Crass Records
| Crass Records | |
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| Active years | since 1978 |
| founder | Crass |
| Seat | United Kingdom |
| Genre (s) | Anarcho-punk , political punk |
Crass Records is a record label founded in 1979 by the British anarcho-punk band Crass .
history
Before founding Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher published their creative work on their own label Exitstencil Press . After several conflicts arose between the newly formed band Crass and their record label Small Wonder Records , the band decided in 1978 to start their own label. The dispute between the band and Small Wonder Records was triggered by the refusal of an Irish press to produce the band's debut album because the song Asylum contained blasphemous content.
The first is not published under the name Crass publication of the label was the single You Can Be You by Honey Bane . Other artists, often politically similar to Crass, such as Flux of Pink Indians , MDC , Captain Sensible , The Cravats , Conflict , KUKL (of which Björk was a member) or Poison Girls published their work on the label.
In addition to albums and singles by the above-mentioned bands, three different editions of the compilation Bullshit Detector were released , on which demo recordings sent to the band were collected. Crass Records had its own corporate identity : the albums released on the label were mostly cheap, with Penny Rimbaud acting as producer and John Loder as sound engineer on many. Most of the releases were recorded at Southern Studios, with Gee Vaucher responsible for the album design.
The catalog numbers of the released albums were to be seen as a countdown to 1984 (for example, "521984" meant "five years to 1984"), the year in which the band had decided to split up when they were founded. Crass chose 1984 based on George Orwell's 1984 novel .
In 1982, some of the members of Crass founded the Corpus Christi Records label , on which the works of artists who did not fit into the anarchist role model of Crass Records were published.
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