Dep International was a British

United Kingdom

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 record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 founded in 1980

1980 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980.-January–March:*January 1**Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Elizabeth II.**The Zorros audition drummer Greg Pedley....

 by members of British group UB40

UB40

UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...

. It specialised in reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 and dub music

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

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The label went into administration in October 2006 and into insolvent liquidation

Liquidation

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 in April 2008.
It was based in DEP International Studios

DEP International Studios

DEP International Studios is a recording studio situated in Digbeth, Birmingham, UK. Designed by Recording Architecture, the studio is owned by dub music band UB40 . Situated in Birmingham's Eastside area, it still exists today.- Studio One :...

 in Digbeth

Digbeth

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, Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

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History

Dep International was formed in 1980

1980 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980.-January–March:*January 1**Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Elizabeth II.**The Zorros audition drummer Greg Pedley....

 by members of UB40 to keep control over their record output and to release tracks by other artists. A worldwide distribution deal was struck with 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...

 in 1982. It was the first label to release a dub

Dub

Dub or dubbing may refer to:* Accolade, the conferring of knighthood-Arts and entertainment:* Dubbing , the copying of audio recordings from one medium to another...

 album; Present Arms in Dub

Present Arms in Dub

Present Arms In Dub is a remix album by UB40 released in October 1981. The album contains eight remixed instrumental versions of original tracks from Present Arms and its bonus 12" single; only the double-A side single tracks "Don't Let It Pass You By"/"Don't Slow Down" are not included. The album...

, which appeared in the British pop charts. They also had the first commercial application of a British method of mass producing holograms with the limited edition version of UB44

UB44

UB44 is the third studio album album by UB40 . It was released in September 1982. The early release of the packaging had a hologram cover. It reached No 4 in the UK album chart...

 having a hologram covering the record sleeve. Although the label was wound-up in 2007, in 2011 five founder members of the group and directors of the label, had bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

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 proceedings started against them relating to debts of the record label. The five named were Robin Campbell, Brian Travers, Terence Wilson

Astro (UB40)

Terence Wilson is a musician, rapper, and toaster, better known by his stage name, Astro, who has been part of the English Reggae band UB40 since it was founded in 1978.-References:...

, Norman Hassan and James Brown.