LTM Recordings is an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 founded in Britain

United Kingdom

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 in 1983, and best known for high quality, well-packaged reissues of artists and music from 1978 to the present day, as well as modern classical and avant garde composition. The focus has been mostly on post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

, especially releases originally on Factory Records

Factory Records

Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and James and...

, Les Disques du Crepuscule

Les Disques du Crepuscule

Les Disques Du Crépuscule was a Belgian independent record label.The label was started in 1980 by Michel Duval and Annik Honoré, residents of Brussels who had previously organised and promoted concerts in the city. Initial releases were by Factory Records artists, and were labelled as being...

, Compact Organisation and Sarah Records

Sarah Records

Sarah Records was a UK independent record label active between 1987 and 1995, best known for its recordings of indie pop.The label was formed in Bristol in 1987 by Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes, and grew out of the fanzine scene at the time, Haynes having previously edited Are You Scared To Get...

. The label is based in Norfolk

Norfolk

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, England

England

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, and curated by James Nice.

LTM has also released audiobooks with archive recordings by major figures in 20th Century avant garde art, including Futurism & Dada Reviewed, Voices of Dada, Surrealism Reviewed, Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises, Bauhaus Reviewed and Cocteau Satie and Les Six.

Artists on the LTM label

• Antena
• Aberdeen
  Aberdeen
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• A Certain Ratio
  A Certain Ratio
  A Certain Ratio are a Post-punk band formed in 1977 in Manchester, England. While originally part of the punk rock movement, they soon added funk and dance elements to their sound. They are sometimes referred to as "post punk funk"...
  
  
• Isabelle Antena
  Isabelle Antena
  Isabelle Antena is a French singer and songwriter, notable both as a founder of electro-samba pioneers Antena and also as a prolific and successful solo artist.BIOGRAPHY...
  
  
• Blurt
  Blurt
  Blurt is a British musical group founded by the poet, saxophonist and puppeteer Ted Milton in 1979 in Stroud, Gloucestershire; with Milton's brother Jake Milton, formerly of psychedelic group Quintessence, on drums and Peter Creese on guitar...
  
  
• Blue Orchids
• Biting Tongues
  Biting Tongues
  Biting Tongues were a post-punk band formed in Manchester, England in 1979, whose members went on to join Simply Red, Yargo, and 808 State.-History:...
  
  
• William S. Burroughs
  William S. Burroughs
  William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
  
  
• Steven Brown
• Berntholer
• Crawling Chaos
• Cath Carroll
  Cath Carroll
  Cath Carroll is a British musician and music journalist.-Career:Carroll was raised in Swansea, then Manchester. She played guitar in post-punk band Property of... in 1978, which also included former Warsaw drummer Tony Tabac. In 1979 she formed the band Glass Animals with her friend Liz Naylor...
  
  
• Celletti Alessandra
• Crispy Ambulance
  Crispy Ambulance
  Crispy Ambulance were an English rock band, formed in Manchester, United Kingdom in late 1977 by Alan Hempsall , Keith Darbyshire , Gary Madeley and Robert Davenport...
  
  
• Anna Domino
  Anna Domino
  Anna Domino is a Tokyo-born indie rock artist who has released several albums under that moniker, notably for Les Disques du Crepuscule and Factory Records. Notable performers Domino has collaborated with include The The, Blaine L. Reininger and Virginia Astley. She is also one half of the duo...
  
  
• Diagram Brothers
• Dislocation Dance
  Dislocation Dance
  Dislocation Dance were a post-punk band from Manchester, England. The group's original line-up is obscure; their first EP, a self-titled 7" as a co-release between two labels, Delicate Issues and New Hormones recorded in May 1980, lists its line-up as 'B' on vocals and keyboard; 'Dick' on drums;...
  
  
• Department S
  Department S (band)
  Department S were a British new wave band formed in 1980, who took their stage name from the 1960s TV series Department S. They are best known for their debut single, "Is Vic There?", which was originally released in December 1980.-1980s:...
  
  
• Devine & Statton
• French Impressionists
• Foreign Press
• The Field Mice
  The Field Mice
  The Field Mice were an indie pop band on the indie label Sarah Records. Initially a duo from South London suburb of Mitcham comprising Robert Wratten and Michael Hiscock, their first EP, Emma's House, was released in November 1988, and reached number 20 in the UK Independent Chart...
  
  
• Gnac
  Gnac
  gnac is a pseudonym used by songwriter and music producer Mark Tranmer. The name is derived from a short story by Italo Calvino in Marcovaldo entitled Luna e GNAC ....
  
  
• Gina X Performance
  Gina X Performance
  Gina X Performance was a German dance-rock/electropop ensemble from Cologne, consisting of vocalist Gina Kikoine and writer/producer Zeus B. Held, Ralph Morgenstern , Hinrich Sickenberger and Lazlo Czigany ....
  
  
• Gilbert & Lewis
• Paul Haig
  Paul Haig
  Paul Haig is a Scottish indie composer, musician and singer. He was originally a member of 1980s post-punk band Josef K who were signed to the Postcard record label...
  
  
• Hermine
  Hermine
  Hermine is a feminine form of Herman. Hermine, Herminie, or Hermin may refer to:-People:* Catharine Hermine Kølle , a Norwegian adventurer and painter* Hermine Baron , an American contract bridge player...
  
  
• Isolation Ward
  Isolation Ward
  Isolation Ward was a New Wave/Experimental band from Brussels, Belgium. Founding members are Jean Pierre Everaerts , Stephane Willocq , Thierry Heyndericks and Etienne Vernaeve . Contributing vocals/guitar include Nathalie Bourlard, Anne Kinna , Sylvie Honnay, Niki Mono, Eric Vanhoutte , and ...
  
  
• Richard Jobson
  Richard Jobson
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• Josef K
  Josef K (band)
  Josef K were a Scottish post-punk band, active between 1979 and 1982, who released singles on the Postcard Records label. The band was named after the protagonist of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial...
  
  
• Kalima
• Kid Montana
  Kid Montana
  Kid Montana began as an alter-ego for Belgian musician Jean-Marc Lederman in 1981. He released an EP entitled Statistics Mean Nothing When You Get On The Wrong Plane in early 1982. Following this he was joined by American singer Dudley Kludt for the remainder of the groups life-time...
  
  
• Ludus
  Ludus
  Luduș is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti , Cioarga , Ciurgău , Fundătura , Gheja and Roșiori .-History:* 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de...
  
  
• Virna Lindt
  Virna Lindt
  Virna Lindt was a musical act from Sweden. She released two albums, Shiver in 1983 and Play/Record in 1985, both on the Compact Organisation label, and both collaborations with writer/producer/arranger Tot Taylor. Combining pop, soundtrack and experimental influences, they have since been reissued...
  
  
• Lowlife
  Lowlife (band)
  Lowlife was a Scottish alternative rock/dream pop band, active from 1985 to 1997. Although the group never obtained mainstream popularity, they developed a cult following that continues to this day.-Pre Lowlife:...
  
  
• Minimal man
  Minimal man
  Minimal Man was an American industrial and experimental rock project, formed in 1979 in San Francisco, California. The group was founded and led by Patrick Miller, a visual and sound artist who moved to San Francisco in the late 1970s...
  
  
• Minny Pops
  Minny Pops
  Minny Pops were an Amsterdam-based new wave/electronic/art punk band, associated with the Ultra post-punk movement in the Netherlands and the Factory Records label in the UK....
  
  
• Miaow
• Marine
• The Names
• Northside
  Northside (band)
  Northside are a British band from Blackley and Moston, Manchester, England. Formed in 1989, they released their only album Chicken Rhythms on Factory Records in 1991...
  
  
• Northern Picture Library
  Northern Picture Library
  Northern Picture Library was a British dream pop group, formed in 1993 by Bobby Wratten and Annemari Davies, both former members of The Field Mice. They were soon joined by former Field Mice drummer Mark Dobson....
  
  
• The Occasional Keepers
• The Orchids
  The Orchids
  The Orchids are a Scottish twee pop band that achieved success with Sarah Records. Formed near Glasgow in 1986, the Orchids released a series of underground singles on the influential Sarah Records . The group's line-up comprised James Hackett , John Scally , Chris Quinn , Matthew Drummond and...
  
  
• The Passage
  The Passage (band)
  The Passage were a post-punk band from Manchester, UK who appeared on several record labels including Cherry Red Records, and their own label Night & Day, a subsidiary label to Virgin Records.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter Principle
  Peter Principle
  The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J...
  
  
• Quando Quango
  Quando Quango
  Quando Quango was a British, Manchester based new wave and dance project, formed by The Haçienda DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld and Reinier Rietveld. Their unique sound influenced the underground dance music scenes in New York and Chicago in the 1980s...
  
  
• Blaine L. Reininger
• The Room
  The Room (band)
  The Room were a post punk band from Liverpool formed in late 1979. They released three albums and several singles before breaking up in 1985. Two of the band members went on to form Benny Profane, Dust and Dead Cowboys.-History:...
  
  
• Revenge
  Revenge (band)
  Revenge was a band formed by New Order bassist Peter Hook and Lavolta Lakota and Rawhead singer Davyth Hicks on guitar and vocals, and Chris Jones . Revenge formed after New Order's hiatus in 1989-1990 and played their final gigs in January 1993...
  
  
• Eric Random
• The Royal Family and the Poor
  The Royal Family and the Poor
  The Royal Family and the Poor are a band from Liverpool, England, centred around multi-instrumentalist Mike Keane. After recording two singles and two albums for Factory Records in the 1980s, the band continued to release music into the 21st century.-History:...
  
  
• Erik Satie
  Erik Satie
  Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
  
  
• Severed Heads
  Severed Heads
  Severed Heads is an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, and were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright eventually left the group, leaving Ellard as a singular...
  
  
• Alison Statton & Spike
• Stockholm Monsters
  Stockholm Monsters
  Stockholm Monsters were a Post-punk band from Manchester who recorded for Factory Records between 1981 and 1987.-History:The band formed in Manchester in 1980 with a line-up of Tony France , Karl France , Lita Hira , and Shan Hira...
  
  
• Section 25
  Section 25
  Section 25 is an English post-punk band, best known for its single "Looking from a Hilltop" and its association with the Manchester record-label, Factory Records.-Early recordings 1977 - 1982 :...
  
  
• 23 Skidoo
• Thick Pigeon
• Winston Tong
  Winston Tong
  Winston Tong is an actor/playwright, visual artist, puppeteer, and singer/songwriter. He is best-known for his vocal work in Tuxedomoon, and for winning an Obie award in puppetry for "Bound Feet" in 1978.-Early years:...
  
  
• Tuxedomoon
  Tuxedomoon
  Tuxedomoon is an experimental post-punk/New Wave group formed in San Francisco, California, consisting of core members Blaine L. Reininger, Steven Brown and Peter Principle....
  
  
• Trembling Blue Stars
  Trembling Blue Stars
  Trembling Blue Stars is a London-based band that currently includes members Robert Wratten and Beth Arzy . Begun as a side project of Wratten's previous band Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars became Wratten's main band when Northern Picture Library broke up in 1995...
  
  
• Tunnelvision
• Ultramarine
  Ultramarine (band)
  Ultramarine are a UK-based ambient / ambient house band, formed in the early 1990s by Paul Hammond and Ian Cooper.-Biography:Hammond and Cooper first worked together in the band A Primary Industry during the mid-1980s. Following the split of this band, they formed Ultramarine and released...
  
  
• The Wake
  The Wake (band)
  The Wake were a British post punk and later indie pop band, founded in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard "Caesar" McInulty , Steven Allen and Joe Donnelly, who was later replaced by Bobby Gillespie...
  
  
• Wyndham Lewis
  Wyndham Lewis
  Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...