Extasy Records

Extasy Records
Founded	April 1986
Founder	Yoshiki Hayashi
Status	Active
Distributor(s)	Media Factory (music division)/QOS Distribution Warner Music (-2001) [1] indies (2007-)
Genre	Rock, metal, punk
Country of origin	Japan
Location	Tokyo Los Angeles
Official Website	extasyrecords.co.jp

Extasy Records is a Japanese record label (currently independent) founded in April 1986 by Yoshiki Hayashi, co-founder of the heavy metal band X Japan (then still named X). The label's first release was X's 1986 single "Orgasm".^[2]

Over the next few years, the label signed several then-little-known bands (among them Glay, Luna Sea, Tokyo Yankees, Ladies Room and Zi:Kill) and produced their early records. Extasy Records also hosted a series of events to promote these groups, called the "Extasy Summit" festivals, which would also feature formerly signed bands that had already moved on to a major label.^[2]

In September 2007, Yoshiki announced that the soundtrack for the American movie Catacombs would be released on Extasy Records International. The soundtrack includes songs by Violet UK and Zilch.^[3]

Artists

All artists were at one point on the label.

Extasy Records

• Acid Bell
• Brain Drive
• Breath
• Deep
• EX-ANS
• Gilles de Rais
• Glay
• The Hate Honey
• Hypermania
• La Vie En Rose
• Ladies Room
• Luna Sea
• P2H
• Poison/Poison Arts
• Sweet Death/Media Youth
• Screaming Mad George & Psychosis
• Tokyo Yankees
• Virus
• X Japan
• Youthquake
• Zi:Kill
• The Zolge

Extasy Japan

• Beast
• Revenus
• Shiro
• Shizuka Kudō

Extasy International

• Abandoned Pools/Tommy Walter
• Aja Daashuur
• Kidneythieves
• Laura Dawn
• Red Delicious
• Sub-Bionic
• Violet UK

Extasy Recording Studios

Extasy Recording Studios is a recording studio complex owned by Yoshiki Hayashi at 5253 Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood, California, United States. Formerly known as One on One Recording Studios, Yoshiki bought it, from the previous owner Jim David, in 1992 and re-named the studio, after his record label, in 1999.^[4]

Previously, well-known albums were recorded there, including ...And Justice for All and Metallica (better known as The Black Album) by Metallica^[5], Crazy Nights and Psycho Circus by Kiss,^[6] and Dirt by Alice in Chains.

Since Yoshiki purchased the facility in 1992, X Japan and Yoshiki's related projects are the main recordings.

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ ^{a b} "Extasy Records company profile". extasyrecords.co.jp/eng. http://www.extasyrecords.co.jp/eng/company.html. Retrieved 2007-07-31. 
3. ^ ""Catcombs Soundtrack" release information" (in Japanese). towerrecords.co.jp. http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfCardMain.jsp?GOODS_NO=1677413&GOODS_SORT_CD=101. Retrieved 2007-09-17. 
4. ^ Billboard 27 Nov 1999, p. 52
5. ^ Who's Who?. Encyclopedia Metallica. Retrieved October 4 2007.
6. ^ Studios. The Kiss FAQ. Retrieved October 4, 2007.

External links

• Official website (expired)

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