- Skint Records
Skint Records is a
Brighton -baseddance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel ofLoaded Records , also founded by Reid and Jeffery. The label was, together with Wall of Sound, a leader in thebig beat music scene of the mid to late 1990s.The label's roster at this time included scene leaders
Fatboy Slim ,Hardknox ,Indian Ropeman ,Freq Nasty andX-Press 2 . Towards the end of the 1990s and at the start of the 21st century the label had expanded its range of releases to include more house based songs, most prominently "Lazy" byX-Press 2 , which charted at number 2 in the UK charts, and releases by legendary techno artistDave Clarke as well as artists as diverse as Lucky Jim,Freq Nasty ,FC Kahuna ,Bentley Rhythm Ace andRalfe Band . One mainstay band of the label has been theLo-Fidelity Allstars who have changed and diversified their style along with the label.Skint are the holders of one of the longest current Football league sponsorship deal, as their current contract with
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. will see them having been present as the main kit sponsor for nine years. Their name, however, does not appear consistently across all the Brighton and Hove shirts, with some variation in logo, and even the complete replacement of the company's name with Palookaville on one of the shirt designs.In 2002 Skint released a compilation CD called "We are Skint" featuring tracks from the label's artists. [http://www.discogs.com/release/522422]
See also
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List of record labels
*List of independent UK record labels
*Night-life and popular music of Brighton and Hove External links
* [http://www.skint.net Official site]
*Discogs label|label=Skint+Records
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