Matador Europe supervises the promotion, sales and marketing of Matador titles in Europe. The London-based office also licensed recordings from some of North America's most acclaimed new artists, M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few. The roster has also grown with the label and has helped artists such as Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Cornelius, Solex, Pizzicato Five, Helium and the Arsonists reach audiences worldwide. In 1994 Patrick Amory became Matador's label manager, and has since progressed to label President, as well as a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy.
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Matador Records
Matador Records | History
M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few. Dustdevils, Railroad Jerk and Superchunk bands Cat Power, Cornelius, Solex, Pizzicato Five, Helium and the Arsonists. Dustdevils, Railroad Jerk and Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub
yo la tengo i can hear the heart beating as one full album
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True, its their eighth studio album.
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when was it released?
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April 22, 1997.
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what was the name of the record label that released it?
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Matador Records.
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how was this album received by public?
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It received considerable acclaim from music critics.
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can you mention a few songs from the album?
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"Autumn Sweater", "Sugarcube", and "Little Honda".
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who owns the above mentioned record company?
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Patrick Amory is Matador's label manager.
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when was this company launched?
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1989.
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can you name some others artists they have launched?
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Matador was created in 1989 by Chris Lombardi in his New York City apartment. Lombardi brought the Austrian duo H.P. Zinker into Wharton Tiers’ Fun City studio to record Matador's first release, "...and there was light". Lombardi continued to add artists to the label's roster, with bands like the Dustdevils, Railroad Jerk and Superchunk, before being joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy in 1990. The two of them have run it together since. Matador experienced its first taste of crazed media attention & big sales with the North American release of Teenage Fanclub’s debut record, A Catholic Education in 1990.
Matador Records | History
In 1992 Matador released Pavement's debut studio album Slanted and Enchanted. In 1993, not only did Matador release Liz Phair's critically and commercially successful debut album, "Exile in Guyville", but the label also began a partnership with Atlantic Records which lasted for several years. In 1996, Capitol Records purchased a 49 percent stake in Matador, which Lombardi and Cosloy bought back in 1999. Beggars Group purchased 50% of Matador in 2002 and took over the label's worldwide marketing. Over the years, the label has moved from shoebox sized offices to larger and larger complexes, and now operates in both London and New York.
Matador Records | History
Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of mainly indie rock, but also punk rock, experimental rock, alternative rock, and electronic acts.
Matador Records | Introduction
Matador Europe supervises the promotion, sales and marketing of Matador titles in Europe. The London-based office also licensed recordings from some of North America's most acclaimed new artists, M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few. The roster has also grown with the label and has helped artists such as Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Cornelius, Solex, Pizzicato Five, Helium and the Arsonists reach audiences worldwide. In 1994 Patrick Amory became Matador's label manager, and has since progressed to label President, as well as a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy.
Matador Records | History
"Recorded on May 20 (tracks 1-4) & June 12 (track 5), 1964."
Matador (Grant Green album) | Track listing
Matador at Fifteen, a packaged release consisting of a CD of greatest hits, a CD of unreleased/rare tracks, and a DVD of its artists' music videos, was released by Matador Records on October 12, 2004, to celebrate the "15th Anniversary of contemporary rock's most self-congratulatory record label."
Matador at Fifteen | Introduction
Both labels ended up releasing the album, Paperhouse in the UK on 11 June 1990, and Matador in the US on 2 August 1990.
A Catholic Education | Background
Matador is the second solo album by English musician Gaz Coombes. Recorded at Coombes' home studio and Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire, it was released on 26 January 2015 on his record label Hot Fruit Recordings via Caroline International. Coombes himself produced the album and it features appearances by Ride drummer Loz Colbert, Charly Coombes, and guitarist Nick Fowler. The album charted #18 on the UK Albums Chart. It was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize.
Matador (Gaz Coombes album) | Introduction
Born in Paris, 27 October 1983, Matador began his career as a dancer in 2001. He later joined the group "Les cœurs brisés" (The Broken Hearts) with whom he toured the United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Kingdom, Italy and Canada. In 2005, he decided to create his own group called "La Sélésao" composed of members Dr. Love, Linho and Benkoff. The same members also formed the first edition of the group Magic System. In late 2007, they signed with Oyas Records before signing with Wagram Records in spring 2008. They released their début single "Décalé Gwada" in June 2008, becoming one of the hits of that summer.
Jessy Matador | Biography
The soundtrack was released in 2006 on Superb Records.
The Matador | Soundtrack
Matador is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the United Artists label.
Matador (Kenny Dorham album) | Introduction
American Matador is the second studio album by guitarist Marc Bonilla, released in 1993 through Reprise Records.
American Matador | Introduction
The band put out one more record for Matador, "On the Mouth" in 1993. After Matador entered into a distribution agreement with major label Atlantic Records, Superchunk decided to leave the label, even though the Atlantic logo did not have to be displayed on their releases. Instead, the band opted to release their following records through Merge. The next album, "Foolish", brought further critical acclaim for the band in 1994. A second singles compilation (the first was 1992's "Tossing Seeds") came out in the summer of 1995. It was titled "Incidental Music 1991–95" and contained most of their hard-to-find tracks (imports, B-sides, comp.
Superchunk | History
Matador is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1964 but not released on the Japanese Blue Note label until 1979. The album was finally reissued in the U.S. on CD in 1990 with one bonus track. It was also reissued on vinyl in 2010, with a different cover.
Matador (Grant Green album) | Introduction
This is not the forbidding experimentation of an aspiring vanguard. This is the fooling around of folks who like to go out on Saturday night and make some noise—and then go home humming it." The band released "Electr-O-Pura" in 1995 to similar acclaim. For the first time, all songs were credited to the band as a whole rather than individual members; this became the norm for all future releases. The band's 1997 LP "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One" synthesized the group's eclectic combination of folk, punk rock, shoegazing, long instrumental noise-jams, and electronic music into a sprawling, multi-faceted style.
Yo La Tengo | Early Matador period, 1993–2000
Best remembered was his 1971-1973 collaboration with Shut Up, later known as the František Ringo Čech Group, with whom he recorded numerous "bubble-gum" singles and one side of his only solo album.
The Matadors (Czech band) | Introduction
The song also references Víctor Jara, a Chilean folksinger and supporter of the Allende government who was kidnapped, tortured and assassinated shortly after the Chilean coup of 1973 by military officials loyal to the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Matador (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs song) | Introduction
Her contract with Matador for 2000's "The Covers Album" reportedly consisted of a Post-it note signed by herself and the company's founder.
Cat Power | 1996–2003: Early Matador releases
A cast recording was planned, but cancelled the day before it was due to be recorded. The show's star, John Barrowman, recorded two songs from the score ("I Was Born To Be Me" and "I'll Dress You In Mourning") which were released as 45 RPM and CD singles timed to coincide with the London opening. Barrowman later recorded "A Boy From Nowhere" on his solo CD, Reflections (released by JAY records).
Matador (English musical) | Discography
In 1949, Panart launched Sonoro, a sublabel dedicated to traditional folk music (mainly son in the trova style), including Trío Servando Díaz, Trío Caney, Los Incógnitos, Los Compadres and Compay Segundo in its initial roster. In 1952, Panart obtained exclusive rights for the pressing of music licensed by Decca. A few years later this contract was broken as Decca reached an agreement with EMI/Capitol. The expansion of the record label was nonetheless unprecedented for a Caribbean label. After establishing a subsidiary (Panart Recording Corporation) in New York in 1952, the same year it pressed its first LPs, Panart was pressing half a million records a year, 20% of which was exported outside of Cuba (over 50% by 1959).
Panart | Origins and expansion
The band was then signed by well-known independent label Matador Records which released their second and third albums.
Sportsguitar | Introduction
The song was created as part of a contest sponsored by the school newspaper, then known as "The Toreador". R.C. Marshall, the editor of the 1931 "La Ventana" was chosen as the winner and given a $25 prize. In the next year, Goin' Band Director Harry LeMaire rewrote the music to the song. Aside from that, it has remained unchanged since its creation. Despite Texas Tech adopting the Red Raider as its mascot in 1936, the song continues to refer to the original Matador mascot.
The Matador Song | History
Matador, aka Xarale made his first steps in Hip Hop in 1984 as a dancer ; he was then 12 years old. It is only in 1992, that Matador, of his real name Babacar Niang, creates with two of his school friends, Mokhtar and Gueye (Omar) – where “BMG” initials come from – the group which later will be called Wa BMG 44. BMG soon comes to represent the whole neighbourhood of Thiaroye, having all the young people from this Dakar’s banlieue following and coming to support its crew each time they were performing. With respect, Wa BMG was one of the most energetic performers of Hip Hop Galsen.
Matador (WA BMG 44) | Biography
On February 2, 2010 Matador Records announced the second-place winner of their competition, in which their “most imaginative” track listing would be made into a special edition Record Store Day double LP release. Limited to 1,000 copies, this edition features special silkscreen cover art designed by the band themselves and was released on April 17 at participating record stores. The track listing is as follows:
Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement | Record Store Day Limited Edition
They began the tireless work of preparing another more ambitious and novel album. They surprised with another double album released by Discos Suicidas Records called "Los Demenciales Chicos Acelerados". The 20 tracks that are part of this work form a "Zarzuela Rock" (punk rock opera). The sound was slower, more chaotic and full of rage. Aitor Amezaga played the keyboard on the album. In 1988, out of the record companies, Eskorbuto decided to produce, edit and distribute their new album on their own label, Butoeskor Records. The result was "Las más macabras de las vidas". From the cover to the letters of the subject, the theme of death is very present.
Eskorbuto | New sounds, successes and struggles (1987–90)
In 1973 he released the first single for Polydor Records, with songs "Transa de amor" and "Saravá Nega", which caused major interests in radio and television programs. The first record was released by CID in 1975, with forgotten songs of enshrined composers as Ivan Lins, João Donato, Jorge Benjor, Nelson Cavaquinho, Guilherme de Brito, Marcos Valle and Paulo Sergio, among others. He moved the following year to the Philips/Polygram, staying on this label until 1984, by which released ten albums – all with little effect. In 1985, he was chosen as the best performer in the "Festival of Festivals", TV Globo with the song "Elis, Elis".
Emílio Santiago | Music career
Matador is the title of a 1991 musical by Mike Leander and Eddie Seago, with a book by Peter Jukes, which tells the story of the rise and fall of a fictional matador, loosely based on Manuel Benitez, El Cordobes. The show featured stunning choreography in traditional Flamenco style by Rafael Aguilar, and the show won an Olivier Award as a result. Several dancers were cast directly from Spain, making their West End debuts. The bulls for the fighting sequences were performed by a phalanx of black-clad dancers, moving as one. The work began life in 1987 as a concept album, starring Tom Jones.
Matador (English musical) | Introduction
This album, called "44 4 Life" comes out in 2004 scoring a nationwide hit with the first single "Jox Ma Sa 5". For the summer tour of this second album, Wa BMG welcomes the female MC Fatim who, since then, has become 44's first lady of honour. Intensively touring throughout Europe, Matador comes back more permanently to Dakar in 2005 in order to release, in 2007, his first solo album, allying rap and slam. Since its release, “Xippil Xoll” has been hugely acclaimed by the Senegalese audience. Still resolutely militant, Matador initiates in November 2009 his Xippil Xol Fagarou Tour through which he aims at raising public awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention.
Matador (WA BMG 44) | Biography
In 1959, an executive of RCA Victor urged him to record his first album of love songs, which he named "Mi Primera Grabación" (My First Record).
Armando Manzanero | Biography
Demo The first demo was recorded in Buenos Aires, in the “Abasto al pasto” studio, with Alejandro Varela producing (ex-member of "Don Cornelio", "La Zona" and "Los Visitantes") First single No Matarás are currently preparing their first single for release on vinyl, which will include "Inconsciente", one of the band's first songs. The launch is planned for early 2013.
Nomataras | Discography
They toured all Latin America and Europe and recorded in New York. In 1940 Guillermo Portabales performed with the trio. Matamoros expanded the trio into a conjunto (Conjunto Matamoros) for a trip to Mexico and hired the young Beny Moré as singer from 1945 to 1947. They recorded many 78 rpm records and LPs; some of their output is available on CDs. The group were renowned for the harmony of their voices, and the quality of the lyrics. The group is considered a "seminal group in the rise of 'son'." Throughout the nearly four decades that it was active, the group re-configured itself into many musical variations and acts as a quartet, septet, orchestra, etc.
Trio Matamoros | Introduction
Polydor released "Maka" the same year. During this period they did a major British tour supporting Sham 69.Three more albums followed: "Freedom Street", "Reggaebility" and "On The Rock Part 2". After the last of these, in 1983, they didn't surface again until 1995 when Lagoon Records released "People Say" and "Reggae Time", both compilations of earlier albums, followed by "The Best of The Cimarons", released in 1999 on Culture Press.
The Cimarons | History
In Person at El Matador is a 1965 live-album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '65. It was recorded at "El Matador" in San Francisco, California
In Person at El Matador | Introduction
The album was re-issued in CD format in 1990 by Musical Productions and re-titled as "Cierra Los Ojos Y Juntos Recordemos" with a different cover picture. Such 1990 re-issue and the 1975 original release are both available as a digital downloads at iTunes and Amazon, as well as several hits songs also appear in various compilations of the singer available on such media platforms.
Floreciendo! | Introduction
In January 2013, Matador Records announced that a special 20th anniversary 2 LP/CD re-issue of "11:11" would be released as in May 2013. The re-issue includes the original release, in addition to a live album consisting of the band's performance at the 1992 Vermonstress Festival. Announcing the news, Pitchfork described "11:11" as "one of the more elusive gems of Matador's back catalog." The vinyl LP version of the record was pressed by United Record Pressing in Nashville, TN.
11:11 (Come album) | Re-issue
Since the group began to use an electronic organ named Matador, they changed their name accordingly to promote it. The Matadors performed exclusively in East Germany until April 1966, their live repertoire consisted mostly of cover versions from popular beat groups like The Who, The Kinks or The Small Faces. The most successful Matadors line-up broke up in summer 1968. Radim Hladík then established Blue Effect (later also known as Modrý Efekt or M Efekt) with the original Matadors lead singer Vladimír Mišík. Jan Obermayer joined Petr Novák's George & Beatovens. Viktor Sodoma jr. pursued a solo career as a pop singer, backed by various groups and orchestras.
The Matadors (Czech band) | Introduction
That year they released "Es Mentira," their first album which would spawn five singles: "Bailarina," "Imán," "Tu Juego," "Agua" and "Romix."
Miranda! | History
Flores debuted with the song "Dos Horas de Balazos". To this song he added "La tertulia", both were recorded by RCA Victor in 1952. He acted in the tents and cabarets of the city, and gained fame in the rest of the country, in Latin America and in the United States. By 1976, he had already recorded seven full-length albums, and owned the label Ageleste.
Salvador Flores Rivera | First songs
"That was the staff that worked on all those records like "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" and sold a million copies each even though they weren’t pop albums. We thought, 'This could work. These people know what’s going on'." However, the staff they signed on to work with was fired once the label was sold. Fogarino said: "As soon as we started rolling tape, they all got fired. All the staff that signed us and had stuck with us through the Matador years, they all got fired and we had no more support." The label's staff also changed often, resulting in the group not knowing who was even in charge.
Our Love to Admire | Background
Live at El Matador is a live performance album by pianist Vince Guaraldi and guitarist Bola Sete, released in October 1966 by Fantasy Records. It is their third and final recorded collaboration as well as Guaraldi's last release for Fantasy. In 2000, it was issued on CD coupled with "Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends".
Live at El Matador | Introduction
The Allmusic review by Victor W. Valdivia awarded the album 4.5 stars out of 5, stating: "One of the new tracks, 'El Matador' became an instant smash hit on the newly launched MTV Latino, and deservedly so as the song comes on like a thundering locomotive. The other new track, 'V Centenario' is an assault on colonialism that's almost as forceful. Similarly, the re-recorded earlier hits, such as 'El Satanico Dr. Cadillac' and 'Gitana' are delivered with far more energy and muscle than the original versions. Clearly, by this time, the band had become a more confident and cohesive unit.
Vasos Vacíos | Reception
With the passage of time he began to create his own music, presenting concerts in small Irish pubs, years after participating in Barcelona nightlife. After years of alternative pop rock and singing-songwriting, he began recording. In 2009 published his first solo album, "Simple", under the label Daruma Records. The album was recorded in the studio with the help of the producer Marc Molas. And as the name suggests, is a simple disc: varied, intense, and elaborate, yet simple. The album was released on the market in November of the same year.
Halldor Mar | Biography
Originally, this work was issued as a self-titled album, but it was reduced to his artistic name Mijares. This was a big beginning for the singer, and it was under the production of Miguel Blasco, who already several hits with singers like Daniela Romo, Yuri, Pandora, among others. They hit the target with his first international triumph track "Bella" ("Beautiful woman"). He collaborated with songwriters like José Ramón Florez, Hernaldo Zúñiga, Gian Pietro Felisatti, and Marco Flores. In the LP album, it shows the track "Poco a poco" ("Little by little"), but it was excluded from the CD version for "Soñador", and the title of the album was changed to the name of that song.
Manuel Mijares/Soñador | History
The group was founded in early 1998 by Antonio López, Alejandro Méndez, Julián Méndez and Alfredo Núñez. After several Demos like, "Las cinco Ventanas" and "El Viaje de Estudios de mis Neuronas" they signed their first record deal with DJ Valdi and Houston Party Records in early 2004. In February of that same year they recorded their first work "Viaje de Estudios" in the ADJ Shelter with producer Mac McCaughan, singer Superchunk, going on sale in May 2004. This first album was very well received by media as Radio 3 and indie press making Ojo Critico a RNE program offer the Modern Music Prize the same year.
Lori Meyers | History
According to Timothy Prudhomme, the band were told by a Matador marketing director that they needed to change the name of the band. They refused to give in. After "Conduct", the band left Matador and drifted between labels. In 2001, they released two albums on two different labels: "Cupid's Cactus" was released on Steve Shelley's independent label, Smells Like Records, and "Gold Bricks" was released on Homesleep Records in 2001. "Those Are Not My Bongos" was released in 2003 on both Homesleep and Future Farmer Records; the latter rereleased "Gold Bricks" in the U.S. in 2004.
Fuck (band) | History
His first international success was titled "El jardinero", which was launched three months after having joined the Wilfrido Vargas's musical group. He stayed in that group from 1984 to 1990, when he was launched as a soloist under the label MP Records. Their second album was recorded a year later under the same label; it was titled "Mi more".
Eddy Herrera | History
Guaraldi departed Fantasy in 1966 after the release of "Live at El Matador" (a collaboration with guitarist Bola Sete).
Fantasy Records | Vince Guaraldi
In 2002, during a trip organised in Brussels, the group meets with the rapper and producer SMIMOOZ, with whom they record a year later the compilation "BXL-DAKAR des millions de mikes à parcourir" featuring rappers from Brussels like Pasco, Vagabond, Uman, Pitcho, Lady N & Catseyes as well as the group Pee Froiss from Dakar. In 2004, Wa BMG 44 pursues its impressive ascension and definitively imposed itself as one of the most respected figures of Hip Hop Galsen. After recording their classic hip-hop anthem "44" on African Underground Vol.1, they go back in studio in Belgium and work on their highly anticipated second full length release.
Matador (WA BMG 44) | Biography
His music was originally distributed in 78 rpm discs; nobody knows exactly how many songs he recorded but it is said to be more than 150 songs. His record producers were "Discos Fuentes", who have compiled most of his songs in LPs and CDs. Some of the main releases have been:
Guillermo Buitrago | Discography
He is then joined on stage by Simon, Fou Malade, Tigrim Bi, Wa Keur Gui, Syndikate 21, 5Kiem Underground, Sen Kumpe, Alien Zik, La Section B, One X and other artists of Hip Hop Galsen. After the devastating flooding which occurred in September 2009 in Dakar, Matador releases a new music video in support of the impacted Senegalese population. ‘Catastrophe’ is a song which was recorded over a beat by AfricanHipHop radio DJ Threesixty.
Matador (WA BMG 44) | Biography
Bull & the Matadors were an American funk group from East St Louis, Illinois. They had a hit single in 1968 with the tune "The Funky Judge", released on Toddlin' Town Records. The record peaked at #39 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #9 on the US "Billboard" R&B chart. They released two further singles, "Move With the Groove" and "You Decide/Love Come Down", but neither cracked the charts, and the group was not heard from again.
Bull &amp; the Matadors | Introduction
"Matador" (Spanish for "Killer", it means "bullfighter" in Spain) is a song written by Flavio Cianciarulo, bass player of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, a rock band from Argentina. It was first released in their 1993 album "Vasos Vacíos" and it is considered their signature song since the song topped the charts all across Hispanic America. Alongside "Mal Bicho", "Manuel Santillan, El León" and "Desapariciones" (a cover of Rubén Blades' song), El Matador is one of the Cadillacs song about the oppression and forced disappearances during the years of military dictatorship across the Southern Cone, particularly National Reorganization Process in Argentina. The song narrates the story of a revolutionary ("El Matador") hunted down by law enforcement from the revolutionary's POV.
Matador (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs song) | Introduction
Credits adapted from rear cover of original 1966 vinyl release.
Live at El Matador | Personnel
For direct recording of thought on a tour called Bloody Christmas, something that did not work, who knows whether out of laziness or lack of infrastructure. At the end of the assembly hall of a school in Santurce is the chosen location. For the release of this disc decided to sell the rights to the highest bidder contract with "Discos Suicidas Records" and this album would definitely strengthen the seal on the other hand aims intídducirse "DRO Records" in the Basque rock and after some give and take strips, Servando Carvallo of "DRO Records" offers a juicy offer: "200,000 pesetas" to renounce the contract with "Discos Suicidas" and "100,000 pesetas" to the group by the master.
Eskorbuto | "Anti Todo" and breakthrough success (1986)
Before the release of their first production in 1998, the group then added to its name the number 44 in memory of the Senegalese Tirailleurs shot in Thiaroye, on December, 1st 1944, by the French colonial army after having demanded compensations for their active participation in the French army during the second world war. Nowadays, the name Wa BMG 44 is often interpreted as “Wa Bokk Menmen Guestu” which in wolof literally means "All together to think better". After their first release “Def Ci Yaw” which furiously spoke out against Senegalese government corruption and thievery, Wa BMG 44 tours throughout Europe slowly building a name for itself inside the wider underground hip hop community.
Matador (WA BMG 44) | Biography
"The Matador" is a song written by Don Pfrimmer and Bob Morris, and recorded by American country music artist Sylvia. It was released in April 1981 as the fourth single from the album "Drifter". The song reached #7 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
The Matador (Sylvia song) | Introduction
His wife, Julia Sabat, became the vice-president, and millionaire Enrique Gorrín became its treasurer. The company's headquarters and recording studios were at San Miguel 410, between Campanario and Lealtad, in Havana, while the pressing plant was located outside of the city. The first record released by Panart (cat. no. 1001) was a 10" single by Cascarita with the Julio Cueva Orchestra ("Ampárame" / "En el ñongo"). Eight more singles were released in 1944 and 83 in 1945, starting with Orquesta Hermanos Castro "Cucha el eco del tambó" / "Toda una vida" (cat. no. 1010). Although Panart is frequently mentioned as the first independent record label in Cuba, a small label called Star was established a few years prior, recording four songs by the Septeto Nacional in 1940.
Panart | Origins and expansion
Critical reaction was extremely positive; Pitchfork awarded the album a 9.7 out of 10, and AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was "arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date." Kaplan recalled a turning point in the band's musical progression:
Yo La Tengo | Early Matador period, 1993–2000
Critics saw experiments with electrical effects as emblematic of a loss of originality, although the attempt was a temporary one. In 1981, La Sonora Matancera recorded an album for Bárbaro Records, a subsidiary of the Fania Records empire co-founded by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci. The artists on this recording, for the most part, had been specially invited for the recording date. The tres made its return on one number played by Mario Hernández, the much-admired Puerto Rican tresero. "Elpidio Vázquez, Jr." also performed on this date as the substitute bass player on one song. He represented the third consecutive generation of his family to be a member of Sonora Matancera.
Sonora Matancera | The 1980s
Although no single individual can be credited with creating the modern salegy genre, Jaojoby ranks among the earliest originators of the nascent musical style. A desire for greater freedom to write songs and further develop the syncretic modern salegy style led Jaojoby to leave Los Matadores in 1975 for The Players, another regional band that was less well-established but more willing to take risks. The band was managed by a Chinese shopkeeper who provided them with a sound system and generator. The band toured northwestern Madagascar for the next four years with increasing success, recording two 45rpm singles and performing in Mahajanga, Diego-Suarez, and other towns and villages throughout the region before disbanding in 1979.
Eusèbe Jaojoby | Early years
The company founded its own R&D center in 1987 (now "Vipo") and provided technical assistance for the construction of rubber works in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Burma, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Yugoslavia. In 1991 it was turned into a joint-stock company and privatization took place 1992-1994. The trademark of the products of the company was changed to Matador and the firm's name was changed to Gumárne Barum in 1991 and to Matador in 1993.
Matador (company) | History
"The Matador" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. It was released in September 1963. The single peaked at number two on the country charts. "The Matador" also crossed over to the Hot 100, peaking at number 44. The song was written by Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash. It was later included on the album "Old Golden Throat"; along with the b-side "Still in Town".
The Matador (Johnny Cash song) | Introduction
In 1997, Rojas created and began developing his own record label, Flamingo Digital Records. With his own extended play and singles, he became the first artist produced under this new record company. The first single from Flamingo Digital was Rojas's own "Melody In The Key of Love", which was promoted on an infomercial on Spanish television networks. Currently, the label is at work on new projects for 2015 and 2016, though none have been announced yet.
Fernando Rojas | Flamingo Digital Records
By the end of 2003, after a hiatus, Abel Pintos returned to the studio to record his own songs and exhibit his development as an artist in his own right. From April 2005, pianist Alfredo "Fredy" Hernández joined his touring and recording band line-up. 2004 saw Pintos release "Sentidos" (Meanings), something of a new start for Pintos, given that it was the first album he had recorded in three years. After a dip in record sales, "Sentidos" was the first album to be released with a major record label, Sony BMG. In February 2004 he performed in the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, competing in the Festival's folk section with the song "Bailando con tu sombra (Alelí)" (Dancing With Your Shadow), written by Víctor Heredia.
Abel Pintos | "Sentidos" and "Sueño Dorado" (2003–2013)
This is a list of artists that are currently, or once were, signed to Polydor Records.
List of Polydor Records artists | Introduction
"Rolling Stone" would later describe it as her 'breakthrough' record. In 1999 where Marshall performed in a series of shows where she provided musical accompaniment to the silent movie "The Passion of Joan of Arc". The shows combined original material and covers, some of which would be released on Marshall's fifth album, "The Covers Record" in 2000. The songs were recorded during two sessions in the summer of 1998 and fall of 1999. Additionally, she performed eleven covers during a Peel session broadcast on June 18, 2000 that included own interpretations of Bob Dylan's "Hard Times in New York Town" and Oasis's "Wonderwall".
Cat Power | 1996–2003: Early Matador releases
"Popular Songs" was leaked onto the Internet on July 26. In response, Matador began streaming the album to Buy Early Get Now customers on July 28, more than a week before the stream was originally advertised to begin. "Popular Songs" was released on September 8, 2009, by Matador. It was the band's eighth album to be given Matador's Buy Early Get Now treatment, in which it was sold with a vinyl LP with Yo La Tengo's original score from the film "Adventureland", as well as three bonus tracks as download in MP3 and FLAC. The first two of these downloads were demo versions of two album tracks and became available shortly before the release of the CD.
Popular Songs (Yo La Tengo album) | Release
Between 1986 and 1994, Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel refused to record any material because of a dispute with BMG over copyrights to his songs. He continued his career in live stage performances, setting attendance records throughout Latin America. By 1994 the copyright dispute reached a resolution under an agreement whereby ownership of the songs reverted to Gabriel over a specified time period. The record label selected eleven previously released tracks from Gabriel's catalog to release "Debo Hacerlo", the last new song recorded by the artist. This compilation album became a success, selling six million copies in Latin America and receiving a platinum certification in United States for shipments of 200,000 units.
Debo Hacerlo | Album history
In 1980 the band recorded their first single "Maria Guayando" which quickly caught the attention of the public. So they decided to move to the capital city Santo Domingo and released their first album thus resulting in great success. This first album contained these hit songs: "Las Locas", "Vengo Acabando", "Bonifacio" y "El Lápiz".
Los Hermanos Rosario | History
Matanza was formed in 1996 by Jimmy London and Donida, with the idea of exploring the simple and straightforward melodies of the early career of the American singer Johnny Cash, adapted to the drum tempo of Scottish punk band The Exploited. With drummer Nervoso and bassist Diba, they recorded a demo in 1998 called "Terror em Dashville". In 1999, a new recording would attract the attention of producer Rafael Ramos of Deckdisc, and lead Matanza to sign with the now-defunct Abril Music for the release of their first CD. With China on bass guitar, "Santa Madre Cassino" was recorded in December 2000, and released in March the following year, shortly before the band was dropped by their record label for the lack of a radio hit.
Matanza (band) | Biography
In April 2009, Mexican Summer released "God Is Saying This to You..."; a collection of Vile's home recordings dating back to 2003 on vinyl only. Upon its release, Vile had already recorded a studio album, "Childish Prodigy", which Vile described as "definitely not as lo-fi" as his previous releases. After shipping the record to various labels, Vile signed with Matador Records in May 2009. Vile noted, "It's a perfect fit. They were my number one choice. I don't really consider my music indie rock or think that Matador cater only to indie rock, but I still feel I can relate most to Matador, more than any other label.
Kurt Vile | "God Is Saying This to You..." and "Childish Prodigy" (2009–2010)
Predikador (born Víctor Delgado) is a reggaeton producer from Arraiján, Panama. He is signed to Mas Flow Inc.
Predikador | Introduction
Discos Musart is a Mexican record label founded in 1948. It is headquartered in Mexico City and remains one of the country's biggest labels, focusing on Mexican music, as well as international releases licensed from various labels around the world. Over the years it has had several imprints such as Trebol, Oasis and Balboa Records. During the 1950s, Musart distributed albums by Cuban label Panart in Mexico. Until Capitol Records opened in Mexico in 1965, recordings by The Beatles were released by Musart Records in Mexico. Capitol re-releases now sometimes use completely different covers so detecting whether a Capitol version is actually an original Musart album or not can be difficult.
Musart Records | Introduction
In July 1999, with over six million records already sold across Europe, Polydor rereleased Fabian's self-titled debut album.
Lara Fabian | 1997–1999: Mainstream international success: "Pure" and "Live"
"Historic Recordings / Grabaciones históricas 1909-1931", Empresa Pública de Gestión, 1997 (Complete recordings)
Manuel Torre | Discography
The original line-up (Alvarez, De Jesús and Maduro) only got to record 78 RPM records. The following discography only covers the records in LP format with the Marvela label which started once the fourth member, Jorge Hernandez, joined in 1952.
Trio Vegabajeño | Discography
In fact, he founded a record label at the time, named "Artomax", which was financed by local singer Chucho Avellanet and local producer Tomás Figueroa.
Tony Croatto | The Haciendo Punto years
In fact, Henry Osborne Havemeyer became obsessed with large format works and also bought "Young Man Dressed as a Majo", another work from the artist's Spanish period. The two works were left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1929. "Miss V Dressed as a Bullfighter" is also there.
The Matador Saluting | Introduction
After Interpol's contract with Matador expired in 2006, the band signed on with Capitol Records. According to drummer Sam Fogarino, the group chose to go with a major label because they liked the staff at Capitol and hoped to get more exposure. The band was happy with the decision at first, but the label was sold shortly after they began recording their new album and the staff that they were working with was fired. This, coupled with the confusion of ever-changing staff and the exhaustive months that were spent meticulously recording the album, the group decided to amicably terminate their two-album deal and return to Matador after one record.
Interpol (album) | Background
In 1928, they travelled to New York with a recording contract by RCA Victor, and their first album caused such a great impact in the public that they soon became very famous at a national as well as an international level. The Trío Matamoros maintained great prominence until their official retirement in 1960.
Son cubano | Trío Matamoros
"Matador" has received critical acclaim from music critics. musicOMH's Ben Hogwood called the music and the songs "a step forward" and said the album reveals Coombes' "darker, more experimental side". "Mojo"'s Pat Gilbert called its atmosphere "dreamy, hypnagogic" and gave the album a full 5 star rating. Pitchfork's review praised some of the songs but was more critical, stating that in this album Coombes "plays it safe" and that he "comes at these songs with a less-is-more attitude, but even the simplest fare fails to connect".
Matador (Gaz Coombes album) | Critical reception
In 1944, he opened the first record factory in Cuba, called Panart, and released its first recording, "Dry Leaf" by Carlos Alas del Casino. Panart had a tough time getting started due to RCA Victor’s dominant position in the record market and the relatively new character of the record technology at the time. Sabat’s business abilities and musical vision developed Panart as a successful label. By 1957, Ramón had been able to expand his label and had sold around a million records worldwide. Panart helped spread Cuban music throughout the world. As the Cuban Revolution began, Ramon's wife Julia Sabat sent copies of master tapes to New York City.
Ramón S. Sabat | Biography
Singer Marilia Mendonça was the first artist to reach the top of the list, this happened with the song "Todo Mundo Vai Sofrer". The table was compiled in partnership with Controle Musical.
BreakTudo (website) | Introduction
All songs written and arranged by Brujeria. (1993 Roadblock Music ASCAP/Machetazos Music ASCAP)
Matando Güeros | Track listing
After the incidents at the Estadio Obras, the band played two gigs in 1992, the first was in Lanús in May, the second at the Teatro San Martín of Mar del Plata in August, the group started to record their next album in early 1993, with Hernán Aramberri as collaborator. The mixing was made in Miami and was completed in Los Ángeles, United States. The official presentation of the two albums was at the Estadio Huracán in 1994 on two dates, in front of 80,000 fans.
Cordero Atado | Background
After the Los Laxantes disbanding, Horacio "Gamexane" and Felix Gutiérrez started playing around 1985 as Todos Tus Muertos, with Fidel Nadal on vocals. In 1986, the new line-up recorded their first demo called "Noches Agitadas en el Cementerio" at Parakultural club, with eight tracks produced by Daniel Melero. In 1988, the band signed a deal with RCA label released their eponymous debut studio album, produced by Carlos "Mundy" Epifanio, the group's manager. The only promotional single was "Gente Que No", which received a very positive reception from the FM radio stations, but then RCA expired the contractual obligations with them due to album low-success.
Todos Tus Muertos | 1985–1992: The beginning and first albums
As of September 2006, he was no longer signed to Matador Records.
Cornelius (musician) | Career
Matamp founder, Mat Mathias, started the company RadioCraft by 1946. What started as an interest ultimately developed into a fully-fledged business building amplifiers for the burgeoning music scene in the early sixties. Behind his wife’s retail shop, selling accessories to young musicians, Mathias’s workshop/manufacturing facility also extended into a fully fledged recording studio complete with disc cutters for young bands to record and cut their own demos. This resulted in the formation of MAT Records. His customers would come and see him, tell him what they wanted, and he would build it and/or record it. Patterns would emerge, and trends soon changed into product lines.
Matamp | History
He argued that the band "definitely wanted to make songs as opposed to doing an avant-garde opus". On the choice of Matador, he explained that "we decided that they're a really strong song-supportive label". Ranaldo noted how they found inspiration in their earlier recordings on "Daydream Nation", which "had an energy that we'd kind of forgotten about, and some of that energy and the experience of doing those songs impacted on the new record."
The Eternal (album) | Recording
Eventually, a Girly-Sound tape had made it to the head of Matador Records. Despite the outcome of the recording sessions, Henderson tipped off Brad Wood that Matador was interested in Phair. When Matador was contacted by Phair in 1992, they signed her. Gerard Cosloy, co-president of Matador, stated that "We usually don't sign people we haven't met, or heard other records by, or seen as performers. But I had a hunch, and I called her back and said okay."
Exile in Guyville | Background
The company was founded by one of his descendants, Don Julio Arango y Parra, in 1913.
Dictador | History
In 1995, the group Zurdok Movimiento won the Battle of the Bands at the Rockotitlan music festival, becoming the first band not from Mexico City to win it, thus creating such expectations towards the city that the record labels began to move there to search for groups. La Ultima de Lucas, made up of young people all under twenty years old, but which had talented musicians in its lineup, was the first band from Monterrey to sign a record contract. The Latin American phenomenon of Control Machete was followed by, by way of a domino effect, more bands. Zurdok Movimiento (who started it all) were finally signed by Discos Manicomio, an imprint of PolyGram, as well as the rapcore group called La Flor de Lingo.
Avanzada Regia | Origins
Midway through the tour for "Palo Santo", the band was notified by Misra Records that they would be unable to continue to distribute Shearwater's music. Meiburg personally emailed the owner of Matador Records, Gerard Cosloy, who subsequently signed Shearwater to a multi-album deal. On April 10, 2007, Shearwater released a two-disc edition of "Palo Santo" which featured five re-recorded tracks, remastered versions of the other six tracks, as well as a bonus disc of outtakes from the original sessions. Meiburg had felt that the original Palo Santo suffered from "murkiness", and could be improved upon in the studio. Matador Records released the album "Rook" on June 3, 2008.
Shearwater (band) | Matador records
On March 6, 2009, the band announced on its website that it was working on songs for a fourth album. The album was recorded in Electric Lady Studios during spring 2009. In an interview, Fogarino referred to the album as having gone back to the original sound of "Turn On the Bright Lights". It was later claimed by Banks that it would not sound anything like their debut album and that there is some very "classical stuff going on" with it. No news about the album surfaced until late April when the band sent an email directing users to a free download of "Lights", the first officially released song.
Interpol (band) | 2009–2011: Return to Matador, "Interpol" and departure of Carlos Dengler
Nacional Records was founded by Tomas Cookman in 2005. Cookman is the president and owner of Cookman International, a multi-faceted company that specializes in artist management, publishing, marketing, special events such as the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) and Supersonico, original content (La Hora Nacional TV show on MTV Tr3s and weekly radio show, LAMC Mixtape on SiriusXM) and the Latino Loop (a weekly industry newsletter emailed to over 100,000 tastemakers) among other endeavors. The label's first album release was Aterciopelados lead singer Andrea Echeverri's self-titled solo album on March 8, 2005. It went on to be nominated for both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy.
Nacional Records | History
The band has their roots in the Austin, Texas noise rock scene, and features Butthole Surfers drummer, King Coffey, lead singer of Drain, Craig Clouse, and Nate Cross of Marriage on bass. On May 26, 2017, USA/Mexico released their debut album, "Laredo". Their second album, "Matamoros" came out on March 23, 2019.
USA/Mexico | History
They started their own music label and publishing company, Productions Clandestines.
Lara Fabian | 1986–1993: Early music career
Zarape Records or El Zarape Records was a record label from Dallas, Texas. It was founded in 1963. In 1964 and 1965 it released albums ("Por un amor", "Amor bonito" respectively) by Little Joe and the Latinaires which was the beginning of that artist's success. Johnny Gonzales was an executive at the label. Zarape was also the label responsible for "El barco chiquito", which is Agustín Ramírez's most popular album. Zarape was the first label to market Tex-Mex music on a truly national level. In the mid 1970s Zarape became the first label for "El Si Senor" Ruben Naranjo y Los Gamblers.
Zarape Records | Introduction
Most of the group's RCA Victor singles (1940–1951) have never been released on LP or CD.
Arcaño y sus Maravillas | Discography
In 1997 Pérez and the writer Carmen Martín Gaite launched the record company "Avizor Records", with a view to giving publicity to new poets and musicians. The project was solely funded with earnings made from their own recitals and it lasted until Carmen's death in 2000.
Alberto Pérez (musician) | 1997–2000 "Avizor Records" and Carmen Martín Gaite