Asian Man Records is a DIY record label run by Mike Park in San Jose, California. Park started a record label and began releasing music in 1989 under the name Dill Records, with the Asian Man label established in May 1996.
History Asian Man Records were distributed by Mordam Records.
Sublabels In 2011, Park established the Fun Fun Records sublabel, which released children's music. As of 2015, artists on the Fun Fun label included Mike Park, Dan Potthast, Play Date, Kepi Ghoulie, Happy Wags, and Koo Koo Kanga Roo.
Artists The label specializes in mostly ska and punk. The first proper release by the label was Link 80's 17 Reasons and the label has since gone on to release recordings by punk heavyweights such as Alkaline Trio and Less Than Jake. Other artists released include:
Current
Agung Gede The Abruptors Akiakane The Apers The Atom Age Bagheera Buck-O-Nine Chotto Ghetto Classics Of Love Coquettish Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room Dan P & The Bricks Dogbreth Dog Party Dowsing Duvall Grant Olney Great Apes Grumpster Guerilla Poubelle Hard Girls The Hot Toddies
Kepi Ghoulie Kevin Seconds Lektron Matt Skiba Mike Park Monkey Murderburgers Nicotine Pacing The Queers Short Round Small Crush Smoking Popes Spraynard Sundowner Sweet Gloom Teens in Trouble The Smith Street Band The Taxpayers Unsteady The Wild Wild Moth Yoko Utsumi
Former
Ahiro AJJ (active with Hopeless Records) Alkaline Trio (active with Rise Records) Angelo Moore Astropop 3 Ben Weasel Big D and the Kids Table (active with SideOneDummy Records) Blue Meanies (disbanded) Bomb The Music Industry! (disbanded) Boom Boom Satellites The Broadways (disbanded) The Bruce Lee Band The Chinkees Chris Murray Colossal (disbanded) Dan Potthast (active with Pentimento Music Company) Ee (active with Actually Records) Five Iron Frenzy Good for Cows The Honor System Johnny Socko Just a Fire Joyce Manor (active with Epitaph Records) King Apparatus Knowledge Korea Girl Laura Stevenson & The Cans (re-release only) The Lawrence Arms (active with Epitaph Records) Lemuria Less Than Jake (re-releases only) Let's Go Bowling Link 80
Little Jeans Mealticket The Methadones MU330 Noise By Numbers No Torso O Pioneers!!! Pama International The Peacocks The Plus Ones Polysics Potshot (disbanded) Pushover The Riptides Riverdales The Rudiments Satori Screeching Weasel (re-releases only) Shinobu Skankin' Pickle Slapstick Slow Gherkin Softball Squirtgun Teen Idols Ten in the Swear Jar The Toasters Toys That Kill Tuesday WARDOGS
Compilation CDs YearAlbumNotable Artists 1997? "Anti-Racist Action: Stop Racism" Benefit CD Napalm Death, Less Than Jake, Alkaline Trio 2001 "Living Tomorrow Today: A Benefit for Ty Cambra" Saves the Day, Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory 1997 "Misfits of Ska" Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Sublime 1997 "Misfits of Ska II" Link 80, The Aquabats 1998 "Mailorder is Fun!" Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake, Mike Park 1999 "Mailorder is Still Fun!" Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake, Mike Park 2000 "Plea For Peace" Link 80, Alkaline Trio, Mike Park 2001 "Plea For Peace / Take Action Tour I" Alkaline Trio, Thrice, AFI, At the Drive-In 2001? "Plea For Peace / Take Action Tour II" Anti Flag, Avenged Sevenfold, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard 2001? "Plea For Peace / Take Action Tour III" Rise Against, Avenged Sevenfold, Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy 2002 "Mailorder for the Masses" Alkaline Trio, Matt Skiba, Mike Park 2003 "Underground Screams" (new artists) 2003 Version City Sessions" Westbound Train 2007 "Plea For Peace Volume 2 " Big D and the Kids Table, Cursive, Alkaline Trio. Throwdown, Rx Bandits 2007 "Ten Years of Blood, Sweat, and Tears" Slapstick, The Queers, Screeching Weasel, The Broadways, The Bruce Lee Band, The Chinkees, Potshot, The Toasters, The Peacocks, The Rudiments
References
External links official site