Fabric
Fabric Mixes, FabricLive, Buraka Som Sistema, Scratch Perverts, Caspa
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Fatcat Records
Animal Collective, Black Dice, Brakes, Dustin O’Halloran, Forest Fire, Frightened Rabbit, Get Back Guinozzi!, Gregory And The Hawk, Hauschka, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Maps & Atlases, Max Richter, Mazes, Mice Parade, Milk Maid, Múm, Nina Nastasia, No Age, Our Brother The Native, Panda Bear, Psychedelic Horseshit, Sigur Rós, Silje Nes, Storsveit Nix Noltes, Stromba, Sylvain Chauveau, Ten Kens, The Bug,The Realistics, The Twilight Sad, To Rococo Rot, Tom Brosseau , Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, We Were Promised Jetpacks.
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Fence
The Pictish Trail, The Fence Collective, King Creosote, James Yorkston, Lone Pigeon.
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Feraltone
Daniel Johnson, Brand Neu!
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Finders Keepers Records
Loads of brilliant obscure music compilations & releases
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Friends Vs Records
Dinosaur Pileup, Rogues, Lunar Youth, Flasguns, The Joy Formidable, Get People.
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Full Time Hobby
White Denim, Diagrams, Erland & The Carnival, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Leisure Society, Let’s Wrestle, Pinkunoizo, Malcom Middleton, Micah P. Hinson, School Of Seven Bells, Timber Timbre, Tunng.
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Hardly Art
SeaPony, Hunx & His Punx, La Sera, The Fresh & Onlys, Carissa’s Weird, Jacuzzi Boys.
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Independiente
Stina Nordenstam, Angus & Julia Stone, David Ford, Embrace, Martina Topley Bird, Tinariwen, Travis, Ulrich Schnauss
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Infectious
Local Natives, Temper Trap, Cloud Control, General Fiasco.
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Jagjaguwar
The Besnard Lakes, Black Mountain, Bon Iver, S. Carey, The Cave Singers, Dinosaur Jr., GAYNGS, Lia Ices, Okkervil River, Oneida, Parts & Labor, Peter Wolf Crier, Pink Mountaintops, Small Black, Spokane, Swan Lake, Volcano Choir,Sunset Rubdown, Sharon Van EttenWolf People, Women.
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!K7
A Guy called Gerald, Annie, Apparat, Brandt Brauer Frick, Ashley Beedle, Chromeo, Four Tet, New Look, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Stereo MCs, When Saints Go Machine.
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Kitsuné
Two Door Cinema Club, Nightbox, Delphic, HeartsRevolution, Housse de Racket, Is Tropical, Logo, Guards, Clock Opera, compilations
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Lex Records
Neon Neon, Danger Mouse, DOOM, Doseone, Boom Bip, Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins, Andy Broder, Heartbreak, Jneiro Jarel, Kid Acne, Shape Of Broad Minds.
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Loose Music
Dawes, The Felice Brothers, The Handsome Family, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Jim White, Willard Grant Conspiracy
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Lucky Number Music
Caged Animals, Darwin Deez, Friends, Gotye, Sebastien Tellier, Little Red.
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Matador
A.C. Newman, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power. Cold Cave, Condo Fucks, Dead Meadow, Esben And The Witch, Fucked Up, Harlem, Interpol, Julian Plenti, Kurt Vile, Matmos, Mission Of Burma, Thurston Moore, The New Pornographers, Pavement, Perfume Genius, The Ponys, Shearwater, Sonic Youth, Spiral Stairs, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Yo La Tengo
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Memphis Industries
Banjo Or Freakout, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blue StatesColourmusic, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dan Michaelson,Dutch Uncles, El Perro Del Mar, Elephant, Field Music,Frankie Rose & The Outs, Papercuts, School Of Language, The Go! Team, The Phoenix Foundation, The Pipettes, The Ruby Suns, Theoretical Girl, Tokyo Police Club.
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Merok
Active Child, Blondes, Comanechi, Deptford Goth, Divorce, Teengirl Fantasy, Titus Andronicus, Gatekeeper.
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Model Citizen
Fight Like Apes, The Minutes.
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Ninja Tune
Amon Tobin, Andreya Triana,Antibalas,Bonobo, The Bug, The Cinematic Orchestra, Coldcut, Daedelus, DJ Food, DJ Kentaro, DJ Vadim, Dorian Concept, Emika, Eskmo, Floating Points, Fog, Funki Porcini,Gideon,The Herbaliser, Hexstatic, Hint, The Irresistible Force, Jade, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Koala, London Funk Allstars, The Long Lost, Lorn, Max And Harvey, Mr. Scruff, Ninja Tune XX, Poirier, Producers for Bob, The Qemists, Raffertie, Shuttle,Slugabed, Stateless, Steinski And Mass Media, T Love, Toddla T, Up, Bustle & Out, Wagon Christ,Yppah,
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One Little Indian
Björk, Dan Sartain, Emilíana Torrini, Kill It Kid, Emit Bloch, Songdog, Astrid Williamson, The Computers, Ólöf Arnalds, Flats
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OVNI
Gruff Rhys, Tony Di Gatorra
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Polyvinyl Records
Asobi Seksu, Braid, Casiokids, Deerhoof, Japandroids, Joan of Arc, Loney Dear, Love Is All, Of Montreal, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, STRFKR, Shugo Tokumaru, Vivian Girls, Xiu Xiu
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Post Present
Abe Vigoda, Best Coast,Eric Copeland, High Places, Liars, Mika Miko, No Age, Silk Flowers, Wavves.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Am i missing something here? The record labels are covered by insurance, which means they can reproduce the stock and sell it and therefore make the profit they want. Why would a fire, which only means they have to make an insurance claim, warrant a post to “help” them?
Nobody buys fucking records anymore,independent record companies are finding it increasingly difficult to keep running in these tough times. thousands of records have been destroyed,hard work ruined..I suppose there’s always one know-all who has to have their say.Twat.
Sounds like “sympathy from the devil”
Insurance only covers cost price of stock. A lot of these labels are now left hanging without physical stock to sell. Hard for any business. Beggars Group alone lost 750,000 CDs to the fire. Memphis Industries say 90% of their total stock was lost.
Look, these labels have provided me and plenty like me with a lot of beautiful music to listen to so this is mostly an altruistic gesture to encourage people to support them if they feel the same way or are so inclined. If you don’t agree then don’t buy the music. Simple.
Are they definitely covered by insurance though? I can’t think of a single insurance policy that covers Civil Unrest.
A warehouse that big should have some kind of insurance policy to cover something of this nature.
Any way to confirm for sure?
Beggars Group claimed that their insurance covered replacement costs as well, so hopefully the labels that are part of it (4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, etc.) won’t be too hardly hit by this. At best, this will just mean a delay and some short-term stock shortages for them.
Good piece. Surprised you haven’t included Loose Records, who lost their stock. We have featured many of their artists at Kilkenny Rhythm and Roots- John Grant, Duke and The King, Laura Veirs etc
Hey John, I’ve added them in. I didn’t have time today to do 165 labels. Give me credit for what I did do aye? 🙂
John Grant and Laura Veirs aren’t on that label by the way, they’re Bella Union. Duke And the King are no longer on it by the looks of things.
Great idea Niall, was looking for a list like this as there have been a few albums I have been meaning to buy and this way I get to help the label, and help myself, win win!
Thanks for the work you put in. Picked up three albums I’ve been meaning to for a while now.
Nice one.
Thanks so much for all your hard work on this article and list. Don’t suppose you could include XtraMile Recordings? Home to the great Frank Turner, amongst others. This is from their twitter feed: “10th June Frank Turner’s new album No: 10 in Offical Chart. 10th August ALL Xtra Mile stock past & present in ashes. Totally f***ing gutted.”
Added Xtramile there.
insurance doesnt cover riots
insurance doesnt cover riots
Fair dues Niall….. As much as all love a freebie this time its its time to pay especially for the smaller labels…. without them there is no ”Indie”….