Emperor Norton Records, was a Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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-based electronica

Electronica

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, hip-hop

Hip hop music

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, and dance-music

Dance music

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 record label

Record label

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. Among the artists featured on the label were Ladytron

Ladytron

Ladytron are an English electronic band formed in 1999 in Liverpool, Merseyside. The group consists of Helen Marnie , Mira Aroyo , Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu .Their sound blends electropop with New Wave and shoegazing elements. Ladytron described their sound as "electronic pop"...

, Arling & Cameron

Arling & Cameron

Arling & Cameron are a Dutch electronic music duo, composed of Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron.Their music draws from French pop, spy movie themes, lounge, '70s light rock, Japanese Shibuya-kei and other music genres that are often associated with kitsch...

, Money Mark

Money Mark

Mark Ramos-Nishita aka Money Mark is a producer and musician who has collaborated with the Beastie Boys many times. He also appears on the first Banyan album in 1997 as the "Freeway Keyboardist".-Career:...

, Ugly Duckling

Ugly Duckling (hip hop group)

Ugly Duckling is an American hip hop group that formed around 1993 in Long Beach, California. Ugly Duckling's members include Dizzy Dustin , Young Einstein and Andy Cat . They took the name Ugly Duckling because they felt like outcasts on the Southern California hip hop scene of the mid-1990s...

, and Fantastic Plastic Machine

Tomoyuki Tanaka (musician)

is an electronic music artist/DJ, better known by his stage name of Fantastic Plastic Machine. Tanaka is considered to be part of the Shibuya-kei movement, drawing heavily from bossa nova, lounge music, soft rock, and French pop, but he also incorporates many other types of music...

. Additionally, it released the soundtracks to such movies as Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation (film)

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, CQ

CQ (film)

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and The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides (film)

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.

The company was named after Joshua A. Norton

Joshua A. Norton

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, a San Francisco

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 citizen noted for proclaiming himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1859. The company was purchased by Rykodisc

Rykodisc

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 in 2004 and was then acrimoniously shut down later that year, with Rykodisc

Rykodisc

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 inheriting its back-catalog.

Artists

• Air
• Arling and Cameron
• Buffalo Daughter
  Buffalo Daughter
  Buffalo Daughter is a Japanese rock group formed in 1993. The three main members are suGar Yoshinaga on guitar, Yumiko Ohno on bass, and Moog Yamamoto on turntables and graphic design...
  
  
• Bertrand Burgalat
  Bertrand Burgalat
  Bertrand Burgalat is a French musician, composer and producer.- Background :Bertrand Burgalat was born in the Corsican town of Bastia in 1963...
  
  
• Call & Response
• Cato Salsa Experience
  Cato Salsa Experience
  Cato Salsa Experience is an indie rock band from Oslo, Norway. The group formed around jam sessions at lead singer Cato Thomassen's house. The group began playing locally and released a vinyl EP before Emperor Norton Records, an American label, signed them and released their 2002 full-length, A...
  
  
• Cinemaphonic: Eletro Soul
• Codec and Flexor
• Cords
• DJ Me DJ You
• Electrocute
• Fantastic Plastic Machine
  Fantastic Plastic Machine
  Fantastic Plastic Machine can mean one of four things:* Fantastic Plastic Machine , the stage name of Japanese musician Tomoyuki Tanaka** The Fantastic Plastic Machine , the 1997 debut album of the above artist...
  
  
• Felix Da Housecat
  Felix da Housecat
  Felix da Housecat is an American DJ and record producer, mostly known for house music and electroclash. His name was inspired by Felix the Cat....
  
  
• Golden Boy
  Golden Boy
  Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced on Broadway by The Group Theatre in 1937. Odets' biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name, starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for a 1964 musical.-Plot:It focuses on Joe...
  
  
• Green Romance Orchestra
• Bruce Haack
  Bruce Haack
  Bruce Clinton Haack was a musician, composer, and pioneer of electronic music. He was born in Alberta, Canada.-From Alberta to New York :...
  
  
• Ladytron
  Ladytron
  Ladytron are an English electronic band formed in 1999 in Liverpool, Merseyside. The group consists of Helen Marnie , Mira Aroyo , Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu .Their sound blends electropop with New Wave and shoegazing elements. Ladytron described their sound as "electronic pop"...
  
  
• Logan's Sanctuary
  Logan's Sanctuary
  Logan's Sanctuary is an electronica album by Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Brian Reitzell, conceived as the soundtrack for an imagined sequel to the film Logan's Run....
  
  
• The Maxwell Implosion
• Takako Minekawa
  Takako Minekawa
  is a Japanese musician, composer and writer.-Background:As an accomplished all-around musician, Minekawa's musical skills set her firmly outside of the J-Pop "idol" tradition: she writes and composes most of her material, singing quirky lyrics about subjects such as clouds, cats, and the color...
  
  
• Miss Kittin
  Miss Kittin
  Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...
  
  
• Money Mark
  Money Mark
  Mark Ramos-Nishita aka Money Mark is a producer and musician who has collaborated with the Beastie Boys many times. He also appears on the first Banyan album in 1997 as the "Freeway Keyboardist".-Career:...
  
  
• Mount Sims
  Mount Sims
  Mount Sims is the stage name of Matthew Sims, a Berlin-based American DJ, performance artist, producer and musician. Starting Mount Sims as a purely electronic music act, later releases have also shown influences from post punk, new wave and darkwave...
  
  
• Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
  Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
  Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band is a Norwegian electronica group.-Career:The band was formed in 1997 when Erlend Sellevold asked for people to play percussion with him during a party in Bergen. Thomas Lønnheim and Tarjei Strøm showed up through a combination of mutual contacts and high-school...
  
  
• Olivia Tremor Control
• Pepe Deluxe
  Pepe Deluxé
  Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow JA-Jazz and James Spectrum in Helsinki, Finland. They started to experiment with sounds of hip hop, big beat, breakbeat and downtempo. DJ Slow departed the band in 2001 to pursue solo projects. JA-Jazz has been...
  
  
• Phaser
  Phaser (band)
  Phaser was a Washington, D.C. band that wrote, performed and recorded from 1998 to 2005. They released four records including Silverscreen Daydream , Skydive , Sway and Sleeper . Their record Sway was re-released in 2003 on Emperor Norton Records. Their last EP, Sleeper was released in 2005...
  
  
• Schroeder's Cat
  Schroeder's Cat
  Schroeder's Cat was a two-piece indie rock band formed by Simon Kenny and Darragh O'Grady in Dublin, Ireland, whose influences included My Bloody Valentine....
  
  
• Senor Coconut
• Soul Ecstasy
• Sunshine Fix
• Titán
  Titán
  Titán is a Mexican electronic band formed in 1992 from the industrial band Melamina Ponderosa, where Emilio Acevedo and Julián Lede first met each other, later Jay de la Cueva joined the band....
  
  
• Ugly Duckling
  Ugly Duckling (hip hop group)
  Ugly Duckling is an American hip hop group that formed around 1993 in Long Beach, California. Ugly Duckling's members include Dizzy Dustin , Young Einstein and Andy Cat . They took the name Ugly Duckling because they felt like outcasts on the Southern California hip hop scene of the mid-1990s...
  
  
• The Upper Crust
• Velma
• The Virgin-Whore Complex
• Zoobombs
  Zoobombs
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Soundtracks

• CQ
  CQ
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• Lost in Translation
  Lost in Translation
  Lost in translation may refer to:Film* Lost in Translation , a 2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola** Lost in Translation , the soundtrack accompanying the filmLiterature...
  
  
• Thinking XXX
  Thinking XXX
  Thinking XXX is a 2004 television documentary about the process photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders went through to create his book XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits...
  
  
• The Virgin Suicides
  The Virgin Suicides (film)
  The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, produced by her father Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A.J...