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In the beginning, there was a kid. The kid was Mike F. and the absurd was with him. One day, he became fed up with simply dreaming of recording his guitar thrashings, so he decided that, damnit!, you didn't need to be a rich, shiny cock-rocker to make noisy records. So he invented his own version of punk rock, and saw that it wasn't very good.
Sure he had this revolutionary revelation, but what good is an idea that cannot become more than an idea? What could he use to record his records? He went downstairs on the computer to google ''home recording'' for some ideas, when it hit him: the computer has a mic! And a crappy one at that!! Soon, his dream of recording his aural rubbish would be reality!!! Nothing could stand his way!!!! Well, 'cept the fact that he needed a name for his little company. After going through FriKKords, Dordopheckords, and Crim'nal ReKKordz, he finally decided on Boveregard Records, since his band was at the time named Boveregard (after his aunt's cantankerous golden retriever).
Pretty soon, he got sick of making records on the computer, since the vocals were indistinguishable from the guitars. So he moved to tape recording, which was much better. He first experimented with such crazy ideas as recording in his shower stall for ambience, blaring malfunctioning appliances in the background for texture, using metronomes & ticking timers for beats, utilizing the sound of a foam noodle being slammed on empty cardboard boxes as percussion, and doing the ''kazoo voice'' (humming through his top row of teeth being pressed against his bottom lip). He also started ''layering tracks'' by recording one instrument's part on a tape and playing it back while he recorded another. And so by age 16, he was a lo-fi indie mogel before he even knew indie was trendy.
That Christmas, he got his first multi-track digital studio off Ebay; a battered Yahama MD4S 4-tracker. Armed with Radioshack and Shure mics, he delved into a whole new world of recording, and thus, needed a new name. Since the whole shebang took place in his bedroom, he decided on MyRoom Records. He stuck with that for a little while before becoming disenfranchised with the whole bedroom scene and moved to the garage. That period was also his darkest, most self-loathing stage to date, so he went through a myriad of name changes like (nothing) Records, Nihil Records, Zilch Records, De-soul-ate Records, Suicidal Records, Delirious Records, and Misanthropic Records.
Soon, he built a bridge and got over himself. Then he decided he needed a name change AGAIN, but this time, it would be definitive so that he would never have to change the name again. He searched far and wide and high and low for the ultimate name for a record company. He asked everyone he knew, to little avail. Until he asked the girl he happened to be crazy about at the time. She, being a groovy chick, suggested Thurzday Records, because Thursday is the day they always wound up calling each other to have wonderful conversations about such brilliant things as indie movies and song ideas. He was enamored with this idea, since he was so enamored with the girl who proposed it. So he stuck with it until she ditched him, after which he realized that it wasn't such a great name anyway. Dejected, he gave up his quest for the ultimate title. Until... One day, he coined a phrase that would be perfect for a record company name. That phrase was ''left-headed'' and it was meant to describe anyone who thought so creatively that they had no sense of logic whatsoever, so they might as well only have their entire brain consist of only the left side, which he was sure was the creative side. He soon realized his mistake and quickly changed it to ''Right-headed Records''. But I dunno... he just didn't like the sound of that. This frustrated him, adding only more aggravated kindling to the already blazing inferno of his perturbation. So in madness, he lashed out and named the recording company Nihilistic Splurge in honor of his destructive fury.
And that was it. That was the name he had been searching for. Nihilistic Splurge Music Documentation. It was perfect! It was brilliant!! It was... not very family-friendly and didn't go over to well with his parents. So he changed the name to Mellifluous Hullabaloo. Mellifluous Hullabaloo Music Documentation. Even MORE perfect! So that it will stay. Well, until I decide to change it again...
So there you have it! The story of my stupid recording company. Hitherto...

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LET'S CELEBRATE!!!!! I RELEASED FIF-FUCKIN-TEEN ALBUMS IN ONE YEAR!!! Dec 11

We here at Mellifluous Hullabaloo are very excited. With the release of Derivative Contrivance's debut, we have released 15 albums this year. So yeah!! WOOT!

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