Red Rhino Records, also known as Red Rhino, was a British record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 which was developed by the independent record shop and wholesaler of the same name, all formed and run by "Tony K" (Tony Kostrzewa). It was part of the Cartel

The Cartel (record distributor)

The Cartel, usually known as the Cartel without capitalisation but with the definite article, was a co-operative record distribution organisation in the United Kingdom, set up by a number of small independent record labels to handle their distribution to record shops...

, a co-operative record distribution organisation in the United Kingdom, set up by a number of small 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:...

s to handle their distribution to record shops.

History

Set up at the end of the 1970s, it maintained its base in York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

 (with a shop in Gillygate) and through the early 1980s, with the growth of independently produced music, expanded its business to a point where the wholesale side became the separate entity, Red Rhino Distribution Limited. It also developed, in parallel with the main record label, a small music publishing company called Screaming Red Music and the subsidiary labels Ediesta and Red Rhino Europe (RRE), the latter notable for releases by Front 242

Front 242

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 and Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers

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. The label was closed down with the financial collapse of Red Rhino Distribution in 1988, while its subsidiary label Red Rhino Europe continued under the name RRE Records (or simply RRE) as a subsidiary of Play It Again Sam

Play It Again Sam (record label)

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. The most notable artists featured in the main label's catalogue were The Mekons, Skeletal Family

Skeletal Family

Skeletal Family were an English gothic rock band which formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England in December 1982. The band formed from the remaining membership of an earlier group, called The Elements, and took their name from the title of the song "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family"...

, :zoviet*france:

Zoviet France

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 and the first record releases by Pulp

Pulp (band)

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.

Discography

RED 1 The Odds Saturday Night (7 inch single)

RED 2 Akrylykz

Akrylykz

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 Spiderman (7 inch single)

RED 3 Deadbeats Choose You (7 inch single)

RED 4 unreleased Michael Switzerland Marilyn Monroe's Sister 7 inch single

RED 5 The Distributors Lean On Me (7 inch single)

RED 6 Rhythm Clicks Short Time (7 inch single)

RED 7 The Mekons Snow (7 inch single)

RED 8 Normil Hawaiians Gala Failed (12 inch single)

RED 9 The Distributors Hold (12 inch single)

RED 10 Soul On Ice

Soul On Ice

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 Underwater (12 inch single)

RED 11 unreleased

RED 12 Soviet France (untitled) (vinyl album)

RED 13 Time In Motion Quiet Time (7 inch single)

RED 14 1919 Caged (7 inch single)

RED 15 Xpozez 10,000 Marching Feet (7 inch single)

RED 16 Nod Dad (7 inch single)

RED 17 Steve Dixon Talking Candy Blues '82 (7 inch single)

RED 18 Hula Black Pop Workout (12 inch single)

RED 19 Time In Motion I Wanna Be Your Telephone (7 inch single)

RED 20 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are a rock band that were formed in Leeds, England in early 1981.- History :The band was formed by guitarist/songwriter Chris Reed and vocalist Mark Sweeney, along with bassist Steve Smith and drummer Mick Brown...

 Beating My Head (7 inch single)

RED 21 Darkness & Jive Hooked On You (7 inch single)

RED 22 1919 Repulsion (7 inch single)

RED 23 Soviet France Norsch (vinyl album)

RED 24 Soul On Ice Widescreen (7 inch single)

REDLP 25 1919 Machine (vinyl album)

RED 26 Zoot and the Roots

Zoot and the Roots

Zoot and the Roots were a British jazz band based in York during the 1980s, fronted by Miles Gilderdale and featuring saxophonist Snake Davis. It also featured future video game music composer, Grant Kirkhope on trumpet.-Singles and EPs:...

 Little Red Rooster (7 inch single)

RED 27 Darkness & Jive Furnace (7 inch single)

RED 28 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Take It All (7 inch single)

REDLP 29 Pulp It

It (album)

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(vinyl album)

RED 30 See You In Vegas Work (7 inch single)

RED 31 Tronics Wildcat Rock (7 inch single)

RED 32 Pulp My Lighthouse (7 inch single)

RED 33 Punilux Hold Me (Never Mould Me) (7 inch single)

REDLP 34 Punilux 7 (vinyl album)

REDLP 35 Hula Cut From Inside (vinyl album)

RED 36 Skeletal Family The Night (7 inch single)

RED 37 Pulp Everybody's Problem (7 inch single)

REDLP 38 Native Europe Searching For An Orchestration (vinyl album)

RED 39 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry He's Read (7 inch single)

REDLP 40 Soviet France Mohnomishe (vinyl album)

RED 41 Skeletal Family She Cries Alone (7 inch single)

REDT 41 Skeletal Family She Cries Alone (12 inch single)

REDT 42 Skeletal Family Recollect (vinyl album)

REDT 43 Skeletal Family So Sure (12 inch single)

REDLP 44 Skeletal Family Burning Oil

Burning Oil

Burning Oil, released in 1984, is Skeletal Family's debut studio album. The band had only been together less than two years by the time this album was released by the independent label Red Rhino Records...

(vinyl album)

REDLP 45 Soviet France Eostre (vinyl album)

REDLP 46 Punilux Feels Like Dancing Wartime (vinyl album)

REDT 47 Hula Fever Car (12 inch single)

RED 48 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry This Today (12 inch single)

RED 49 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Monkeys On Juice (7 inch single)

REDT 49 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Monkeys On Juice (12 inch single)

REDLP 50 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About The Weather

Talk about the Weather

Talk About The Weather is the debut album of British rock band Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. It was released in 1985 in the UK on Red Rhino, an independent music record label...

(vinyl album)

RED 51 La Muerte

La Muerte

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 Surrealist Mystery (12 inch single)

RED 52 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Hollow Eyes (7 inch single)

REDLP 53 Hula Murmur (vinyl album)

RED 54 Skeletal Family Promised Land (7 inch single)

REDT 54 Skeletal Family Promised Land (12 inch single)

RED 55 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Chance (7 inch single)

REDT 55 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Chance (12 inch single)

RED 56 Hula Get The Habit (7 inch single)

REDT 56 Hula Get The Habit (12 inch single)

REDLP 57 Skeletal Family Futile Combat (vinyl album)

REDC 58 Zoviet France Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music

Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music

Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music is the sixth album by the British avant-garde music group :zoviet*france:, who, when it was recorded, identified themselves as :zoviet-france:. Recorded in 1984 and 1985, it was first released in 1985 by the band's label Singing Ringing in collaboration with...

(2 x audio cassette, joint release with Singing Ringing)

REDT 60 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Spinning Round (12 inch single)

RED 62 Hula Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass (7 inch single)

REDT 62 Hula Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass (12 inch single)

REDLP 63 Hula 1,000 Hours (vinyl double album)

RED 64 Hula Freeze Out (7 inch single)

REDT 64 Hula Freeze Out (12 inch single)

REDC 65 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon (album)

Paint Your Wagon, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's second album, was released in 1986 in the UK on Red Rhino, an independent music record label. It would be the band's final original LP release on the label before signing to major label Situation Two in 1987...

(audio cassette)

REDCD 65 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Paint Your Wagon (compact disc

Compact Disc

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)

REDF 65 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Paint Your Wagon (limited edition 7 inch single)

RED 66 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Walking On Your Hands (7 inch single)

REDT 66 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Walking On Your Hands (12 inch single)

REDLP 67 Zoviet France Misfits, Loony Tunes And Squalid Criminals (vinyl album)

REDLP 67A Zoviet France Gesture Signal Threat (audio cassette)

REDLP 68 Zoviet France A Flock Of Rotations (vinyl album)

REDLP 68A Zoviet France Assault and Mirage (audio cassette)

REDLP 71 Hula Shadowland (vinyl album)

REDT 72 Hula Black Wall Blue (12 inch single)

REDT 73 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Cut Down (12 inch single)

REDT 74 Hula Poison (12 inch single)

REDLP 75 Hula Voice (vinyl album)

REDC 75 Hula Voice (audio cassette)

REDD 76 The Lorries

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are a rock band that were formed in Leeds, England in early 1981.- History :The band was formed by guitarist/songwriter Chris Reed and vocalist Mark Sweeney, along with bassist Steve Smith and drummer Mick Brown...

 Crawling Mantra (2 x 7 inch single)

REDT 76 The Lorries Crawling Mantra (12 inch single)

REDLP 77 Brendan Croker Boat Trips In The Bay (vinyl album)

REDT 79 The Creepers

The Creepers

The Creepers were an English rock music group, formed in Manchester in 1982, originally as Marc Riley & The Creepers. After being dismissed from The Fall by Mark E. Smith, Marc Riley formed his own record label with Jim Khambatta, and his own band. The first single "Favourite Sister" was...

 Brute Terminally Ill Mix (12 inch single)

REDT 80 Hula Cut Me Loose (12 inch single)

REDLP 82 The Creepers Rock 'n' Roll Liquorice Flavour (vinyl album)

REDCD 83 Hula Threshold (compact disc)

REDLP 83 Hula Threshold (vinyl album)

REDC 83 Hula Threshold (audio cassette)

REDCD 84 The Gun Club Mother Juno (compact disc)

REDLP 84 The Gun Club Mother Juno (vinyl album)

REDC 85 Hula Cut From Inside/ Murmur (audio cassette)

REDCD 86 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Smashed Hits (compact disc)

REDLP 86 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Smashed Hits (vinyl album)

REDLP 87 The Rhythm Sisters

The Rhythm Sisters

The Rhythm Sisters, an English acoustic/pop duo from Leeds, emerged in 1987 with the album, Road to Roundhay Pier. Sisters Mandi and Debi Laek released their first single, "American Boys", which reached number seven in the UK Independent Chart, while touring extensively in the UK and Europe with...

 Road To Roundhay Pier (vinyl album)

REDCD 88 various artists Til Things Are Brighter...A Tribute To Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

(compact disc)

REDLP 88 various artists Til Things Are Brighter...A Tribute To Johnny Cash (vinyl album)

REDCD 91 Zoviet France Shouting At The Ground (compact disc)

REDLP 91 Zoviet France Shouting At The Ground (2 x vinyl album)

RED1B3 81 Red Army Choir Schizophrenic (vinyl EP}

TACKLP 1 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System

Tackhead

Tackhead are an industrial hip-hop group that were most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, industrial music and electronica intersect...

Tackhead Tape Time (vinyl album)

TAP 1 The Distributors Wireless (7 inch single)

External links

• Discogs.com, a community-built database of music information
• http://www.45cat.com/record/red1b3, Red Army Choir