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SYR Records
Having completed construction on their Manhattan studios in 1996, Sonic Youth suddenly found themselves in a position to create unadulterated by the tyranny of time and space.
As a result of their natural writing process, whereby collective improvisation congeals over time into song structures, they began to amass a small mountain of tape, most of it containing raw, wild, spontaneous music they reckoned wouldn't be "commercial" enough for Geffen to release.
Yet the material seemed just as essential and true to their mission, and showed an important side of the band and their process that was usually inacessible to their fans. So instead of a problem, SY saw an opportunity — they decided to release these secret sonic glimpses themselves. Sonic Youth Recordings was born.