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• Bad Sekta
  Bad Sekta
  Bad Sekta is an independent English record label founded in Halstead in 2005, with a mission statement to release new music and video by underground & experimental electronic music artists....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Beatroute Records
  Beatroute Records
  Beatroute Records is a record label based in Camden, London. The label was originally formed in 1985 by Simon Langer and Carlo Cura - owners of the Le Beat Route night club...
  
  
• Beggars Banquet Records
  Beggars Banquet Records
  Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels...
  
  
• Bella Union
  Bella Union
  Bella Union is an independent record label that was started up by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie in 1997.After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to take a step towards independence and started up the Bella Union record label, through which they...
  
  
• Big Scary Monsters Recording Company
  Big Scary Monsters Recording Company
  Big Scary Monsters Recording Company is a British based independent record label. Probably the most well-known acts associated with the label are This Town Needs Guns, Kevin Devine, Pulled Apart By Horses, Walter Schreifels, Andrew WK and Get Cape. Wear Cape...
  
  
• Black Crow Records
  Black Crow Records
  Black Crow Records was originally an off-shoot of Rubber Records and was the brain child of Producer and Label Manager Geoff Heslop, created to provide a clearer identity. The label was owned by MWM Records in Newcastle upon Tyne, who handled all the production, marketing, sales and promotion. The...
  
  
• Blast First
  Blast First
  Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label, Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after a phrase taken from the first number of the radical Vorticist journal Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis in 1914...
  
  
• Bloody Chamber Music
  Bloody Chamber Music
  Bloody Chamber Music is an independent record label founded by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf. "Bloody Chamber" refers to the heart.Wolf originally started the label as somewhere to store his digital back-catalogue of music...
  
  
• Blow Up Records
  Blow Up Records
  Blow Up Records is a British independent record label, that was established in London in 1994, by Blow Up club founder and DJ Paul Tunkin.Music genres of releases from the label include New Wave, Pop/Rock and Electronica...
  
  
• Blue Dog Records
  Blue Dog Records
  Blue Dog Records was an independent London record label located in offices above the original Barfly Club . Started in 1997 by Nick Moore and Jeremy Ledlin it was licenced and distributed by Richard Branson’s V2 Records, and had a mostly guitar band roster of artists including The Crocketts,...
  
  
• Blue Room Released
  Blue Room Released
  Blue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from Bowers & Wilkins, British loudspeaker company. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April 1995 and...
  
  
• Blue Horizon
  Blue Horizon
  Blue Horizon was a British blues record label founded by Mike Vernon in the mid 1960s.Its roots lay in Vernon's mail order label Purdah Records, which released just four 7" singles; including "Flapjacks" by Stone's Masonry ; and another by John Mayall and Eric Clapton "Bernard Jenkins", and...
  
  
• Boy Better Know
  Boy Better Know
  -History:The band and label were established by Jamie Adenuga "Boy Better Know" is a registered trademark, clothing line and Boy Better Know sim cards....
  
  
• Burning Shed
  Burning Shed
  Burning Shed is an independent record label established in April 2001 by musicians Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers, in association with duplication company manager and former Noisebox Records boss, Pete Morgan....
  
  

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• Candid Records
  Candid Records
  Candid Records was founded as a subsidiary of Archie Bleyer's Cadence label in New York City in 1960. The jazz writer and civil rights activist, Nat Hentoff, worked as the label's A&R director, aiming to create a representative catalog of the jazz of the day...
  
  
• Chemikal Underground
  Chemikal Underground
  Chemikal Underground is an independent record label set up in 1994 by Glasgow, Scotland rock band The Delgados. It was set up to release their first single, "Monica Webster" / "Brand New Car" and went on to break many new Scottish bands in the nineties....
  
  
• Cherry Red
  Cherry Red
  Cherry Red is a London-based independent record label formed in 1978.-History:Cherry Red grew from the rock promotion company founded in 1971 to promote rock concerts at the Malvern Winter Gardens...
  
  
• Chocolate Fireguard Records
  Chocolate Fireguard Records
  Chocolate Fireguard Records is an independent record label founded in 2000 by Pat Fulgoni.It is home to such bands as Fulgoni's dance/rock outfit Kava Kava , The Bluefoot Project featuring Rachel Modest, French hip hop crew La Cedille, girl punk rockers Mary-Jane, hip hop grime artist Practical...
  
  
• Cinoci Records
  Cinoci Records
  Cinoci Records was an independent record label established in 2005 by Benjamin Tatlow specialising primarily in the genres of electronica and experimental music...
  
  
• Citinite
  Citinite
  Citinite is a record label launched in 2006 which specialises in electrofunk. Its artist roster is a mix of new artists, such as Her Bad Habit, Gosub and Sweat.X, and older artists who helped pioneer the electrofunk genre, such as John Davis and Egyptian Lover....
  
  
• Clay Records
  Clay Records
  Clay Records was an independent record label founded by Mike Stone in 1980 out of a record shop in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent.-History:...
  
  
• Cooking Vinyl
  Cooking Vinyl
  Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986. Its original orientation was toward contemporary folk music—notably Billy Bragg, and Michelle Shocked's Texas Campfire Tapes, recorded on a Sony Walkman, one of its first releases...
  
  
• Convivium Records
  Convivium Records
  Convivium Records is a British independent record label and record self-releasing house started by Adrian Green.The label records, masters, markets and distributes choral and instrumental music by predominantly British artists, composers and ensembles...
  
  
• Crass Records
  Crass Records
  Crass Records is an independent record label which was set up by the anarchist punk band Crass.-Overview and history:Prior to the formation of Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher had published their creative works via their own Dial House based Exitstencil Press...
  
  
• Creation Records
  Creation Records
  Creation Records was a British independent record label headed by Alan McGee. Along with Dick Green and Joe Foster, McGee founded Creation in 1983. The label lasted until its demise in 1999. The name came from the 1960s band The Creation , whom McGee greatly admired. McGee, Green and Foster were...
  
  
• Creeping Bent
  Creeping Bent (record label)
  Creeping Bent, aka The Creeping Bent Organisation is an independent record label set up by Douglas MacIntyre in 1994, based in Glasgow, Scotland.-Notable artists:* Bricolage* Alan Vega* Vic Godard, of the Subway Sect* The Secret Goldfish...
  
  
• Criminal Records
  Criminal Records
  Criminal Records is the name of a UK based independent record label representing basement bands. It was formed in 2004 and focuses of the emergence of the subgenre known as Basement Rock or Basement. They represent over 20 UK bands.-External links:* *...
  
  

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• Damaged Goods Records
  Damaged Goods (record label)
  Damaged Goods is a British independent record label and online shop.- History :Damaged Goods started in 1988 from a living room in east London.Ian Damaged called it DamagedGoods. The first release was a re-issue of the 1977 single by Slaughter and the Dogs, "Where Have All the Bootboys Gone?"...
  
  
• Damnably
  Damnably (UK Label)
  Damnably is a small, independent organisation, based in London, which organises performances and tours for musicians, podcasts music and video via its website, and releases CDs and records....
  
  
• Dance to the Radio
  Dance to the radio
  Dance To The Radio is an independent record label co-founded by Whiskas of Les Flames and ¡Forward, Russia! in 2004.It was named after the refrain of the Joy Division song "Transmission"...
  
  
• Dancing Turtle Records
  Dancing Turtle Records
  Dancing Turtle Records is a London based independent record label set up in 2005. Their releases have a strong leaning towards the genres of indie folk, electronica, experimental, downtempo and world music....
  
  
• Deltasonic
  Deltasonic
  Deltasonic is an English record label based in Liverpool, England. Previously joint ventured with Sony Music, it is now totally independent. It was formed by Alan Wills, the former drummer with Liverpool bands Shack and Top.-History:...
  
  
• Deviant Sound Records
  Deviant Sound Records
  Deviant Sound Records is a London-based independent record label established in 2001 and is owned by Deviant Sound Ltd. Artists include The Chef, Miss Sweetstream, Mimina, D.F.B., Original Future Brotherhood, Seeds of Seduction and Divine Touch....
  
  
• Dick Bros Record Company
  Dick Bros Record Company
  The Dick Brothers Record Company was an independent record label formed by the singer Fish based in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. It predominantly released material by Fish, including 'official bootleg' live albums...
  
  
• Din Of Ecstasy Records
  Din Of Ecstasy Records
  Din Of Ecstasy Records is an independent record label based in Bridport, England. The label was originally founded by singer-songwriter Jinder in 2007, and began releasing music in 2009, following the end of Jinder's contract with Arista/Sony BMG...
  
  
• Document Records
  Document Records
  Document Records is a British record label that specializes in early American blues, bluegrass, gospel, spirituals jazz, and other rural American genres , generally made between 1900 and 1945...
  
  
• Domino Recording Company
• Dreamboat Records
  Dreamboat Records
  Dreamboat Records is a British independent record label based in Bristol, England.-History:The label was founded in 2005, and released records on a small scale for a group of local artists. In 2009 it expanded to include releases of independent film soundtracks...
  
  
• Drowned in Sound
  Drowned in Sound
  DrownedinSound.com or DiS is a UK based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway . The site is an editorially independent music website.-History:...
  
  

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• Factory Records
  Factory Records
  Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and James and...
  
  
• Falling A Records
  Falling A Records
  Falling A Records is a Essex, England based independent record label formed in the late 1970s, and heavily involved with the D.I.Y cassette movement of the early 1980s...
  
  
• Fällt
  Fällt
  Fällt is an independent publishing house specialising in experimental music, fine art, design and criticism.Established in the mid 1990s by W. Conrad Röntgen and Christopher Murphy as a publishing vehicle for experimental interdisciplinary works, Fällt is now jointly run by W. Conrad Röntgen and...
  
  
• Fanfare Records
  Fanfare Records
  Fanfare Records was a British record label that was founded by Iain Burton . The label also gave Simon Cowell his first break in the music industry. Burton and Cowell worked together at Fanfare Records for eight years. The label was most successful during the mid 1980s to early 1990s...
  
  
• Fantastic Plastic Records
  Fantastic Plastic Records
  Fantastic Plastic Records is a London based record label. It was independent until 15 June 2007 when the Sanctuary Group was bought by the Universal Music Group.-Current artists:* Bearsuit* Bricolage* Guillemots* Luke Haines* New Cassettes* Oppenheimer...
  
  
• Fast Product
  Fast Product
  Fast Product was an independent record label, established in Edinburgh by Bob Last in December 1977. Its first release was also the first single by the Mekons, released on 20 January 1978....
  
  
• Fat Cat Records
  Fat Cat Records
  Fat Cat Records is an independent label based in Brighton on England’s South Coast. Their output includes electronica, post rock, indie, downtempo, minimal techno, noise and punk-pop...
  
  
• Fat City Recordings
  Fat City Recordings
  Fat City Recordings is an independent record label. It emerged in 1998 from the Fat City Records shop originally situated in Affleck's Palace in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, but which has now moved onto Oldham Street....
  
  
• Fellside Records
  Fellside Records
  Fellside Records was a record label formed and is still run by Paul Adams and Linda Adams, in 1976 in Workington, Cumbria. Paul had toured semi-professionally with the Barry Skinner Folk Group in his teens. Paul and Linda married in 1974. Starting as a folk/acoustic label. They issued jazz under...
  
  
• Fiddler Records
  Fiddler Records
  Fiddler Records was a small independent record label serving as the launching pad for several artists seminal to the pop, punk and emo genres. Starting as the brainchild of 16 year old entrepreneur Amy Fleisher in 1996, the label became well known for its early releases from marquee artists...
  
  
• Field Records
  Field Records
  Field Records is a British, Nottingham-based independent record label featuring bands such as Ann Arbor, Karhide, Alright the Captain, Kasper rosa, LaFaro, Khuda, Public Relations Exercise, Princess, and Maybeshewill.The label is run by Tim Waterfield....
  
  
• Fierce Panda Records
  Fierce Panda Records
  Fierce Panda Records is a London-based independent record label, with its first release in February 1994. It also produced a small number of releases that year by now famous artists such as Ash, The Bluetones, Baby Bird and Supergrass...
  
  
• Flicknife Records
  Flicknife Records
  Flicknife Records was an independent record label setup in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Marc "Frenchy" Gloder, and Gina 'Wild Thing' Nares. It specialised in psychedelic rock and Hawkwind and ex-members solo projects...
  
  
• Freshly Squeezed Music
  Freshly Squeezed Music
  Freshly Squeezed Music is an independent record label and music publisher based in Brighton, England and founded in 2005....
  
  
• Future Legend Records

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• Glass Records
  Glass Records
  Glass Records was a British independent record label which operated from 1981 to 1989, if GLASS 001 and GLASS 002 were issued in 1979 and 1980 respectively.Glass was one of the circuit of key London-based indie labels of the 1980s...
  
  
• Go! Discs Records
  Go! Discs Records
  Go! Discs was a Hammersmith, London based record label, launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley Symons. With artists like Billy Bragg, The Housemartins and later The Beautiful South, it became a prominent label. Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for dance artists like Beats...
  
  
• Grand Central Records
  Grand Central Records
  Grand Central Records was an independent record label based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, UK. It was started in 1995 by DJ Mark Rae . Rae started out working as manager of the Fat City Records' store...
  
  
• Gravity DIP Records
  Gravity DIP Records
  Gravity DIP is an independent record label and music management team based in Kingston upon Thames, England. It evolved from a music collective which has promoted live shows by bands and club nights in Kingston upon Thames since 1994...
  
  
• Gut Records
  Gut Records
  The Gut Group was an independent record label, based in Maida Vale in London, in the United Kingdom.Formally introduced in 1991, Gut Recordings was founded by Guy Holmes, who had been Head of Promotions at Island Records...
  
  
• Gwarn Music
  Gwarn Music
  Gwarn Music is an independent record label which was created in Manchester, England in 1991. It was founded by former 52nd Street guitarist Tony Henry to release his then new music project FR’ Mystery after talks to sign the act to WEA in London broke down...
  
  

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• Heaven Records
• Heavenly Recordings
• Heist Or Hit Records
  Heist Or Hit Records
  Heist Or Hit Records is an independent record label located in Ashford, Surrey and Manchester, founded in late 2007 by Mick Scholefield. Its most notable signees are The Answering Machine, LoveLikeFire, Rapids! and Pomegranates....
  
  
• Heron Recordings
  Heron Recordings
  Heron Recordings is an independent record label based in London, England. Bands on the label include The Beep Seals, Goldheart Assembly, Jennifer Gentle, The See See and Mossy Pine....
  
  
• Holy Roar Records
  Holy Roar Records
  Holy Roar Records is an independent record label run by Alex Fitzpatrick and Ellen Godwin. The label began in January 2006 when they moved to London from Birmingham and put out their first release in June 2006, the Phoenix Bodies album 'Raise the Bullshit flag'. Since then Holy Roar Records has...
  
  
• Hospital Records
  Hospital Records
  Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...
  
  
• Household Name Records
  Household Name Records
  Household Name Records is a DIY punk rock record label, based in London, UK. It has been home to notable artists including Howards Alias, Lightyear, and Adequate Seven. It was started in 1996 by David "Lil" Giles and Katherine "Kafren" Vik to promote unknown UK bands...
  
  
• How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
  How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
  How Does It Feel To Be Loved? is a London-based night club which predominately plays indie pop, Northern Soul and Motown music...
  
  
• Hyperdub
  Hyperdub
  Hyperdub is a London-based record label, founded and run by Steve Goodman, aka Kode9.Artists who have released on Hyperdub include label owner Kode9 Hyperdub is a London-based record label, founded and run by Steve Goodman, aka Kode9.Artists who have released on Hyperdub include label owner Kode9...
  
  
• Hyperion Records
  Hyperion Records
  Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label.-History:The company was named after Hyperion, one of the Titans of Greek mythology. It was founded by George Edward Perry, widely known as "Ted", in 1980. Early LP releases included rarely recorded 20th century British music by...
  
  

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• Ill Flava Records
  Ill Flava Records
  Ill Flava Records is a record label based in East London, UK. Founded by UK Hip Hop award winner Karl Hinds in 2000, the label gained instant recognition with its classic first release "Don Gramma" by Karl Hinds, which won numerous awards and nominations for the artist and his label...
  
  
• Imaginary Records
  Imaginary Records
  Imaginary Records was an independent record label based in Heywood, Lancashire, England, which specialised mainly in indie rock and post-punk. It was created and owned by Alan Duffy, known for his lyrical contributions to Porcupine Tree's first two albums, On the Sunday of Life and Up the...
  
  
• Incus Records
  Incus Records
  Incus Records is an artist-owned record label, founded by Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters, specialising in the dissemination of free-improvised music. The first release on the label was The Topography of the Lungs, recorded by Bailey, Parker and Han Bennink in 1970...
  
  
• I-innovate (UK)
  I-innovate (UK)
  I-innovate is a London-based independent record label that diversified from video production in to music management from 2009. I-innovate were founded by Najero Okenabirhie in 2008. I-innovate work with freelance directors, marketers and artists in music and graphic design providing ad-hoc...
  
  
• Independiente Records
  Independiente Records
  Independiente is a record label formed in 1997 after Andy MacDonald sold Go! Discs Records to PolyGram in 1996 for a reported £30 million. In the UK, the label is distributed Vital PIAS....
  
  
• Irregular Records
  Irregular Records
  Irregular Records is a British independent record label specialising in folk music, which was established in 1985 by the singer Robb Johnson. In addition to Johnson's own recordings the label has also issued albums by artists such as Barb Jungr, Des de Moor, Maggie Holland and Russell...
  
  
• Irritant Records
  Irritant Records
  Irritant Records is an independent record label based in North London, started by electronic musician . The label specializes in genres such as breakcore, gabber, and experimental electronic music...
  
  

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• Launchpad Records
  Launchpad Records
  Launchpad Records are a record label which specalise in Grime music. The label's first release was with Wiley in 2010.-Wiley:Launchpad's first ever releases, were two of Wiley's grime singles given to the label by the artist in order to help start business.Wiley singles released by Launchpad# The...
  
  
• Leader Records
  Leader Records (UK)
  Leader Records was a British folk music record label, started by Bill Leader. Between 1969 and 1978, Leader released many important releases of both traditional and folk revival performers, the latter category including Nic Jones, Martin Simpson and Dick Gaughan...
  
  
• The Leaf Label
  The Leaf Label
  The Leaf Label is an independent record label based in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Initially known as an electronic music label, releasing mainly instrumental music, the company's approach has broadened over the last few years and now features an eclectic range of artists, with a focus on strong...
  
  
• Lex Records
  Lex Records
  Lex Records is an independent record label founded by Tom Brown in 2001. The label was an imprint of Warp Records and run from their North London offices, until September 2005.Lex has a low volume of releases, rarely releasing more than three albums annually...
  
  
• Lojinx
  Lojinx
  Lojinx is a British independent record label and music publishing company established in 2003 in South London, UK. It was voted as one of the top ten "Best Record Labels of 2010" .-Artists:* The Bad Machines* Ben Lee* Bleu* Butch Walker* Caroline Lost...
  
  
• Loose Music
  Loose Music
  Loose Music is a British independent record label based in Acton, London, specialising in in Americana and Alt. Country.-Artists:Since 1998, Loose has released music by the following artists: Giant Sand, M Ward, The Arlenes, Inara George, Neko Case, Blanche, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The Handsome...
  
  
• Low Life Records
  Low Life Records
  Low Life Records was an independent record label promoting UK hip hop music. It was founded in Leeds by Joseph Christie, Aaron Harrow, Tomas Stewart and Paul Edmeade before being relocated to west London by Christie. The label came to an abrupt end when Braintax announced his sudden retirement from...
  
  
• LO-MAX Records
  LO-MAX Records
  LO-MAX Records is a west London based independent record label, founded in 2003 and specialising in rock music.Signings include Simon Lynge, The Wrens, Kevin Ayers, The Go-Betweens and The Court & Spark....
  
  

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• Market Square Records
  Market Square Records
  Market Square Records is a music publishing, promotion and record label company started in 1999. It releases the back catalogues of British folk artists and has also expanded into other genres such as rock, blues and jazz....
  
  
• Marrakesh Records
  Marrakesh Records
  Marrakesh Records is a small UK indie label which, in a previous guise as Lizard King, first signed The Killers. The label previously traded under the name Lizard King Records.- See also :* List of record labels...
  
  
• Mo' Wax
  Mo' Wax
  Mo' Wax was a UK-based record label owned by James Lavelle, who founded it in the early 1990s with Tim Goldsworthy. Steve Finan became co-owner shortly after. The label came to recognition for being at the forefront of trip hop, turntablism and alternative rap during the mid-90s...
  
  
• Moshi Moshi
• Motile
  Motile (record label)
  Motile is a UK based independent record label, started in 2004, dedicated to the release of albums that combine improvisation, experimentation and/or other approaches to explore new musical territories...
  
  
• Mr Bongo Records
  Mr Bongo Records
  Mr Bongo Records is a now Brighton based independent record label, independent film and publishing company specialising in world music and art house / world cinema. It was formed in 1989 by David 'Mr Bongo' Buttle, and operated out of London until 2003....
  
  
• My Dad Recordings
  My Dad Recordings
  My Dad Recordings is an independent record label based in Manchester, England.-Current artists:* Jack Cooper* Dear Eskimo* Jim Noir - licenced to Atlantic Records/ Warner Music UK...
  
  
• My Kung Fu
  My Kung Fu
  My Kung Fu is an independent record label based in Cardiff, United Kingdom.Currently signed artists include Soft Hearted Scientists and Truckers Of Husk...
  
  

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• Neat Records
  Neat Records
  Neat Records was a record label based near Newcastle, England. The label was established in 1979 by David Wood, who was the owner of Impulse Studios in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. The establishment of Neat coincided with the arrival at Impulse of Songwriter/Producer Steve Thompson who guided...
  
  
• Newmemorabilia Records
  Newmemorabilia Records
  Newmemorabilia Records is a record label based in Manchester, England and run by Tom Hingley, lead vocalist of Inspiral Carpets and The Lovers. The Label is featuring bands like The Lovers, Too Much Texas, Karmakops and Tom Hingelys solo work....
  
  
• Ninja Tune
  Ninja Tune
  Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke. The label has a strong leaning towards mostly Electronic Music...
  
  
• No Masters
  No Masters
  No Masters is a British record label, based in the north of England, specialising in folk with a political edge.The label was founded in 1990 by John Tams and Jim Boyes. Originally working as singer, John Tams is now famous as an actor in the TV series "Sharpe". He does much of the production work...
  
  
• Nude Records
  Nude Records
  Nude Records was a London based record label, set up in 1992 by Saul Galpern who had previously been involved in the success of artists such as Simply Red, the Fall, Julian Cope, The Triffids, The Slits and The Au Pairs. The label's first success was with Suede. Suede's debut album was the fastest...
  
  

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• O Rosa Records
• One Little Indian Records
  One Little Indian Records
  One Little Indian Records is a London-based independent record label that rose from the ashes of punk record company Spiderleg Records. It was set up in 1985 by members of various anarchist punk bands, and managed by ex-Flux of Pink Indians Derek Birkett. The first success came with A.R. Kane and...
  
  
• Or Records
  Or Records
  Or Records is a small British independent record label company, established in 1998 and based in London. They specialize in electronic music and experimental music, and are distributed by Touch Music...
  
  
• Outta Sight Records
  Outta Sight Records
  Outta Sight Records, also known as Outta Sight Soul Essentials was formed in the UK in December 2006 as part of the Castle Music family of imprints within the Sanctuary Records Group. It was conceived as a vehicle to reissue the soul catalogue owned by the group...
  
  
• Ozit Records
  Ozit Records
  Ozit Morpheus Records is a UK record label founded in 1996. It mostly releases psychedelic and eclectic music on cd and vinyl.The label had close links with disc jockey John Peel up until his death...
  
  

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• Pantone Music
  Pantone Music
  Pantone Music is an independent record label and music publisher based in Brighton, UK. It was founded in 2004 by Gav Smith. Pantone Music currently specialise in broken beat, nu jazz, and hip-hop from Japan and The West. Their roster includes Jazztronik, Jafrosax, Yukihiro Fukitomi, Bun and...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Peaceville Records
  Peaceville Records
  Peaceville Records is a British independent metal-oriented record label. The label was founded by Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw in 1987, in Dewsbury, England...
  
  
• People In The Sky
  People In The Sky
  People In The Sky is an independent record label based in London, England, that has released music by various artists, including, most notably, Friendly Fires....
  
  
• Pickled Egg Records
  Pickled Egg Records
  Pickled Egg Records is a UK independent record label founded in Leicester in 1998 by Nigel Turner. It has dedicated itself to redressing the world’s musical balance in favour of quirky genius, bent tunefulness, noisy playfulness, jazz turmoil and inventive retro-futurism...
  
  
• Placid Casual
  Placid Casual
  Placid Casual is the Cardiff based record label set up in 1998 by Super Furry Animals.According to the label's website "Placid Casual retains an amateur status and an a&r policy of blatant nepotism...
  
  
• Postcard Records
  Postcard Records
  Postcard Records is a Glasgow-based independent record label founded by Alan Horne in 1979, as a vehicle for Orange Juice and Josef K releases. The label's motto was "The Sound of Young Scotland", a parody/tribute to the Motown motto; its logo featured a cartoon cat beating a drum...
  
  

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• Real World Records
  Real World Records
  Real World Records is a record label started in 1989 by Peter Gabriel to record and produce world music.-Overview:The label grew up alongside the success of the WOMAD festivals and Peter Gabriel's exploration of music from other cultures, and helped push world music into the general public's...
  
  
• Rebel Alliance Recordings
  Rebel Alliance Recordings
  Rebel Alliance Recordings is a Manchester, UK-based record label set up in 2007 by the members of ska-punk band Sonic Boom Six.-Origins:After leaving Deck Cheese the members of Sonic Boom Six set up Rebel Alliance originally as an outlet for their forthcoming album Arcade Perfect, which was...
  
  
• Recommended Records
  Recommended Records
  Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
  
  
• Red Girl Records
  Red Girl Records
  Red Girl Records is a London, UK based independent record label founded by Melanie C, after parting ways with her record label Virgin Records. All of Melanie's activities are decided upon and funded by herself, alongside her business partner and manager, Nancy Phillips.-Studio albums:*2005:...
  
  
• Regent Records (United Kingdom)
  Regent Records (UK)
  Regent Records is a United Kingdom choral music and organ record label and production company based in Wolverhampton.Founded in 1987 by Gary Cole, the label is run by Gary and Pippa Cole. It currently has nearly 150 commercial releases. In addition the company has produced over 200 projects for...
  
  
• Regular Beat Recording Co.
  Regular Beat Recording Co.
  Regular Beat Recording Co. is an independent record label based in Liverpool, England. Artists have included New Mexican electronica act Alaska In Winter, a collaborative project featuring Zach Condon from the band Beirut.----External Links----...
  
  
• Rise Above Records
  Rise Above Records
  Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...
  
  
• Robot Needs Home
  Robot Needs Home
  Robot Needs Home is a British, Leicester-based, non-profit independent record label, booking agent, and PR company, which mainly handles the releases of a collection of bands from around the East Midlands, but has since grown to encompass artists from further afield.Robot Needs Home is a trading...
  
  
• Rock Action Records
  Rock Action Records
  Rock Action Records is a Glasgow-based record label, founded and maintained by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The label has showcased such diverse talents as Part Chimp, Errors, Trout, The James Orr Complex and Kling Klang, has licensed music for UK release from Torche, Envy, Afrirampo and...
  
  
• Rockville Records
• Ron Johnson Records
  Ron Johnson Records
  Ron Johnson Records was an UK independent record label based in Long Eaton operating between 1983 and 1988. The label contributed five tracks to the NME's C86 compilation. Run by Dave Parsons, the label released records by artists such as Big Flame, The Shrubs, A Witness, The Great Leap Forward,...
  
  
• Rough Trade Records
  Rough Trade Records
  Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
  
  
• Ruptured Ambitions Records
  Ruptured Ambitions Records
  Ruptured Ambitions Records first began life as a 'do-it-yourself' promotional outfit for punk, and punk-related independent musical ensembles based in the Plymouth and West Devon areas of the UK....
  
  

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• Sarah Records
  Sarah Records
  Sarah Records was a UK independent record label active between 1987 and 1995, best known for its recordings of indie pop.The label was formed in Bristol in 1987 by Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes, and grew out of the fanzine scene at the time, Haynes having previously edited Are You Scared To Get...
  
  
• Sain
  Sain
  Sain , in full – Recordiau Sain Cyf is a Welsh record label, which was in the Welsh folk revival....
  
  
• Setanta Records
  Setanta Records
  Setanta Records is a UK Independent record label. The label was at the forefront of the indie Irish music scene in the late eighties and nineties as itchampioned young Irish groups.-History:...
  
  
• Shinkansen Records
  Shinkansen Records
  Shinkansen Recordings is an independent record label which was founded by Matt Haynes in 1996, after disbanding Sarah Records. The label proceeded to release new recordings by ex-Sarah artists as well as other acts including Fosca and Tompot Blenny.The label was originally going to be called...
  
  
• Silkroute Records Ltd
  Silkroute Records Ltd
  Silkroute Records Ltd is an independent record label based in Middlesbrough, north east England. The music is mostly indie but it also releases house music....
  
  
• Sink and Stove Records
  Sink and Stove Records
  Sink and Stove Records is a record label. Set-up in 2000 to fill a void in the local area, Sink and Stove Records has quickly established itself as a main player in the UK’s independent and alternative scenes, despite its provincial base.-Early years:...
  
  
• Silvertone Records
  Silvertone Records (1980)
  Silvertone Records is a current British record label, owned by Zomba Music Group. The first and most famous signing to the label was The Stone Roses in the late 1980s, with whom they later had a lengthy legal battle. Other acts signed to the label during its history include Jars of Clay, The Men...
  
  
• Skam Records
  Skam Records
  Skam Records is an independent Electronic record label based in Manchester, England, founded by Andy Maddocks around 1990. Skam also runs a smaller sub-label called 33.-History:...
  
  
• Skint Records
  Skint Records
  Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of Loaded Records, also founded by Reid and Jeffery...
  
  
• Sleep It Off Records
  Sleep It Off Records
  Sleep It Off Records is a Gainesville, Florida-based independent record label, which was started by the band Less Than Jake in 2008. The label name was taken from a track on the band's 2004 B-sides album, B is for B-sides....
  
  
• Smalltown America
  Smalltown America
  Smalltown America is a UK-based independent record label formed in 2001. Staff are currently based in London and Derry, and the label has a stated aim of "cultivating a productive staff of music lovers and a self-sustainable business model, through which artists can release the best records they...
  
  
• Small Wonder Records
  Small Wonder Records
  Small Wonder Records was a UK independent record label owned and managed by Pete Stennett, that specialised in releasing records by punk rock and post-punk bands. It operated out of a record shop of the same name at 162 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17, east London...
  
  
• Snakes & Ladders Records
  Snakes & Ladders Records
  Snakes & Ladders Records is a London-based independent DIY label founded in 2005 by members of the London band My Tiger My Timing.The label released music during 2006 and 2007, and then after a hiatus of 4 years, resumed activity in 2011.-Singles:...
  
  
• Snapper Music
  Snapper Music
  Snapper Music is an independent record label founded in 1996 by former head of Castle Communications Jon Beecher, Dougie Dudgeon and funded by the late Mark Levinson from Palan Music Publishing. In 1999 Snapper broke away from its parent company in an MBO in association with ACT and CAI venture...
  
  
• Some Bizzare Records
  Some Bizzare Records
  Some Bizzare Records is a British independent record label owned by Stevo Pearce. The label was founded in 1981, with the release of Some Bizzare Album, a compilation of unsigned bands including Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The The, Neu Electrikk and Blancmange.-1981-1989:One of the first bands that...
  
  
• Sonic Vista Music
  Sonic vista music
  Sonic Vista Music is an independent English record label, founded in Hull in 2005, notable for having business connections in Japan and Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Sons Ltd.
• Southern Fried Records
  Southern Fried Records
  Southern Fried Records is a London-based independent electronic dance music record label founded and owned by Norman Cook, better known by his stage name, Fatboy Slim...
  
  
• Southern Records
  Southern Records
  Southern Records is an independent record label closely associated with Crass Records, Corpus Christi Records and Dischord Records. It is based in London and previously had offices in Chicago , Le Havre and Berlin .Southern was originally a recording studio owned and operated by John Loder...
  
  
• Steel Tiger Records
  Steel Tiger Records
  Steel Tiger Records is a record label based in Yorkshire, England. The label was founded in late 2006 by Steve Cobby and Sim Lister.Steve Cobby was formerly half of the iconic electronic music duo Fila Brazillia, in addition to his many other musical aliases, most notably The Solid Doctor - with...
  
  
• Street Soul Productions
  Street Soul Productions
  Street Soul Productions Is a record label established in 2005. Based in Birmingham, London, Ipswich and California. The label is called Street Soul to pay tribute to the hip hop genre, in particular the movement from the mid-1990s....
  
  
• Super Records
  Super Records
  -Formation:McFly's debut album was released on Island Records in 2004. Room On The Third Floor went to number one, making them the youngest UK group to do so since The Beatles....
  
  
• Supernal Records
• Stolen Recordings
  Stolen Recordings
  Stolen Recordings is an independent record label founded by two musicians and one artist based in Tottenham, London. Stolen's first release was in May 2005 and in 2009 they founded a publishing company in association with Beggars Music called Stolen Publishing.-Current artists:* Pete And The...
  
  

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• Tempa Records
• Tigertrap Records
  Tigertrap Records
  Tigertrap Records is a London-based record label, which was set up in late 2005 by Drowned In Sound writers Tom Edwards and Adie Nunn. The label released a series of singles through 2006, concentrating on unbroken talent. During this time, former Warp Records employee Gill Barker joined to manage...
  
  
• Too Pure
  Too Pure
  Too Pure is a London-based independent record label that was formed in 1990 by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox.-History:Too Pure started off as a small experimental label and had built their reputation by releasing primarily alternative/independent music which they felt was being ignored by the major...
  
  
• Topic Records
  Topic Records
  Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.-History:...
  
  
• Touch Music
  Touch Music
  Touch is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. It is the main arm of the London-based multimedia publishing company Touch, established in 1982...
  
  
• Transatlantic Records
  Transatlantic Records
  Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label. It was established in 1961. It started began primarily as an importer of American folk, blues and jazz records - by many of the artists who influenced the burgeoning British folk and blues boom. Within a couple of years, the company had...
  
  
• Transgressive Records
  Transgressive Records
  Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England formed in 2004. Founders Tim Dellow, and Toby L first met at a Bloc Party gig organised by Toby's rockfeedback website. The first release on the label was 1am by The Subways, released in September 2004...
  
  
• Trash Aesthetics
  Trash Aesthetics
  Trash Aesthetics is an independent record label founded in 2004 by Rob Fawkes and Claire Hewitson. Based in South London, it specialises in releasing limited-edition runs of singles by both local bands and international acts whose work is difficult to come by in the UK.TA701 was a 480 copy 7"...
  
  
• Triumph Records (UK)
  Triumph Records (UK)
  Triumph Records was a UK record label set up in January 1960 by Joe Meek and William Barrington-Coupe with the financial backing of Major Wilfred Alonzo Banks. The label existed for less than a year and although most of the artistes are unknown, many of the records now sell for high prices in the...
  
  
• Trepan Records
  Trepan Records
  Trepan Records is a pioneering independent English record label and promotions company, founded in London in 2007. It is notable for its regular showcase event The Great Brain Robbery, a B-movie themed evening of live music, burlesque, and DJs, often featuring surprise guest spots and guerrilla...
  
  
• Trend Records
  Trend Records
  Trend Records was a post-World War II United States jazz record label.Trend's back catalogue was purchased by Albert Marx, the owner of Discovery Records, and much of its material was reissued in the 1980s. Among those who recorded for Trend are Van Alexander, Robert Conti, Shelly Manne, Clare...
  
  
• TRL Music
  TRL Music
  TRL Music is an independent record label and publisher based in the UK, home to artists that include Urban Myth Club and Stillman. It was formed in Cambridge, UK in 2002 by Mark Desvaux.The label's first full album release was Urban Myth Club's Helium....
  
  
• Tru Thoughts
  Tru Thoughts
  Tru Thoughts is an independent record label. It was formed in Brighton, UK in 1999 by Robert Luis of Deeds Plus Thoughts and Paul Jonas.It became, in one decade, one of the most famous and well respected labels in independent music world.- History :...
  
  
• Truck Records
  Truck Records
  Truck Records was an independent record label based in Oxford, England. It grew out of the Truck Festival, held annually in Steventon, a small village near Oxford...
  
  
• Tumi Music
  Tumi Music
  Tumi Music is a UK independent record label well-known for its Latin American , Peruvian music, and pan pipe music.Famous for releasing the CD Lamento Negro that won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for Susana Baca in 2002.- Artists:* Afro Cuban All Stars* Andy Gola* Aragon * Buena Vista...
  
  
• Twentythree Records
  Twentythree Records
  Twentythree Records is a record label based in Yorkshire, England. The label was founded by Steve Cobby, David McSherry, and Sim Lister—who are regarded as significant names in the development of the electronica genre in the United Kingdom....
  
  

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• V Records
• Valentine Records
  Valentine Records
  This entry is not related to the Japanese and Canadian independent record label of the same name.Valentine Records was a British independent record label, based in Manchester, England, between 2001 and 2006....
  
  
• The Village Thing
  The Village Thing
  The Village Thing was an independent record label in the United Kingdom which published folk music, blues and acoustic music between 1970 and 1973, under the tag of "The Alternative Folk Label".-History:...
  
  
• The Viper Label
  The Viper Label
  The Viper Label is an independent record label from Liverpool, England and was founded in 1999 by Paul Hemmings and Mike Badger who were key figures in the Liverpool music scene; both ex members of the La's and The Onset. Hemmings also played with Ian Broudie in The Lightning Seeds...
  
  
• VIP Records
• Visible Noise
  Visible Noise
  Visible Noise is a British independent record label that focuses solely on British bands.-History:Founded in 1998 by ex-Cacophonous Records manager Julie Weir, the label was created with the goal of fostering and breaking new UK rock music...
  
  

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• Wall of Sound (record label)
  Wall of Sound (record label)
  Wall of Sound is an independent record label based in London, England. It is part of the [PIAS] Entertainment Group, a European independent music company....
  
  
• Warp Records
  Warp Records
  Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....
  
  
• Wichita Recordings
  Wichita Recordings
  Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Space Holiday, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John...
  
  
• Willkommen Records
  Willkommen Collective
  The Willkommen Collective is a Brighton based community of musicians, promoters and artists. The collective includes the bands Sons of Noel and Adrian, The Leisure Society, The Climbers, The Miserable Rich, Shoreline and many more. They also run a record label, Willkommen Records, and put on...
  
  
• Wiiija
  Wiiija
  Wiiija was a British independent record label. It was founded in 1988 by staff from the Rough Trade Shop in Notting Hill, London. The name Wiiija is a corruption of W11 1JA, the postcode of the Rough Trade Shop in Talbot Street....
  
  
• World Live Music & Distribution
  World Live Music & Distribution
  World Live Music Group is an American record label, owned and operated by Woodrow Neilson & Co LLC.-Company history:World Live Music Group was founded in 2009 by Woodrow Nielson & Co LLC Sean Guerrier De Bey & Kino Kiongivi Oversee the company's operations...
  
  

See also

• List of record labels
• List of electronic music record labels