*Disclaimer: Everything written below is verifiable from a collection of emails, the original contract and receipts for all manufacturing and payments.
On a few occasions over the years Atreides Records has contacted Rishloo and asked the band to choose a distributor of their choice to purchase all of our remaining Feathergun stock which would allow Atreides Records to finally get back the money we spent to manufacture, ship and promote the records.
Distributors that I have personally messaged did not respond.
I will begin by saying that I wish Rishloo the best with their future projects. I have omitted certain parts of the past out of respect for the band. We aren't writing this to kick up dirt, we are setting the record straight and moving on with our lives once and for all.
I have nothing left but these Rishloo records and a few other vinyl collectibles that I am also putting up for sale in the Buy Now section. I only have time to add a few right now but if there is any interest I will add more of my personal record collection for sale along with the brand new sealed Feathergun vinyl records (while supplies last. Limited).
It is now December 2025 and in the coming weeks it will be 2026. It is unbelievable to think it has been nearly fifteen years since I released the Feathergun vinyl on Atreides Records. In those many years since I have somehow survived. I am miraculously still here to tell my story.
For years the remaining Rishloo Feathergun records were not accessible due to struggles and challenges in my life. I have paid to keep my remaining records in storage while sleeping in a car in -50 weather with my breath creating frozen stalagmites on the roof of the vehicle. I have moved these records across the country a few times and ensured they were always a priority. I kept them safe for over a decade.
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I am the founder of Atreides Records and I am here to tell the real legend behind the Rishloo Feathergun vinyl release from 2011-2012.
First off I want to address a few statements made in the past. To this day I have never recovered the money I invested in manufacturing the Rishloo Feathergun vinyl in 2011. To be clear, it was Atreides Records that paid the absolute full amount to manufacture the Rishloo vinyl. More details below.
I was no different than many of you before 2011. I was a fan of a band called Rishloo. I found the bands music online somewhere and instantly thought it was special. I ordered Rishloo CDs directly from the band and listened to them over and over. I didn't understand why this band was not signed to a major label record deal. It didn't make any sense to me. Feathergun was too good. It deserved better.
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I was young, I was full of hopes and dreams and my wife and I had a little bit of money saved. It was just enough to manufacture a double vinyl record at the time. We could have selected any project in the world to invest in back in 2011, we could have put the money in Bitcoin or saved it for our families future. We could have done anything with that little bit of savings we had.
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Instead of taking the usual route I wanted to invest in something I believed in. I settled on the general idea that I wanted to help people who were creating art that inspired me.
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The money we spent manufacturing the album Feathergun was a lot of money for us.
The intention was to start a label that I could run with my wife who was a part owner. She would do the accounting and help with logistics and I would run everything else. I was optimistic. I was young and in love and I was full of wild dreams. I didn't want to live a boring life doing repetitive and meaningless things. I wanted to do something special, I wanted to provide for my family in a unique way that earned us more than some shitty 9 to 5 slaving my days away from people I loved 50+ hours a week at a mindless job. I dreaded the prospect. I needed to do something else with my life.
"We are not machines - programmed, encoded. We are so much more".
I decided I would launch a record label and I would help underrated bands get the recognition I felt they deserved. The very first would be Rishloo's Feathergun. That was the message and the music I wanted to help amplify and I convinced my wife this was a good plan. In retrospect I probably should have listened to her - but if I did the Feathergun vinyl would not have been pressed in 2012.
I told her "Trust me, we pay the full price to manufacture 500 copies of the vinyl - the band Rishloo has zero risk at all and pays nothing and they do not owe us anything so there is strong incentive for the band with zero risk for them. The band receives 200 copies of the vinyl and they can sell those for thousands of dollars profit with nothing owed to Atreides Records. That is their payment. It is a win / win for Rishloo with no way for them to lose."
She was leery. I explained "I have done the math, we just need to sell all 300 records Atreides Records contractually receives and is entitled to profit from and we get back our investment and get a little extra on top we can use for our business and family"
She was skeptical. She asked me "How can you be sure we will sell all 300 records that we own? The band will sell their copies first at shows and on Rishloo official store so how can you be sure we can sell all the rest after that? Is there enough demand?".
She was asking good questions.
She was worried about me spending so much money to manufacture an album for people I didn't even know. She didn't support me spending all of our savings on strangers from another country making music that she agreed was good, but she wasn't a Rishloo fan like me.
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I told her with confidence "I really believe in this band and I think we can sell all 300 records in the first year easily but I wouldn't be surprised if we sell all 300 in the first month or two. I promise this will work out".
Trust me said the fool.
Ultimately I think she lost trust in me entirely after that decision. Years after I released the Feathergun records I had not made back even a fraction of what I invested in manufacturing the vinyl. Money was tight and we struggled a lot. If I am being perfectly candid my poor investment was a real blow to our relationship. Catastrophic.
But I also ask myself, was I right all along fifteen years ago? Was I right that one day the Feathergun vinyl would become a cult classic record that is highly sought after?
Let's also think about why anyone invests in anything in the first place. At the very least people choose to invest their hard earned cash because they hope to make some profit back on their investment. On top of that I believe most people want to make their investments mutually beneficial for those they partner with.
But there are also the rare people who invest in things they believe in despite the risks. The few who at some point in their lives jump off a cliff following their dreams. The real freaks of nature who support something against all odds just because they think it is good. The ones who invest in things they feel are moral and true just because they are moral and true. The select few who invest in things they think improve the world in some way.
That is what I did with every penny we had in 2011. I believed in the band Rishloo and the album Feathergun so much that I invested everything in this belief. I wanted to do something meaningful with our money. I followed my dreams.
Despite things that have been said about me in the past I still believe in the Rishloo Feathergun album.
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Let's recap and clarify a few things from the beginning and talk about my contributions to the actual process behind the scenes of the Rishloo Feathergun double vinyl release on Atreides Records in 2012.
-Atreides Records paid the full price to manufacture 500 double vinyl records (2x12" - 1000 pieces of vinyl with 500 covers in total), and Rishloo would pay nothing at all. Zero risk, no signing over any rights to music. That was offered by Atreides Records to clearly set the precedent that this wasn't about profiting off the band or owning their works in the future, this was about helping Rishloo get their first vinyl out and launching a label that was going to manufacture a series of vinyl records featuring underrated bands to help them catch the eyes of labels with deep pockets.
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-I handled all of the logistics of the manufacturing for the Rishloo Feathergun vinyl working with Rainbo Records in California and contacts in Canada. I already had a relationship with Rainbo for years prior to contacting Rishloo and was already very familiar with the vinyl mastering and manufacturing process.
-It was my expertise and my funding that made the Feathergun vinyl possible in 2011 (released in February 2012) because I paid the entire bill to manufacture these records and oversaw the entire manufacturing process from start to finish.
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-It was me who approved the final test presses that were selected for the final release of Feathergun on vinyl. It is my writing that appears on the test presses of the Rishloo Feathergun vinyl because they were delivered directly to me in Canada from Rainbo Records in California to approve for final release.
-The audio on this classic vinyl sounds great because I knew what I was doing and made sure everything was done to a high standard. The band relied on my expertise for this and I provided Rishloo fans with an iconic version of the Feathergun album on vinyl that an audiophile could appreciate for years to come.
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-When I made my proposition of releasing the record I made it clear that I wanted to make the Atreides Records vinyl release of Feathergun distinct from the Feathergun CD release. I suggested we do this by creating new artwork for the vinyl. Rishloo agreed to this request and sent new artwork for this special edition release of Feathergun. I approved the final artwork provided to Atreides Records for the release and submitted all approved final art and audio to the manufacturer.
-I submitted to the band a version of the Feathergun CD album with a new track order that was more suitable for a vinyl release when considering sound quality and time per side. These edits to the original CD track order were done to achieve the best audio quality possible on vinyl. The version I provided the band is the final track order that was selected for the vinyl release. This technical edit was suggested by me and the concept of quality / time on a vinyl record was new to the band at the time - understandable as the band didn't own a record player themselves back then which is why I also approved the final test pressings.
-I paid the absolute full bill for the manufacturing and shipping of these records from Rainbo Records in California to the band in Seattle and myself in Canada, even back then this wasn't inexpensive by any means. Manufacturing 1000 records and 500 covers for the 2x LP Feathergun vinyl used everything my wife and I had saved. To this day I have never recovered that investment.
-The band Rishloo received hundreds of shrink-wrapped brand new copies of the Feathergun double vinyl in the mail absolutely free and ready to sell to their fanbase. They received and sold all of these records during a limited run of shows and on their official website. Rishloo kept all of the money from these Feathergun vinyl record sales which they were contractually entitled to do. The brand new copies of the vinyl the band received were paid for in full by Atreides Records and delivered directly to the band in Seattle free of charge.
But what did manufacturing the record really mean for me? When did things start falling apart for my label? Why did Atreides Records go defunct? Let's break it down in detail.
I would say the downfall honestly began when Rishloo split up as a band a few months after the vinyl was released in 2012. This was a shock to my wife and myself and with no band promoting or touring and suddenly Rishloo completely silent on all social media for over a year believe it or not I struggled to sell our remaining Feathergun copies for years (the 300 copies which were always the property of Atreides Records and were intended to be sold by Atreides Records to recover our investment)
The truth is in 2011 I overestimated the demand for Rishloo vinyl at that time. After the band sold their 200 copies my wife and I really struggled to sell our remaining copies. All I could do was keep trying and keep reassuring her that it would be fine. I kept investing in promoting ads for the album, I tried making YouTube videos, I invested a lot of time and money in trying to sell my remaining records. Nothing worked.
In my wife's eyes I lost all of our money and it wasn't coming back any time soon.
She wasn't wrong.
But for those first few years I did ship over 100 Rishloo Feathergun vinyl records to happy fans all across the globe who have enjoyed this vinyl record ever since. We never received any complaints back then. They all received their orders and everyone was happy to have this piece of history, they were truly delighted to receive their favorite album in full as a double vinyl record.
The reality is many people across the world to this day own this record in their collections because I personally shipped it out to them.
I did this for fans like me. I did this for my family. I did this for Rishloo. I did this to follow my dreams. In time I was called a bad person, I was called a thief - but before I die I want it known that I am actually none of those things. I am the person who put everything on the line for Rishloo Feathergun to come out on vinyl in 2012 and I lost quite a bit in the process.
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I would like to make it known there was never a single fan who placed an order for a Rishloo record through the Atreides Records website who did not receive their order. I ended every transaction with a satisfied customer on every order - up to the last record we ever sold.
As mentioned above, a few years after I released the records the sales were no longer coming in and in many other ways my life was falling apart. This may seem odd to somebody today but in 2012 after Rishloo sold all 200 of their copies of the Feathergun vinyl and I sold just over 100 there were no more sales and the business completely dried up. I was stuck with boxes of records and an enormous debt.
The band Rishloo has always been ahead of their time. So to was Atreides Records. Not just in the fact that the name Atreides Records was many years before the resurgence of popularity in Frank Herbert's Dune unseen since the 1980's - but also in the fact that I manufactured this album as a double 12" LP years before the resurgence of popularity in vinyl.
Genres like dance, techno, club music, hip hop and DJ culture never really stopped putting out vinyl records, but from the 90's to the late 2000's many releases from smaller labels were only on CD and cassette. Genres like progressive rock, metal, acoustic, instrumental, etc. albums were mostly CDs. Major labels still did vinyl for the biggest artists but many people no longer owned a record player. Why buy a vinyl record? The vinyl industry was all but dead. A niche.
This was a time when people were still fascinated by their new digital libraries, transferring their files, sorting file folders with libraries full of music on their computers. People were walking around with iPods and playlists of every album they ever loved for the first time in history.
The issue is that people wanted a product they could actually collect and save along with the music of their favorite bands. They wanted the visceral and tactile experience of handling the music and experiencing it in new ways. Even though we could technically have every album we ever wanted on a single digital device something was missing.
At the end of the CD era when mp3's and digital media became the primary methods of collecting music, when we could connect our devices through Bluetooth and bring our libraries anywhere - years before it happened I saw the resurgence of vinyl as the ultimate musical collector's item. When this digital revolution first began even collecting CD's died off for a few years along with vinyl and cassettes. Quickly people realized we still wanted to own something from our favorite bands. We knew what was missing. CD's were cool but a 12" vinyl record - there is nothing like it in the world. It was inevitable.
With Atreides Records I had a vision and I followed it - but it didn't quite work out like I wanted it to.
I do recall the last orders I ever received which came after a period of slow activity, a dead website. I recall these orders because I recently reviewed all of my customer logs and conversations. These orders came around the same time and they were both overseas orders. I shipped the records out and have all of the proof of this but you need to keep in mind records to some overseas locations can take 6-8 weeks. That is out of my control unless somebody wants to pay enormous amounts to ship something expedited overseas - and nobody wants to do that.
After a month from when those overseas orders were placed I received two complaints from these same two orders. I have reviewed all of the messages from those complaints and how I handled the situation.
One person admitted they gave me the wrong address by accident and then provided the new address. This was after writing me a complaint upset that I didn't ship their record. The customer acknowledged their mistake and apologized but wanted a new record sent to the proper address. The other overseas order that complained I initially asked them to wait a little bit longer since overseas orders can take time. A week later Canada Post said the record arrived. I showed the customer what Canada Post said to me and the customer said it wasn't them who received the vinyl, they did not have the record and they wanted a new copy sent.
Who pays for these new records and the shipping costs for them?
It was me. I didn't charge the customers to ship them another record. I had never had this happen before so I was friendly and provided great customer service, I stood behind the record and the band and my investment in the project and apologized for the delays and whatever happened to the original records. I sent them both a new copy of the record no questions asked and had to pay the shipping on those extra items. Back then I was willing to eat costs like that. I was young and naïve. I still believed that somehow everything was going to work out.
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You have to understand back then I so badly wanted Atreides Records to succeed, I wanted my investment to turn out to be smart and I wanted it to turn into something bigger. I wanted Rishloo to get discovered by a major label and their music to be heard worldwide. I also wanted Atreides Records to be recognized for our excellent curation selecting our first vinyl release and all of our planned selections after. We were building trust with the absolute best music we could find on the planet and I was honored to be a part of making history, bringing a piece of art to life in a new medium - my favorite medium - the vinyl record.
None of that stuff happened though.
Instead the band also received messages with complaints from I suspect these two exact same overseas orders who messaged me with complaints.
That was really the nail in the coffin for Atreides Records.
Although I understand the bands dissatisfaction with fan complaints I also believe it is very easy for wires to get crossed in emails and also for reputations to be easily destroyed without proper cause if somebody stretches the truth or overreacts. If a fan was upset with things out of my control and sent a series of messages to the band - unless our trust was solid this would inevitably damage relations between Atreides Records and Rishloo.
Keep in mind the band and myself only knew eachother through video meetings with Atreides Records / Rishloo present, phone calls and emails between me and the band.
To this day I have no clue what complaints were sent to the band about my customer service or how I was handling the Feathergun copies I own but what I can tell you with certainty is that it wasn't the truth.
The band member that contacted me stated I broke the contract by not shipping records to some of their fans and said they wanted me to send the band my copies of the Feathergun records.
I spent everything on manufacturing that record and the copies that Atreides Records contractually received were the only thing I had to try to get back the money and all the time I invested into the Feathergun vinyl record. The remaining records were the property of Atreides Records to recover our substantial financial investment in the record.
After receiving the request to send Rishloo my copies of Feathergun I did offer to send the remaining records to Seattle if the band paid for the records in advance and also paid the shipping to help me recover the money I invested. The band declined this offer and therefore I declined to ship the records.
I was thousands of dollars in debt and had not recovered a fraction of the money I spent manufacturing the Rishloo vinyl - so there was no way I was sending those records without getting back what I paid to manufacture them and promote the record.
But I am not a perfect man. I was young and offended about this request so I added some spice in my response to the band member who demanded that I send him my copies: "These records are the property of Atreides Records, I can sell them or not - I could throw the remaining copies of Feathergun that I own in a garbage dumpster if I really wanted to".
I never said I threw my copies of the Feathergun vinyl in the garbage - but I 100% said I could do that if I wanted to. I was struggling with a lot of things at the time and I needed my investment back. I stood my ground - but I could have been better.
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I am older now.
I gave Rishloo a vinyl record production of their album Feathergun free of charge along with hundreds of sealed copies and the thousands of dollars from those sales. This was a gift from out of nowhere from a random fan in Canada that wanted to start a record label. I also packed and shipped over 100 of the records all over the world. I tried promoting the band for years when they were split up immediately after the release and silent on all social media.​​
We should also think of the Feathergun vinyl listings sold for $250-$500 the last few years as the records became incredibly rare and sought after. None of those records were sold by me.
But also consider that if the demand for the Feathergun vinyl grew to such levels and a fan who was smart enough to buy multiple copies off me back in 2012 needed some money - why wouldn't they profit off their smart investment? I have no judgments about those who sold their copies of Feathergun for $200-$500 but these fans actually profited. Good for them I say.
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With Atreides Records now selling these records this should lower the overall price fans have seen over the last few years. By selling the Feathergun records significantly lower than what they have been sold for on Discogs and eBay this should drive down prices until my copies completely run out.
Nothing happens without reason. My life and the band members lives inadvertently created scarcity of this vinyl record, scarcity between their album releases, scarcity of news.
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Mystery. A unique tale. The theater of life and the waves of time. Automatic destiny.
Until one day through the passages of time - fifteen years later the Feathergun vinyl records have become extremely rare collector's items - as has their following vinyl release. In recent times there have been Feathergun vinyl listings for a single record for as high as $1000.
Insane.
I didn't directly drive those prices - all I did was sink all of my money into manufacturing a record I believed in 15 years ago. Admittedly to me this is somewhat a validating experience seeing these prices rise to such astronomical numbers.
After Atreides Records became defunct there was only one time that I sold four total Feathergun records from my remaining inventory. The only copies that I have sold in a decade. I sold those four Feathergun records when I was behind one month rent and I had no food. I had Feathergun records in storage and a bunch of retro action figures to sell. I sold all the items I could locally for quick cash and decided I needed to get to my storage and sell some Feathergun records as a last resort. Survival.
At that time I saw the Discogs prices of Rishloo Feathergun records going at $450 USD which I couldn't believe. I put up four copies for significantly less ($99) Even if I sold those records for hundreds of dollars at market value it still wouldn't come close to recovering what I paid to manufacture and advertise the records. On top of the manufacturing, consider all the cardboard vinyl mailers, materials, the paid ads - the time and effort behind all of this.
When I sold those four copies on eBay it was because I needed money at the time - badly. I shipped all of those records quickly. When I sold those records far less than market value I assisted in lowering the price of the Feathergun records being sold for a short time. Years later and since then the prices have only climbed.
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By selling these records at a fraction of the market price once again in 2025-26 this should reduce the Discogs and eBay prices again. I suspect once my inventory is fully gone these prices will only rise through time. Imagine trying to find a Rishloo Feathergun sealed copy in 10-20 years.
When all is said and done before anyone else backed the band with everything they had in their bank account there was Atreides Records fifteen years ago. Whatever anyone wants to say about me I have done some legendary things in my life and manufacturing the Feathergun album on vinyl is one of many.
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-I have two sets of the test pressings and the metal stampers because I am the person who arranged and paid for everything through contacts in Canada and the manufacturer Rainbo Records in California to press the Feathergun album on vinyl. The two sets of test pressings that I have and the metal stampers used to press the Feathergun vinyl album in 2011 have always been the property of Atreides Records. These were sent directly to us in Canada from Rainbo Records in California. The band also received one set of test pressings sent to them in Seattle. There are 3 total sets of test pressings and 1 set of metal stampers in existence.
-There were no future strings attached regarding ownership of their music. I made this very fair for the band from the onset. The contract I offered favored the band Rishloo on all levels and they lost nothing because of that. I took on all of the risk and I failed at making back my investment to this day - but in some ways I still think I did the right thing pressing this vinyl.
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-The simple truth. The label Atreides Records was to receive 300 records from the manufacturing of 500 total. 200 were sent to the band as per the contract and they received and sold all of them and kept the profit as was their right. Atreides Records to this day have not sold all of our copies and we have not profited off the release Feathergun, we have never recovered the price we paid to manufacture these records in 2011.
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-Atreides Records did everything we could to make this project a success but we needed to sell 300 records to break even and make a bit of profit to put towards a new vinyl release. I had dreams and they failed. Feathergun was still far ahead of its time in 2012. A few years after the release there were no sales and I lost the website.
-The world wasn't ready yet. The vinyl release of Feathergun in 2012 was a key to the future.​
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-I am trying to sell all of the remaining things from my storage that I accumulated in life - including these remaining brand new sealed copies of the Feathergun vinyl. I can no longer continue paying to store them or move them across the country. Limited supplies. Visit the Buy Now section of this website or click the image below:
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As stated above, I am now selling my remaining brand new sealed Feathergun vinyl at a significantly lower price than Discogs / eBay market price to get this classic vinyl in the hands of fans who have been waiting for many years. I have adjusted the price to reflect modern times including all of my years keeping these records safe and paying for them to be stored and moved safely for over a decade. Inflation + interest + hardship + foresight = Atreides Records pricing
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All payments are through PayPal to ensure a smooth and safe transaction. As for the remaining inventory, I will ship your orders just as I did all those years ago. I will hold up my end of the bargain just like I did 15 years ago. You will receive exactly what you order from Atreides Records in a reasonable tim
As mentioned at the beginning, I have omitted several personal details from the past to respect the band and their privacy. The only sensitive parts I included were necessary to defend my merit. Beyond what I have written here I won't try to convince you I am a good human being but I will defend myself if attacked.
Nothing in the past changes my original intent and belief. I stand by the masterful album Feathergun to this day. I think the band is incredibly talented and I hope they one day gain the recognition they deserve.
It is time to move on with my life but I do hope that all of my contributions and sacrifices are noted. I have faith it all amounts to something great and I am proud of the life I have lived to this point. I feel like I could say that I remembered why I was here and I never faltered from that path no matter what the consequences were.
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I wish Rishloo the best in their future as a band and I hope their next album brings them to new heights. I am confident to this day their collective work will continue to grow an audience through time. I believed in them 15 years ago and I backed that with everything.
One day when the wind blows I hope fans remember my role in bringing this iconic vinyl release to the world in 2012.
Sincerely,
Atreides Records
December 11th. 2025
Atreides Records
