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Y Records
Parent companyIndependent label, later incorporated into Kaz Records, which became part of
Castle Communications
Founded1980
FounderDick O’Dell
Distributor(s)Rough Trade
Castle Communications
GenreIndie Music
Country of originUnited Kingdom

Y Records was an independent record label set up in 1980 by Dick O’Dell in the United Kingdom, and distributed by Rough Trade.

History

Artists included The Slits, Shriekback and a number of groups that were associated with the Bristol Indie Bands from the late 1970s: The Pop Group, Glaxo Babies, Maximum Joy and Pigbag.

The label's first release in 1980 (Y1, "Where There's A Will There's A Way" / "In the Beginning There Was Rhythm") was a split single by The Pop Group and The Slits, bands which shared a drummer as well as managers (Christine Robertson and Dick O'Dell). Pigbag’s single, "Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag" (Y10) entered the UK Indie Chart in May 1981, and stayed there for 70 weeks in total, peaking at #1.[1]

Y Records were eventually incorporated into Kaz Records, part of Castle Communications. O'Dell later formed a progressive house music company, Guerilla Records, which became prominent in British progressive house music in the early 1990s, with acts such as Leftfield, Spooky, React to Rhythm and D.O.P.[2]

Discography

  • Y1: Pop Group/The Slits "Where there’s a will"/"In the Beginning" 7" (co-released as Rough Trade RT039)
  • Y2: Pop Group For how much longer do we tolerate mass murder LP (co-released as Rough Trade ROUGH 9)
  • Y3: Slits Bootleg Retrospective LP (coverless authorized bootleg)
  • Y4: Slits "Man Next Door" 7" (co-released as Rough Trade RT044)
  • Y5: Pop Group We Are Time LP )co-released as Rough Trade ROUGH 12)
  • Y6: Glaxo babies "Limited Entertainment"/"You can sell your soul for a pot of gold, 24 hours a day" 7"
  • Y7: Slits "Animal Space" 7" (co-released as Human Records HUM 4)
  • Y8: Vincent Units "Carnival Song"/"Everything is going to be all wrong" 7"/cassette
  • Y9: Steve Beresford/Tristan Honsinger Double Indemnity LP
  • Y10: Pigbag "Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag" 7"/12"
  • Y11: Maximum Joy "Stretch"/"Silent Street" 7"/12"
  • Y12: Pigbag "Sunny day" 7"/12"
  • Y13: Tristan Honsinger/Steve Beresford/Toshinori Kondo/David Toop "Imitation of Life" 7"
  • Y14: Tesco Bombers "Hernando’s Hideaway" 7"
  • Y15: Maximum Joy "White and Green Place" 7"/12"
  • Y16: Pigbag "Getting Up" 7"/12"
  • Y17: Pigbag Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive LP
  • Y18: Diamanda Galas The Litanies of Satan LP
  • Y20: Mouth "Who’s Hot" 7"/10" with double groove featuring different versions of the song
  • Y21: Shriekback Tench MLP
  • Y22: Shriekback "Sexthinkone" 7"
  • Y23: Christopher Reeves "Dining at Dzerzhinsky’s" 7"/12"
  • Y24: Pigbag "The Big Bean" 7"/12"
  • Y25: Pulsallama "The Devil Lives in My Husband’s Body"/"Ungawa pt. II" 7"/12" Double A single
  • Y26: Maximum Joy "In the Air" 7"/12"
  • Y27: Shriekback "My spine is the baseline" 7"/12"
  • Y28: Maximum Joy Station MXJY LP
  • Y30: R.A.P.P Featuring Archie Pool R.A.P.P. Presents Wicked City Featuring Archie Pool LP
  • Y31: The Promenaders The Promenaders LP
  • Y32: Disconnection "Bali Ha’i" 12"
  • Y33⅓: Various Birth of the Y LP
  • Y LP 501: Pigbag Lend an Ear LP
  • Y LP 502: Shriekback Care LP
  • Y LP 504: Shriekback Jam Science LP (not authorized by the band)
  • Y MP 1001: Pigbag Live MLP
  • Y PB 100: Pigbag Favourite Things compilation LP
  • Y RA 1: Sun Ra Arkestra "Nuclear War"/"Sometimes I'm Happy" 12"
  • Y RA 2: Sun Ra Arkestra Nuclear War LP (released in Italy)
  • Y(T)101: Pigbag "Hit the O’Deck" 7"/12"
  • Y(T)102: Shriekback "Lined Up" 7"/12"
  • YT103: Pulsallama "Qui Qui (A Canadian in Paris)" 12"
  • Y(T)104: Shriekback "Working on the ground" 7"/12"
  • Y(T)106: Shriekback "Lined Up"/"My spine" 7"/12"/12" picture disc[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Indie Charts entry for Pigbag
  2. ^ [1] Allmusic.com]
  3. ^ Grof, Stanislav. "Discografie Y-records". Dixon Edge Coulbourn. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
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