Domino Recording Company

This article is about the UK based "Domino Recording Company" founded in 1993. For earlier companies of a similar name, see Domino Records (before 1993).

Domino Recording Company
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.

Roster

Domino UK

Current Artists

About Group Animal Collective Anna Calvi Archie Bronson Outfit Arctic Monkeys Austra Lou Barlow Blood Orange Bonde do Role Bonnie Prince Billy Bonnie Prince Billy With Harem Scarem And Alex Nielson Anna Calvi Clearlake Clinic

The Count and Sinden Dirty Projectors The Fall Benjy Ferree Four Tet Franz Ferdinand Francois & The Atlas Mountains Galaxie 500 Junior Boys The Kills King Creosote King Creosote & Jon Hopkins The Last Shadow Puppets Lightspeed Champion Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Max Tundra Cass McCombs Eugene McGuinness Juana Molina Orange Juice Owen Pallett Panda Bear The Pastels Pavement Pram Psapp Quasi Real Estate Royal Trux Sebadoh

Elliott Smith Sons and Daughters Spiral Stairs These New Puritans To Rococo Rot Townes Van Zandt Tricky Twin Sister Villagers Wild Beasts Robert Wyatt Wyatt, Atzmon & Stephen James Yorkston

Former artists

10,000 Things Adem Aerial M ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Beautiful New Born Children The Blueskins Bowlfish Chief Cinema Come Correcto Crescent Cindy Dall Deluxx Folk Implosion Director Sound Matt Elliott The Feelies Fence Collective Fire Engines Fizzarum Flipper Flying Saucer Attack The Folk Implosion

The For Carnation Fridge Ganger Gastr del Sol God's Eye Gummo (soundtrack) Neil Michael Hagerty HMS Ginafore Hood James Yorkston & The Big Fancy Players Josef K Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid Leatherface Jason Loewenstein Lone Pigeon Loose Fur The Magnetic Fields Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy Midnight Funk Association Barbara Morgenstern Mouse on Mars Movietone Neutral Milk Hotel

Jim O'Rourke Will Oldham Pajo Palace Palace Brothers Palace Music Palace Songs Papa M The Pictish Trail Plush Policecat Preston School of Industry The Pyramids Quickspace Quickspace Supersport Sandy Dirt Scarce Schlammpeitziger Sentridoh Silver Jews Smudge Steve Reid Ensemble Superchunk

Tele:Funken The Television Personalities Telstar Ponies Terry Funken Test Icicles The Third Eye Foundation The Triffids u.n.p.o.c. V-Twin Von Südenfed Weird War Yo Majesty James Yorkston and The Athletes Young Marble Giants

Domino USA

Adem Animal Collective Benjy Ferree Caribou Cass McCombs Chief Clearlake

Clinic Correcto Dirty Projectors Farrah Four Tet Franz Ferdinand Future Pilot AKA

Juana Molina Junior Boys Lightspeed Champion Neutral Milk Hotel The Notwist Orange Juice The Pastels

Sebadoh Sons and Daughters To Rococo Rot Twin Sister Ulrich Schnauss Yo Majesty James Yorkston and the Athletes

Domino imprints

Geographic Music

Bill Wells Trio Empress Future Pilot AKA International Airport

Kama Aina Maher Shalal Hash Baz Nagisa ni te

September Collective Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair The Royal We

Double Six Records

Arch Garrison Jon Hopkins Joker's Daughter

Kings Have Long Arms The Laurel Collective Steve Mason

She & Him Threatmantics White Williams

Weird World Record Co

• Smith Westerns
• Washed Out

Ribbon Music

• Laura Marling
• John Maus

Rekords Rekords

• Queens of the Stone Age
• Mondo Generator
• Alain Johannes
• Mini Mansions

Selected Discography

Animal Collective

• Strawberry Jam - (2007)
• Merriweather Post Pavillion - (2009)
• Fall Be Kind EP - (2009)

Arctic Monkeys

• Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not - (2006)
• Favourite Worst Nightmare - (2007)
• Humbug - (2009)
• Suck It And See - (2011)

Anna Calvi

• Anna Calvi - (2011)

Blood Orange

• Coastal Grooves - (2011)

The Count & Sinden

• Mega Mega Mega - (2010)

Dirty Projectors

• Bitte Orca - (2009)
• Bitte Orca Expanded Edition - (2010)

Four Tet

• Pause - (2001)
• Rounds - (2003)
• Everything Ecstatic - (2005)
• Ringer - (2008)
• There Is Love In You - (2010)

Franz Ferdinand

• Franz Ferdinand - (2004)
• You Could Have It So Much Better - (2005)
• Tonight - (2009)
• Blood - (2009)
• Tonight Limited Edition Boxset - (2009)
• Franz Ferdinand Covers EP - (2011)

The Kills

• Keep On Your Mean Side - (2003)
• No Wow - (2005)
• Midnight Boom - (2008)
• Blood Pressures - (2011)

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

• Diamond Mine - (2011)

Lightspeed Champion

• Falling Off The Lavender Bridge - (2008)
• Life Is Sweet Nice Yo Meet You - (2010)

Owen Pallett

• Heartland - (2010)

These New Puritans

• Beat Pyramid - (2008)
• Hidden - (2010)

To Rococo Rot

• Hotel Morgen - (2004)
• Speculation - (2010)

Tricky

• Knowle West Boy - (2008)
• Mixed Race - (2010)

Twin Sister

• Vampires With Dreaming Kids / Color Your Life - (2010)
• In Heaven - (2011)

Villagers

• Becoming A Jackal

Wild Beasts

• Limbo Panto - (2008)
• Two Dancers - (2009)
• Smother - (2011)

See also

• List of record labels
• List of independent UK record labels

References

1. ^ http://dominorecordco.com/artists/the-domino-press/

External links

• Official website
• Official Domino Records Podcast - MP3s, Videos, Interviews, Previews