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{{Short description|Record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        =AIP Records
| image       =  AIP Records (logo).jpg
| parent      = [[Bomp! Records]]
| founded     = {{start date|1983}}
| founder     = [[Greg Shaw]]
| defunct     =
| status      =
| distributor = [[Bomp! Records]]
| genre       = [[Garage rock]], [[psychedelic rock]], [[rock and roll]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    =
}}
'''AIP Records'''  is a [[record label]] that was started by [[Greg Shaw]]'s [[Bomp! Records]] in 1983 to continue the [[Pebbles series]]. AIP stands for "Archive International Productions". The first 10 volumes in the [[Pebbles series]] had been released by BFD Records of [[Kookaburra]], Australia (most likely a fictitious label name to avoid [[copyright]] infringement lawsuits) in 1979–1980 and have been kept in print by AIP for many years. Including those in the companion [[Highs in the Mid-Sixties series]] – which concentrated on American regional music scenes – there are over 50 LPs covering some 800 obscure, mostly American "Original Punk Rock" songs recorded in the mid-1960s – primarily known today as the [[garage rock]] and [[psychedelic rock]] genres – that were previously known only to a handful of collectors.
Two similar series of LPs featuring British music were released in the ensuing years, the [[English Freakbeat series]] and Electric Sugar Cube Flashbacks series. Although LPs are still available from the [[Bomp! Records]] website, none are being manufactured any longer; and many are now out of print, including all of the Freakbeat and Flashbacks discs.
''AIP Records'' also issued numerous CDs in the [[English Freakbeat series]] and [[Pebbles series]], with the first 6 Pebbles volumes being basically the same as the LPs, with bonus tracks. The 6th Pebbles album was reissued more appropriately as the 6th CD in the [[English Freakbeat series]], since this LP also featured British music. Most of the later Pebbles CDs were taken from particular regions, like the Highs series. In 2007, ''AIP Records'' released the [[Pebbles, Volume 11 (CD)|Pebbles, Volume 11]] CD as the last of the albums in this landmark series.
''AIP Records'' has begun the [[Essential Pebbles series]], the Planetary Pebbles series, and the You Gotta Have Moxie series. With the exception of an album called ''New Fruit'' by [[Sky Saxon]], former leader of [[the Seeds]], all of the AIP releases are in one of these series.
==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070510112242/http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Categories?category=*+AIP+* AIP Records mail order site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070409163407/http://www.bomp.com/AIP.html AIP Records historical information]
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[[Category:Record labels established in 1983]]
[[Category:American independent record labels]]
[[Category:Garage rock record labels]]
[[Category:Reissue record labels]]