Disco B

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Disco B
Parent company Sub Up Records
Active years since 1991
founder Peter Wacha
Seat Munich
Website www.diskob.com
Sub-label Chicks on Speed ​​Records
distribution indigo
Genre (s) electronic music

Disko B is a Munich based record label that has become known for its trend-setting publications in the fields of electronic music and techno .

history

It was founded in 1991 by Peter Wacha aka Upstart as a sub-label of the independent label Sub Up Records ( FSK , Die Goldenen Zitronen etc.); at that time still under the name "Disko Bombs". The first release comes from the New York duo Silicon Soul , who immediately stormed the then still young German dance charts with their track Who Needs Sleep Tonight . After four more publications under the name Disko Bombs, the name was shortened to Disko B and the distribution was taken over by EFA .

In the same year Upstart, Dorothea Zenker, David Süss and Cpt began. Reality to organize the Ultraworld parties, which led to the opening of the ultrasound , which existed until January 2003 .

With the releases of DJ Hell (album Geteert & gefedert ), Acid Scout , Patrick Pulsinger (album Porno ), Robert Görl and DJ Good Groove , Disko B was able to establish itself as one of the most famous labels for electronic music worldwide in the early 1990s; In the following years international artists such as IF , Dakar & Grinser , Jay Denham , Artist Unknown , Susanne Brokesch and Kirlian aka Abe Duque ensured that this high level was maintained.

From 1998 Jürgen Söder ( Couch ) was responsible for the label management, who founded the label Chicks on Speed ​​Records, which was initially intended as a sub-label, in 2000 together with Upstart and Chicks on Speed .

Artists like Stereo Total , Console , Electronicat and Neulander enriched the label palette in the years to come; but Disko B remained true to itself and its roots, e.g. B. through publications by Parallax Corporation , Tobias Schmidt or Patrick Pulsinger .

From the context of the publications Labels falling since 2012 avant-garde jazz - Collective The Pyramids with his album Otherworldly and a box set with re-releases of the albums of the 1970s.

Disko B is distributed in Germany by Indigo and Neuton Medien Vertrieb , Ixthuluh Music for CD and Soul Seduction for vinyl in Austria, Wide Records in Italy, Rec Rec Medien AG in Switzerland, Red Musical in Spain, Southern Records in Great Britain and Forced Exposure in the USA.

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