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Watts-Russell nearly passed on the band, finding them too normal, " too rock ' n ' roll ", but signed them at the persuasion of his girlfriend.
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Local promoter Ken Goes became the band's manager, and he passed the demo to Ivo Watts-Russell of the independent record label 4AD.
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The album was recorded by Steve Albini ( who was hired by Watts-Russell on the advice of a 4AD colleague ), completed in two weeks, and released in early 1988.
Despite 4AD label president Ivo Watts-Russell proclaiming that this LP was one of the best releases ever on his label, he released the Twins from their contract at the end of 1990, as his relationship with the band had soured.
The demos came to the attention of Ivo Watts-Russell, who signed them as the first U. S. band on the 4AD Records label and released their self-titled debut album in 1986.
Earlier that same year, Watts-Russell approached all of 4AD's artists with the idea that each act would find another artist or band to collaborate with on three songs, and the resulting recordings would be released by the label as a monthly series of EPs.
" When 4AD label head Ivo Watts-Russell handpicked the tracklisting for the group's debut release Come on Pilgrim, he intentionally left out " Here Comes Your Man ".
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Despite being initially unimpressed by the demo, Watts-Russell was urged to sign the band by his girlfriend, a secretary for 4AD.
Watts-Russell later said " that's probably all I ever heard Joey really say ," and by that time, Santiago's quietness had been noted by those close to the band.
In 1983, Watts-Russell suggested that the band re-record two of their earliest songs, " Sixteen Days " and " Gathering Dust ," as a medley.
At the time, the band was closing its set with this medley, and Watts-Russell felt it was strong enough to warrant a re-recording.
When the band rebuffed the idea, Watts-Russell decided to assemble a group of musicians to record the medley: Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins ; Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk ; and a few members of Modern English.
The band was signed to 4AD Records records after their first London show, by the label's chief Ivo Watts-Russell.
Watts-Russell stated that he liked the song, but " it felt just too obviously commercial and I didn't know what we were doing with band ".
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Upon hearing the tape 4AD head Ivo Watts-Russell remarked " This is absolutely magical, beautiful stuff ", and signed them to the label.
The Breeders ' demo was sent to 4AD head Ivo Watts-Russell, who immediately signed them to the label.
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Watts-Russell also felt it was too reminiscent of Mink DeVille's " Spanish Stroll ".
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Despite the poor commercial performance of both Surfer Rosa and " Gigantic ", Ivo Watts-Russell has said that the response to the album was " times five " compared with Come On Pilgrim.
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Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom were signed to, or otherwise associated with, 4AD.
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Kent sold his share to Watts-Russell at the end of 1981, and started a new Beggars Banquet subsidiary, Situation Two Records.
Having sold the label back to its original distributors, Beggars Banquet Records, at the end of 1999, Watts-Russell now works in art and photographical publishing.
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Ivo Watts-Russell Co-founder of music label 4AD resides in Lamy.
They parted ways with 4AD following Heaven or Las Vegas partly because of conflicts with the label's founder Ivo Watts-Russell, and were close to breaking up over internal problems due in large part to Guthrie's addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Before the release of the Pixies ' debut mini-album Come On Pilgrim in October 1987, Ivo Watts-Russell, head of 4AD, suggested they return to the studio to record a full length album.
On the advice of a 4AD colleague, Watts-Russell looked to hire Steve Albini, ex-frontman of Big Black, as the record's engineer and producer.
Norton refused to tell 4AD owner Ivo Watts-Russell about the problem until he felt he could address the problems.
The resulting 17-song cassette, later dubbed " The Purple Tape " eventually found its way to Ivo Watts-Russell, president and co-founder of the influential British record label 4AD.
Watts-Russell hand-picked eight of The Purple Tape's 17 songs to make up a debut " mini album.
4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today.
Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, employees of the Beggars Banquet record store and label, founded Axis Records in late 1979 as a property of Beggars Banquet that was run by the two.
Watts-Russell would maintain ownership of the label, and act as its president, until the late 1990s.
Watts-Russell invited the graphic designer Vaughan Oliver to create sleeve art for the label, and as a result, 4AD quickly acquired a visually distinctive identity.
In 1820 the estate was bought by Jesse Watts-Russell, a wealthy industrialist.
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