Positron Records is an independent record label

Independent record label

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 based in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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. The label was founded in 1998

1998 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...

 by Chris Randall

Chris Randall (musician)

Chris Randall is an American musician, and the former frontman of Sister Machine Gun. In 1998, he created a side-project called Micronaut, focusing on more instrumental music that was not necessarily appropriate for Sister Machine Gun....

, frontman of the industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band Sister Machine Gun

Sister Machine Gun

-The early years:Sister Machine Gun was formed by Chris Randall and Guilherme Machado in New York City. They performed at New Jersey's Pipeline, and New York's Limelight. The band went on a short hiatus after Chris Randall joined KMFDM's tour as a stage technician. After the tour, Randall left...

. Positron describes itself as an "anti-label" because they release only a handful of albums and give as much support to each release as they can. The label also features a Creative Commons license

Creative Commons licenses

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 for some of its albums, allowing individuals to upload those songs to peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer

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 websites as well as sample

Sampling (music)

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 parts of those songs for private or commercial usage.

Artists

• The Atomica Project
• Bizarbies
• Bounte
• Eco-Hed
• Chris Randall
  Chris Randall (musician)
  Chris Randall is an American musician, and the former frontman of Sister Machine Gun. In 1998, he created a side-project called Micronaut, focusing on more instrumental music that was not necessarily appropriate for Sister Machine Gun....
  
   (under his own name and also as Micronaut)
• S. Sturgis
• Scanalyzer
• Sister Machine Gun
  Sister Machine Gun
  -The early years:Sister Machine Gun was formed by Chris Randall and Guilherme Machado in New York City. They performed at New Jersey's Pipeline, and New York's Limelight. The band went on a short hiatus after Chris Randall joined KMFDM's tour as a stage technician. After the tour, Randall left...
  
   (and spin-off Amish Rake Fight)
• Matt Walker
  Matt Walker (drummer)
  Matt Walker is a musician and former drummer for Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins and current drummer for Morrissey.Matt Walker began his career in Chicago in the mid 80s, when Matt began playing drums for the already well known Scott Bennett of Scott Bennett & The Obvious and did double duty playing...
  
  (as Beautiful Assassins and also Impossible Recording Machine)