Please send me your address ASAP and we will send you your package. Please ignore this if you have already sent me your address, received your package, or made other arrangements to pick up your package directly from us. Thank you all again for your help.

Hey everybody our project is now officially over and it was very successful thanks to all of you. We blew our goal way out of the water. Now comes the fun part of mailing you all of your records and cd's. If you have not already sent me your shipping address please do so ASAP. You can send me a message on here, or directly to my email at justin@emergencyumbrella.com Thanks again for all of your help. You guys are the best.

Local label makes space for new music

Emergency Umbrella is trying to save space by selling records.

By Alex Silverman

Published Sept. 18, 2009

Justin Nardy, co-owner of Columbia-based record label Emergency Umbrella, has decided it's time to clean his room. Now, through the label's latest promotion, you can lend him a hand and come away with some new music.

With storage space in Illinois and Nardy's room rapidly filling up with records produced by Emergency Umbrella's bands, the company is facing a major storage crunch.

"If stuff sits too long in the warehouse in Illinois then there is a threat of it being destroyed and we don't have room at my house to store it," Nardy said. "So we had to come up with an idea."

Inspired by another independent label in a similar situation, Emergency Umbrella recently launched an online campaign to liquidate the stockpile of CDs and LPs. Through the label's page on kickstarter.com, the public can make a pledge of any amount and receive a wide array of music from the warehouse.

"This is your chance to be introduced to the amazing bands on our label," the Kickstarter page reads.

The catalog features artists with varying styles, notoriety and roots. The musically diverse label features the indie pop sounds of St. Louis's Gentleman Auction House and the psychedelic madness that is Dark Meat of Athens, Georgia. The label, harkening back to its roots, also features several bands from Columbia, including Bald Eagle, The Foundry Field Recordings and Witch's Hat.

"We have been a big part of Columbia's music scene for years," Nardy said. "We gave Columbia bands that we thought were important and were making great music a chance."

Co-owner and lead singer of The Foundry Field Recordings, Billy Schuh also shares the desire to make an impact on Columbia's music scene.

"One thing we've always kept in mind is our community and where we're from," Schuh said. "We're not based in New York. We're in our own little area here."

Even with a roster and distribution that spans the U.S., Schuh takes pride in providing local bands with "information, resources and direction."

So far, Nardy said the response to the liquidation campaign has been successful. Still, some of the label's supporters initially took the clearance sale the wrong way.

"A lot of people are in panic and think the label is shutting down or that we are in some serious trouble," he said. "We are not shutting down and we aren't in any real trouble. We just need to clear some space (for new releases) and sell some records."

Needless to say, the owners of Emergency Umbrella see this as a great opportunity for those in the market for some new music.

"We're giving people the chance to get our back catalog and some new stuff for a great price," Nardy said.

Sufficiently Peculiar gives a shout out to EU fundraiser on kickstarter, Thank you Henry Beer. read this sweet blog: http://bit.ly/2jlEyc

River Front Times gives a shout out to EU fundraiser on kickstarter.
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2009/09/emergency_umbrella_cleaning_out_warehouse_donor_gentleman_auction_house_found

Thank you guys so much for the extra pledge money, it really means a lot and will definitely help us out. Thanks again.

Ryan, awesome i got it man, i will switch the package to the all vinyl, thank you for letting me know so quickly so there was no confusion.

We had a ton of people ask if we could do some sort of deal for our vinyl releases. It is great to see so many people are into vinyl and are interested in this. We certainly have a lot of it lying around too, and we need to clear it out as well. So for everyone who asked, and for those of you who didn't, here ya go. May we present "THE VINYL PACKAGE". Thanks EU.

*SPECIAL VINYL ONLY REWARD* $45 Pledge gets you these 5LP'S+ 2 7"s + Digital Downloads: Bald Eagle- Hot Shoulders (Gatefold on 180 gram pink vinyl, with digital download) Sinkane- Sinkane (180 gram black vinyl, with digital download) Sinkane- Color Voice (white vinyl, or picture disc) Dark Meat- Truce Opium 2xLP (green translucent vinyl, with digital download)(NEW RELEASE) Dark Meat- When The Shelter Came 7" (pink vinyl, with digital ep download) The Foundry Field Recordings- Battle Brigades 7"

Hey everyone thank you so much for the pledges, we have already reached our goal of $100. We set the goal very low because honestly we had no idea how well this was going to do. We met our goal in less than a day. AWESOME! Again thank you so much for your help on this. However in all honesty the more we make on this the better of we will be, so let's keep the pledges coming. Just cause we met our goal doesn't mean we can't blow it out the water. Please spread the word to anyone you know and lets kill this thing. Thanks EU.