The label's first release was ( Super Numeri member ) Pop Levi's single " Blue Honey " in September 2006, and was followed by Pop Levi's debut album The Return To Form Black Magick Party in February 2007.

" KRS-101 ( the label's first release ) was in fact a split 7 " spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon ; other " Wordcore " releases followed.

The label's first releases were traditional " hot " jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of " Summertime " by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies.

" Organist Jimmy Smith was signed in 1956, and performed on the label's first 12 " LP album of new recordings.

In 1982 Minneapolis hardcore group Hüsker Dü became the label's first non-West Coast signing.

A lavish media party was also held at Chislehurst Caves in Kent, England on 31 October 1974, to celebrate the label's first UK release by the Pretty Things, Silk Torpedo ( the first US release for Swan Song was the self-titled debut album from Bad Company in June 1974 ).

The label's first release was a various artists compilation entitled The Everlastin ' Living Jesus Music Concert, in 1971.

Its first release for the label was Bad Religion's 1981 self-titled EP, followed by their debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse ?, which was also the label's first full-length release.

The label's first LP was Throbbing Gristle's debut LP The Second Annual Report which was limited to 786 copies.

Alexakis produced the label's first release, the 2002 album Volume by Flipp.

* Revella Hughes, soprano featured on one of the label's first releases

She had the label's first commercially successful records, and remained their best seller.

Monument Records ' first release in October 1958, was also the label's first hit.

Piccadilly's release of Brown's " Crazy Mixed Up Kid " in April 1961 was the label's first single.

In August 2005, Roadrunner Records reissued their self-titled first album as part of the label's 25th anniversary celebration.

The first version featured an orange golf shirt on the cover and was produced by My Records ( owned by Joey Cape from Lagwagon ) as the label's debut album.

The label's first full-length release was Negative FX's self-titled album, which was recorded in 1982.

The first bands performing the Founded in the 1960s, Love Records was one of the first domestic record labels dedicated to Finnish rock music, even though the label's roster also included jazz and political songs.

Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and his partner Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP Rocking the Forest, licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK.

The label's first release was a 7-inch extended play ( EP ) by Dilloway's band Galen, in 1994.

However, unlike the Food Christmas EP that featured the label's acts covering each other's songs, Heavenly's EP featured Heavenly acts covering Right Said Fred songs for the charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.

The label's first release arrived in 1991 ; the Psychotronic EP by Earth Leakage Trip.

That was the label's second release ( out October 1990 ), the first being a 10 " EP called Pleasure ( cow01 ) by the Craven Fops in March 1990.

Warner Bros. signed Cibo Matto after their self-titled EP caught the label's attention.

The label's first release was Stereolab's debut EP Super 45, a 10 " vinyl record, limited to 880 copies.

Although it debuted at No. 4, and in spite of a live performance at the American Music Awards, the album was a commercial failure, due in part to the band's label's lack of support.

A book entitled Ninja Tune: 20 Years of Beats and Pieces was released on 12 August 2010, and an exhibition was held at Black Dog Publishing's Black Dog Space in London showcasing artwork, design and photography from the label's 20 year history.

( This was in fact the label's standard practice until the mid-1980s.

Though the group itself was never signed to the label, they were managed by Russell Simmons, produced by Rick Rubin ( who was co-founder of Def Jam, along with Simmons ), and often shared concert tour spotlight with acts on the label's roster.

After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians.

" It was time for a major label to take over ", according to the label's co-owner Stark.

The event caused some controversy, as the record label's embargo date was broken, although Williams himself later backed the presenter for doing so.

Parry was concerned at the state of his label's top band, and became convinced that the solution was for The Cure to reinvent its musical style.

" The New York based Even Dozen Jug Band was the Elektra label's answer to the Kweskin band and featured ( among others ) Maria D ' Amato, Joshua Rifkin, David Grisman, Stefan Grossman, John Sebastian, and Steve Katz.

While officially the band still exists, and its well-known name was used in 2001 to promote a ' duel ' album pitting the two label's artists against each other, Kool Shen was quoted in 2004 saying " on a fini avec NTM en 98 " (" We were done with NTM in 1998 ").

The club made Sub Pop a powerful force in the Seattle scene, and effectively made the label's name synonymous with the music of the Seattle area — much in the same way Motown Records was to Detroit — and helped to secure the label's cash flow.

Having released a cover of Them's " I Can Only Give You Everything " backed with original composition " One of the Guys " on the tiny AMG label over a year earlier, in early 1968 their second single was released by Trans-Love Energies on A-Square records ( though without the knowledge of that label's owner Jeep Holland ).

Guitarist Thurston Moore said, " SST's accounting was a bit suspect to us ", and the group's other guitarist Lee Ranaldo criticized the label's " stoner administrative quality ".

Gaye was one of many who shaped the sound and success of Motown Records in the 1960s, becoming that label's top-selling solo artist of that decade with a string of hits including " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

It underwent four distribution stages: by Atlantic Records from March 1973 to December 1975, by Polydor Records from January 1976 to December 1977, as an independent label from January 1978 to around October 1981, and finally by Polygram Records from around November 1981 until the label's end in 1983.

In 1977 their now-legendary Rumours took both group and label to even greater heights — it generated a string of international hit singles and became the most successful album in the label's history ; it is currently ranked the 11th biggest selling album of all time and as of 2009 was estimated to have sold than 40 million copies.

Jazz session drummer Norman Connors became Buddah's musical director in 1976 and helped to foster the label's move toward R & B and disco ( e. g., the Andrea True Connection's " More, More, More " ( 1976 ) and Chic's " Dance, Dance, Dance ( Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah )" ( 1977 ), the latter hit the charts on its subsequent re-issue by Atlantic Records ).

Koenig died in 1977, and the label's material was then sold to Fantasy Records, who has anthologized some of it.