Fresh Sounds Records

The label was founded in 1981 and its first releases were flexi discs that were issued with Rich's Talk Talk magazine. The first four albums issued by the label were issued on cassette only before the label started issuing its releases on vinyl.

The Fresh Sounds from Middle America series of compilation albums was organized by Bill Rich as a way to promote regional bands on a national level.

{{Reflist|group=#|refs=These releases did not have a Fresh Sounds catalog number shown on the release itself, but the number was shown in the printed Fresh Sounds catalog.}}

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{{Cite web

|last = Jaerisch

|first = Burkhard

|title = Fresh Sounds from Middle America (vol 3)

|website = Flex: Discography of US Punk and Hardcore

|url = http://www.fuzzlogic.com/flex/doku.php/rec_fresh_sounds_from_middle_america_3_comp_lp

|access-date = March 3, 2011

|archive-date = April 27, 2024

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240427204725/http://www.fuzzlogic.com/flex/index.html

|url-status = live

}}

{{Cite news

|last = Enthal

|first = Andrea

|title = College Radio

|newspaper = Spin

|date = April 1986

|pages = 110

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xdLsQBjl0-IC&q=fresh+sounds&pg=PA110

|access-date = March 13, 2011

|archive-date = April 27, 2024

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240427204712/https://books.google.com/books?id=xdLsQBjl0-IC&q=fresh+sounds&pg=PA110#v=snippet&q=fresh%20sounds&f=false

|url-status = live

}}

{{Cite book

|author1 = Steven Blush

|author-link = Steven Blush

|author2 = George Petros

|author2-link = George Petros

|title = American Hardcore: A Tribal History

|date = October 19, 2010

|pages = 262

|publisher = Feral House

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7AgdUYZ6U0wC&q=bill+rich

|quote = Bill Rich of Fresh Sounds (and Talk Talk zine) put out the Fresh Sounds From Middle America comp tape and early cassettes by local greats The Embarrassment and Mortal Micronots (later The Micronotz).

|isbn = 978-1932595895

|access-date = March 17, 2023

|archive-date = April 27, 2024

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240427204712/https://books.google.com/books?id=7AgdUYZ6U0wC&q=bill+rich

|url-status = live

}}

{{Cite news

|last = Jensen

|first = Ron

|title = Local music critic promotes 'Fresh Sounds' of Midwest

|newspaper = Lawrence Journal-World

|pages = 16

|date = January 17, 1982

|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ka4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iucFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5074,2785100&dq=fresh-sounds-from-middle-america&hl=en

|access-date = February 15, 2011

|archive-date = January 17, 2023

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230117125514/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ka4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iucFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5074,2785100&dq=fresh-sounds-from-middle-america&hl=en

|url-status = live

}}

{{Cite news

| last = Fricke

| first = David

| author-link = David Fricke

| title = The Underground Empire

| newspaper = Rolling Stone

| url = http://www.rockabilly.net/wikiscans/rs-12-18-1986.shtml

| archive-date = July 18, 2011

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144030/http://www.rockabilly.net/wikiscans/rs-12-18-1986.shtml

| pages = 116–122

| date = December 18, 1986

| quote = Lawrence, Kansas, has been a hotbed of alternative music for several years, thanks principally to the indefatigable Bill Rich, who runs the hardy, little Fresh Sounds label there. As far back as 1981, Rich was issuing the first pressings by the Lawrence bands Get Smart! and the Embarrassment, both of whom went on to underground-cult fame.}}

{{Cite news

| title = Fresh Sounds' Album Features 16 Local, Regional Bands

| newspaper = Lawrence Journal-World

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i-kxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TeUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4953,2148755&hl=en

| pages = 3D

| date = March 9, 1986

| quote = Unknown bands on tape are not accorded the legitimacy that bands whose songs are released on vinyl get

| access-date = September 20, 2016

| archive-date = August 1, 2016

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160801073205/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i-kxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TeUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4953,2148755&hl=en

| url-status = live

}}

{{Cite news

| last = Fricke

| first = David

| author-link = David Fricke

| title = A selective guide to indie LPs

| newspaper = Rolling Stone

| url = http://www.getsmartmusic.com/press/rs-fresh.shtml

| archive-date = July 11, 2011

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110711091008/http://www.getsmartmusic.com/press/rs-fresh.shtml

| pages = 122

| date = January 1, 1987

}}

{{Cite news

| last = Hitchcock

| first = Doug

| title = Look for Fresh Sounds from the River City

| newspaper = Lawrence Journal-World

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KBIyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ReUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6012,1949379&hl=en

| pages = 5D

| date = Feb 8, 1986

| access-date = September 20, 2016

| archive-date = July 30, 2016

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160730010322/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KBIyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ReUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6012,1949379&hl=en

| url-status = live

}}

{{Cite news

| last = Spinali

| first = Steve

| title = Record review

| newspaper = Maximumrocknroll #36

| pages = 16

| date = May 1986

| url = http://www.killfromtheheart.com/albums.php?id=7451&rec_type=comp

| archive-date = July 13, 2011

| url-status = usurped

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713150348/http://www.killfromtheheart.com/albums.php?id=7451&rec_type=comp

| access-date = February 15, 2011}}

{{Cite news

|title = Record review

|magazine = Option

|pages = Issue #52

|year = 1986

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fytLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Bill+Rich+and+some+Lawrence+cronies+at+KJHK%22

|access-date = March 16, 2011

|archive-date = April 27, 2024

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240427204719/https://books.google.com/books?id=fytLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Bill+Rich+and+some+Lawrence+cronies+at+KJHK%22

|url-status = live

}}

{{Cite news

| last = Oakes

| first = Jordan

| title = Record review

| newspaper = Jet Lag magazine

| date = May 1986

| url = http://www.oldkc.com/cgi-bin/viewer/oldkc_viewer.pl?kcbands_freshsounds3_review_jetlag_0586

| access-date = March 16, 2011

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{{Discogs release |2774820 |Abuse - No Money |type=single }}

{{Discogs release |1823766 |Get Smart! - Numbers And Colours |type=single }}

{{Discogs release |929792 |William S. Burroughs - Abandoned Artifacts |type=single }}

{{Discogs release |137766 |SPK - Last Attempt at Paradise Tape |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |2298116 |Mortal Micronotz LP |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |1370033 |the Embarrassment - Death Travels West |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |2487615 |YardApes - Neurosis |type=single }}

{{Discogs release |1870486 |O.D.'s - Back at the Ranch |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |1968536 |Short Term Memory - Effect of Excess |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |2488357 |Mortal Micronotz - Live Recording of the Video Soundtrack |type=single }}

{{Discogs release |2814217 |YardApes - Weatherman |type=single }}

{{Discogs release |2400131 |the Micronotz - 40 Fingers |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |465602 |William S. Burroughs - Break Through In Grey Room |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |2307749 |the Embarrassment LP |type=album }}

{{Discogs release |2613459 |Various - Live From Lawrence |type=album }}

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