Dishwasher on Montreal MP3 download label Villa Villa Nola

Villa Villa Nola is a new Montreal-based label that sells zip file downloads via their website. The site launched on Valentine’s Day 2008 and since then Villa Villa Nola has built up a handsome collection of recordings, all available for $5 each.

Listen to samples from 3-4 tracks per album before ordering (a bit of a necessity for a download-only label that deals in more obscure titles) and pay in several different currencies. Once you’ve paid you’ll receive confirmation of your order with a link to download a zipped folder containing the album art and 192kps audio files. Unzip the folder and you’re ready to listen on whichever music player you’re used to using.

About being an MP3 label:

We love vinyl records and our CDs and tapes from before. But we’re also excited about the freedom to distribute music anywhere without wasting everyone’s money, resources, and making junk when a lot of people simply copy all their music to a computer and don’t want more things. There are people who love music and recordings and are not fans of Mp3s or digital music files in general. But many of us use them all the time & have found this to be a pretty great way of distributing, sharing, acquiring, storing, organizing, and listening to the music we like. No big deal.

-VVN FAQs

Villa Villa Nola have also managed to crack an extremely difficult open source shopping cart application, which makes me a bit in awe of their coding skill.

My first Villa Villa Nola purchase was Dishwasher’s Whre Are Tu?, a selection of Martin Cesar’s recordings over the last year or so. The album includes the danceable pop gems “Again and Again” and “Come Home” along with 15 other eclectic pop songs. Dishwasher’s music pairs an unusual sense of humour and spastic attention span for hooks with an old school R+B sensibility to produce crooning distorted tracks about girls and animals and other things. >> Listen to Whre Are Tu? on Villa Villa Nola.

Current Villa Villa Nola releases include: Magic Weapon and Elfin Saddle. Coming soon: Think about life, Alden Penner, Special Noise, Suoni per il popolo festival compilations, and releases from other independent labels, like Whats yr rupture and Blue skies turn black (who also promote shows in Montreal).

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