MANAGING DIRECTOR DAMIEN NELSON, DISTRIBUTED BY MISSING LINK. MORETHAN1BOB BUFFALO BOB / MORE THAN LOVEĬANTTHINKOF1 WHITE HORSE / HIGHLY DANGEROUS HANSEL AND GRETELĪBLE LABEL QUEENSLAND LABEL. BY MUSICLAND MUSLP 3333ĪBERRANT RECORDS BOX A566, SYDNEY SOUTH, NSW, 2000 ACT 1 TYPICAL PREFIXES INCLUDE: 7XSįESTIVAL, OR AUSTRALIAN RECORD COMPANY/CBSģ333 RECORDS DIST. SOME PRESSING INFORMATION NUMBERS OR LETTERS PRINTED ON THE RECORD LABEL OR INSCRIBED IN THE RUN-OFF WAX CAN OFTEN GIVE CLUES ABOUT WHICH RECORD COMPANY PRESSED THE RECORD, AND WHEN IT WAS PRESSED. ROSS, GJERMUND SKOGSTAD, BRIAN WAFER, AND CLINTON WALKER (‘STRANDED’)ĪND LATE, GREAT COLLEAGUES DEAN MITTELHAUSER AND RON SMITH FOR THEIR PIONEERING RESEARCH THE NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE, AND MUSIC AUSTRALIA, FOR THEIR ON-LINE CATALOGUES,ĪNDREW AINSWORTH, BILL CASEY, HEDLEY CHARLES, ROSS LAIRD, JACK MITCHELL, IAN D. THE AUSTRALIAN FOLK SONGS WEBSITE AT FOLKSTREAM.COM MIKE SUTCLIFFE, FOR HIS AUSTRALIAN RECORD AND MUSIC REVIEW,ĬONTRIBUTORS TO 45CAT.COM, DISCOGS.COM, RATEYOURMUSIC.COM,
FACER, FOR HIS ‘LOGO’ MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS RECORDING LABELS,ĬHRIS SPENCER, FOR HIS AUSTRALIAN MUSIC MUSEUM, LABELS MUST ALSO BE ‘INDEPENDENT’, MEANING THAT THEY WERE NOT PART OF A MAJOR LABEL SUCH AS EMI, FESTIVAL, ARC OR RCA-THESE ARE LISTED ELSEWHERE ON THIS WEBSITE.ĪCKNOWLEDGEMENTS I’D LIKE TO EXPRESS MY THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING: LABELS INCLUDED HAVE MOSTLY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS, AND HAVE AT LEAST A FEW CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED RELEASES- ONE-OFFS AREN’T INCLUDED IN THIS WORK. INTRODUCTION THIS WORK ATTEMPTS TO CATALOGUE SMALLER INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIAN RECORD LABELS THAT WERE ACTIVE AT SOME TIME BETWEEN 19-THE VINYL ERA.
INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIAN LABELS 1955 to 1990