Blast First, the Glossary
Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985.[1]
Table of Contents
72 relations: A Guy Called Gerald, A.C. Temple, Acid Brass, Alistair Fruish, Alternative Distribution Alliance, Alternative rock, Band of Susans, Beme Seed, Big Black, Big Stick (band), Blast (British magazine), Bruce Gilbert, Butthole Surfers, Caspar Brötzmann, Charles Gayle, Cover version, Daydream Nation, Dinosaur Jr., Erase Errata, F.M. Einheit, Fushitsusha, Gentlemen (album), Glenn Branca, Head of David, Hovercraft (band), HTRK, Independent record label, Indie rock, Jimi Tenor, KaitO, Keiji Haino, Labradford, Lee Ranaldo, Liars (band), Lingua franca, Lists of record labels, Locust Abortion Technician, London, Lunachicks, Michael Gibbs (composer), Mother Goose (band), Mute Records, Noise rock, Pan Sonic, Paul Smith (music industry executive), Phill Niblock, PIAS Recordings, Post-punk, Rapeman, Richard H. Kirk, ... Expand index (22 more) »
A Guy Called Gerald
Gerald Rydel Simpson (born 16 February 1967), better known as A Guy Called Gerald, is a British record producer and musician.
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A.C. Temple
A.C. Temple were an alternative rock band from Sheffield, England, formed in 1985.
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Acid Brass
Acid Brass is a musical collaboration between Turner-Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and the Williams Fairey Brass Band.
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Alistair Fruish
Alistair Fruish is an English filmmaker, writer and novelist, born in Northampton.
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Alternative Distribution Alliance
Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) is a music distribution company owned by Warner Music Group, which represents the rights to various independent record labels.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.
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Band of Susans
Band of Susans was an American alternative rock No Wave band formed in New York City in 1986 and active until 1996.
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Beme Seed
Beme Seed was an American psychedelic noise rock band led by Kathleen Lynch, known for her collaboration with the Butthole Surfers.
Big Black
Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987.
Big Stick (band)
Big Stick is an American musical duo formed in New York in 1985 by John Gill (guitar, vocals) and Yanna Trance (vocals, percussion, keyboards).
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Blast (British magazine)
Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain.
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Bruce Gilbert
Bruce Clifford Gilbert (born 18 May 1946) is an English musician.
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Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed in San Antonio, Texas, by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in 1981.
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Caspar Brötzmann
Caspar Brötzmann (born 13 December 1962) is a German guitarist, vocalist and bandleader.
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Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle (February 28, 1939 – September 7, 2023) was an American free jazz musician.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.
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Daydream Nation
Daydream Nation is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on October 18, 1988.
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Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984.
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Erase Errata
Erase Errata was a band from San Francisco, California.
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F.M. Einheit
Frank-Martin Strauß, better known as F.M. Einheit and also known as Mufti, (born 18 December 1958, in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor from Germany.
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Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres.
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Gentlemen (album)
Gentlemen is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band the Afghan Whigs.
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Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier.
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Head of David
Head of David were a British heavy metal band that featured vocalist Stephen R. Burroughs and ex-Napalm Death member Justin Broadrick (later of Godflesh and Jesu).
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Hovercraft (band)
Hovercraft was an American instrumental experimental rock group that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1993.
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HTRK
HTRK (formerly Hate Rock Trio) is an Australian band formed in 2003.
Independent record label
An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME.
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.
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Jimi Tenor
Jimi Tenor (born Lassi O. T. Lehto, 1965) is a Finnish musician.
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KaitO
KaitO was an English indie rock band from Norwich, formed in 1996.
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino (灰野 敬二 Haino Keiji; born May 3, 1952) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music.
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Labradford
Labradford is a U.S. post-rock musical group from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1992.
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Lee Ranaldo
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth.
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Liars (band)
Liars is an Australian-American experimental rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000.
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Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Lists of record labels
File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos.
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Locust Abortion Technician
Locust Abortion Technician is the third full-length studio album by American rock band Butthole Surfers, released in March 1987.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lunachicks
Lunachicks are an American punk rock band from New York City.
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Michael Gibbs (composer)
Michael Clement Irving Gibbs (born 25 September 1937) is a Rhodesian-born English jazz composer, conductor, arranger and producer as well as a trombonist and keyboardist.
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Mother Goose (band)
Mother Goose was a 1970s New Zealand band formed in Dunedin, in 1975.
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Mute Records
Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. Blast First and Mute Records are alternative rock record labels, British independent record labels, EMI and industrial record labels.
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Noise rock
Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.
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Pan Sonic
Pan Sonic was a Finnish electronic music group founded in Turku in 1993.
Paul Smith (music industry executive)
Paul Smith is probably best known as the founder and manager of Blast First, the British alternative record label that released artists such as Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, Big Black and Dinosaur Jr. in the UK.
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Phill Niblock
Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer.
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PIAS Recordings
PIAS Recordings (formerly Play It Again Sam) is a Belgian record label founded in 1983 by Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot.
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Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.
Rapeman
Rapeman was an American noise rock band founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989.
Richard H. Kirk
Richard Harold Kirk (21 March 1956 – 21 September 2021) was an English composer, musician and producer.
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Rivulets
Rivulets is the stage name of minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Leavitt Amundson.
Russell Haswell
Russell Haswell (born 1970, Coventry) is an English multidisciplinary artist.
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Sean McLusky
Sean McLusky is a British music promoter, nightclub impresario and film producer.
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Songs About Fucking
Songs About Fucking is the second and final full-length studio album by the punk rock band Big Black, released in 1987 by Touch and Go Records, and reissued in 2018.
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Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City and formed in 1981.
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Stretchheads
Stretchheads were a punk band from Erskine, Scotland, active between 1987 and 1991, releasing two albums in that period.
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Suicide (band)
Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016.
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Sun Ra
Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
The Afghan Whigs
The Afghan Whigs are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The Blue Humans
The Blue Humans is the name used by experimental guitarist Rudolph Grey for the improvised performances he leads with a variety of other musicians.
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The KLF
The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band who originated in Liverpool and London in the late 1980s.
The Mekons
The Mekons are a British band formed in the late 1970s as an art collective.
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The Raincoats
The Raincoats are a British experimental post-punk band.
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UK Albums Chart
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Ut (band)
Ut was an American band which originated from New York City's no wave scene, forming in December 1978.
Virgin Music
Virgin Music, known as Virgin Music Label & Artist Services until 2022 and originally as Caroline Distribution, was a music distributor of independent artists and record labels. Blast First and Virgin Music are EMI.
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Vorticism
Vorticism was a London-based modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis.
Wire (band)
Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), George Gill (lead guitar) and Robert Grey (aka Robert Gotobed; drums).
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Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic.
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808 State
808 State are an English electronic music group formed in 1987 in Manchester by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_First
Also known as Blast First Petite, Blast First Records.
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