I don't care about labels, I like bands.

cryptogramophone
w.i.n. records
nine winds
little brother records
strange attractors audio house
long song
victo
ground fault
atavistic
amphetamine reptile
matador
banned productions
smells like records

thing about labels is there are just so many, especially nowadays and so many that put out really good stuff. its probably easier to say who i dont like.

Manhand

i like George at Asda

(has noone done that joke yet? Haven't read 5 pages of made up record labels)

Prince Melon
Hot Records/Didgeridoo Records

Night People

Why do people care so much about a label?

Reverb Worship is a pretty kickass label.

Industrial Records
Factory
Small Wonder
Durtro
BLRR
Blast First
Mute
Warp
Sub Pop
Rough Trade
Stiff
4AD
Harvest
Chrysalis
Stax

still waiting....

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simply the best labels

Please stop replying with "why do people care about labels?" No label is perfect, but labels often times put just as much, if not MORE, work/money/time into releasing music than a lot of bands do MAKING the music, especially in the microlabel noise scene. Have you SEEN some of the packaging these little microlabels do? I'm not a packaging fanatic, I couldn't care less how a release looks usually, but damn, they're still working their asses off on something that's going to be limited to 20 copies.

As far as bigger labels go, you probably wouldn't HEAR any bands if these labels didn't release them. Which is why most people that just self-release everything, unless they're already established somehow (by their prior affiliation with a label), don't sell shit.

"Label worship" is silly, sure, but let's look at some random label.. oh.... WAGON. I have bought/traded for/downloaded a large chunk of their catalogue and EVERY SINGLE RELEASE ON THAT LABEL THAT I'VE HEARD has been great! Usually, if the label head has good tastes and isn't doing shit just for money (again, this usually just applies to microlabels), then you can trust that nearly every release on that label is great.

This is one of my all time favorite labels. The holy trio of Snakefinger, Residents, and Renaldo and the Loaf. That doesn't even count the amazing Tuxedomoon and MX-80 releases. Really inspiring, amazing stuff.

If I'm not mistaken, this came out sometime last week.

these aren't necessarily favourites, more just labels that are interesting me these days

attic cassettes
deep fried tapes
siltbreeze (as always)
foxglove/digitalis etc
sacred bones
columbus discount
heavy tapes & heavy blossom
parts unknown

siltbreeze, s-s, hereseee, animal disguise, american tapes, eclipse records, fusetron sound, hospital productions (dom's really thickened that catalog with some amazing no fi black metal, minimal synth, and death industrial music to go along with the usual harsh noise), misanthropic agenda, chondritic sound, deathbomb arc, psf, arbor, chocolate monk, misisippi, celebrate psi phenomenon, etc...

touch and go
quarterstick
jag
drag city
thrill jockey
distile
monitor
temporary residence

emi
warner
universal

Flying Nun
Homestead
Tzadik
Time-Lag
Eclipse
Touch and Go
Drag City
Matador
Majora
xpressway
Hangman
Siltbreeze
Ajax
Amphetamine Reptile
Jewelled Antler
Inoxia/Daymare
Kranky
Thrill Jockey
Chemikal Underground
ESP Disk
SST
Neurot
Independent Project
Creation
Cog Sinister
PSF
Threshold House
Important
Takoma
FMP
BYG/Actuel
United Artists
Brain
Twisted Village
United Dairies
Audible Hiss
Impulse
Discreet
Rough Trade
Sundazed
Shadoks

I never paid attention to labels to be honest.. for example Sub Pop, Ecstatic Peace, Touch and Go/Q do and Matador release plenty of stuff from a couple of bands i like, but also of loads of bands i havent listened to or i think sound like shit..so i dont know what to pick in the moment to say i like a label..

I'd love to have my own label though..

True, I don't think I've ever loved a label. Just music.

Labels get lucky by getting amazing bands, cuz most bands that labels get are shit.

Though, when my bands debut is out and we finish sending out mass cds to all labels, maybe I'll love that one that chooses us! haha

or at least, deal with it

shit. fleet foxes are on sub pop. that automatically discounts the "love a labe/love it's roster" myth.

I'll go with good old Corwood ;P

Yeah, i was thinking the same thing: Corwood's never had a bad release.

yes i love Corwood's website; it's all Flash and shit. wow.

It occured to me a moment ago, as I'm listening to a Jakob Ullmann record on Editions RZ, that I have loads of CDs from this label. And then I looked at its roster, which is just insanely brilliant - Ullmann, Lachenman, Xenakis, Cage, Radelescu, Tudor, Koenig, Nono, Lang, Kibusch and lots of people I haven't heard of who must, by proxy, be awesome. So yes. Edition RZ - my new favourite label.

http://www.edition-rz.de/

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