Domino Recording Company

Domino Recording Company, or simply Domino, is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press.
History
Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP Rocking the Forest, licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the US were signed to Drag City (Smog, Will Oldham, Royal Trux), a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing more established American rock and unusual British music, were marginalised during the Britpop era, but a steady stream of new signings gave the label increasing credibility. Recent high-profile releases from Anna Calvi, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, and The Kills have only acted as a catalyst to this, and Domino is now one of the longest running and most successful independent record labels in the UK.
2003 was the label's 10th anniversary. There were a number of new releases, as well as a compilation album and a series of gigs in London under the 'Worlds of Possibility' banner, to celebrate the label's first decade in October of that year.
Domino celebrated their first UK #1 album in October 2005 with Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better, and their first UK #1 single with Arctic Monkeys' "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" later that same month.
In March 2021, it was announced that seminal shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine had signed with the label. This announcement was accompanied by the first ever official digital release of the band's discography to streaming platforms.
As well as new music, Domino have released compilations by British post-punk bands such as Orange Juice, Josef K, Fire Engines and Young Marble Giants.
Notable artists
Domino UK
Current
About Group
Alex G
Alexis Taylor
Alex Turner
Animal Collective
Anna Calvi
Archie Bronson Outfit
Arctic Monkeys
Austra
Lou Barlow
Blood Orange / Lightspeed Champion
Bob Moses
Bonnie Prince Billy
Buzzcocks
Clinic
Dan Deacon
Dirty Projectors
Fat White Family
FFS
Seamus Fogarty
Four Tet
Franz Ferdinand
Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains
Galaxie 500
Georgia
Hookworms
Hot Chip
Jon Hopkins
Julia Holter
Junior Boys
The Kills
King Creosote
The Last Shadow Puppets
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Malachai
Max Tundra
Cass McCombs
Eugene McGuinness
Middle Kids
Juana Molina
My Bloody Valentine
Orange Juice
Owen Pallett
The Pastels
Pavement
Pram
Protomartyr
Psapp
Quasi
Real Estate
Royal Trux
Bill Ryder-Jones
Sebadoh
Sons and Daughters
Sorry
Spiral Stairs
Superorganism
Hayden Thorpe
Tirzah
To Rococo Rot
Tricky
Mr Twin Sister
Villagers
Patrick Watson
Wet Leg
Matthew E. White
Robert Wyatt
Wyatt, Atzmon & Stephen
James Yorkston
Former artists
10,000 Things
Adem
Aerial M
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Blueskins
Bonde do Role
Chief
Clearlake
Come
Correcto
Crescent
Cindy Dall
Deluxx Folk Implosion
Ducktails
Matt Elliott
Elliott Smith
The Fall
The Feelies
Benjy Ferree* Benjy Ferree
Fence Collective
Flipper
Flying Saucer Attack
The Folk Implosion
Fridge
Ganger
Gastr del Sol
Neil Michael Hagerty
Hood
James Yorkston & The Big Fancy Players
Josef K
Juana Molina
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid
Leatherface
Jason Loewenstein
Lone Pigeon
Loose Fur
The Magnetic Fields
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy
Barbara Morgenstern
Mouse on Mars
Movietone
Neutral Milk Hotel
Jim O'Rourke
Will Oldham
Pajo
Palace / Palace Brothers / Palace Music / Palace Songs (Will Oldham, AKA Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
Papa M
Preston School of Industry
The Pyramids
Quickspace
Quickspace Supersport
Scarce
Sentridoh
Silver Jews
Smudge
Steve Reid Ensemble
Superchunk
The Television Personalities
Telstar Ponies
Test Icicles
The Third Eye Foundation
The Triffids
These New Puritans
u.n.p.o.c.
Townes Van Zandt
Von Südenfed
Weird War
Wild Beasts
Yo Majesty
James Yorkston and The Athletes
Young Marble Giants
Domino US
Adem
Alex G
Animal Collective
Benjy Ferree
Caribou
Cass McCombs
Chief
Clearlake
Clinic
Correcto
Dirty Projectors
Four Tet
Franz Ferdinand
Future Pilot AKA
Juana Molina
Julia Holter
Junior Boys
Lightspeed Champion
Malachai
Melody's Echo Chamber
Middle Kids
Neutral Milk Hotel
Night Moves
The Notwist
Orange Juice
Panda Bear
The Pastels
Porches
The Range
Sasami
Sebadoh
Sons and Daughters
To Rococo Rot
Twin Sister
Ulrich Schnauss
White Lung
Yo Majesty
James Yorkston and the Athletes
Your Friend
Imprints
Geographic Music
Bill Wells Trio
Empress
Future Pilot AKA
International Airport
Kama Aina
Lightships
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Nagisa ni te
September Collective
Spinning Coin
Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair
The Royal We
Double Six Records
Bill Ryder-Jones
Jon Hopkins and King Creosote
Bill Wells
The Child of Lov
John Cale
Spiritualized
Steve Mason
Petite Noir
She & Him
Trailer Trash Tracys
Twin Sister
George FitzGerald
Weird World
How to Dress Well
Peaking Lights
Smith Westerns
Washed Out
Melody's Echo Chamber
Richard Dawson
Wilma Archer
Silicon
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Rekords Rekords
Queens of the Stone Age
Mondo Generator
Alain Johannes
Mini Mansions
See also
List of record labels
List of independent UK record labels
References
External links
British independent record labels
Record labels established in 1993
Indie rock record labels