Shock Records
| Shock Records | |
|---|---|
| Active years | since 1988 |
| founder | David Williams, Frank Falvo, Andrew McGhee |
| Seat | Northcote , Victoria and Los Angeles |
| Website | http://www.shock.com.au/ |
| Genre (s) | Metal , punk , rock music |
Shock Records is the largest Australian independent label . The label helps sell overseas releases from labels like Epitaph Records , as well as smaller labels like Cement Records . Shock Records was founded in 1988 by David Williams, Frank Falvo and Andrew McGhee. With the label they published, distributed and exported phonograms. All three previously worked in sales or distribution in the music sector. Williams worked for a company called Musicland in Melbourne, Falvo worked for Exposure Records, and McGhee worked for Greville Records. Shock Exports is the name of Shock Records' export division.
Shock Records distributed The Saddle Club's CDs .
Shock Records distributes and exports records from Australian artists belonging to various genres. The label received the Governor of Victoria Export Award in 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. To date, 20,000 copies have been released through the label. Shock also founded CDFA, which distributes DVDs, music, computer games and other entertainment products across Australia.
Shock Records was the first major Australian label to use the Internet entirely for its business. In 1994 it was the first Australian label to sell records over the Internet and in 1997 the label offered singles to MP3 downloads. Groups such as Frenzal Rhomb and Bodyjar were offered .
The label's first number one album was Smash by the American band The Offspring . Shock Records opened its first sales office in New Zealand in 1999, with the album Crush by Jennifer Paige was the first release that location number-one also reached one in the charts.
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