Summary

Vicious Vinyl is a 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,...

 based in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia. The label was started in the late 1980s in Frankston

Frankston, Victoria

Frankston is a suburb within the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area in Victoria, Australia. It is located 40 km southeast of the state capital Melbourne at the southernmost edge of Greater Melbourne, near the beginnings of the Mornington Peninsula...

 by aspirant producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

/DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

s, Andy Van and John Course.

They released a number of local artists including Ground Level

Ground Level

Personnel*Jean-Marie Guilfoil – performer, producer*David Walker – performer, producer*David Briggs – mastering at The Production Workshop*Tony Espie – engineer at EMI 301 studios...

 , Bubbleman and Pendulum

Pendulum (ambient band)

Pendulum was an ambient house band active from 1994 - 1997. The group formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1994. This is not the same Pendulum as the drum and bass group that released Hold Your Colour, In Silico and Immersion....

 to major club scene acclaim. The label garnered major international success with the Vicious Grooves release of Andy Van's Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue (band)

Madison Avenue was an Australian house music duo consisting of writer-producer Andy Van Dorsselaer and singer-lyricist Cheyne Coates. Madison Avenue is best known for the song "Don't Call Me Baby", which peaked at number two on the Australian singles charts in 1999.- History :Before joining Madison...

 project and their single, "Don't Call Me Baby

Don't Call Me Baby

"Don't Call Me Baby" is a song by Madison Avenue released in 1999. The song is the band's biggest hit, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and soon after topping the New Zealand chart. The song was the 31st best selling of 2000 in the UK...

".

The label also released five volumes of the highly successful compilation series, Dance House and Club Anthems

Dance House and Club Anthems

Dance House and Club Anthems was an Australian dance music compilation series released between 1996 and 2002 by Melbourne record label Vicious Vinyl....

and their long line of albums under the name Vicious Cuts (or iCuts on iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

) with their newest release being Vicious Cuts Summer 2008.

Labels under Vicious

Zip Music


Vicious Vinyl


Vicious (Records)


Vicious Grooves


Vicious Urban