The label's website boasts connections with more than 100 acts, many featuring Patton himself, including this September's "Corpse Flower" with French pop composer Jean-Claude Vannier. Ipecac grew into a magnet for artists with really personal or experimental projects that might not otherwise catch on. "If we were really going to be setting this up as a label, he'd want to be involved," Werckman says. Other artists struggling to find a place for their own outside-the-box music, even despite their own solid track records, caught wind of the project and wanted in, including Osborne and the Melvins, who had been a massive influence on the grunge genre that spawned bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden. Patton says he had three or four records at the time for which he couldn't find a home, and coming up with Ipecac came from "getting turned down by other labels and saying, wait a sec, we might have to start creating our own universe, where this can have a home." Bungle bassist and co-founder Trevor Dunn. "We just wanted an outlet for Mike to put his releases out." Ipecac's first release was the self-titled debut from Fantomas, a supergroup featuring Patton and heavy-music veterans guitarist Buzz Osborne of the Melvins, drummer Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Mr. "To be honest, Mike and I did not set off on starting a label, per se," says Werckman, 54.
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