Vinyl Solution was a record label

Record label

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 of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the offshoot of an independent London

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 based record store based at 231 Portobello Road (now known as Intoxica Records). The label signed many unconventional acts in a number of uncompromising genres, such as skatepunk thrash

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 band The Stupids, Britcore rappers Gunshot

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, and Bomb Disneyland. The label had its biggest success when one of the label's techno

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-dance

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 groups, Bizarre Inc, made the UK Pop charts with the song "Playing With Knives."

Jonathan Saul Kane

Depth Charge

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's Jonathan Saul Kane

Jonathan Saul Kane

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 was a key member in the organisation of the label, with a number of projects releasing discs on the label. In the mid 1990s he set up D.C. Recordings as a replacement for Vinyl Solution, with several other new offshoots catering for a number of sub-genres in the dance music spectrum.The label's name was a pun on "The Final Solution", a Pere Ubu song.

Other artists

• Bizarre Inc
• Bolt Thrower
• Bomb Disneyland/Bomb Everything
• Cancer
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• Gunshot
  Gunshot (band)
  Gunshot was a British hip hop group, formed by MC Mercury, MC Alkaline, Q-Roc, DJ White Child Rix and DJ/MC Barry Blue in the area of Leyton in east London.-Career:...
  
  
• The Stupids
• The Bollweevils
• The Would Bes
• The Edsel Auctioneer
• Eon
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• The Venus Beads
• The Senseless Things
• Fudge Tunnel
• Red Rockers
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• Spacemaggots
• Sink
• Les Thugs
• Chemical People
• The Sound Asleep