Ache Records

Ache Records
Parent company	none
Founded	1999
Founder	Andy Dixon
Genre	Indie music
Country of origin	Canada
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia
Official website	AcheRecords.com

Ache Records is an independent record label based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was started by musician Andy Dixon around 1999. Ache releases music for both Canadian and international acts. The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot Heat's 1999 debut, Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Other notable artists to work with Ache include Death from Above 1979, Four Tet, Hrvatski, Konono N°1, and Matmos.

Ache Records releases albums from various disparate genres—University of Saskatchewan newspaper The Sheaf states Ache has an "inconsistency of genres"—and the label distances itself from using genres to describe its releases. Ache has been described by the Montreal Mirror as having an "uncanny ability to meld seemingly disparate worlds into a cohesive whole".Discorder magazine named Ache Records "Label of the Year" for 2004, citing a featured review on Pitchfork Media for Flössin's album Lead Singer, as well as the label's DIV/ORCE 7" series.

The first release on Ache Records was Hot Hot Heat's 1999 debut, Hot Hot Heat, a four-song EP. Hot Hot Heat also recorded a split album with The Red Light Sting for the label's (and Hot Hot Heat's) second release.

Andy Dixon's first band, d.b.s., released their final album on Ache in 2001, a five song EP entitled Forget Everything You Know. One thousand copies were issued. Dixon has also released several of his solo albums through the label (as The Epidemic, Secret Mommy, and by his real name), and with the bands The Red Light Sting and Winning.

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