Domino Recording Company

Domino Recording Company
Domino Recording Company
Domino Records logo.png
Founded 1993
Founder Laurence Bell
Jacqui Rice
Genre Indie rock
Indie pop
Country of origin United Kingdom
Location London, England
Official Website http://dominorecordco.com

Domino Recording Company, generally known as Domino, is an independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in the United States, releasing Domino artists' music from the label's Brooklyn offices and run by Kris Gillespie, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more unusual British and World music. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press.[1]

Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and his partner Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP Rocking the Forest, licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the USA were signed to Drag City (Smog, Will Oldham, Royal Trux), a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing more established American rock and unusual British music, were marginalised during the Britpop era, but a steady stream of new signings gave the label increasing credibility. Recent high profile releases from Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, and The Kills have only acted as a catalyst to this, and Domino is now one of the longest running and most successful independent record labels in the UK.

2003 saw the label's 10th anniversary. There were a number of new releases, as well as a compilation album and a series of gigs in London under the 'Worlds of Possibility' banner, to celebrate the label's first decade in October of that year.

Domino celebrated their first UK #1 album in October 2005 with Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better, and their first UK #1 single with Arctic Monkeys' "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" later that same month.

As well as new music, Domino have released produced compilations by British post-punk bands such as Orange Juice, Josef K, Fire Engines and Young Marble Giants.

Contents

Roster

Domino UK

Current Artists

Former artists

Domino USA

Domino imprints

Geographic Music

Double Six Records

Weird World Record Co

  • Smith Westerns
  • Washed Out

Ribbon Music

Rekords Rekords

Selected Discography

Animal Collective

Arctic Monkeys

Anna Calvi

Blood Orange

The Count & Sinden

Dirty Projectors

Four Tet

Franz Ferdinand

The Kills

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

Lightspeed Champion

Owen Pallett

These New Puritans

To Rococo Rot

Tricky

Twin Sister

Villagers

Wild Beasts

See also

References

External links


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