Butterfly Recordings
Butterfly Recordings is the name used by three record labels.
Butterfly Recordings
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- Butterfly Recordings
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- 2007
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• Name — Butterfly Recordings • Genre — Dance, electronic, folk • Country — United States Butterfly Recordings is the name used by three record labels.
1970s
1970s
Butterfly Records, a disco record label created in 1977 by A.J. Cervantes in Los Angeles, California. Throughout the 1980s, the company licensed its music for movies, television and aerobics studios. The catalog was sold to Warner Music in 1988. Per A.J. Cervantes.
1990s
1990s
Butterfly Recordings, formed by the artist and electronic dance music producer Martin Glover (commonly known as Youth). Youth set up the second incarnation in the 1990s before setting up Dragonfly Records. It released many electronic dance albums by such bands as System 7, often in conjunction with Big Life. It is sometimes cited as Butterfly Records.
2007
2007
Youth and Simon Tong formed the third incarnation to focus on folk and acoustic music. The label's first release is What the Folk (12 February 2007).
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2007
Butterfly Recordings established.
2007
Butterfly Recordings is recorded from 2007.
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