York’s Ork. Located in fly-over country, Titan was forced to start their own scene, import their own skinny ties, and scour Missouri for their own talent. Their midwest AM bubblegum roots are apparent in the likes of Gary Charlson, the Secrets*, Arlis!, Gems, Millionaire At Midnight, the Boys, J.P. McClain & the Intruders, Bobby Sky, and Scott McCarl, but Titan was clearly influenced by the glam-punk spit being hocked from the 100 Club stage.

We've recreated the scrapped live Boys 10", originally slated for release by Titan in 1980! Cut from the original 1/4" tape, the set includes "Out Of Touch," "Night Time," "You're Bad Too," and "Yesterday's Circles." Housed in a tip-on jacket and given the prestigious 024.5 catalog number, this limited-to-1000 10" is yours free when you order the 4LP Titan: It's All Pop! Once they're gone, they're gone for good.

30 years since they meekly flopped out their first 7” single, Kansas City’s Titan Records finally returns to record bins everywhere in a deluxe two-disc retrospective with comprehensive 40-page booklet.

 

Kid Is Gone, Unwound, Numero 202.2, utilizes a black only printed turned edge slip case uses a brown Kraft wrap very similar to French Paper’s Oatmeal product. The wrap carefully encloses the .90” gray graphic board. Inside you’ll find a 24 page + cover saddle stitched booklet capturing many images of the young band and of course the famous Numero commentary. Three .026 jackets using gray graphic chip mounted with the same brown Kraft paper that was used for the slip case.  The jacket wraps were printed using a large litho screened style design. Very effective for hiding less-than-ideal images.

 

 

Numero Notes:

Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno’s first restive years, “Crab Nebula” might’ve best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno’s split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero’s 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia’s fertile scene before Unwound’s turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs—cassette-only demos, early 7”s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994’s Unwound, on which the band’s prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.