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Hello! Insta have just released their stellar Sunday records debut entitled "Checklist For Love." To stream some of these tunes or watch the webcasts you'll need a Real Audio Player. We've also made a few of the songs available as free MP3 downloads. Once you've got them on your hard drive you will need some sort of MP3 player to play them. If your not hip to this sub-par sounding audio craze I would suggest you hunt one down through ZDNet. The players are usually free so what are you waiting for? 
Insta "Checklist For Love" CD(Sunday) 34 minutes of pure pop bliss! From the mellow acoustic heartbreak of "Leaving With So Little Said" to the upbeat electric guitar chimes of "Brittle," INSTA are all about the purest of pop. Opinions today vary wildly on the actual meaning of pop, but the bands' founders, Adam and Catherine Cooper, will mince no words, however delusional, when offering up a simple definition for the widely overused term: "It's INSTA, of course!" All 11 tunes on "Checklist for Love" attest to their confident claim as every song on their new CD sparkles with a sassy songwriting sensibility that showcases the band's skills juggling equal portions of happy 60's radio pop, sappy 70's lite-rock, mid-80's indie jangle, and early 90's guitar spacey-ness. As for the 00's, INSTA certainly admits to feeling a bit out of place amongst all the gyrating halter-topped hussies, blonde-streaked boy bands, tired punk rockers, and legions of growling mask-toting metalheads.
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"Horn Rim Fury" CD EP(Sunday) This record was originally released under the short-lived Pastry Heros moniker but has been wisely re-issued by Sunday Records under the Insta name.It's five songs strong, and well, uhhh five songs long. It's a snappy 17 minute affair that has perked many a pop ear and tapped many a teen toe. Recorded to analog 12-track at the band's own Jetpack Studios, this warm fuzzy self professed masterpiece is full of super sunny melodies, strum-happy guitars, bubbling bass lines, and some extra bootie-moving beats. Best comparison we've heard yet is "the Carpenters with a really good distortion pedal" Not bad ehh? This sucker is selling like hotcakes so order now.
Insta "Airpop II" CD
Compilation(Apricot) Germany's Apricot Records pulled together a fine batch of international pop groups for the second installment of their popular "Airpop" Compilation. Tracks from the likes of Cinnamon, Eggstone, Charming, Spearmint should win the hearts of many a pop fan. The Insta tracks "Sydney" and "Nite-lite" made the final cut and will finally be unleashed on a European audience! These are available on Double CD or Triple LP and look as fantastic as they sound!
Insta "Sunny Sunday Smile II" CD
Compilation(Sunday) Sunday
Records keeps pumping out the pop hits with its' highly praised "Sunny
Sunday Smile" series and Insta is in on the action this time! Two
stunning Insta tracks are featured here along with 19 other tuneful gems
by the likes of HoneyRider, Sugarplant, Class, Mini-thin, and The Cinematics.
"Leaving..." is a gorgeous acoustic number full of wam strums,
tinkling pianos, and bouncy percusion while "Far" has us turning
up the amplifiers, stomping on the distortion pedals, and firing up the
ol' Moog!
Kitten Factor "Surround" EP 7" single(Sunday) These
3 songs are fresh from our mixing deck and ready for action!. "Surround"
is the a-side and boy, is it a keeper! Spacey guitar work combined with
an undeniably catchy vocal line will keep you humming for weeks. The flipside
of "Dim" gets sensitive with some sparkling guitars, a bit of chimey electric
picking, and a few subtle strokes of reverberated atmospherics thrown
in for good fun. It's the perfect song to combat all that mean mean music
out there. Closing out the disc is a really ace Zombies cover called "Leave
Me Be."
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Kitten Factor "Nite-Lite" 7" single(Sunday) This
rare little record was pressed up in the Czech Republic on a super thick
slab of Pepto Bismol pink vinyl and was originally slated for a U.K.
release on the Rainbow Quartz label (Cotton Mather. The Dentists, New
Radiant Storm King, etc). Well, the pressing plant flip-flopped the
labels so that the a-side is the b-side and vice versa, so instead of
bearing the thought that 500 of our records would be tossed in the can,
we payed the shipping to get them over here and are now offering them
for a very special price. This record never saw the light of day in
the UK due to the label's inept management. We didn't bother printing
up covers for these so all you will get is the record in a nice white
sleeve. Highly collectible!
The 23 track international pop compilation, "Popular World" is out now on the fabulous Sky Blue Records. These are the same fine folks who publish the top-notch Dagger fanzine so you can expect pure pop quality. Aside from our snappy track, "Brittle," there are also other amazing songs by the likes of The Ladybug Transistor, St Christopher, The Relationships, Sweet William, Pacific Ocean, and many more! The record can be found at all your favorite shops/mail-order places.
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Pastry Heros "Horn Rim Fury" CD EP(Submersible) This is the record was released under the short-lived Pastry Heros moniker. It's five songs strong, and well, uhhh five songs long. It's a snappy 17 minute affair that has perked many a pop ear and tapped many a teen toe. Recorded to analog 12-track at the band's own Jetpack Studios, this warm fuzzy self professed masterpiece is full of super sunny melodies, strum-happy guitars, bubbling bass lines, and some extra bootie-moving beats. Best comparison we've heard yet is "the Carpenters with a really good distortion pedal" Not bad ehh? This sucker is selling like hotcakes so order now.
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Pastry Heros " "The Unheard Pleasures of Inane"" Cd Comp. (Inane/Spain)
We were part of this cool Inane Records CD Compilation that came packaged with Factory Magazine which is a big music magazine in Spain. 17 stellar tracks of international pop provided by bands like Adventures in Stereo, Eggstone, The Mopeds, Acid House Kings, The Pale Fountains, and more! Since the cd came with the magazine, finding this release is really tough. These are so hard to find that we don't even have a real copy (a fan in Spain sent us a cdr of it with a color copied cover!)
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Point your web browser to www.dcn.com to check out a webcast of Insta's first Chicago gig! Once you're on DCN's website just click on the "bands" section and do an alphabetical search for Insta. I'm not going to lie and tell you it was our best show ever but it's a cool way for you out-of-towners to see us plow through our pop hits onstage.
While the band was living in Phoenix, AZ, we would hit the road and drive 2 hours south to the old west town of Tucson to play an occasional show at the historic Club Congress. Here's a few live tracks that were recorded to D.A.T during the summer of 1997. The tracks are a little fuzzy but we think you'll like them.
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2003 jetpack design!
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Factor "Popular World" CD Compilation
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- Live @ Schubas - Webcast by Digital Club Network on October 16th,
2000
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Pastry Heros - Live @ Club Congress - Taped live to D.A.T in Tucson,
Arizona in 1997