4ad

4ad

Country: United Kingdom

Link: http://www.4ad.com/

The influential 4AD label was started in 1980 by music enthusiasts Ivo WattsRussell and Peter Kent with financial help from Beggars Banquet.

Originally calling their label Axis, they released an initial series of four 7" singles before finding out that the name Axis was already being used by another label. Having to quickly come up with a new name, the partners noticed the following bit of typography that their graphic designer had put on a flyer announcing the Axis releases:

1980 FORWARD 1980 FWD 1984 AD 4AD

Artists:

Mountain Goats
Cass Mccombs
Blonde Redhead
Vinny Miller
Tv On The Radio
Rachel Goswell
Cocteau Twins
Breeders
Dead Can Dance
Throwing Muses
Kristin Hersh
Lisa Gerrard
Mojave 3
Lisa Gerrard & Patri
Pixies
Tanya Donelly
Thievery Corporation
This Mortal Coil
Pale Saints
Ultra Vivid Scene
His Name Is Alive
Wolfgang Press
Heidi Berry
Spirea X
Modern English
Colin Newman
Dif Juz
Various
Bauhaus
Gilbert And Lewis
Lush
Michael Brook
Swallow
Red House Painters
In Camera
Colourbox
Happy Family
Neil Halstead
Sybarite
Piano Magic
Belly
Gusgus Vs Tworld
Magnetophone
Frank Black
Unrest
X-mal Deutschland
Lisa Germano
Kendra Smith
Liquorice
Tarnation
Air Miami
Amps
Xymox
Scheer
Paladins
Voix Bulgares
Cocteau Twins And Ha
Clan Of Xymox
Gusgus
Pieter Nooten & Mich
Hope Blister
Lakuna
Cuba
Brendan Perry
The The
50 Foot Wave
Lisa Gerrard & Piete
Fifty Foot Wave
Minotaur Shock
Celebration
Beirut
Wolf And Cub
The Late Cord
Scott Walker
The Breeders
Gus Gus
The Mountain Goats
Lisa Gerrard And Pieter Bourke
Johann Johannson
Barbara Carlotti
Johann Johannsson
Various Artists
Egg Hunt
Fhs
As Friends Rust
Emma Pollock
The Wolfgang Press
Cupol
Xmal Deutschland
Cocteau Twins And Harold Budd
Pieter Nooten And Michael Broo
Atlas Sound
It Hugs Back

4ad



Release date: 2007-10-06


SCOTT WALKER

And Who Shall Go To The Ball
4ad
INDIE

In 2006, Scott Walker confirmed his position as one of the most singular talents working in any field of the arts by releasing the incomparable album ‘The Drift’.  Last year Scott was commissioned by London’s South Bank Centre to write music for a contemporary.........

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