Domino Recording Company
Domino Recording Company is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press.
History
Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP Rocking the Forest, licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the USA were signed to Drag City, a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing more established American rock and unusual British music, were marginalised during the Britpop era, but a steady stream of new signings gave the label increasing credibility. Recent high-profile releases from Anna Calvi, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, and The Kills have only acted as a catalyst to this, and Domino is now one of the longest running and most successful independent record labels in the UK.2003 was the label's 10th anniversary. There were a number of new releases, as well as a compilation album and a series of gigs in London under the 'Worlds of Possibility' banner, to celebrate the label's first decade in October of that year.
Domino celebrated their first UK #1 album in October 2005 with Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better, and their first UK #1 single with Arctic Monkeys' "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" later that same month.
As well as new music, Domino have released produced compilations by British post-punk bands such as Orange Juice, Josef K, Fire Engines and Young Marble Giants.
Roster
Domino UK
Current artists
- About Group
- Alex G
- Alexis Taylor
- Alex Turner
- Animal Collective
- Anna Calvi
- Archie Bronson Outfit
- Arctic Monkeys
- Austra
- Lou Barlow
- Blood Orange / Lightspeed Champion
- Bob Moses
- Bonnie Prince Billy
- Buzzcocks
- Clinic
- The Count and Sinden
- Dan Deacon
- Dirty Projectors
- Fat White Family
- FFS
- Seamus Fogarty
- Four Tet
- Franz Ferdinand
- Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains
- Galaxie 500
- Georgia
- Hookworms
- Hot Chip
- Jon Hopkins
- Julia Holter
- Junior Boys
- The Kills
- King Creosote
- The Last Shadow Puppets
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
- Malachai
- Max Tundra
- Cass McCombs
- Eugene McGuinness
- Juana Molina
- Orange Juice
- Owen Pallett
- The Pastels
- Pavement
- Pram
- Psapp
- Quasi
- Real Estate
- Royal Trux
- Bill Ryder-Jones
- Sebadoh
- Sons and Daughters
- Spiral Stairs
- Superorganism
- Tirzah
- To Rococo Rot
- Townes Van Zandt
- Tricky
- Twin Sister
- Villagers
- Patrick Watson
- Matthew E. White
- Wild Beasts
- Robert Wyatt
- Wyatt, Atzmon & Stephen
- Xenoula
- James Yorkston
Former artists
- 10,000 Things
- Adem
- Aerial M
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- The Beautiful New Born Children
- The Blueskins
- Bonde do Role
- Bowlfish
- Chief
- Cinema
- Clearlake
- Come
- Correcto
- Crescent
- Cindy Dall
- Deluxx Folk Implosion
- Director Sound
- Ducktails
- Matt Elliott
- Elliott Smith
- The Fall
- The Feelies
- Benjy Ferree* Benjy Ferree
- Fence Collective
- Fire Engines
- Fizzarum
- Flipper
- Flying Saucer Attack
- The Folk Implosion
- The For Carnation
- Fridge
- Ganger
- Gastr del Sol
- God's Eye
- Gummo
- Neil Michael Hagerty
- HMS Ginafore
- Hood
- James Yorkston & The Big Fancy Players
- Josef K
- Juana Molina
- Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid
- Leatherface
- Jason Loewenstein
- Lone Pigeon
- Loose Fur
- The Magnetic Fields
- Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy
- Mazey Fade
- Midnight Funk Association
- Barbara Morgenstern
- Mouse on Mars
- Movietone
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Jim O'Rourke
- Will Oldham
- Pajo
- Palace / Palace Brothers / Palace Music / Palace Songs
- Papa M
- The Pictish Trail
- Plush
- Policecat
- Preston School of Industry
- The Pyramids
- Quickspace
- Quickspace Supersport
- Sandy Dirt
- Scarce
- Schlammpeitziger
- Sentridoh
- Silver Jews
- Smudge
- Steve Reid Ensemble
- Superchunk
- Tele:Funken
- The Television Personalities
- Telstar Ponies
- Terry Funken
- Test Icicles
- The Third Eye Foundation
- The Triffids
- These New Puritans
- u.n.p.o.c.
- V-Twin
- Von Südenfed
- Weird War
- Yo Majesty
- James Yorkston and The Athletes
- Young Marble Giants
Domino USA
- Adem
- Alex G
- Animal Collective
- Benjy Ferree
- Caribou
- Cass McCombs
- Chief
- Clearlake
- Clinic
- Correcto
- Dirty Projectors
- Four Tet
- Franz Ferdinand
- Future Pilot AKA
- Juana Molina
- Julia Holter
- Junior Boys
- Lightspeed Champion
- Malachai
- Melody's Echo Chamber
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Night Moves
- The Notwist
- Orange Juice
- Panda Bear
- The Pastels
- Porches
- The Range
- Sasami
- Sebadoh
- Sons and Daughters
- To Rococo Rot
- Twin Sister
- Ulrich Schnauss
- White Lung
- Yo Majesty
- James Yorkston and the Athletes
- Your Friend
Domino imprints
Geographic Music
- Bill Wells Trio
- Empress
- Future Pilot AKA
- International Airport
- Kama Aina
- Lightships
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz
- Nagisa ni te
- September Collective
- Spinning Coin
- Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair
- The Royal We
Double Six Records
- Bill Ryder-Jones
- Jon Hopkins and King Creosote
- Bill Wells
- The Child of Lov
- John Cale
- Spiritualized
- Steve Mason
- Petite Noir
- She & Him
- Trailer Trash Tracys
- Twin Sister
- George FitzGerald
Weird World
- How to Dress Well
- Peaking Lights
- Smith Westerns
- Washed Out
- Melody's Echo Chamber
- Richard Dawson
- Wilma Archer
- Silicon
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- Queens of the Stone Age
- Mondo Generator
- Alain Johannes
- Mini Mansions