Rough Trade Records

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Rough Trade Records is a British record label .

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The company was founded in 1976 by Geoff Travis in West London as a record store, but developed into a record label in 1978. The label mainly specialized in post-punk and alternative rock from the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the late 1980s, the company broke new ground by releasing the Lucinda Williams album named after her .

Geoff Travis founded the label Blanco y Negro Records together with Warner Brothers in the 1980s . After the distributor The Cartel , which Rough Trade in Great Britain belonged to, went bankrupt in the early 1990s, the label no longer existed for some time and the master CDs went to One Little Indian Records . Only the German sales department in Herne under the managing directors Kurt Thielen and Heino Drecker was still active, as it had split off from the parent company in London in time. At the end of the 1990s, the German distribution was bought by Zomba Records , a label belonging to BMG .

At the beginning of the new millennium, Geoff Travis bought back the trademark rights from the English label and successfully restarted Rough Trade Records in a joint venture with Sanctuary Records . Among other things, the label caused a stir with bands like The Strokes , The Libertines and especially in Germany with Adam Green . After the sale of Sanctuary Records to the Universal Music Group , Rough Trade Records entered into a joint venture with Beggars Banquet Records in June 2007 .

Musician at Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade UK

Rough Trade Germany

Mourning arrangement of the record label Rough Trade Records on the grave of the avant-garde musician Holger Czukay, who died in September 2017

In April 2008, Rough Trade Germany was taken over by the Cologne-based company Groove Attack . The Rough Trade Distribution brand should be retained.

An excerpt of the most important labels and artists distributed by Rough Trade:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ROUGH TRADE becomes ZOMBA RECORDS. In: intro.de. June 7, 1999, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ About us. In: Rough Trade Distribution. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Peter Flore: Groove Attack: Cologne sales department buys Rough Trade. In: intro.de. March 18, 2008, accessed February 5, 2020 .

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