100 labels that were hyped for a minute back there

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1. Rawkus

2. Wall of Sound

3. Skint

4. International DJ Gigolos

5. Stone's Throw

6. Tigerbeat6

7. Rephlex

8. Ed Banger

9. Def Jux

10. Basic Channel

11. Hyperdub

12. Locked On

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

Nos. 5 and 10 -- 11, at least, aren't overrated. They're that good.

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 March 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

I am passing no judgement here, there's probably tunes I like on all those labels. It's just that I've always noticed every year or six months the meeja gets excited by the idea of a cool label, they're like little ready made scenes, innit.

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

13. Pork

14. Irdial

henry s, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

15. Rekids
16. Mo'Wax
17. Ninja Tune
18 On-U Sound (hey - we can but hope)

mark e, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

lol Stones Throw - Dilla was hyped for a minute there wtf happened?

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

19. Fence

Billy Dods, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

20. Warner Brother
21. CBS
22. Mo Town

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

weird thread.

every dance label has it's day.

blueski, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

23. Death Row
24. gRavity
25. A&M
26. Crysalis
27. Metro Plex

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

28. Columbia - remember that stupid red font??
29. Stax
30. Trax
31. Wax Trax

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

32. Atco
33. Def Jam
34. Def American
35. American

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

36. SST

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

37. Respond
38. Heavenly
39. ZTT
40. blanco y negro
41. Zarjazz

Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

42. Track

Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

43. Matador

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

44. Sun

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

45. Sarah

henry s, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

46. Apple

Sarah wasn't really hyped. Loathed, yes. Hyped, no. Except by Bob Stanley, I suppose.

Rob M v2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

was pretty hyped in my circles...

47. Nude

henry s, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

48. Grunt
49. Straight
50. Skin Graft
51. Blast First
52. Mute
53. Shimmy Disk

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

54. Corwood

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

55. Rhino Handmade
56. Fantasy
57. KDJ

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

58. Dischord
59. Thrill Jockey

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

60. Tzadik
61. Deutsche Grammophone

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

62. Rykodisc
63. Verve
64. Saturn

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

65. Dust to Digital
66. Sub Pop

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

67. Just Dreams

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

(Grammophone)

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

haha, strike on lowercase "e" doesn't show

Hurting 2, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

68. WordSound
69. Asphodel

What, nobody but me remembers "illbient"?

unperson, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

was Zarjazz ever hyped ?
suspect Madness would deny any such accusations as Virgin weren't exactly 100% behind the whole operation at all really were they ?

mark e, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

70. Twisted Nerve

Mark G, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I met Andy Votel once, he's a nice guy. Don't think we can really forgive him for introducing the world to Badly Drawn Boy though.

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

70. Sacturary
71. Two Tone
72. Kill Rock Stars
73. Perlon
74. Sundazed
75. Twin Tone
76. Industrial Records
77. Peacefrog
78. Vanity
79. Sound at One
80. Chess

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

81. Load

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

82. Ghostly International

Mr. Goodman, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

83. Sleeping Bag
84. TVT
85. Norton

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

86. Hanson/Bulb/Am Tapes
87. Troubleman

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

There was an un-hyped label there for a minute, but what was it?

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

88. ~scape
89. Mille Plateaux

Tuomas, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

90. French Kiss
91. Ipecac
92. Lookout!
93. Ecstatic Peace!
94. Quarterstick
95. Jetset
96. Creation
97. Emperor Jones
98. Paw Tracks
99. Holy Mountain
100. Earache
101. Arts & Crafts
102. Secretly Canadian
103. Vernon Yard
104. Mego
105. Hut
106. Silvertone
107. Space Age
108. Dutch East India
109. Vice
110. Young God
111. Bar/None
112. Record Collection
113. Cooking Vinyl
114. Pink Flag
115. 5 Rue Christine
116. Strange Fruit
117. Hydra Head
118. Bomp
119. Fire
120. Qwest
121. Nothing
122. Darla
123. Too Pure
124. Rhymesayers
125. Gern Blandsten
126. Playhouse
127. Constellation
128. Saddle Creek
129. Opal
130. DeSoto
131. Southern Lord
132. Kranky
133. Mushroom
134. Artful
135. Birdman
136. One Little Indian
137. Trance Syndicate
138. Luaka Bop
139. Fat Cat
140. Mush
141. Drag City
142. Alien 8
143. Warp

stephen, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

We should rank these in terms of over-hype

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Vice

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Alchemy
Yazoo
Teenbeat

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

Constellation

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes it's just nice to read a list of record labels. Thanks guys.

call all destroyer, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Soulseek all maximised and everything.

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

When I think of hyped labels Acid Jazz comes to mind, it even coined a genre but how much of the released material has stood the test of time?

mmmm, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Collector's Choice
Rev-Ola
Shadoks
Sundazed
Akarma
Sublime Frequencies

zaxxon25, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Revelation
Boner
Disco Brakes

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Skam
Fonal
Leaf

a passing spacecadet, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Belzona
Asylum

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Raccoon.
Folkways.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Takoma

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Black Ark

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

$5 to the first person to post a picture of the Country Turtle label, with the turtle playin the guitar.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

studio one.
blood & fire.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Time-Lag

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Goofin'

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Mom N Dad Productions

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Vanguard (recordings for the connoisseur.)

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Metal Blade
Kamera

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Siltbreeze.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

PSF.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

BOMP!

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Arayan Asshole

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Crypt.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

wait, strike BOMP!, it was listed before.
put Silvertone in its place.
and IRS

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Mercury Living Presence.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Table of the Elements.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Lovely

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Majora

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Breathmint.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Anomolous

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Subterranean.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

this would go a lot faster if someone would just go look through the reviews section of any issue of forced exposure, or open an aquarius review page or something...

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

united diaries.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

LOOKOUT RECORDS.

ian, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Mousepad Records
4:55 Music
Red Pen
Quarter Scale
Mug

henry s, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

world serpent

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

flying nun

Zeno, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

punk in my vitamins

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

that one joyce hatto was on .

Frogman Henry, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

sexyDancer solely redeeming the worst thread ever here

DJ Mencap, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Primetime Records

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

whats the point of this thread again?

deej, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

punk in my vitamins

-- sexyDancer, Monday, March 10, 2008 4:55 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

They had like 4 records and I think I may own them all

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

I had the Thrones tape, but it was melted by a misplaced joint

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

whats the point of this thread again?

-- deej, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:16

Something to do with record labels perhaps?

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

they are hyped
as the poet says, "here today ... gone later today"

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

I already said Vice, Constellation, Bomp, Silvertone aaaaand Lookout.

m'f'ers can't read :(

stephen, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

marketing is simply hype repeated

sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Don't you mean hype is simply marketing repeated?

Bodrick III, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:11 (eighteen years ago)


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