FFRR Records is a subsidiary of London Records

London Records

London Records, referred to as London Recordings in logo, is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 to 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label....

, founded and run by English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 DJ Pete Tong

Pete Tong

Peter "Pete" Tong is an English DJ who works for BBC Radio 1. He is known worldwide by fans of electronic music for hosting programmes such as Essential Mix and Essential Selection on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for...

. FFRR has also two subsidiaries: Double F Double R Records and Ffrreedom Records. The label's ear logo was copied from the original ffrr logo source.

The name FFRR originally stood for Full Frequency Range Recording, which was an improved high-fidelity recording technique and marketing slogan used by Decca Records

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

 on its singles and albums—and especially its Western classical albums—in the 1950s and 1960s. These remain highly sought after true High Fidelity

High fidelity

High fidelity—or hi-fi—reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound or images, to distinguish it from the poorer quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment...

 vinyl recordings. In the 1990s, the label distributed the bulk of the releases of the American hip hop label PayDay Records through then-parent PolyGram. However, these releases remained with Universal Music when London became part of WEA.

An incomplete list of the modern FFRR Records artists is provided below.

Artists and former artists

• 1 World
• All Saints
  All Saints (group)
  All Saints were a British/Canadian girl group. Founded in 1993 as All Saints 1.9.7.5, the group consisted of founding members Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis, and sisters Nicole Appleton and Natalie Appleton...
  
  
• A Million Sons
• Armand Van Helden
  Armand Van Helden
  Armand Van Helden is a record producer, DJ and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" , which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "U Don't Know Me ", which went to number 1...
  
  
• Artful Dodger
• Asian Dub Foundation
  Asian Dub Foundation
  Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...
  
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• Bananarama
  Bananarama
  Bananarama are an English female pop duo who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Rather than relying on a two part harmony, the duo generally sings in unison, as do their background vocalists. Although there have been line-up changes, the group enjoyed their most popular...
  
  
• Brand New Heavies
  Brand New Heavies
  The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing, a suburb of London, England.-Biography:The Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz group called Brother International....
  
  
• Bronski Beat
  Bronski Beat
  Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy". All members of the group were openly homosexual and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues...
  
  
• Brother Brown
  Brother Brown
  Brother Brown was a Danish house duo, consisting of Atle Rønne Thorberg and Henrik Olsen. In the later half of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s, Brother Brown made numerous remixes, most significantly of Madonna and Pet Shop Boys. Three of their remixes reached No...
  
  
• The Carburetors
  The carburetors
  The Carburetors is a hard rock band from Oslo, Norway. The band was formed in 2001 and the music is based on boogie rock 'n' roll and metal. Their music has been said to be a mix of Chuck Berry and Motörhead....
  
  
• Carl Cox
  Carl Cox
  Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...
  
  
• Caterina Valente
  Caterina Valente
  Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown...
  
  
• CJ Bolland
• Clubhouse
• the Communards
  The Communards
  The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988. They are most famous for their cover of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' song, "Don't Leave Me This Way" as well as "Never Can Say Goodbye".-History:...
  
  
• Cookie Crew
  Cookie Crew
  Cookie Crew were a rap music duo formed in Clapham, South London in 1983.-Career:Their career took off after winning a national rap championship and recording two sessions for the John Peel BBC Radio 1 show...
  
  
• D Mob
  D Mob
  D Mob is one of the stage names used by British house music producer Dancin' Danny D .The 1988 UK hit "We Call It Acieed" hit #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and was one of a wave of acid house singles to enjoy success that year. The video was directed by Marek Budzynski...
  
  
• Danny Campbell
• Degrees of Motion
• Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe
  Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe
  Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe were the act behind the early 1990s music style of groundbeat, an acid jazz / rare groove offshoot, that had its roots in the London area and old soul vinyl record shops....
  
  
• DJ Icey
  DJ Icey
  DJ Icey, , is a DJ and electronic music producer, credited by Allmusic as having helped to "jump-start the increasingly fertile dance scene in and around Orlando, FL, during the '90s". E, the Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy credits him as "the prime founder of the Funky Breaks and the Florida...
  
  
• DJ Misjah & DJ Tim
• DJ Seduction
• DJ Sizol
• DJ Skribble
  DJ Skribble
  DJ Skribble is an Italian-American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor.In the early 1990s he teamed up with Kamron, ATA, Firstborn, and Tommy Never in Young Black Teenagers, who released two albums before splitting up.In 1996 he worked with Bill Irwin on the musical Hip Hop Wonderland...
  
  
• Dsk
• East Side Beat
• Egyptian Empire
• Farley Jackmaster Funk
• Fine Young Cannibals
  Fine Young Cannibals
  Fine Young Cannibals were a British band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift...
  
  
• Frankie Knuckles
  Frankie Knuckles
  Frankie Knuckles is an American DJ, record producer and remix artist. He played an important role in developing house music as a Chicago DJ in the 1980s and he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s, with his work as a producer and remixer...
  
  
• Global Method
• Goldie
  Goldie
  Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist...
  
  
• Group Home
  Group Home
  Group Home is a hip hop duo, composed of members Lil' Dap and Melachi the Nutcracker . They came to prominence as members of the Gang Starr Foundation. Lil' Dap made his rhyming debut on Gang Starr's 1992 classic Daily Operation on the song "I'm the Man"...
  
   (PayDay/FFRR)
• Hive
  Hive (record producer)
  Hive is the stage name of Michael Petrie , a San Francisco-based DJ, producer, and record label owner who has contributed to dozens of recordings in the drum and bass musical genre...
  
  
• Hothouse Flowers
  Hothouse Flowers
  The Hothouse Flowers are an Irish rock group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from soul, gospel and rock.-Career:The group first formed in 1985 when Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fiachna Ó Braonáin began performing as street musicians, or buskers, on the streets of Dublin,Ireland as "The...
  
  
• House of Virginism
• Isotonik
• Jamie Principle
  Jamie Principle
  Jamie Principle is a house music artist and producer born in Chicago, Illinois.He is one of the early pioneers of house music when the genre first began in Chicago during the early 1980s...
  
  
• Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
  Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...
  
   (PayDay/FFRR)
• JDS
  JDS
  JDS is a three letter acronym that can stand for*Java Desktop System* Jewish Day School* JDS Uniphase Common short form still in use from before the mergers with Fitel and Uniphase* Japan Defense Ship, a ship prefix in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force...
  
  
• Jeru the Damaja
  Jeru the Damaja
  Kendrick Jeru Davis, known as Jeru the Damaja is an American rapper and recording artist who has worked extensively with Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr, whom he has known since high school.-Biography:...
  
   (PayDay/FFRR)
• June Montana
• Ladycop
• Life's Addiction
• Lil Louis
  Lil Louis
  Lil Louis is the stage name used by Chicago-born house-music producer and DJ Louis Sims. He scored a number of hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1980s and 1990s, three of which hit #1....
  
  
• Lisa B
  Lisa B
  Lisa B is a political spoken word poet based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Since 2001, she has performed spoken-word poetry at shows around B.C. and in Oregon...
  
  
• Lisa Marie Experience
• London Symphony Orchestra
  London Symphony Orchestra
  The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
  
  
• Lucid
• Mantovani
  Mantovani
  Annunzio Paolo Mantovani known as Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book British Hit Singles & Albums states that he was "Britain's most successful album act before The Beatles .....
  
  
• Monteux, Pierre
• Narcotic Thrust
  Narcotic Thrust
  Narcotic Thrust is an electronic and house music duo from the UK consisting of producers Stuart Crichton and Andy Morris. The name Narcotic Thrust is an anagram of "Stuart Crichton"....
  
  
• Nightcrawlers
  Nightcrawlers (band)
  Nightcrawlers is a house music project, assembled by Scottish producer, DJ and vocalist John Reid from Easterhouse in Glasgow, Scotland.-"Push The Feeling On":...
  
  
• Nightwriters
• O.C.
  O.C. (rapper)
  Omar Credle , known by his stage name, O.C., is an American rapper who has been involved with several renowned underground hip-hop groups and also released many solo albums.-Recording career:...
  
   (PayDay/FFRR)
• One Dove
  One Dove
  One Dove was a Scottish alternative dance music group active in the early 1990s, consisting of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven, a former member of Altered Images.-History:...
  
  
• Orbital
  Orbital (band)
  Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows...
  
  
• Paper Crows
• Power Pill
  Aphex Twin
  Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...
  
  
• Quake
• Sagat
  Sagat (rapper)
  Sagat is an American rapper from Baltimore, Maryland.He had a minor hit in 1994, "Why Is It? ". The song was originally titled "Fuk Dat" but was changed to gain radio airplay. It was run frequently on MTV and its video was featured on Beavis & Butthead. In 1994 he produced a follow up single,...
  
  
• Salt n Pepa (Next Plateau/FFRR)
• Salt Tank
  Salt Tank
  Salt Tank are two English record producers, David Gates and Malcolm Stanners, plus percussionist Andy Rose, from Surrey. Their music ranges from laid-back trance, such as their hit single "Eugina" to tougher sounds.-Biography:The trio recorded several singles, before signing a recording contract...
  
  
• Sander Kleinenberg
• Sasha (DJ)
  Sasha (DJ)
  Sasha is a Welsh DJ and record producer. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s...
  
  
• Savoy Brown Blues Band
  Savoy Brown
  Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a British blues rock band, formed in 1965, in Battersea, South West London...
  
  
• Sex-O-Sonique
• Shakespear's Sister
• Showbiz & AG (PayDay/FFRR)
• Simon Harris
  Simon Harris
  Simon Harris , is predominantly known as the owner and founder of the record label Music of Life and writer/producer of most of its extensive catalog of songs, although he is also an influential DJ, award winning producer, remixer of several Grammy Award winning artists and pioneer of electronic...
  
  
• Soundstation
  SoundStation
  SoundStation is a website for young people in the UK who are interested in making music. It is operated by Youth Music, a UK-wide charity set up in 1999 to provide high quality and diverse music-making opportunities for 0 – 18 year olds....
  
  
• Steve 'Silk' Hurley
• Stretch & Vern
• Thee Maddkatt Courtship III
• Tinman
  Tinman
  Tinman is the alias of British House music producer / remixer, Paul Dakeyne. In 1994, his single "Eighteen Strings" also written as "18 Strings", became an international club hit...
  
  
• Todd Edwards
  Todd Edwards
  Todd Edwards is an American house and garage producer.-History:Todd Edwards began his musical career around 1992. He employs vocal reconstruction techniques to his songs, creating a unique vocal collage set to a four-on-the-floor beat...
  
  
• Together
  Together (band)
  Together is a French house duo consisting of DJ Falcon and one-half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter. They released tracks on Bangalter's own label titled Roulé. The duo released two songs: "So Much Love to Give" and "Together"...
  
  
• Utah Saints
  Utah Saints
  Utah Saints is a dance band based in Leeds, England. The music is produced by Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, who are joined on-stage by other musicians whenever the band plays live...
  
  
• Vapourspace
• Vera Lynn
  Vera Lynn
  Dame Vera Lynn, DBE is an English singer-songwriter and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during World War II. During the war she toured Egypt, India and Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops...
  
  
• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  The Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world....
  
  
• Virgin Souls
• WC & the Madd Circle
  WC (rapper)
  William L. Calhoun Jr. , better known by his stage name WC , is an American rapper. He was born in Texas, but moved to South Central Los Angeles at an early age. He originally was a rapper in the group Low Profile, and later formed his group WC and the Maad Circle, which also included fellow rapper...
  
   (PayDay/FFRR)
• The Watts Prophets
  The Watts Prophets
  The Watts Prophets are a group of musicians and poets from Watts, Los Angeles, California. Like their contemporaries, The Last Poets, the group combined elements of jazz music and spoken word performance, making the trio one that is often seen as a forerunner of contemporary hip hop music...
  
  
• Z factor
• Zero B