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6 unusual facts about record label


Absolute Steel

Throughout the late 1990s they played live performances and developed a heavy metal party band style that caught the attention of Edgerunner Records, a local heavy metal label.

Backlist

Record labels also have backlists of music titles they have published.

Ben Selvin

One reason for this prolific output is that he recorded for dozens of different labels during this high-growth time in the industry, using a different name (or slightly different name) for each label.

IME, New York City

He eventually sold it to a major recording company, and it is not known where or if he opened another facility.

Saille

On March 4, 2011 the band released their first full album 'Irreversible Decay' on the Italian label Code666 records.

The Spinanes

Originally founded by and consisting only of singer-songwriter/guitarist Rebecca Gates and drummer Scott Plouf, the band released three albums on the Sub Pop label before Gates retired the name in 1999 and began releasing music as a solo artist; Plouf began playing with Built to Spill in 1996, and left The Spinanes shortly thereafter to become their permanent drummer.


Artisan Records

Artisan Records is a British record label owned by the Indie rock band fin (band) based in Wandsworth, South West London.

Bet-Car Records

Bet-Car Records was a record label founded by jazz singer Betty Carter in 1970 to release her own recordings after her negative experiences with other recording companies.

Bobby Bare, Jr.

2005: Tanglewood Numbers by Silver Jews (Drag City – vocals on "I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You"

Buddy Johnson

His orchestra remained a major touring attraction through the late 1940s and early 1950s, and continued to record in the jump blues style with some success on record on the Mercury label like "Hittin' on Me" and "I'm Just Your Fool".

Canyon Dreams

The music is written as a sound accompaniment for the different scenic video scenes about the Grand Canyon in the film Canyon Dreams by Jan Nickman released by Miramar.

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Curtom Records

Curtom Records was a record label started by Curtis Mayfield of The Impressions along with Impressions associate Eddie Thomas (the band's manager and Jerry Butler's former driver) in 1968 although the name was used as early as 1963.

Deviant Records

Deviant Records was a London-based record label which has featured releases from artists such as Paul Van Dyk, Witchman, Humate, and Spooky.

Don Costa

He agreed, and thus began an association that led to their joining a new record label being headed by Sam Clark as president: ABC-Paramount Records.

Eartube Empire

is a record label owned by Rogue Entertainment Group, Inc. and was formed in 2011.

Embassy Court

Local record label Skint Records led a separate private party on the top floor of the building.

Eskimos and Egypt

Their follow up The Rest Is Silence was released in Germany and Japan after a label change to Motor Music (Polygram).

Feadz

He went on to produce her first single Pop the Glock in late 2005 and they began to shop the single around to various record labels.

FMP/Free Music Production

Free Music Production (FMP) is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians.

Four Music

Four Music (FOUR MUSIC Productions GmbH) is a German record label founded by Die Fantastischen Vier in 1996.

GospoCentric Records

GospoCentric Records is an Inglewood, California based Gospel music record label started as an independent label by Vicki Mack Lataillade and Claude Lataillade in 1993.

Kuckuck Schallplatten

Kuckuck Schallplatten (engl.: Cuckoo Records) is a German record label founded in August 1969 by Eckart Rahn, Mal Sondock and the advertising agency ConceptData in Munich, growing out of his music publishing company

La Sonora Dinamita

It disbanded in 1963, but was re-formed in 1975 under the direction of Julio Ernesto Estrada "Fruko" Rincón, the artistic director of the Discos Fuentes record label.

Leeds Talk-O-Phone

Leeds Talk-O-Phone was a record label, producing cylinders from 1894 to 1903 and single-sided lateral-cut disc gramophone records in the United States of America from about 1902 to 1909.

Little Wonder Records

Little Wonder Records was a United States record label from 1914 through 1923.

Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is an English electronic music producer from Norwich, Norfolk, with releases on Output Recordings, Trash Aesthetics and James Holden's Border Community label.

Monotonix

In 2008, the band signed to Drag City, where they have released Body Language, recorded by Tim Green of the Fucking Champs, and have continued their all-year touring playing over 250 shows that year alone.

Mountain Records

Mountain Records is a record label started in Cape Town, South Africa in 1980 by Patrick Lee-Thorp.

Mulatta Records

Mulatta Records is a record label established in 2000 by the Nigerian record producer and DJ Ayo Osinibi and the American composer/performer Dave Soldier

PartyNextDoor

Jahron Anthony Brathwaite (born July 3, 1993), better known under the stage name PartyNextDoor (sometimes styled as PARTYNEXTDOOR), is a Canadian singer from Mississauga, Ontario who is signed to Drake's OVO Sound record label.

PatchWerk Recording Studios

Founded in 1993 as a record label in Carson, California, by former Atlanta Falcons offensive tackle Bob Whitfield, after financing studio time to record a demo for his high school friend and aspiring rapper Ras Kass, Bob hired his college friend and entrepreneur B.J. Kerr, and together they released Ras Kass first single "Remain AnonymouS".

Perspective Records

Perspective Records was an American record label, launched in 1991 by the producing team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, through a joint venture with A&M Records—which Jam/Lewis had had a prosperous working relationship with throughout the 1980s, with several of its major acts including Janet Jackson, The Human League, and label founder Herb Alpert.

Plus 8

Plus 8 (also spelled as Plus8, without the space) is a Canadian techno record label, based in Windsor, Ontario and founded in 1990 by DJs Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva.

Ramblin' Boy

Ramblin' Boy is referred to as Paxton's debut album, since it was his first album released on a major record label (Elektra Records), although he had previously released a live album recorded at the The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village entitled, I'm the Man That Built the Bridges (which was released on the small Gaslight label in 1962).

Roost Records

Roost Records (also known as Royal Roost Records) was a record label established in 1949, primarily to record jazz, taking its secondary name from the New York club with which it was associated.

Scars and Memories

Scars & Memories is the fourth full-length album by Manhattan, New York rapper MF Grimm, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music) via his own Day by Day Entertainment label.

Slampt

Slampt (also Slampt Underground Organisation) was a record label set up in Newcastle, England in 1992.

Soul Temple Records

Soul Temple Records is an American record label founded in 2012 by hip hop music recording artist RZA and Bob Perry, after the release of the RZA directed The Man with the Iron Fists.

Spirit Zone Records

Spirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994.

Spoon Records

Spoon Records is an independent record label managed by Hildegard Schmidt, wife of keyboard player Irmin Schmidt, since 1979, on which music by the krautrock band Can and its members has been released and re-released.

Star Song Communications

Star Song Communications is a Christian record label that was started in 1976 by Wayne Donowho,who recruited his friend Darrell Harris.

Steel Breeze

In 1984, Steel Breeze (now with ex-707 vocalist Kevin Chalfant and keyboardist Loren Haas) released their second album, Heart On The Line on an independent record label, but the record went unnoticed despite guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen's saxophonist, Clarence Clemons and Santana's vocalist, Alex Ligertwood.

Stump The Host

In 1991 the band caught the ear of Jim Powers, an A+R rep for Zoo Records.

The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu

The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow, and Billy Drummond and Paolo Fresu recorded in Europe in 2007 and released on the Watt/ECM label.

The Meny-X

The Meny-X, also known as Maniacs Records, is a German rap and R&B record label from Pulheim.

Tiger Lily Records

Tiger Lily Records was a record label that was run by Roulette Records founder Morris Levy.

Timethai

Timethai was discovered in 2010 by Kamikaze's casting staff who came across Timethai's videos on a YouTube channel named 'Dharmthai'.

Toes in the Sand Recordings

Toes in the Sand Recordings is a US-based record label founded by David Christopher (aka Deviant) and Amy Dana in 2004.

Viper Recordings

Viper Recordings is a Liverpool drum and bass record label created by Futurebound and Jaquan in 2003.

Volume Records

The Volume Records record label was responsible for the early output of the British punk band The Toy Dolls, releasing the LPs Dig That Groove Baby (1983), A Far Out Disc (1985) and Idle Gossip (1986) and the singles Nellie the Elephant and She goes to Fino's.

We're a Winner

The phrase "We're a Winner" was later used as the motto of Mayfield's record label Curtom Records.

Woodworm Records

Woodworm Records was a record label created in 1979 to enable the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention to release their album Farewell Farewell.

Yaak Entertainment

Yaak Entertainment is a Nigerian Based Record Label which started in 2008 as yaak records, with core competence in the provision of services for the entertainment industry in Africa.


see also

Alfonso Noel Lovo

The Chicago-based record label The Numero Group released Lovo's La Gigantona album to the public, in the fall of 2012.

Andrés Durán

Then he came back and created his own record label, Talisman Music, where many local bands in Bogota such as Neurosis, La Pestilencia, Agony, Killcorps and Aldea started their music careers.

Appleton Syntonic Menagerie

Syntonic Menagerie is an album of electronic music by Jon Appleton released in 1969 on Flying Dutchman Records, a record label owned and managed by classic producer Bob Thiele.

Artist Underground

The website includes record label executives, recording studios and celebrities such as Verdine White or Kimberly Caldwell who will help artists by giving them critiquing, services and information.

Ben Scotti

He is the brother of media mogul Tony Scotti, with whom he co-produced a few television programs, most notably the lifeguard drama Baywatch, and also co-founded the Scotti Bros. record label which released music by artists such as Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic until the label was dissolved in the mid-1990s.

CBC Records

The CBC began releasing albums in 1966, in cooperation with commercial labels (such as RCA Records), and established its own internal record label, CBC Enterprises, in 1982.

Christian Wargo

Before joining Crystal Skulls in 2004, Wargo was in a band called Scientific, he released the album From the Nest of Idea in 2002 with the record label Burnt Toast Vinyl.

Coca Carola

Signed to the record label Beat Butchers they were well known to the Swedish punk scene together with bands such as Asta Kask and Köttgrottorna.

Dan Jewett

She Likes the Weather was re-released in April 2007 by Duritz' boutique record label Tyrannosaurus Records.

Dance for Me

Dance for Me, a 2012 song by artists of Nigerian record label Empire Mates Entertainment

Deep Obsession

By 2003, Deep Obsession had parted company with both their founding producer and songwriting partner Christopher Banks, and record label Universal Music.

Diary of a G

Diary of a G is an album from rapper Mr. Capone-E released on August 25, 2009 through his own record label Hi-Power Entertainment.

Errortype: Eleven

Errortype:11's eponymous debut on Some Records, the record label started by Walter Schreifels who played in many New York hardcore bands, most notably Youth Of Today and Gorilla Biscuits, the (post-hardcore band Quicksand and CIV), was recorded in seven days in Ray Martin's makeshift Operating Room.

Født til å Herske

Projekt Records, an American record label, updated the CD version by including new artwork upon re-release.

Gael Linn

On the business side, they run the Gael-Linn Records record label, which is partly funded by the Irish state.

Gerry Bron

He was at various times a clarinetist, a sheet music printer, an artist manager handling acts including Gene Pitney, Marianne Faithfull, Manfred Mann, Colosseum and Uriah Heep, a record producer working with the Bonzo Dog Band, Juicy Lucy and all the acts he managed with the exception of Faithfull, a booking agent, record label owner and a studio owner and manager at Roundhouse Studios.

Gunnar Berg

Gunnar Andreas Berg (born 1954), Norwegian musician and record label owner

H.W.A.

The three members came together in 1989 for an independent record label, Drive-By Records to record their first album, Livin' in a Hoe House, which was released a year later.

Halcyon Days EP

After a positive EP review in an issue of TNS Zine, the Manchester zine started a record label TNSrecords and offered the band a one-off split record deal with two of their roster bands.

Heyday

Heyday Records, an independent record label founded in 1988 by Pat Thomas

Il Popolo del Blues

Il Popolo del Blues is also an independent record label and its catalogue includes a number of albums and releases such as Morning Manic Music, one of the label’s latest releases and Ernesto De Pascale's first solo album.

Independent Entertainment

Other than Faze, there are yet no other signed artiste to the record label though.

Jamie Hall

He then owned a record label called Urbnrg Records which was distributed by Sunshine Records.

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise Recordings, an independent record label founded in Indiana in 2003

Kesh Recordings

Kesh Recordings is a UK record label, specializing in eclectic global music and sound art, curated by Cambridge based musician Simon Scott.

Ko Melina

After hearing her cover Mary Wells'sBye Bye Baby” with the Breakdowns, Long Gone John of the record label Sympathy For The Record Industry asked her to contribute to his Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit compilation and so Ko & The Knockouts were formed with Steve Nawara and Jeff Klein.

Long Distance Swimmer

It was recorded during a one week period in the home of Crowley's sister in the suburb of Foxrock, County Dublin, was released on the Tin Angel record label, and features contributions from other musicians, such as James Yorkston.

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

The album was released on September 23, 2008 on his own record label Martyr Inc, with distribution by Hickory Records/Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Make Do and Mend

It was announced in July 2011, that UK-based independent record label, Holy Roar Records, would release Make Do and Mend's discography on a double LP.

Malandro Records

Malandro Records was an American record label based in Cincinnati, Ohio which released albums by Brazilian musicians.

María Villalón

Her album after her win was Te espero aquí by Sony BMG, although she had two pre-X Factor albums through a small Andalusian record label.

Max Matsuura

Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous example of Matsuura's work, as well as he is known for reviving Ami Suzuki's career after she was let go by her previous record label.

Minipops

This resulted in a French record label releasing a single from the album, "Stupid Cupid", which was sung by Martin Wyatt's young daughter Jo.

Mohamed Dia

In 2005, he also created his own record label, Dia entertainment, along with hip hop group Ärsenik.

Monday Morning Cold

It was released in 1999 via her own record label, TVP Records, while she was still a student at Brown University.

OuMuPo 2

It was released on October 19, 2004, by the French record label Ici, d'ailleurs... Records.

Private Stock

Private Stock Records, a record label which was started in 1974 by Larry Uttal

Psyko Punkz

The two are signed to the Belgian record label Dirty Workz, where they have been regularly releasing tracks since the year 2008.

Richard F Disney

Along with a number of other friends of then-manager Richard Boon he helped finance the start-up of record label New Hormones and the release of the influential Spiral Scratch (EP) by the Buzzcocks.

Rock 'n Roll Records

Rock 'n Roll Records was a subsidiary record label under Scotti Brothers Records (sometimes spelled Scotti Bros. Records), which was a California-based record label founded by Tony and Ben Scotti.

Shandar

Shandar was a French record label specializing in avant-garde material that did seminal work during the 1970 releasing, among others, recordings by Albert Ayler, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Sunny Murray, Philip Glass, Richard Horowitz, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Alan Silva, Pandit Pran Nath, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra.

The Get Set

The Get Set signed an exclusive recording contract with top independent record label Crank! A Record Company, whose roster also includes The Gloria Record, Mineral, The Icarus Line, and Neva Dinova.

The Landscape Channel

The Landscape Channel, is a British television channel which was set up by Nick Austin, co-founder of the Beggars Banquet record label, to showcase the classical and instrumental music genres.

The Mundanes

They recorded a demo at RCA Studios, produced by Mick Ronson, that attracted record label attention, but the band remained unsigned and ultimately broke up in mid-1983.

Twisted Black

In July 2006, Twisted Black was arrested and charged by officers with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Midland, Texas, shortly after signing a deal with New York-based independent record label TVT Records.

UnSun

The band's record label, Mystic Production, announced in a press statement on 24 June 2010 that UnSun begun recording its second album Clinic for Dolls, which was scheduled for release on 11 October 2010.

Uri Nakayama

Nakayama's music is introduced as blended world accordion music, Gypsy Jazz, Musette, Tango etc. and her voice is advertised as "miracle voice" by record label.

Wax Murdaraz

Wax Murdaraz released an album in 2005 entitled City Ta City Killin' Spree which was executive produced jointly with scratch DJ legend Rob Swift, and released on their own record label Deep Krate Recordingz.

Windsong Records

Windstar Records – originally known as Windsong Records, Colorado based record label responsible for releasing John Denver recordings.

Zoë Johnston

Similarly Johnston has written and recorded all vocal parts for Sleepthief, Delerium, and Above & Beyond on their singles "Good For Me", "Alchemy", "No One On Earth", "You Got To Go", and "Love Is Not Enough" on the record label Anjunabeats.