Angular Recording Corporation
Angular Recording Corporation was an independent record label founded in New Cross, South East London. It was established in June 2003 by two ex-Goldsmiths College students, Joe Daniel and Joe Margetts, who reclaimed a local Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station and made it their first artefact: ARC 001. The label's founders were influenced by a love of angular pop music and the Manchester label Factory Records.
Angular Recording Corporation
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- Angular Recording Corporation
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- Angular Recording Corporation was established or created in 2003.
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- Angular Recording Corporation is situated in United Kingdom.
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Angular Recording Corporation was an independent record label founded in New Cross, South East London. It was established in June 2003 by two ex-Goldsmiths College students, Joe Daniel and Joe Margetts, who reclaimed a local Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station and made it their first artefact: ARC 001. The label's founders were influenced by a love of angular pop music and the Manchester label Factory Records.
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Gaining funding through medical testing, Angular Recording Corporation was able to finance its debut release in November 2003, the NME-championed The New Cross: An Angular Sampler, making it the lead review in the magazine. In the 2011 England riots, the label lost all its stock and entire back catalogue in the PIAS warehouse fire. An Angular Store website remains active.
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Key facts
• Name — Angular Recording Corporation • Founded — 2003 • Founder — Joe Daniel, Joe Margetts • Defunct — 2012 • Country — United Kingdom • Location — London • Url — Angular Store
Samplers
Samplers
The first two Angular samplers launched the careers of a number of bands, including: Art Brut, Bloc Party and The Long Blondes. ARC 002: The New Cross • Bloc Party - "The Marshals Are Dead" • The Fairies Band - "Pink Socks Rock" • The Vichy Government - "Make Love to the Camera" • Nemo - "Picadilly in Sepia" • The Violets - "Laxteen" • Luxembourg - "Making Progress" • The Swear - "High Rise" • Elizabeth Harper - "Don Juan" • Lovers of Today - "Guy Fawkes" • Art Brut - "Formed a Band" • Lady Fuzz - "What's it Worth?" • Gifthorse - "You Save my Life, I'll Ruin Yours" • The Bridge - "First Frenzy" • Mark Sampson - "The London Eye" ARC 004: Rip Off Your Labels • The Vichy Government - "I Control Discourse" • The Violets - "Stealer" • Art Brut - "Top of the Pops" • The Fucks - "Argos" • The Long Blondes - "Autonomy Boy" • Showboys - "Factory" • The Swear - "Advert Boy" • The Boyfriends - "No Tomorrow" • Elizabeth Harper - "Trouble in the Palace" • Gifthorse - "Happy Daggers" • Lovers of Today - "A Short Nasty Shock" • Luxembourg - "Let Us Have It" • The Rocks - "We Got It (Galen Remix)"
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The following is established of the heading itself. Institutional cataloguing adds that angular Recording Corporation is associated with United Kingdom. Recorded from 2003.
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• Catalogue number — Artist — Title — Release date • ARC 001 — Angular Recording Corporation — Ordnance Survey Trig Point — 1 Jun 2003 • ARC 002 — Various artists — The New Cross: An Angular Sampler (compilation) — 25 Nov 2003 • ARC 003 — Angular Recording Corporation — The Thrasher: An Angular Raffle • ARC 004 — Various artists — Rip Off Your Labels: More Angular Product (comp) — 28 Jun 2004 • ARC 005 — Elizabeth Harper — Elizabeth Harper (album) — 29 Nov 2004 • ARC 006 — The Fucks — EP One — 15 Nov 2004 • ARC 007 — The Long Blondes — Giddy Stratospheres (single) — 29 Nov 2004 • ARC 008 — The Violets — Mirror Mirror (single) — 18 Apr 2005 • ARC 009 — The Long Blondes — Appropriation (single) — 20 Jun 2005 • ARC 010 — Angular Recording Corporation — Trig Point 5488 • ARC 011 — The Violets — Descend/Carnival (single) — 6 Feb 2006 • ARC 012 — Klaxons — Gravity's Rainbow (single) — 27 Mar 2006 • ARC 014 — The Lodger — Let Her Go (single) — 1 May 2006 • ARC 015 — The Violets — Hush Away (single) — 21 Aug 2006 • ARC 016 — These New Puritans — Now Pluvial (EP) — 30 Oct 2006 • ARC 017 — Various artists — Future Love Songs (compilation) — 27 Nov 2006 • ARC 018 — Angular Recording Corporation — Website • ARC 019 — Angular Recording Corporation — Office • ARC 020 — Angular Recording Corporation — Trig Point 5486 • ARC 021 — The Violets — Foreo (single) — 12 Feb 2007 • ARC 022 — Angular Recording Corporation — The Townace • ARC 023 — These New Puritans — Navigate, Navigate (single) — 31 Mar 2007 • ARC 024 — The Lodger — Kicking Sand (single) — 4 Jun 2007 • ARC 025 — The Lodger — Grown-Ups (album) — 11 Jun 2007 • ARC 026 — The Violets — Troubles of Keneat (single) — 1 Oct 2007 • ARC 027 — These New Puritans — Numbers/Colours (single) — 28 Oct 2007 • ARC 028 — The Violets — The Lost Pages (album) — 5 Nov 2007 • ARC 029 — Various artists — A Free Angular Sampler (EP) — 1 Oct 2008 • ARC 030 — Angular Recording Corporation — Trig Point 6611 • ARC 031 — Findo Gask — Va Va Va (single) — 24 Mar 2008 • ARC 032 — These New Puritans — Beat Pyramid (album) — 28 Jan 2008 • ARC 033 — Navvy — 4 Songs (EP) — 3 Mar 2008 • ARC 034 — These New Puritans — Elvis (single) — 11 Feb 2008 • ARC 035 — These New Puritans — Swords of Truth (single) — 28 Apr 2008 • ARC 036 — Wetdog — Zah und Zaheet (single) — 7 Jul 2008 • ARC 037 — Wetdog — Enterprise Reversal (album) — 28 Jul 2008 • ARC 038 — The Long Blondes — Singles (album) — 20 Oct 2008 • ARC 039 — Findo Gask — One Eight Zero (single) — 8 Dec 2008 • ARC 040 — Angular Recording Corporation — Trig Point 1385 • ARC 041 — Je Suis Animal — Self-Taught Magic from a Book (album) — 1 Dec 2008 • ARC 042 — Je Suis Animal — The Mystery of Marie Roget (single) — 1 Feb 2009 • ARC 043 — Crystal Stilts — Departure (single) — 9 Feb 2009 • ARC 044 — Crystal Stilts — Alight of Night — 16 Feb 2009 • ARC 045 — Angular Recording Corporation — Angular T-shirt • ARC 046 — Gyratory System — Barons Court Turret (single) — 23 Feb 2009 • ARC 047 — Navvy — Disco (single) — 9 Mar 2009 • ARC 048 — Navvy — Idyll Intangible (album) — 16 Mar 2009 • ARC 049 — The Vichy Government — Carrion Camping (album) — 2 Mar 2009 • ARC 050 — Angular Recording Corporation — Angular enamel badge • ARC 051 — The Vichy Government — Whores in Taxis (album) — 16 Mar 2009 • ARC 052 — The Vichy Government — White Elephant (album) — 29 Mar 2009 • ARC 053 — The Vichy Government — Vanity Publishing (album) — 13 Apr 2009 • ARC 054 — Crystal Stilts — Love is a Wave (single) — 25 May 2009 • ARC 055 — The Vichy Government — The Man Delusion (single) — August 1988 • ARC 056 — Gyratory System — The Sound-Board Breathes (album) — 26 Oct 2009 • ARC 057 — Angular Recording Corporation — Spotify playlist • ARC 058 — Gyratory System — Cargo Cult (single) — 17 Aug 2009 • ARC 059 — Gyratory System — Sea Containers House (single) — 21 Oct 2009 • ARC 060 — Angular Recording Corporation — An Angular hamper — 31 July 2010 • ARC 061 — Angular Recording Corporation — Angular badge • ARC 062 — Wetdog — Lower Leg (single) — 2 Nov 2009 • ARC 063 — Wetdog — Frauhaus! (album) — 30 Nov 2009 • ARC 064 — These New Puritans — We Want War (single) — 12 Jan 2010 • ARC 065 — These New Puritans — Hidden (album) — 18 Jan 2010 • ARC 066 — Gyratory System — Yowser Yowser Yowser (EP) — 22 Feb 2010 • ARC 067 — Various artists — Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics, Vol. 1 (album) — 9 Mar 2010 • ARC 068 — Wetdog — Wymmin's Final (single) — 10 May 2010 • ARC 069 — E. Gold feat. Alexis — Separate our Hearts (EP) — 26 Jul 2010 • ARC 071 — Gyratory System — Yowser Yowser Yowser remixes (single) — 22 Mar 2010 • ARC 072 — These New Puritans — Attack Music (single) — 19 Apr 2010 • ARC 073 — Gyratory System — Pamplona (single) — 15 Jun 2010 • ARC 074 — Angular Recording Corporation — Angular badge — 17 May 2010 • ARC 075 — David Westlake — Play Dusty For Me (album) — 5 Jul 2010 • ARC 076 — These New Puritans — Hologram (single) — 10 Aug 2010 • ARC 077 — Tim Key — Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. (album) — 8 Nov 2010 • ARC 078 — Ruth — Polaroïd/Roman/Photo (album) — 22 Nov 2010 • ARC 079 — These New Puritans — Hidden remixes (EP) — 15 Nov 2010 • ARC 080 — Angular Recording Corporation — Trig Point 3220 — 25 Aug 2012 • ARC 081 — Angular Recording Corporation — Independent label market, Berwick Street (artefact) — 21 May 2011 • ARC 082 — Gyratory System — New Harmony (single) — 4 Apr 2011 • ARC 083 — Gyratory System — New Harmony (album) — 18 Apr 2011 • ARC 084 — This Many Boyfriends — Young Lovers Go Pop! (single) — 22 Aug 2011 • ARC 085 — Fresh Touch — The Ethiopian (12" EP) — 27 Feb 2012 • ARC 086 — Angular Recording Corporation — Independent label market, Brooklyn (artefact) — 8 Oct 2011 • ARC 087 — Angular Recording Corporation — An Angular Nudge Pot (artefact) — 10 Dec 2011 • ARC 088 — Angular Recording Corporation — Independent label market, Spitalfields — 10 Dec 2011 • ARC 089 — Angular Recording Corporation — An Angular Tombola (artefact) — 10 Dec 2011 • ARC 091 — This Many Boyfriends — Starling (single) — 20 Feb 2012 • ARC 092 — Eleven Pond — Watching Trees (12" EP) — 23 Apr 2012 • ARC 093 — This Many Boyfriends — I Should Be A Communist (single) — 21 May 2012 • ARC 094 — Angular Recording Corporation — Independent label market, London — 19 May 2012 • ARC 096 — This Many Boyfriends — Number One (single) — 1 Oct 2012 • ARC 097 — This Many Boyfriends — This Many Boyfriends (album) — 8 Oct 2012
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