Tummy Touch Records
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Tummy Touch Records is an international record label with offices in London, UK and New York City, USA best known for releasing quirky dance and downtempo music. Artists on Tummy Touch include Groove Armada
Groove Armada
Groove Armada is an English electronic music duo from London, England comprising Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'"...

, Patrick & Eugene, Tutto Matto
Tutto Matto
Tutto Matto is a house, disco and electrofunk duo from Genoa, Italy, but based in London, UK. The duo is formed by DJs and Producers Jurij Prette and Paolo Guglielmino...

, Tom Vek
Tom Vek
Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician who works under the name Tom Vek.-Career:...

, and label founder Tim Lee
Tim Lee (English musician)
Tim Lee, aka Tim 'Love' Lee is an English musician, record producer and DJ. He is the founder of Tummy Touch Records. He is most notable as a pioneer of electronic dance and downtempo trip-hop music. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s Lee released three albums and three commercially available mix albums...

 to name a few.

Tummy Touch Music Group

Tummy Touch Records is a part of the Tummy Touch Music Group (TTMG). TTMG does production, publishing, licensing, and manages a stock music library in association with KPM Musichouse
KPM Musichouse
KPM Musichouse is a company which provides library music, formed by the merger of KPM and Musichouse .-History:KPM music has been used in many films and television programmes worldwide...

 for commercial uses called Tummy Touch Moods. Tummy Touch Moods artists include Keith Mansfield
Keith Mansfield
Keith Mansfield is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC...

, Alan Hawkshaw
Alan Hawkshaw
Alan Hawkshaw is a British composer and performer, particularly of themes for movies and television programmes...

, Alan Parker
Alan Parker (musician)
Alan Parker is a British guitarist and composer. Parker was trained by Julian Bream at London’s Royal Academy of Music....

, and John Cameron
John Cameron (musician)
John Cameron is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well-known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to 'pop' recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and the group Hot Chocolate...

.

TTMG oversees the publishing rights to the Katrina And The Waves
Katrina and the Waves
Katrina and the Waves was an English pop rock band, best known for their 1985 hit "Walking on Sunshine" and their 1997 Eurovision Song Contest victory with the song "Love Shine a Light".-Pre-history: The Waves and Mama's Cookin' :...

 music catalog which includes the hit "Walking On Sunshine
Walking on Sunshine (song)
"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album. The re-recorded version was at first released on the band's 1985 self-titled album as the album's second single and reached No. 4 in Australia, No. 9 in the United States,...

".

Tummy Touch Music Group also works with RAK Records
RAK Records
Rak Records was a British record label, founded by record producer Mickie Most in 1969. Rak was home of artists like Herman's Hermits, Suzi Quatro, Mud, Kenny, Hot Chocolate, Smokie, Arrows, Span, Racey and Kim Wilde. Rak Records were distributed via a licensing deal with EMI, which bought the...

 publishing division to put out new and re-released
material from the RAK catalog.

History

Tummy Touch was founded 1996 in the UK by Tim Lee
Tim Lee (English musician)
Tim Lee, aka Tim 'Love' Lee is an English musician, record producer and DJ. He is the founder of Tummy Touch Records. He is most notable as a pioneer of electronic dance and downtempo trip-hop music. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s Lee released three albums and three commercially available mix albums...

 aka Tim 'Love' Lee. Their first release was "The Nightlife EP" - by Stop / E.D.O. (MBTT 001). Groove Armada
Groove Armada
Groove Armada is an English electronic music duo from London, England comprising Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'"...

 had their first 12" vinyl release on Tummy Touch in 1997 with "Captain Sensual" (MBTT 003) and "At the River
At the River
"At the River" is a song by English electronica duo Groove Armada. It was released as a single in 1997 on 7" vinyl, limited to 500 copies. The song was later added to the track listing of their second album, Vertigo, released in April 1999. On 26 July 1999, the single was re-released on 12" and CD...

" (TUCH011), which hit 19 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

. Groove Armada's first album "Northern Star" (TUCH 103) also came out on Tummy Touch a year later on 9 March 1998.

Artists

  • Alan Moorhouse
  • Alan Parker
    Alan Parker (musician)
    Alan Parker is a British guitarist and composer. Parker was trained by Julian Bream at London’s Royal Academy of Music....

     & John Cameron
    John Cameron (musician)
    John Cameron is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well-known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to 'pop' recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and the group Hot Chocolate...

  • Chantilly
  • Chungking
    Chungking (band)
    -Overview:Chungking was set in motion by the basement-based musical tinkerings of Sean Hennessey and his friend James Stephenson. The pair eventually decided to obtain a vocalist and discovered that Hennessey's then-girlfriend, Jessie Banks, could sing...

  • Circuits
  • Coco Electrik
    Coco Electrik
    Coco Electrik is an electropop band and musical alias of Australian singer, musician and songwriter Anne Booty and producer Paul Harrison aka Royal Appointment.-History:...

  • Crackpot
  • Crazy Girl
  • Dawn Landes
    Dawn Landes
    Dawn Landes is a Louisville, Kentucky-born, New York City-based musician who performs under her own name. She is also a sometimes-member of the band Hem, where she has lent her voice to harmony vocals, and plays glockenspiel. She has worked as an audio engineer at Stratosphere Sound in New York...

  • Dolphin Boy
  • Groove Armada
    Groove Armada
    Groove Armada is an English electronic music duo from London, England comprising Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'"...

  • Keith Mansfield
    Keith Mansfield
    Keith Mansfield is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC...

     & Alan Hawkshaw
    Alan Hawkshaw
    Alan Hawkshaw is a British composer and performer, particularly of themes for movies and television programmes...

  • Leo Young
  • Los Chicharrons
  • Mains Ignition
  • Mammal
  • Mescalito
  • Organic Audio
  • Patrick and Eugene
    Patrick and Eugene
    Patrick & Eugene are an English musical duo, made up of Patrick Dawes and Eugene Bezodis. They are best known for their songs, "The Birds and the Bees", which was featured in a Volkswagen commercial, and "Don't Stop," which featured in a commercial for The Laughing Cow cheese...

  • Patrick Dawes
  • The Phenomenal Handclap Band
    Phenomenal Handclap Band
    Phenomenal Handclap Band are a Psych-Soul band from New York City. Their first full-length record, Phenomenal Handclap Band, came out in 2009 on Friendly Fire Recordings in the US and in 2010 on Tummy Touch Records. The album was also released world wide by KSR in Japan, Inertia in Australia, GOMMA...

  • Quad Throw Salchow
  • Revolvo
  • Royal Appointment
  • Sargasso Trio
  • Skylab
  • Souvenir
  • Striplight
  • Stuntmen
  • Tara Busch
  • Tim 'Love' Lee
  • Tom Vek
    Tom Vek
    Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician who works under the name Tom Vek.-Career:...

  • The Toy Band
  • Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
    Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
    The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an "indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band", from the United States. Originally from Seattle, Washington, they are now based in New York, New York.-Overview:...

  • Turner Cody
  • Tutto Matto
    Tutto Matto
    Tutto Matto is a house, disco and electrofunk duo from Genoa, Italy, but based in London, UK. The duo is formed by DJs and Producers Jurij Prette and Paolo Guglielmino...

  • Waxploitation
  • Zook

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