Record label
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In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. In everyday usage, a record label is also a company that manages such brands and trademarks; coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, promotion, and enforcement of copyright protection of sound recordings and music videos; conducts A&R; and maintains contracts with recording artists and their managers.
Record labels may be small, localized, and "independent", or they may be part of a large international media group, or somewhere in between. Generally, recorded music needs a record label in order to be widely known, reviewed, heard on media outlets such as radio or television, and in order to be available to buy in stores, although the Internet has changed this to some extent.
The name, "record label", refers to the usually papered and cut center area of a vinyl recording that prominently displays the manufacturer's name, along with other pertinent information. Many 7" vinyl singles were pressed with a relief in lieu of the paper label, particularly in Great Britain.
A record label that is a part of a larger record company that also operates as a record label, might be referred to a sublabel of its parent record label.
Some record labels
- Turbo records label that issued Wood Brass and Steel's underground hit Funkanova
- Salsoul records Salsoul is a must hear for any serious disco fan
- Gold Mind records Walter Gibbons disco mixes.
- Strata East other good jazz/kozmigroov labels are Tribe records, Black Jazz records, Perception records, Inner City records, ...
- Prelude records Francois Kevorkian and disco.
- West End records Re-opened in the late nineties, run with love by Mel Cheren.
Wackies New York eighties reggae label.
- Trax Chicago had an independent pressing plant and it put out the first underground hits of house music on Trax records.
- Kult
- 99 Records New York minimalistic funk label (home of ESG and Liquid Liquid)
- Nite Grooves records go for anything by Joe Clausell, Mondo Grosso, ...
- Nuphonic records Dave Hill, Faze Action, ... UK
- Sleeping Bag Records proto house
- Black Ark records
- Mericana salsa
- Nuphonic house
- Jump Street records proto house
