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.
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Matador Records
Matador Records | History
1989. 1989 1989 1989
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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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
The company was founded by one of his descendants, Don Julio Arango y Parra, in 1913.
Dictador | History
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The band was then signed by well-known independent label Matador Records which released their second and third albums.
Sportsguitar | Introduction
"Recorded on May 20 (tracks 1-4) & June 12 (track 5), 1964."
Matador (Grant Green album) | Track listing
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
American Matador is the second studio album by guitarist Marc Bonilla, released in 1993 through Reprise Records.
American Matador | Introduction
The soundtrack was released in 2006 on Superb Records.
The Matador | Soundtrack
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
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
The book was published by St. Martin’s Press and carried by Urban Outfitters and Barnes & Noble.
Matador Network | History
Credits adapted from rear cover of original 1966 vinyl release.
Live at El Matador | Personnel
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
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
The company was established in 1986.
Helados La Fresita | Introduction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Amory together with Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi at Matador Records are credited with pursuing the preservation of artistic freedom while preserving a viable business model through "realistic success". Amory has lived and worked in New York since 1994.
Patrick Amory | Music industry
With this new dynamic in place, and with the difficulty they faced recording an album, they decided to sell vouchers to their acquaintances (at a thousand pesetas each) that would entitle each of them to a copy of the demo tape after it had been produced. They sold 250 of these "coupons" (whose buyers are credited in the finished production). After this, they produced 1000 copies of this first "demo" which already contained some of the quintessential anthems of the group, such as "Extremaydura" or "Jesucristo Garcia"; the collection is "Rock transgresivo". The distribution of this transgressive musical offering of rock began to attract attention inside and outside their home region of Plasencia; it was so well received that the Catalan television program Plastic invited them for a live performance.
Extremoduro | The beginnings (1987 to 1991)
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
When he was in his early 20s, Radhames Aracena was already making a name for himself as a popular radio personality. By 1955, while still working as a radio host, Radhames opened a record store called Discos La Guarachita (diminutive of guaracha, a popular type of Cuban music) near one of the most popular streets of Santo Domingo. He had been able to get local distribution rights for Pedro Infante’s Mexican record company, Peerless, as well as some other Latin American record labels such as Panamerica de Discos, which controlled the catalog of the famous bolero singer Lucho Gatica. A few years later, he got distribution rights for RCA and CBS.
Radhames Aracena | Beginnings
In the mid-late 80s Amory ran the small independent record label Amory Arms which released a handful of records only including the first Lemonheads 7" 'Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners' in 1989 and Deathwish 'Tailgate' 7" in 1989 (recorded in 1983) which is now a now highly collectable Boston Hardcore record. Amory had been active in independent rock since the 1980s, including stints as Rock Director and Program Director at WHRB-FM (Harvard's radio station). In 1994 he left academia to work as general manager of Matador Records, one of the premier independent rock record labels of the 1990s.
Patrick Amory | Music industry
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
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
In the 1940s, with the emergence of Panart, the Cuban music industry began a shift that peaked in the late 1950s with the appearance of numerous independent record labels such as Puchito, Kubaney and Maype. Facing such competition, RCA Victor decided to create a new label to consolidate its Cuban operations. Thus Discuba was created, under the direction of Jesús Humara, and with Eliseo Valdés serving as A&R manager; both had been involved with Victor for many years. The establishment of Discuba was part of larger strategy to strengthen RCA Victor's position in the Latin American market, which included multiple manufacturing deals in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Trinidad.
Discuba | History
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
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
Rojas also is Vice-President of Flamingo Digital Records, a record company which he founded in 1997.
Fernando Rojas | Introduction
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
A post on the Matador Records blog by founding partner Gerard Cosloy on November 4, 2009, stated, "After months of speculation (much of it in our own corridors), we can happily announce that Matador Records has purchased the True Panther Sounds label." This news ended rumors that Matador owned all or a percentage of True Panther. Cosloy went on to confirm that True Panther's future releases will be worked through the Matador marketing and promotion team.
True Panther Sounds | About
The club was founded on August 15, 1913 by Francesc Xavier Ballestero Pérez.
CD Banyoles | History
Polydor Records was founded on 2 April 1913 by German Polyphon-Musikwerke AG in Leipzig and registered on 25 July 1914 (Nr. 316613). The label was founded as Firma Brachhausen & Riesener in 1887 by Gustav Adolf Brachhausen and Ernst Paul Riessner, for manufacturing their new mechanical disc-playing music box Polyphon, invented in 1870. During World War I on 24 April 1917, Polyphon-Musikwerke AG acquired the German Deutsche Grammophon-Aktiengesellschaft record plant and company from the German government. The German state had taken over British-held Grammophon as enemy property during World War I. Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Polyphon-Grammophon-Konzern group.
Polydor Records | Beginnings
Start Packing is the debut album of Run On, released on March 12, 1996 through Matador Records.
Start Packing | Introduction
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
Talitres was founded in 2000 by Sean Bouchard and his friend Xavier Simon (who left shortly after to start his own record label Drunk Dog). Inspired by the likes of Matador Records, Secretly Canadian or Bella Union, Bouchard, a former agronomist, wanted to start a label that championed indie albums and artists that were virtually unknown to the general public in France and Europe and that were not released in these territories. The label's first release was Elk City album Status, licensed from Parasol Records for release in Europe. It was a reasonable success, gathering praise by specialist press and generalist media alike.
Talitres | History
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
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
After studying music, joining the army and obtaining a degree in engineering, Ramón Sabat began working in several music labels in New York City. In 1943, the label he was working in, Musicraft, folded, and he decided to bring the necessary assets to Cuba to fulfill his desire of establishing his own Cuban-based record company. Thus in 1944 Sabat became the founder and president of the Cuban Plastics & Record Corporation. According to Irais Huerta Rubio, the majority stockholder of the company was a Cuban electric company controlled by an American holding company. In 1945, the company sold the whole of its shares to Sabat, becoming the sole owner of the company and launching it under the name Panart (sometimes stylized Pan-Art, short for Panamerican Art).
Panart | Origins and expansion
Matarazzo began his career as an audio editing software representative for CBS Discos International. In the 1980s, he was the president and sales manager of Intercon Music Co., an independent distributor that worked with smaller classical music labels as well as CBS Special Products, Denon Records, RCA and Rhino Records. In 1987, Matarazzo was made chairman CEO of Jem Records. In 1990, Matarazzo received rights to all Celluloid Records master recordings. In 1991 he was indicted by a New Jersey grand jury on various counts including conspiracy and misconduct involving Celluloid, but was never convicted. Matarazzo then co-founded independent record label Subharmonic with Bill Laswell and Robert Soares in 1993.
John Matarazzo | Career
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
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
"Estudios San Miguel" was founded and owned by Miguel Machinandiarena (1899–1975). Machinandiarena was a Basque from Navarre who had emigrated to Argentina in 1915. His family was very wealthy, had large real estate investments and controlled the "Casino de Mar del Plata". Miguel Machinandiarena founded the company in 1937 with his brothers Narciso and Silvestre and began to build the studios and laboratories in the town of Bella Vista. The studio absorbed SIDE ("Sociedad Impresora de Discos Electrofónicos"), which had pioneered the tango format with a trilogy of films, but failed to establish a solid business model. In 1940 "Estudios San Miguel" launched its first production, "Petróleo", directed by Arturo S.
Estudios San Miguel | History
The CD version (released by Coyote/Twin Tone Records) included the band's previous album "New Wave Hot Dogs" and the A-side of the 1987 single "The Asparagus Song". It was re-released by Matador Records, in 1996.
President Yo La Tengo | Release
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
Predikador (born Víctor Delgado) is a reggaeton producer from Arraiján, Panama. He is signed to Mas Flow Inc.
Predikador | 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
"Tu Tienda RCTV" opened on December 15, 2006. This project was made possible due to the joint effort of Beatriz Perez Ayala, Vice-president of Strategic Communications for RCTV, Jose Celma, Brand Manager of RCTV, and Roberto Petrocelli, General Director of Recordland, with collaboration from Joaquin Moreno. RCTV and Recordland are owned by Empresas 1BC.
Tu Tienda RCTV | History
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
The founder, Jesús Gorís "(né" Jesús Ramon Francisco Gorís Ballas; 12 April 1921 Havana, Cuba – 16 Aug 2006 Miami, Florida) had been a representative of RCA Victor, selling records from a separate counter at his father's hardware store, La Estrella. Eventually, the store became known as Gorís Shop. In 1952, Gorís invested in a single, "Guantanamera", composed by Joseíto Fernández, which did well in jukeboxes. Gorís and two partners, Messrs. Alfredo Beltrán and Oliva, originally wanted to launch a series of children's records, so they chose the name Puchito, which, in this context, means "youngest child." In 1954, Gorís and his two partners produced an LP of Olga Guillot singing with The Castro Brothers Orchestra, one of Cuba's first jazz bands (no relation to Fidel Castro).
Puchito Records | Early career of Puchito's founder
Rolando Valdés, founder of Orquesta Sensación, selected the songs for the session, both from Barroso's radio hits of the 1930s. The release became one of the greatest double-sided hits in the history of popular music. It became a Gold Record in 1956.
Puchito Records | Early career of Puchito's founder
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
José Armada Sr. and Vicente Rodríguez, who had been in the record business together in Cuba, remain together when they arrived in New York in 1964. They recorded and distributed Puchito Records and set up racks in New York and New Jersey. Fellow Cubans brought them to Miami in 1968, where they purchased the bankrupt Puchito label at an auction, picked up some other labels, and started a distributing business. In 1972 they opened a manufacturing plant —Armada and Rodriguez of Florida, Inc.— where they pressed LP's and 45's for their own labels: Gema Records, Velvet Records Inc., Continental Records, Aro Records, Funny Records, Regio Records, and Suave Records, and a number of custom labels.
Puchito Records | Armada and Rodriguez of Miami, Inc
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
Launched mid 2001.
Univision Music Group | Univision Records (2001-2008)
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 production folded after three months. The London production starred John Barrowman as Domingo Hernandez and Stefanie Powers as American actress Laura Jane Wilding, a character based on actress Ava Gardner. Nicky Henson and Caroline O'Connor costarred.
Matador (English musical) | Introduction
President Records Inc, with which song publisher Edward Kassner became involved through one of his publishing contacts, was a record label founded on 6 June 1955 in the midst of the burgeoning independent music scene in New York. A corresponding British company was established by Kassner in May 1957, when he acquired the full company, initially to license some of the productions made in the name of the US company to major UK record labels such as Decca. Kassner launched his own Seville Records label in the US with the idea of publishing a song and recording it, thus keeping control of the record's destiny by releasing on an owned label.
President Records | Beginnings
Panart was one of the first and most successful independent record labels in Cuba, founded in 1944 by engineer Ramón Sabat. In 1961, its studios were seized by Fidel Castro's communist regime and the label was nationalized, becoming "Panart Nacionalizada", which shortly after was absorbed by EGREM. Together with RCA Victor's, Panart studios were the main recording studios in Cuba during the 1950s. Since the 1960s, they are known as the Areito studios, owned by EGREM. In addition, Panart acted as a distributor for Odeon, Musart, Sonora and Capitol Records. Its only sublabel, Sonoro, was established in 1949 and signed several trova acts such as Los Compadres.
Panart | Introduction
It enjoyed early success in TV with "The Mickey Mouse Club", a joint venture with the Disney corporation. To market music from the successful TV show, ABC-Paramount established the Am-Par Record Corporation and the ABC-Paramount label in early 1955, appointing Sam Clark, a Boston record distributor, as president, with Larry Newton as sales manager and Harry Levine the A&R director. The new recording company enjoyed Goldenson's full support. Sid Feller, a producer and arranger, was the first salaried employee on July 15, 1955. The label achieved early success in pop music with Paul Anka.
Impulse! Records | 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
He set up a recording studio in McAllen, Texas, which was just a few miles from the Mexican border. Early recordings were often interrupted by traffic noise. Ramirez found this necessary as major labels such as RCA Victor, who had previously released numerous recording catering to the Chicano audience, left the genre as a result of World War II shellac rationing and did not resume recording regional music, concentrating instead on larger Hispanic markets in major metropolitan areas such as Mexico City. Ramirez's first record label was Mira, started in 1947 which specialized in Afro-Cuban music. The label started a "Mexican Series" featuring Pedro Ayala.
Falcon Records (Texas) | History
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
The Los Angeles-based company (with no ties or relations to a previous Priority Records label that was a subsidiary of what was then CBS Records) was formed in 1985 by three former K-tel executives: Bryan Turner, Mark Cerami and Steve Drath. Initial funding was provided by R-tek, a company headed by former K-tel board members: Ray and Harold Kives, and their company took an initial 50% ownership in Priority. Priority bought out the R-tek interest in 1987. Its first success came with novelty act the California Raisins. To support early operations, Priority Records licensed repertoire from others and released compilation albums using archive recordings while developing its own artist roster.
Priority Records | Beginnings (1985–1996)
In 1991 the Barcelonan label Welcome Records contacted them to record their first disc, Voy a acabar borracho in just one day at the Lin studios. The disc would not reach a high popularity, but nevertheless awarded them the attention from the multinational label DRO, with whom they produced Burrock'n'roll as their second album, in 1992.
Platero y Tú | History
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
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 1985 in Guadalajara, two tapatío youths, young men from Guadalajara, began to make energetic rock in Spanish. Arturo Ybarra, then guitar player of the groups Mask and TRAX and Agustín Villa (Cala), singer for the Los Clips project and Rock'n Pills, formed a group that would reflect their lives, their dreams, their loves, their heartbreaks and their disappointments as young men. This new project was named Montana, after a brand of cigars. The magic of Montana was expressed in its first disc, 1985's "Quiero más" on the WEA label, showing a fresh style, light and enveloping, a disc with releases like "Quiero más" and "Quisiera que estuvieras aquí".
Rostros Ocultos | Montana
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
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
Villar Records is a Filipino record label owned by Mareco, Inc. which also owns the Mabuhay Records label. It was launched in 1950 by the late Manuel P. Villar who was known as the "Father of Philippine Recording" for pioneering the recording of original Pilipino music or OPM. He was also the first president of the Record Industry Association of the Philippines (RIAP). Mareco, Inc. bought original compositions from various Filipino artists and commercially produced recordings of numerous folk songs, "Kundiman", "balitaw" and other traditional music from different regions of the Philippines, keeping indigenous music alive in the 1950s and 1960s in the face of American and British imports.
Villar Records | Introduction
The Matadors Meet the Bull is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1965 and released on the Roulette label. The album was Stitt's first for the label; he had recorded many albums for Roost which Roulette had taken over.
The Matadors Meet the Bull | Introduction
In spite of their Rolling Stones influence, Toncho Pilatos interpreted original instrumentation. Polydor issued their first album, with a double cover, within its 'Power Rock' series, something of a first for a Mexican band. The "Toncho Pilatos" album was so successful that it was even released in Germany. The tolerance and support supplied by Polydor was almost unique at that time, and both Bob Dylan and Beck commented on the influence of Toncho Pilatos' debut release. Critics were divided over the recorded work, but most agreed concert performances brought the best out of the Guadalajaran based band. Their national television debut took place on 3 May 1974, on the television program "Hour Zero", with production from Luis de Llano, through Channel 4 of the DF.
Toncho Pilatos | History
Roberto Iniesta (also known as "Robe") establishes the band in the summer of 1987 in Plasencia, the second most important city of Cáceres, a province of the west of Spain. Previously, in 1983, he had formed the band ‘Dosis Letal’ with Zósimo "Zosi" Pascual, with whom he composed the song "La Carrera", that would later come to be the penultimate track of Extremoduro's 1996 disc Agíla. Extremoduro were initially formed by Robe, as vocalist and guitarist, "Chico" on the bass and "Miguelin" on the drums. This initial set-up lasted just a few months, after which Robe decided to reconfigure the group and found Salo and Louis "von Fanta" to replace Kaito and William respectively.
Extremoduro | The beginnings (1987 to 1991)
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
Sometime around 1955, Puchito Records became a subsidiary of Montilla Records, which was owned by Fernando Montilla "(né" Fernando José Montilla Ambrosiani; 1915–2014) and, from 1955 to 1959, managed by Harry Sultan (1904–1971), who, from about 1931 to about 1967, was owner of Sultan's Record Shop at 26, then 38 East 23rd Street, in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York. In 1956, Montilla Records, set-up in a distributorship in his shop on 23rd Street to expand distribution of Puchito Records coast-to-coast. Armada & Rodriguez of Florida, Inc., Miami, Florida (founded July 22, 1968 — dissolved September 24, 1999) Personnel
Puchito Records | Subsidiaries, distributors, and successors
"The Matador Song", which dates from 1930, is the school song of the Texas Tech University Red Raiders.
The Matador Song | Introduction
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
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
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"
Maverick Records launched in April 1992 as a unit of the Maverick entertainment company. It was a joint venture between Madonna, Frederick DeMann, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev and Time Warner, and its name was combined from the names of three of the founders; Madonna, Veronica and Frederick. The company had divisions for recording, music publishing, television, film, merchandising and book publishing. The venture was part of a $60 million recording and business deal between Madonna and Time Warner . It gave her 20% royalties from the music proceedings, one of the highest rates in the industry, equalled at that time only by Michael Jackson's royalty rate established a year earlier with Sony.
Maverick (company) | History
"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
In 1978, the members of the band Indar Trabes elaborated an LP album due for release in the Durango Basque Book and Music Fair; it included songs composed largely by the frontman Juan Carlos Pérez. They decided to rebrand the group on the grounds that the previous name was associated to evening dancing performances. They chose Itoiz (not because of the famous valley of the same name in Navarre).
Itoiz | Establishment
In 1959, the Clif Label released the songs “Hot Tamales and Bar-B-Que” by Chico Chism and his Jetanairs.
Ram Records (US) | Clif Records
In the 1970s and 1980s Ramiro Cavazos had a record store on South 23rd Street in McAllen, Texas.
Los Donneños | Introduction
Mordam Records (the name a play on "More Damn Records") was established in 1983 in San Francisco, California, by Ruth Schwartz, an original co-editor of "Maximum RocknRoll" "(MRR)." The company's survival and growth was fueled by its exclusive distribution agreements with "MRR" and Alternative Tentacles, the record label owned by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. The label quickly gained a reputation with its associate labels for fair-dealing and timeliness, with Lee Joseph of Dionysus Records recalling that "checks arrived the same time every month with a statement" from the beginning of his association with Mordam in 1985 until its termination — a situation which Joseph categorized as "fabulous."
Mordam Records | Establishment
Ideal was founded by Paco Betancourt and Armando Marroquín in 1946, making it the first of southern Texas record labels owned by Mexican-Americans. Following the Second World War the major record labels such as RCA Victor ceased recording regional Chicano music, concentrating instead on larger "authentic" Hispanic markets in major metropolitan areas such as Mexico City. Marroquín owned a large number of jukeboxes in cantinas and other public places frequented by those of Hispanic culture. Thus, Marroquín became not only cognizant of the demand thus left un-met, but was personally suffering financially because he could not find records with the music expected by his customers.
Ideal Records | History
Tico Records was a New York City record label that was founded in 1948. It was originally owned by George Goldner and later acquired by Morris Levy and incorporated into Roulette Records. It specialized in Latin music and was significant for introducing artists such as Ray Barretto and Tito Puente. In 1974, it was sold to Fania Records and stopped issuing new releases in 1981; however, the label's extensive catalog continues to be reissued under the Tico Records name.
Tico Records | Introduction
In the United States, the manufacture and/or distribution of Discos Fuentes releases was eventually handled by Miami Records, a Miami, Florida-based label specializing in Latin American music. Formed in 1950 by Colombian immigrant, Carlos Diaz-Granados, Sr., Miami Records also managed the manufacture and/or distribution of Latin music for other South American labels as well as for such American labels as Columbia Records.
Discos Fuentes | US distribution