eMERGENCY heARTS

Emergency Hearts describes the immediacy of our feelings of empathy and compassion that motivates us to act to end oppression, exploitation, and destruction.

Our emergency hearts are this beautiful part of us that drives us with both passion and compassion.  Each of our emergency hearts is the spark that compels us to action and creativity.
- scott crow

 

eMERGENCY heARTS is an anarchist-run indie collaborative media hub in Austin, TX that spotlights post-punk, outsider and non-genre specific music, in addition to industrial music, goth, new wave, electronica,
dark wave, political music, ambient, psychedelic sounds, and visual arts that float our fancy from the past until today.

Founded by author, musician and art dealer scott crow (Lesson Seven, Audio Assault, corporatE unclE), the vision is for music and other media to build an umbrella entity that supports artists, outside the mainstream where they can collaborate and experiment across artistic disciplines in a society that often devalues culture makers outside of the mainstream.

We license and release vintage and new music as well as arts across various mediums (books, visual arts, video) that we find engaging or culturally valuable, or just bring joy to us.

eMERGENCY heARTS values artists and collaborators; we do our best to make sure they are compensated fairly for their creative outputs.

Our three main areas of focus:

  • NuHorizons - Showcases current, and new, international electronic and experimental artists and projects and new remixes of classic outsider tracks.

  • eH VINTAGE - Currently showcases vintage electronic, noise, experimental and ambient music releases from 1980-2000 bringing titles into the digital age that would be lost on analog recordings.

  • eH MEDIA - Showcases radical book publishing projects, and the re-release of vintage and current art films and shorts.

Staff:

Chris ‘Time’ Steele: label management, publicity
Chavo ‘AwareNess’ Trejo: administration,publicity, audio production
Lisa Marie Rogers: administrative assistant, site maintenance, shipping
Steve Marsh: art design, audio production, and administration
Rona Rougehearts: site designs, selected videos, logos (post-2020)
Mark Pistel: studio production, mastering, audio production and remixing
David M. Williams: audio production
scott crow: curation, production, artist development and repertoire,
art design and custodial duties.

Publicity / Management

Publicity inquiries
Howlin’ Wuelf Media
Chris Steele

Artist Inquiries
Freaks R Us
eMERGENCY heARTS

NOTE on Vintage Releases

We are releasing a lot of ‘vintage’ electronic and experimental music that never made it from cassettes or early CD’s to digital platforms from 1980-2000. We seek out, license and archive obscure, defunct and dead artist, projects and labels that we want to bring to the 21st century for re-release. We’ve got pretty good detectives on the case finding and contacting the artists or making sure they’re compensated. Occasionally we fuck it up. It’s not deliberate! If we have released something of yours and not been in contact or its not coming through in your publishing, PLEASE reach out to us! We try to enter the best data and info we have and want to be fair.
As artist’s and a creative hub we’re in this together and are trying to do the opposite of fucking other artists over.