Paper Recordings was a Manchester record company that played a significant role in British club culture.[1][2] It released contemporary electronic music from an international roster of recording artists integrating the genres of house, funk, jazz, techno and soul.[3] Along with Nuphonic,[4] Glasgow Underground Recordings and 20/20 Vision recordings, it is credited as one of the key labels that drove the popularity of the Nu-Disco genre in the late 1990s and 2000s.[1][5]
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| Paper Recordings & Paper Vision Films | |
| Industry | Electronic Dance Music, Documentary film production |
| Genre | Deep House, Disco |
| Founded | 1993 in Manchester, UK |
| Brands | Paper Recordings, Repap Records, Paper Wave, Paper Disco, We Are Woodville Records |
| Website | paperecordings.com |
History
Founded in 1993 by Pete Jenkinson, Ben Davis, Miles Hollway, Elliot Eastwick, Andrew Gough and Stephen Page while all working at The Hacienda[6] and Hard Times club nights. The label has commercially released over 2000 recordings, created by over 500 artists, producers, and remixers in over 50 countries across imprints Paper Recordings, Paper Disco, Paper Wave, Repap Records and We Are Woodville Records.[7]
It released the debut album in 1997 from Tromsø[8] band Those Norwegians,[9] comprising Rune Lindbæk,[10] Ole Johan Mjøs [11] and Torbjørn Brundtland who went on to form Röyksopp with Svein Berge.[12] This album was titled Kaminsky Park, a pun on Comiskey Park that witnessed the Disco Demolition Night protests in 1979 and with its LP artwork depicting a burnt and warped 12" vinyl.[13]
Notable musicians, artists and producers that have worked with the label includes Crazy P, Rasmus Faber, Xpress 2, Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes, Ashley Beedle, Greg Wilson, Silicone Soul, Ladytron, Kenny Hawkes, Two Lone Swordsmen (Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tennison), Derrick Carter, Håkan Lidbo, Andy Votel, Faze Action, Richard Norris, Matthew Herbert, Zed Bias, Ralph Myerz, Mike Lindsay (Tunng), Jane Weaver, Ian Pooley, Kathy Diamond, Anoraak, Bill Brewster and Mathias_Stubø (Proviant Audio).[14]
Robodisco
Robodisco became Paper Recording's most recognised club night, hosting dance parties between 1996 - 2005 at venues including Sankeys Soap, Paradise Factory, Planet K, South Nightclub, PJ Bells, with associated nights Sonic Tonic, Out to Lunch and at The Roadhouse and State respectively. [1] Resident DJs were Miles Hollway & Elliot Eastwick, who additionally held DJ residencies at Manchester nightclub The Hacienda and Yorkshire's Hard Times; they were joined at Robodisco by DJ Ben Davis (aka Flash Atkins, Stubb). Several influential DJs and musicians performed at Robodisco including Stuart Price (Jacques Lu Cont), Josh Wink, Derrick Carter, Justin Robertson, Tom Middleton, L'il Louis, Kerri Chandler, Romanthony, Andrew Weatherall, Ian Pooley, Fire Island (Terry Farley & Pete Heller), DJ Harvey, Mike Watt, Kenny Hawkes, Ashley Beedle, Angel Moraes and David Holmes [1].
Paper Vision Films
Pete Jenkinson and Ben Davis started a film production company in 2014 with their first project, the critically acclaimed Northern Disco Lights - The Rise and Rise of Norwegian Dance Music [5] [15] [2] investigating the emergence of the Nordic dance music scene premiering at Bergen International Film Festival in 2016. [16] [5] The documentary features interviews with Bryan Ferry, Lindstrøm, Annie, Per Martinsen, Prins Thomas, Bjørn Torske and Nemone.
Northern Disco Lights has screened at over fifty international film festivals in cities including Tromsø, London, Oslo, Bergen, Kyiv, Svalbard, Berlin, Alaska, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Baku, Tbilisi, Turin, Prague and Manchester.
References
- ^ a b c Ward, Abigail. "paperecordings". Manchester Digital Music Archive.
- ^ Penny-Barrow, Max (2019). "25 Classic Tracks from 25 Years of Paper Recordings". Mixmag. Mixmag magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ Bidder, Sean (1999). Rough Guide to House. London: Rough Guides Ltd. pp. 265–266. ISBN 1-85828-432-5.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195313734.
- ^ a b c Jenkinson, Peter John (2022). "Beats, bytes & bleeps inside the Arctic circle: An exploration into consumption and production in the electronic dance music scene of Tromsø, Norway between 1987 and 2001". e-Space: 6 – via espace MMU.
- ^ Rietveld, Hillegonda (2022). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place (1st ed.). United States: Bloomsbury. p. 145. ISBN 9781501336294.
- ^ "BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music's Desert Island Disco with Lauren Laverne, 25 Years of Paper Recordings Desert Island Disco". BBC.
- ^ Penny-Barrow, Max (2022). "From cosmic disco to ambient techno, we celebrate a decade in Norwegian dance music". Mixmag magazine.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Hawkins, Stan (2007). Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location : Between the Global and the Local. Abingdon, UK: Ashgate. pp. 179–189.
- ^ "Rune Lindbæk". Discogs.
- ^ Mjøs, Ole J. (2011). Music, Social Media and Global Mobility: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube. New York: Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 9780203127544.
- ^ Zeiner-Henriksen, Hans T. (2011). Röyksopp Melody A.M. p. 126. ISBN 978-82-93039-21-1.
- ^ Petridis, Alexis (19 July 2019). "Disco Demolition: the night they tried to crush black music". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Paper Recordings". Discogs.
- ^ Bennett, Esme (26 September 2019). "25 YEARS OF PAPER". The Quietus. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ Tenold, Stig (2011). "Making a scene: The Bergen wave in popular music, 1990–2008". Popular Music History. 6 (3): 251–268.
External links
- Paper Recordings: Official label website
- Paper Vision Films: Official Film company website, Northern Disco Lights, Wild Water