Ché Trading
Ché Trading was an independent UK record label co-founded by Vinita Joshi and Nick Allport, and was responsible for releasing the music of Disco Inferno. Other artists on their roster included the Tindersticks, Füxa, and Slipstream. Ché was also responsible for two Top 40 hit singles by Lilys, "A Nanny in Manhattan" and Urusei Yatsura's 1997 track "Hello Tiger".
Also recorded as Ché · i
Ché Trading
- Name
- Ché Trading
- Founded
- 1991
- Headquarters
- London
- Activity
- music
- Dissolved
- 2000
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Ché Trading was an independent UK record label co-founded by Vinita Joshi and Nick Allport, and was responsible for releasing the music of Disco Inferno. Other artists on their roster included the Tindersticks, Füxa, and Slipstream. Ché was also responsible for two Top 40 hit singles by Lilys, "A Nanny in Manhattan" and Urusei Yatsura's 1997 track "Hello Tiger".
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The I label is an offshoot of Ché Trading, which specialises in alternative and left field releases.
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• Name — Ché Trading • Hq Location City — London, United Kingdom • Industry — Music and entertainment • Genre — Electronica, alternative country, ambient, art rock, space rock, dream pop, shoegazing, indie rock Ché Trading was an independent UK record label co-founded by Vinita Joshi and Nick Allport, and was responsible for releasing the music of Disco Inferno. Other artists on their roster included the Tindersticks, Füxa, and Slipstream. Ché was also responsible for two Top 40 hit singles by Lilys, "A Nanny in Manhattan" and Urusei Yatsura's 1997 track "Hello Tiger". The I label is an offshoot of Ché Trading, which specialises in alternative and left field releases.
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1991
Ché Trading established.
1991
Ché Trading is recorded from 1991.
2000
Ché Trading ceased.
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Discography
• Title — Artist — Release year & reference • Entertainment / Arc in Round — Disco Inferno — 1991 (che01) • Open Doors / Closed Windows — Disco Inferno — 1991 (che02) • Science — Disco Inferno — 1991 (che03) • In Debt — Disco Inferno — 1992 (che04) • 50 Dresses — Animals That Swim — 1992 (che05) • Sugared-Up — Delta — 1993 (che06) • Faster Than Dwight — Tripmaster Monkey — 1993 (che07) • Camomile — Fur — 1993 (che08) • Don't Know You're Born — Frost Suite — 1994 (che09) • Whole Wide World / Fragile Stars — 18th Dye — 1994 (che10) • Shutters Closed — Tripmaster Monkey — 1994 (che11) • Done — 18th Dye — 1994 (che12) • Sundown — Slipstream — 1994 (che14) • Dive — 18th Dye — 1994 (che15) • St Petersburg — Fur — 1994 (che16) • Joy Compilation — Various — 1994 (che17) • After Tomorrow — Magic Hour — 1994 (che18) • Your Presence — Slipstream — 1994 (che19) • No Excess Is Absurd — Magic Hour — 1994 (che20) • Computer Love — Slipstream — 1994 (che21) • Slipstream — Slipstream — 1995 (che22cd) • Feel Good Again II — Slipstream — 1995 (che23) • Sleepless / And Before The First Kiss — Dart — 1994 (che24) • Play w/ You / Gout S.F. / F — 18th Dye — 1995 (che25) • Tribute to a Bus — 18th Dye — 1995 (che26) • So, You Got Anything Else? — Kirk Lake — 1995 (che27cd) • Doggie / Submarine — Dart — 1995 (che28) • I Had A Thought / America — Magic Hour — 1995 (che29) • Will They Turn You on Or Will They Turn on You — Magic Hour — 1995 (che30cd) • Ché Trading Limited Presents... Majesty Crush And Spare Snare — Spare Snare / Majesty Crush — 1995 (che31) • Hey Latasha / Mellow Noise U.S.A. — Seam — 1995 (che32) • Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15 — Bardo Pond — 1995 (che33) • If There's Such A Thing As Angels / New Drunks — Bear / Bardo Pond — 1995 (che34) • Up in Heaven — Slipstream — 1995 (che35) • Come Back — Slipstream — 1995 (che36) • Side Effects — Slipstream — 1995 (che37) • Siamese — Urusei Yatsura — 1995 (che38) • 36 Cents An Hour — Dart — 1994 (che39cd) • Does The Word Duh Mean Anything To You? - Another Ché Compilation CD — Various — 1995 (che40) • Bugger / Protection — Dart — 1995 (che41) • Rarly Voo / Losing My Grip — Ligament / Space Bike — 1995 (che42) • Carrion — The Bardots — 1995 (che43) • V-Neck — The Bardots — 1995 (che44) • Bugs — Bear — 1996 (che45) • Plastic Ashtray — Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che46) • Ché Trading Limited Presents... — The Golden Mile /The Delgados / Bis / Merzbow — 1995 (che47) • Supercool — Backwater — 1996 (che48) • Turn Me On, Dead Man / Punk Virtuoso — Exit / 30 Amp Fuse — 1996 (che49) • Shady — Backwater — 1996 (che50) • Returns Every Morning / Touch The Water — Lilys — 1996 (che51) • Better Can't Make Your Life Better — Lilys — 1996 (che52) • Kewpies Like Watermelon — Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che53cd) • We Are Urusei Yatsura — Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che54lp) • Taster — Various — 1996 (che55) • Memory — Backwater — 1996 (che56) • Angels Are Cool — Backwater — 1996 (che57) • Disneytime — Bear — 1996 (che58) • Tour Split EP — Mogwai / Backwater / Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che59) • Disco Sucks — Various — 1996 (che60) • Angels vs. Aliens / Buzzsong — Dweeb / Mogwai — 1996 (che61) • Phasers on Stun — Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che62) • Love in Amarillo / Avalanche — Lazerboy / The Zambonis — 1996 (che63) • Things Look Better When I Think of You — Backwater — 1996 (che64) • A Nanny in Manhattan — Lilys — 1996 (che65) • Katia Movement #1 — Superstar Disco Club — 1996 (che66) • Strategic Hamlets — Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che67) • Wavelength And Divided — Transient Waves / Dakota Suite — 1997 (che68) • Be Groovy Or Leave — Slipstream — 1997 (che69) • Fake Fur — Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che70) • Skyscraper Island (The Motion Picture) / Moonshaft — Superstar Disco Club — 1997 (che71) • Does Your Heart Go Boom — Helen Love — 1997 (che72) • Madeleine / Healing Hands — Slipstream — 1997 (che73) • Vent-Axia — Helen Love / Superstar Disco Club / Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che74) • Hello Tiger — Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che75) • Slain By Urusei Yatsura — Urusei Yatsura — 1998 (che76) • A Nanny in Manhattan — Lilys — 1998 (che77cd) • Better Can't Make Your Life Better — Lilys — 1998 (che78) • Slain By Elf — Urusei Yatsura — 1998 (che80cd1) • Rosie & Jim — Gel — 1998 (che81) • Long Live The UK Music Scene — Helen Love — 1998 (che82) • Love Your Early Stuff — Spare Snare — 1999 (che83) • Catching Ants — Gel — 1999 (che84) • Sunshine — Gel — 1999 (che86) • Love And Glitter, Hot Days And Muzik — Helen Love — 2000 (che87) • Does Your Heart Go Boom (Remixes) — Cuban Boys / Helen Love — 2000 (che88) • Shifty Disco Girl — Helen Love — 2000 (che89) • Jump Up And Down / Atomic Beat Boy — Helen Love — 2000 (che90) • Slipstream — Slipstream — 1995 (che22lp) • So, You Got Anything Else? — Kirk Lake — 1995 (che27lp) • Will They Turn You on Or Will They Turn on You — Magic Hour — 1995 (che30lp) • 36 Cents An Hour — Dart — 1994 (che39lp) • We Are Urusei Yatsura — Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che54cd) • Fake Fur — Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che70cd1) • Fake Fur — Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che70cd2) • Hello Tiger — Urusei Yatsura — 1997 (che75cd1) • Slain By Elf — Urusei Yatsura — 1998 (che80cd2) • Kewpies Like Watermelon — Urusei Yatsura — 1996 (che53)
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Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Kulkarni, Neil. A New 90s Part Two: Burning Up With Disco Inferno. The Quietus. 11 October 2011.
- 2.45 Cat. Ché - Label Discography.
- 3.UK top 40 hit Database. Top 40 Hits of February 1998. Every Hit.
- 4.Record Breakers and Trivia : Singles : Artists : Sales / Chart Performance. Every Hit.
- 5.Discogs. Ché.
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