{{short description|Record label}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox record label | name = Ecstatic Peace! | image = [[Image:Ecstaticpeacelogo.png]] | image_bg = | parent = | founded = 1981 | founder = [[Thurston Moore]] | defunct = | distributor = [[Motown Records]]/[[Caroline Distribution]] | genre = [[Indie rock]], [[noise rock]] | country = [[United States]] | location = [[Easthampton, Massachusetts]] | url = http://www.ecstaticpeace.com }}
'''Ecstatic Peace!''' is a [[record label]] based in [[Easthampton, Massachusetts|Easthampton]], [[Massachusetts]], founded in 1981 by American musician [[Thurston Moore]] of [[Sonic Youth]]. The label name is borrowed from a line in [[Tom Wolfe]]'s 1968 nonfiction novel ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]''.
The label's releases are eclectic and often experimental or avant-garde. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from [[Michael Gira]] of [[Swans (band)|Swans]] and [[Lydia Lunch]] titled "Hard Rock" in 1984.
Ecstatic Peace! has released more than 200 LPs, cassettes, 7"s, and CDs, of both highly established and fledgling artists, including [[Hush Arbors]], [[be your own PET]], [[Awesome Color]], [[Black Helicopter (band)|Black Helicopter]], [[Free Kitten]], [[Arthur Doyle]], [[Dredd Foole]], [[No-Neck Blues Band]], [[Nels Cline]], [[Notekillers]], [[Magik Markers]], [[Tall Firs]], [[Pagoda (band)|Pagoda]], [[My Cat Is an Alien|My Cat Is An Alien]], Monotract, [[Sunburned Hand of the Man]], [[Violent Soho]], and many more.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/artists.php|title=Ecstatic Peace! Artists|access-date=May 27, 2017}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
In February 2006, Moore signed a deal with [[Universal Music Group|Universal]] to distribute the label's albums.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?c=1&lid=3052|title=Ecstatic Peace Signs with Universal|first=Colin|last=Stutz|publisher=[[Filter (magazine)|Filter]]|access-date=July 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612045225/http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?c=1&lid=3052|archive-date=June 12, 2008}}</ref>
The label's website was hacked at some point during the latter half of 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-10-15 |title=Ecstatic Peace |url=http://www.ecstaticpeace.com:80/ |access-date=2022-07-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015080326/http://www.ecstaticpeace.com:80/ |archive-date=15 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Since 2015, the site's lone page says "Thanks for checking in. Have a good day."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-01 |title=Ecstatic Peace |url=http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/ |access-date=2022-07-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401105138/http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/ |archive-date=1 April 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As of 2022, this was its last update.
Ecstatic Peace! has released three records since 2014, all of which are Thurston Moore recordings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ecstatic Peace! |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/8555-Ecstatic-Peace! |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of record labels]] * [[Ecstatic Peace Library]]
==References== {{reflist}} * [http://www.saucerlike.com/articles.php?x=display&id=17 A perfect partner: An interview with Ecstatic Peace’s Andrew Kesin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222173212/http://saucerlike.com/articles.php?x=display&id=17 |date=December 22, 2010 }} Saucer Like interview
==External links== * [http://ecstaticpeace.com/ Official site]
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