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A Record label is a brand of an organization, usually a company, that finances the release of musical albums. Traditionally, a record label will sign a Musical Artist to a contract to release one or more Musical Albums and will also provide... more

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Bedrock Records Bedrock Records Topic MMII Gypsy
Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, house and techno started by Nick Muir and John Digweed.It is based around a club night in London also called Bedrock. Bedrock Records has released many singles from artists such as Steve Lawler, Shmuel Flash, Steve Porter, and Jerry Bonham. Bedrock is also the name that Digweed and Muir use as their production moniker.
Record label Bedrock Desyn Masiello
Company OS 0.2 John Digweed
Employer OS 0.3
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Jeepster Records   Topic It's a Cool Cool Christmas Belle & Sebastian
Jeepster Records is a British, London based independent record label and has the bands SixNationState and Parka currently signed to the label. Belle & Sebastian, Salako, Looper, The Gentle Waves and Snow Patrol are all back catalogue artists of Jeepster Recordings.
Record label Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Company Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Employer Dog on Wheels
Lazy Line Painter Jane
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Ninja Tune Topic Foley Room DJ Food
Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started in 1991 by DJ Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut, with a strong leaning towards electronic, abstract hip hop, instrumental hip hop, nu jazz, drum and bass, and chillout music. The label has developed a number of DJs, producers, and live acts. Ninja Tune's sister imprint, Ntone (now defunct) and Big Dada, specialise in experimental electronic music and hip-hop, respectively. The label has a satellite office in...
Record label You Are Beautiful at All Times The Cinematic Orchestra
Company Sorry I Make You Lush Alfred Weisberg-Roberts
Employer Shadows Rhys Chatham
Ma Fleur Bonobo
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Geffen Records   Topic Weezer Driveblind
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M; label group. Geffen Records was founded in 1980 by music industry businessman David Geffen who, in the early 1970s, had founded Asylum Records. Geffen stepped down from Asylum after being diagnosed with a cancerous cyst, but following confirmation that the growth was benign, he returned to work and struck a deal with Warner Bros. Records to create Geffen Records...
Record label Pinkerton Jawbreaker
Company Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head It Bites
Employer Weezer Remy Zero
13 Ways to Bleed on Stage Drivin N Cryin
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Atlantic Records Atlantic Records Logo from 1966 to 2005 Topic Giant Steps Led Zeppelin
Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one label in 2004. Craig Kallman is currently Chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as "Founding Chairman" until...
Record label Fear of a Blank Planet John Coltrane
Company No Quarter The Average White Band
Employer Snakes and Arrows Streets
Led Zeppelin Jody Watley
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Parlophone Topic Ebony and Ivory Radiohead
Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. The ₤ trademark may resemble the British pound sign (£), but it is actually a German L, for Lindström. Lindstrom initially used the "Parlophon" brand on gramophone before it started making records. During the First World War, the Transoceanic Trading Company was set up in the Netherlands to look after its overseas assets. On August 8, 1923, the British branch of "Parlophone" (with the "e" added) was...
Record label Please Please Me Morning Runner
Company Love Songs Skin
Employer Distant Light The Departure
Arena Scarlet Party
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Blue Note Records Topic Moanin' Horace Silver
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue note" of jazz and the blues. Blue Note Records is currently owned by the EMI Group and in 2006 has been expanded to fill the function of an umbrella label group bringing together a wide variety of EMI-owned labels and imprints specializing in the growing market segment of music for adults (see History...
Record label Brian Blade Fellowship Jimmy Smith
Company Movin' and Groovin' Lee Morgan
Employer Maiden Voyage Art Blakey
Bing, Bing, Bing! Tadd Dameron
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Island Records   Topic This Was U2
Island Records is a record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. It was based in England for many years, but is now owned by Universal Music Group of the United States, and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. Island Records was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall, taking its name from the 1955 Alec Waugh novel, subsequent film and Harry Belafonte hit song 'Island in the Sun'. The company relocated to the UK in May 1962....
Record label A Song for Jeffrey Jethro Tull
Company A Drivin N Cryin
Employer Boy The 77's
Attack of the Killer B's Greenwheel
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Sun Records Sun Record Label Topic Roy Orbison at the Rock House Junior Parker
Sun Records was a record label based in Memphis, Tennessee starting operations on March 27 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musician such as Elvis Presley (whose recording contract was sold by Sun Records to RCA Victor Records for $35,000 in 1956 to relieve financial difficulties they were going through), Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contract and helping to launch their careers. Before those days Sun Records had mainly...
Record label Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar Jack Clement
Company Now Here's Johnny Cash Charlie Rich
Employer All Aboard the Blue Train Elvis Presley
Greatest! Jerry Lee Lewis
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Rephlex Records Topic Boku Mo Wakaran Aphex Twin
Rephlex Records is a record label started in 1991 by electronic musician Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) and Grant Wilson-Claridge. Grant coined the term "Braindance" to describe the label's sound. The term isn't a genre, but rather an aesthetic of stimulating primitivism which runs through all Rephlex releases. Rephlex has released the music of many notable and influential electronic artists, among them Mike Paradinas, the founder of Planet Mu Records, synth pop revivalist and electro...
Record label Remixes 12" The Tuss
Company Boku Mo Wakaran Universal Indicator
Employer Samurai Math Beats Black Devil
Analord Mike Paradinas
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Swan Song Records Topic In Through the Out Door The Pretty Things
Swan Song Records was a record label launched by English rock group Led Zeppelin on May 10, 1974. It was managed by Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant and was a vehicle for the band to promote its own products as well as sign artists who found it difficult to win contracts with other major labels. The decision to launch the label came after Led Zeppelin's five year contract with Atlantic Records expired at the end of 1973. Atlantic Records ultimately distributed the label's product. Artists...
Record label Straight Shooter Led Zeppelin
Company Desolation Angels Robert Plant
Employer Rough Diamonds John Bonham
Bad Company Bad Company
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Do It Records   Topic Dirk Wears White Sox Adam & the Ants
Do It Records was an independent record label in London started in 1978 by Robin Scott, Max Tregoning and Ian Tregoning. Over the next 6 years, they released several recordings by M, Adam and the Ants and Yello.Also was a record label that Aurora Beltrán createt specially for release the last album of Tahúres Zurdos in 2004
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Nothing Records   Topic And All that Could Have Been Nine Inch Nails
Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and John Malm, Jr. in 1992. It is considered an example of a vanity label, where an artist is able to run a label, with some degree of independence, from within a larger parent company, Interscope in this case. Nothing Records is now defunct. The Nothing record label is most famous for its two original signings, Trent Reznor's own band Nine Inch Nails...
Record label Big Loada 12 Rounds
Company The Fragile Scott Putesky
Employer Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) Marilyn Manson
The Golden Age of Grotesque Gidget Gein
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Alternative Tentacles Topic 1980-1986 T.S.O.L.
Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles," and after realizing the potential for an independent label, they released records for other bands as well. Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray and vocalist Jello Biafra formed the original Alternative Tentacles partnership, but the label is now run by Biafra, who...
Record label Weathered Statues Brutal Juice
Company Beneath the Shadows Pansy Division
Employer Deadline Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Welcome to Violence Burning Image
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Ankst Ankst logo Topic Patio Super Furry Animals
Ankst was a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams. After a handful of low key cassette releases, the label relocated to Cardiff and became a more serious concern, providing a launch-pad for several popular Welsh artists, including Llwybr Llaethog, Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Between 1988 and 1997, the label put out some 80 releases before splitting in 1997 into two separate...
Record label Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Ectogram
Company Moog Droog Y Cyrff
Employer Tatay Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Bwyd Time
Warp Records   Topic Mirrored Grizzly Bear
Warp Records is a pioneering independent English record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music. Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell from their experiences working at the FON record store, alongside producer Robert Gordon, the label (whose name was chosen because the original name, 'Warped Records' was difficult to distinguish over the telephone) soon became home to artists who would be highly influential...
Record label ...I Care Because You Do Battles
Company On Autechre
Employer Geogaddi Boards of Canada
Music Has the Right to Children Chris Clark
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American Recordings Topic Hypnotize Tom Petty
American Recordings is a Los Angeles-based record label headed by record producer Rick Rubin. The label's most successful artists include Slayer, The Black Crowes, Danzig, Johnny Cash, God Lives Underwater, and System of a Down. The label was founded as Def American after Rick Rubin left Def Jam Recordings in 1988. Among the first acts to be signed were Slayer (who followed Rubin from Def Jam), Danzig, Masters of Reality, and Wolfsbane, as well as indie rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain and...
Record label Peng! Jayhawks
Company Space Age Batchelor Pad Music The Four Horsemen
Employer Mezmerize God Lives Underwater
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Jeff Hanneman
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Columbia Records Topic Kind of Blue