Caroline Distribution, founded in 1983

1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

 as a unit of Virgin Records

Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

, has become one of the U.S. music industry’s largest third party distribution companies for the independent music sector.

Caroline became part of EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 when EMI acquired Virgin in the early ‘90s. Caroline distributes 90 labels including Century Media, Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts (record label)

Arts & Crafts Productions is a Toronto-based independent artist services company, offering expertise as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser and music publisher both in Canada and internationally...

, Mute

Mute Records

Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...

, Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux is an independent record label based in New York City, United States. It was co-founded in 1999 by Jaime Meline and Amaechi Uzoigwe. The label was initially known simply as Def Jux, but in 2001, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the name similarity...

 and Stones Throw, among others.

Labels

• Abstract Sounds
• Alucard Music
  Alucard Music
  Alucard Music is a British music label that releases CDs and DVDs of Gentle Giant. It was founded by Kerry Minnear and Lesley Minnear, Kerry being a former member of Gentle Giant.- CD releases :* Under Construction * In a Glass House...
  
  
• Arts & Crafts
  Arts & Crafts (record label)
  Arts & Crafts Productions is a Toronto-based independent artist services company, offering expertise as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser and music publisher both in Canada and internationally...
  
  
• Asound / Bubbles
• Astralwerks
  Astralwerks
  Astralwerks is a New York-based record label that releases primarily electronic music. It is owned by Virgin Records/EMI and distributed by Caroline Distribution in the United States....
  
  
• Atopia
• Bandit Records
• Barely Breaking Even
  Barely Breaking Even
  Barely Breaking Even is a British record label started by two DJs, Peter Adarkwah and Ben Jolly. The name BBE comes from The Universal Robot Band's 1982 track `Barely Breaking Even'. It has two sublabels: Deep Funk, and Urban Theory...
  
  
• Beat The World
• Belleruche
  Belleruche
  Belleruche is a three-piece electronic/soul band from the United Kingdom. They are currently signed on the Brighton based Tru Thoughts label.The band was formed in North London in 2005....
  
  
• B-Music
• Bridge 9
• Candlelight Records
  Candlelight Records
  Candlelight Records is an independent record label based in Europe founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it has had a division in the United States since January 2001. Candlelight Records specialises in black metal and death metal, having bands such as Emperor,...
  
  
• Century Media
• Cold Sweat Records
• Crash Music Inc.
• Dead Ringer
• Definitive Jux
  Definitive Jux
  Definitive Jux is an independent record label based in New York City, United States. It was co-founded in 1999 by Jaime Meline and Amaechi Uzoigwe. The label was initially known simply as Def Jux, but in 2001, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the name similarity...
  
  
• District 6
• Earache Records
  Earache Records
  Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...
  
  
• Embedded Records
• Equator
  Equator Records (Canada)
  Equator Records is an independent record label established in 2006 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The music label was founded by Matt Drouin and Fuzz de Grandpre. Equator has released 3 albums, Islands' Return to the Sea, The Lovely Feathers's Hind Hind Legs, and Teitur's second release Stay Under...
  
  
• Ever Records
• Fabric
• Fanatic Records
• Fantoma Films
• Finder's Keepers
• Fresh Chest
• Get Physical Music
  Get Physical Music
  Get Physical Music is a Berlin based electronic music record label founded in 2002 by M.A.N.D.Y. , DJ T and Booka Shade . They were DJ Magazine's "Label of the Year" for 2005...
  
  
• Gigantic Music
  Gigantic Music
  Gigantic Music is an independent record label, founded by Brian Devine in 2000. Gigantic Music is based out of New York City.Moving beyond the somewhat flimsy "indie rock" categorization, Gigantic Music focuses on the promotion of innovative and talented musicians, regardless of whether or not they...
  
  
• Gold Dust Media
• Gracie Productions
• Green Streets
• High Times Records
• Jeepster Records
  Jeepster Records
  Jeepster Records is a London, England-based independent record label which is currently the home of bands Parka and SixNationState. The label is noted for having been the home of critically acclaimed artists Belle and Sebastian and Snow Patrol....
  
  
• Kindred Spirits
• Lightyear Records
• Liquor & Poker
• Mediaskare Entertainment
• Megamix
• Merovingian Music
  Merovingian Music
  Merovingian Music also abbreviated as MRV or MRV Music, is a non-genre specific record label based out of Red Bank, New Jersey. The label was founded by industry veteran Jack Ponti who currently serves as CEO of the company...
  
  
• Modern Artist Management
• Modern Whomp
• Moist Music NYC
• Moonjune
• Mute
  Mute Records
  Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...
  
  
• Nature Sounds
  Nature Sounds
  Nature Sounds is a record label based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in hip hop and reggae music.-Discography:*Ayatollah - Fingertips *Ayatollah - Live From The MPC 60 *Ayatollah - Cocoon...
  
  
• Now Again
• Nuclear Blast America
• One Little Indian
• Peacefrog Records
  Peacefrog Records
  Peacefrog Records are an independent record label based in London, United Kingdom. The label produces releases in many different styles of electronic music as well as branching out into folk and indie artists such as José González and Nouvelle Vague. Started by Pete Hutchison and Paul Ballard in...
  
  
• Phase One Communications
• R2 Records
• Rush Hour
• Say Hey Records
  Say Hey Records
  Say Hey Records is an independent record label based in New York City, and is the brainchild of founder Aaron Romanello. The label has put out notable records by White Rabbits, Shy Child, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's eponymous debut LP, and Inouk, as well as releases by Cause For Applause, The...
  
  
• Season Of Mist
  Season of Mist
  Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...
  
  
• Sebastian Bach
• SimplyRed.com
• Stillborn Records
  Stillborn Records
  Stillborn Records is an American-based independent record label, founded by Jamey Jasta of the band Hatebreed. Stillborn Records has released a variety of bands, mainly focused in the genres of metal and hardcore....
  
  
• Stones Throw Records
  Stones Throw Records
  Stones Throw Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf in part to release the music he made with Charizma who was killed at the age of 20....
  
  
• Store For Music
• Sugar Hill Records
  Sugar Hill Records
  Sugar Hill Records may refer to:*Sugar Hill Records , specializing in rap music*Sugar Hill Records , specializing in bluegrass and country music...
  
  
• Sure Shot
• Unfiltered Records
  Unfiltered Records
  Unfiltered Records is an American independent record label based in New York City, owned by producer, singer-songwriter and musical entrepreneur Andy Chase.  The label is run out of his New York City loft with label manager Michael Galbe, and in late 2009 became a member of Warner Music Group's...
  
  
• Up Above Records
  Up Above Records
  Up Above Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Long Beach, California, United States, co-founded in 1995 by Doug "Papadoug" Kato and The Visionaries member KeyKool, along with DJ Rhettmatic and Beat Junkies). The label's first release was a 12" single, KeyKool & Rhettmatic's "Can...
  
  
• Vanguard
  Vanguard Records
  Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
  
  
• Vice Films
• Wicked World Records
• Willowtip
  Willowtip Records
  Willowtip Records is an independently owned and distributed heavy metal record label headquartered in Zelienople, Pennsylvania.-Background:Willowtip Records was founded in 2000 by Jason Tipton with a partner named Willosin, who is no longer involved with the label. The combination of the two names...
  
  
• World's Fair