Manic Ears Records
| Manic Ears Records | |
|---|---|
| Active years | 1986-1989 |
| founder | Shane Dabinett |
| Seat | Bristol |
| distribution | Revolver Records |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore punk , grindcore |
Manic Ears Records was a British independent label that was active from 1986 to 1989. The label specialized in hardcore punk and grindcore and in the five years of its existence released albums by important bands in these genres such as Extreme Noise Terror , Spermbirds , Ripcord and Concrete Sox .
history
The label was founded in Bristol in the fall of 1986 by Shane Dabinett with government start-up funding of GBP 2,000 . It emerged from a mail order company called Manic Ears Distribution . The name was made up of parts of the fanzines Manic Distributions and Ear of a Dead Man operated by the founders of this mail order business . The first release of the newly founded label was Radioactive Earslaughter , a split - LP of Chaos UK and Extreme Noise Terror. The first edition was 1,500 copies, another 500 copies followed a little later due to the high demand. Shortly afterwards, Manic Ears Records took over the catalog of the Children of the Revolution label because its founder wanted to close it. In the years that followed, Dabinett did not succeed in putting the label on a financially solid basis despite the wave of Grindcore in England. The most successful release was the compilation The North Atlantic Noise Attack (1988), of which the label was able to sell more than 5,000 copies. After disputes between the band Sore Throat and Napalm Death , which were under contract with the label, and the scandal surrounding Gaye Bykers on Acid , who recorded an album and a single for Manic Ears under the pseudonym Rektüm , Dabinett closed the label in 1989.
Web links
- Manic Ears Records. Bristol Archive Records, accessed March 23, 2011 .
literature
- Ian Glasper: Trapped in a Scene - UK Hardcore 1985-1989 . Cherry Red Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-901447-61-3 , pp. 508 ff .