Your favourite labels?
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Topic: Your favourite labels?
Posted By: The Hemulen
Subject: Your favourite labels?
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 08:53
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Record labels can make a real difference in shaping how an album turns out and even in defining the hallmarks of what later go on to be accepted genres, scenes or "sounds". A favourite of mine in this regard is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommended_Records - ReR . Their catalogue pretty much defines RIO. They can also be just plain lovely, like http://www.trunkrecords.com/ - Trunk Records who have a wonderful way of digging out quirky and obscure records and turning them into charming, celebratory and revelatory compilations and reissues. I've just got hold of their reissue of a 1957 album of jazz reworkings/tributes to the music of Moondog, and my partner ranks their creepy and beautiful Fuzzy Felt Folk compilation as one of her absolute favourite CDs. Your turn! |
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 09:59
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I have yet to hear a bad record on Mike Patton's Ipecac label. Other labels I like (mostly catering to experimental music fans) are Kranky, United Dairies, and Beta-Lactam Ring. In the more mainstream realm, I notice that an awful lot of great records are on Island. Then, of course, there's Rhino, which reissues some real classics. For classical music, I buy almost exclusively Naxos. You can't beat the price and the performances are (almost) always great. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 10:02
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For new stuff, Unicorn. Old stuff, One Way Records. Caroline has been good to me, too.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 10:24
| Didn't Rhino call it quits in 2009? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 10:29
| I have a great regard for Burning Shed - for Porcupine Tree and Theo Travis amongst others. Also Inside Out - The Tangent, Neal Morse etc. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 10:32
Maybe, but can't I still like them? -------------
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harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 12:57
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The Famous Charisma Label
Rhino
Deram
Ryko ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: April 23 2010 at 23:13
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Tzadik, ReR, and Cuneiform are the obvious choices for someone like me (although I greatly prefer the first), but I also like: Impulse!, Blue Note, Okkadisk, ESP, Atavistic, Emanem/Psi, Matchless, Erstwhile, Black Saint/Soul Note, Clean Feed, Naxos, and DG. Now, this isn't an entirely fair list, because I'm much more grateful that Impulse! was around than Erstwhile, but I think it's great that Jon Abbey is doing his thing over there and I'm happy that he can make a living from it, so I want to acknowledge that.
Also, http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56890 - I made this thread almost exactly a year ago ! That's eerie. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: April 24 2010 at 01:56
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Just a simple uniformed list off the top of my head, I'll skip over the big jazz ones people have already listed. Kunsthall, HG Fact, Erstwhile Records, Improvised Music From Japan/Ftarri, For 4 Ears, A Bruit Secret, Edition Wandelweiser, B-Boim Records, Balloon & Needle, Slub, Doubt Music, Manual, HatART, Col Legno, Wergo, Edition RZ, Smithsonian Folkways, None Such, VDE Gallo, Screwed up records, etcetera. So many good labels going around that we need to keep alive. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 24 2010 at 16:19
| Bellaphon from Germany for krautrock from the seventies, Music and Arts, Testament, BBC legends, Urania in classical music (mainly historical), Harvest-EMI for seventies prog, Nagara (drummer Peter Giger's old label), Vinyl Magic and Mellow Records for Italian prog |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 24 2010 at 23:08
I have a Merzbow album on Tzadik. It's great. -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 25 2010 at 07:14
| Mute, 4AD, Young God, ECM, Tzadik. |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: April 25 2010 at 15:06
mmmm, 4AD did fine things for the British indie/post rock scene throughout the nineties, so add them to my list. As much as I respect ECM for the music they are putting out, I struggle with them aesthetically, mainly talking from a musical perspective, they hurt my ears. I wish it wasn't so. Not sure if anyone else has found the same thing? probably just me being picky. |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 09:35
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There are a few: Inside Out for the new stuff charisma, island, vertigo, harvest, deram... can't think of all of them
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: November 13 2010 at 14:28
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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 21:27
Hunh? Rhino's still re-issuing music. Just check out the "Upcoming" tab on their site (Van Halen, Stooges, and Bee Gees are next on their list) Here's mine... Sire (for 80's alternative and pop music): Madonna, Depeche Mode, Erasure Nettwerk (for late 80's/early 90's dance and industrial music): Skinny Puppy, Manufacture, Severed Heads 4AD (for their rock, dreamy pop, and goth bands): Pixies, Throwing Muses, Dead Can Dance Warp (for innovative electronic acts): Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre Tzadik (for championing non-conventional composers): John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Susie Ibarra |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 23:57
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Oh come now! We all know 99% of us have a majority of our albums on: Atlantic/ATCO Elektra/Asylum WB/Reprise Columbia Polygram and MCA/Decca for some old vinyl junkies. Seriously though, I have a few that stick out for less corporate material. Sensory/Lasers edge Cuneiform ECM Caroline for digging up some older stuff. In the next decade, we will all be saying, "Hey, remember the old days when we had record labels." The internet is the world of self-promotion. The wall between artist and listener has come down. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 00:07
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Cuneiform, Ohr, Garden of Delights, the other good Krautrock reissuing labels, Tzadik, ReR, and various jazz-oriented labels, I suppose.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 02:54
I vividly remember reading an article about how they are ceasing the activity but I can't find it any more  |
Posted By: Paravion
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 04:47
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 05:17
yes. |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 06:27
I wouldn't be surprised if that news was true though... there were at least a couple of instances of the label having to recall their products due to audio glitches in New Order and Genesis remasters I found this lone article on Rhino addressing the matter of their survival here: http://www.bravewords.com/news/122766 - http://www.bravewords.com/news/122766 |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 07:52
| ^ Thanks for the article. I did some more searching and I found that what I read was indeed not an official information, but forum gossip. |
Posted By: Theriver
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 12:40
| Musea from France has a amazing catalogue. |
Posted By: Theriver
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 12:43
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 19 2010 at 15:22
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^ Indeed.
Perhaps my favorite label (and one that hasn't been mentioned yet) is the brilliant AltRock label...which hasn't producded anything bad (that I've heard). Yugen, Rational Diet, Simon Steensland, the new PdP...and others I can't think of off the top of my head. And they are quite new so its rather easy to keep up with their releases.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |