K Discography: IPU
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About the International Pop Underground
In 1987, launched a series of 7-inch singles called the International Pop Underground. This series features artists emanating from pop rockin’ catacombs around the globe. To date there are over 140 volumes in the series.
Some of the artists included in the International Pop Underground are closely allied with artists and are making a guest appearance on the label, such as: Gigi, Chromatics, the Vibrarians, Generifus, Unrest, Versus, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, the Gossip, Pork, the Pastels, Melody Dog, Bonfire Madigan, Teenage Fanclub, and Seaweed.
Others are artists who have released albums on such as LAKE, Pine Hill Haints, Mecca Normal, Chain & the Gang, Angelo Spencer, Lois, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Mirah, Microphones, Make-Up, Beat Happening, Thee Headcoats, Heavenly, KARP, the Crabs, Built to Spill, and Jeremy Jay.
Releases in the International Pop Underground series are denoted with a catalog number that begins with "IPU".
has released two compilations of material from the International Pop Underground series on compact disc: International Hip Swing [KLP016] and Project: Echo [KLP055].
| CATALOG | ARTIST | TITLE | YEAR |
| IPU001 | Beat Happening | Look Around | 1987 |
| IPU002 | Girl Trouble | She No Rattle My Cage | 1987 |
| IPU003 | Few, The | Rollin' Like The Tide | 1987 |
| IPU004 | Mecca Normal | Oh Yes You Can! | 1987 |
| IPU005 | Cannanes, The | No-One E.P. | 1987 |
| IPU006 | Girl Trouble | Tarantula | 1987 |
| IPU007 | Flatmates, The | I Could Be In Heaven | 1987 |
| IPU008 | Some Velvet Sidewalk | I Know | 1988 |
| IPU009 | Some Velvet Sidewalk | Earthbound | 1989 |
| IPU010 | Girl Trouble w/ Steve Fisk | Batman Theme | 1989 |
| IPU011 | Mecca Normal | Cardboard Box Of Love | 1990 |
| IPU012 | Courtney Love | Uncrushworthy | 1990 |
| IPU013 | World Of Pooh | G.H.M. | 1990 |
| IPU014 | Pastels, The | Different Drum | 1990 |
| IPU015 | Beat Happening | Nancy Sin | 1990 |
| IPU016 | Seaweed | Deertrap | 1990 |
| IPU017 | Unrest | Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl | 1990 |
| IPU018 | Brief Weeds | A Very Generous Portrait | 1991 |
| IPU019 | Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet | Music For Pets | 1991 |
| IPU020 | Some Velvet Sidewalk | Pumpkin Patch | 1991 |
| IPU021 | Thee Headcoats | Shouldn't Happen to A Dog | 1991 |
| IPU022 | Courtney Love | Highlights | 1991 |
| IPU023 | Melody Dog | Futuristic Lover | 1991 |
| IPU024 | Duck Hunt | Holiday | 1991 |
| IPU025 | Heavenly | She Says | 1991 |
| IPU026 | Teenage Fanclub | Free Again | 1992 |
| IPU027 | Snuff | That's Fine | 1991 |
| IPU028 | Mecca Normal | Armchairs Fit Through | 1991 |
| IPU029 | Gravel | Yesterday | 1991 |
| IPU030 | Lois | Press Play And Record | 1992 |
| IPU031 | Thatcher On Acid | Yo-Yo Man | 1992 |
| IPU032 | Mecca Normal | Rose | 1992 |
| IPU033 | Fifth Column | All Women Are Bitches | 1992 |
| IPU034 | McTells, The | Clean | 1993 |
| IPU035 | Brief Weeds | Songs Of Innocence And Experience | 1993 |
| IPU036 | Tiger Trap | Supercrush | 1993 |
| IPU037 | Cannanes, The | Frightening Thing | 1993 |
| IPU038 | Pork | Squeal | 1993 |
| IPU039 | F.Y.P. | Cyanide in Your Koolaid | 1993 |
| IPU040 | Lois | The Trouble With Me | 1993 |
| IPU041 | Lync | Two Feet In Front | 1994 |
| IPU042 | Kicking Giant | She's Real | 1994 |
| IPU043 | Blood Sausage | Denis Lavant | 1993 |
| IPU044 | Versus | Frog | 1994 |
| IPU045 | Beck | It's All In Your Mind | 1995 |
| IPU046 | Built To Spill | Joyride / Sick And Wrong | 1994 |
| IPU047 | Fitz Of Depression | Lie / Glad All Over | 1994 |
| IPU048 | Bloodthirsty Butchers / Copass Grinderz | Silencer | 1994 |
| IPU049 | Cockpit | Hair Of The Dog | 1994 |
| IPU050 | Some Velvet Sidewalk | Free From It | 1994 |
| IPU051 | HoneyBunch | Count Your Blessings | 1994 |
| IPU052 | Pansy Division w/ Calvin Johnson | Jackson | 1994 |
| IPU053 | Rickets, The | Destroy Olympia | 1995 |
| IPU054 | Waydowns, The | The Waydowns | 1995 |
| IPU055 | Robyn Hitchcock | I Something You | 1995 |
| IPU056 | Softies, The | He'll Never Have To Know | 1995 |
| IPU057 | Nikki McClure | Godzilla | 1996 |
| IPU058 | Modest Mouse | Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect? | 1994 |
| IPU059 | Belmondo | Lake Front | 1995 |
| IPU060 | Al Larsen w/ Katrina Mitchell | Change Everything | 1995 |
| IPU061 | Wandering Lucy | Really Truly | 1995 |
| IPU062 | Crabs, The | Anything & Everything | 1996 |
| IPU063 | Glo-worm | Travelogue | 1995 |
| IPU064 | Love As Laughter | Planet Of Children | 1996 |
| IPU065 | P.E.Z. | Poser In My Bedroom | 1996 |
| IPU066 | Heavenly / Bis | Trophy Girlfriend / Keroleen | 1996 |
| IPU067 | Satan's Pilgrims | The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt | 1996 |
| IPU068 | Mecca Normal | Paris In April | 1996 |
| IPU069 | D+ | Heatherwood | 1996 |
| IPU070 | Plastique | De-Real | 1996 |
| IPU071 | Love As Laughter | Do You Experience Alien Boredom? | 1996 |
| IPU072 | Satisfact | Life Abroad | 1996 |
| IPU073 | Heavenly | Space Manatee | 1996 |
| IPU074 | Nikki McClure | Hope And Pray | 1997 |
| IPU075 | KARP | We Ate Sand / Bastard Of Disguise | 1996 |
| IPU076 | Love As Laughter / Seductive, The | Tour Split | 1996 |
| IPU077 | Love As Laughter | I'm A Bee | 1996 |
| IPU079 | Softies, The | The Best Days | 1996 |
| IPU080 | Some Velvet Sidewalk | Valley Of The Clock | 1997 |
| IPU081 | Sarah Dougher | Summer Come | 1997 |
| IPU082 | Love As Laughter | Fever | 1997 |
| IPU083 | Flying Tigers | Flying Tigers | 1997 |
| IPU084 | Gaze | Seedless | 1997 |
| IPU085 | Make-Up | Free Arthur Lee | 1997 |
| IPU086 | Make-Up | U R My Intended | 1998 |
| IPU087 | Bonfire Madigan | Backseat Buoy | 1997 |
| IPU088 | Longstocking | Will You Stay? | 1998 |
| IPU089 | Built To Spill / Marine Research | By The Way / Sick & Wrong | 1998 |
| IPU090 | Wolf Colonel | This Is Acid | 1998 |
| IPU091 | Make-Up | Born On The Floor / Little Black Book | 1999 |
| IPU092 | Spells, The | The Age Of Backwards E.P. | 1999 |
| IPU093 | Dura-Delinquent | Light Sound Motion | 1999 |
| IPU094 | Tentacles, The | The Touch | 1999 |
| IPU095 | Microphones, The | Moon Moon | 1999 |
| IPU096 | Gossip, The | Red Hott | 2001 |
| IPU097 | Gene Defcon | Have A Good Time | 2000 |
| IPU098 | Beat Happening | Angel Gone | 2000 |
| IPU099 | Rondelles, The | TV Zombie | 2000 |
| IPU100 | Mirah | Cold Cold Water | 2002 |
| IPU101 | Microphones, The | Lanterns | 2002 |
| IPU102 | Tender Trap | Face Of 73 | 2002 |
| IPU103 | Chromatics | Arms Slither Away / Skill Fall | 2002 |
| IPU104 | Blow, The | Bonus Album | 2002 |
| IPU106 | Little Wings | What Wonder | 2002 |
| IPU107 | Kimya Dawson / Matty Pop Chart | My Mom / Child Of The Sea | 2006 |
| IPU109 | Spider And The Webs | Frozen Roses | 2006 |
| IPU110 | Old Time Relijun | The Tightest Cage | 2007 |
| IPU111 | Woelv | Le Niveau De La Mer | 2007 |
| IPU112 | Adrian Orange & Her Band | Interdependance Dance | 2007 |
| IPU113 | Jeremy Jay | We Were There | 2007 |
| IPU114 | Epryhme feat. Nomy Lamm | Punklezmerap | 2008 |
| IPU115 | Jeremy Jay | Airwalker | 2007 |
| IPU116 | Hornet Leg | Blood Trilogy | 2008 |
| IPU117 | Jeremy Jay | Alpharhythm | 2008 |
| IPU118 | Mount Analog feat. Karl Blau | That's How I Got To Memphis | 2008 |
| IPU119 | Desolation Wilderness | Until Forever | 2008 |
| IPU120 | Julie Doiron/Calm Down, It's Monday | Heavy Snow | 2008 |
| IPU121 | Angelo Spencer et L'Orchidee d'Hawai | Music Is My Sweet | 2009 |
| IPU122 | Vibrarians, The | Red Light | 2009 |
| IPU123 | Desolation Wilderness | No Tomorrow / Pacific Palisades | 2009 |
| IPU124 | Eprhyme | Shomer Salaam | 2009 |
| IPU125 | Joey Casio | Debtor's Prism | 2009 |
| IPU126 | Jeremy Jay | Breaking The Ice | 2009 |
| IPU127 | LAKE | You Are Alone | 2011 |
| IPU128 | Gigi | The Hundredth Time | 2011 |
| IPU129 | Joey Casio | The Frame | 2011 |
| IPU130 | Chain & The Gang | Privelege | 2010 |
| IPU131 | Angelo Spencer et L'Orchidee d'Hawai | L'Argent | 2010 |
| IPU132 | Mecca Normal | Malachi | 2010 |
| IPU133 | Western Hymn | Out Of The Way | 2011 |
| IPU134 | Generifus | In My Cave | 2010 |
| IPU135 | Basemint | No Retro | 2011 |
| IPU136 | Tara Jane O'Neil | Sirena | 2011 |
| IPU137 | Nucular Aminals | Nobody's Man | 2011 |
| IPU138 | Pine Hill Haints, The | Tales of Crime | 2011 |
| IPU140 | Maxines, The | Drugstore | 2012 |
| IPU142 | Lovers Without Borders | Detective | 2013 |
| IPU143 | Shivas, The | You Make Me Wanna Die | 2014 |
| IPU144 | Selector Dub Narcotic | All For The Sake of Rhymin' | 2016 |