Angular Recording Corporation
{{Short description|British independent record label}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{More citations needed|date=August 2020}}
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| founded = 2003
| founder = Joe Daniel, Joe Margetts
| defunct = 2012
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| country = United Kingdom
| location = London
| url = [https://angular.greedbag.com/ Angular Store]
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Angular Recording Corporation was an independent record label founded in New Cross, South East London. It was established in June 2003 by two ex-Goldsmiths College students, Joe Daniel and Joe Margetts, who reclaimed a local Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station and made it their first artefact: ARC 001.{{cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/01741-angular-recording-corporation-s-spotify-playlist |title=Angular Recording Corporation's Spotify Playlist |date=2009 |work=The Quietus |publisher= |accessdate=29 May 2010}}
The label's founders were influenced by a love of angular pop music and the Manchester label Factory Records. Gaining funding through medical testing, Angular Recording Corporation was able to finance its debut release in November 2003, the NME-championed The New Cross : An Angular Sampler, making it the lead review in the magazine.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/angular-shacks-up-with-radar-bumper-mp3-giveaway-771980 |title=Angular Shacks Up With Radar |date=2009 |work=NME |publisher= |accessdate=14 December 2010}}
In the 2011 England riots, the label lost all its stock and entire back catalogue in the PIAS warehouse fire.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/aug/09/independent-record-labels-stock-london-riots |title=Independent record labels fear ruinous stock loss in London riots fire |date=2011 |work=The Guardian |publisher= |accessdate=9 August 2013}}
An Angular Store website remains active.
Discography
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| Catalogue number
|Artist |Title |Release date |
| ARC 001
|Angular Recording Corporation |Ordnance Survey Trig Point |1 Jun 2003 |
| ARC 002
|Various artists |The New Cross: An Angular Sampler (compilation) |25 Nov 2003 |
| ARC 003
|Angular Recording Corporation |The Thrasher: An Angular Raffle | |
| ARC 004
|Various artists |Rip Off Your Labels: More Angular Product (comp) |28 Jun 2004 |
| ARC 005
|Elizabeth Harper |Elizabeth Harper (album) |29 Nov 2004 |
| ARC 006
|The Fucks |EP One |15 Nov 2004 |
| ARC 007
|Giddy Stratospheres (single) |29 Nov 2004 |
| ARC 008
|Mirror Mirror (single) |18 Apr 2005 |
| ARC 009
|Appropriation (single) |20 Jun 2005 |
| ARC 010
|Angular Recording Corporation |Trig Point 5488 | |
| ARC 011
|Descend/Carnival (single) |6 Feb 2006 |
| ARC 012
|Gravity's Rainbow (single) |27 Mar 2006 |
| ARC 014
|Let Her Go (single) |1 May 2006 |
| ARC 015
|Hush Away (single) |21 Aug 2006 |
| ARC 016
|Now Pluvial (EP) |30 Oct 2006 |
| ARC 017
|Various artists |Future Love Songs (compilation) |27 Nov 2006 |
| ARC 018
|Angular Recording Corporation |[https://web.archive.org/web/20111201091120/http://www.arc018.com/index.php Website] | |
| ARC 019
|Angular Recording Corporation |Office | |
| ARC 020
|Angular Recording Corporation |Trig Point 5486 | |
| ARC 021
|Foreo (single) |12 Feb 2007 |
| ARC 022
|Angular Recording Corporation |The Townace | |
| ARC 023
|Navigate, Navigate (single) |31 Mar 2007 |
| ARC 024
|Kicking Sand (single) |4 Jun 2007 |
| ARC 025
|Grown-Ups (album) |11 Jun 2007 |
| ARC 026
|Troubles of Keneat (single) |1 Oct 2007 |
| ARC 027
|Numbers/Colours (single) |28 Oct 2007 |
| ARC 028
|The Lost Pages (album) |5 Nov 2007 |
| ARC 029
|Various artists |A Free Angular Sampler (EP) |1 Oct 2008 |
| ARC 030
|Angular Recording Corporation |Trig Point 6611 | |
| ARC 031
|Va Va Va (single) |24 Mar 2008 |
| ARC 032
|Beat Pyramid (album) |28 Jan 2008 |
| ARC 033
|Navvy |4 Songs (EP) |3 Mar 2008 |
| ARC 034
|Elvis (single) |11 Feb 2008 |
| ARC 035
|Swords of Truth (single) |28 Apr 2008 |
| ARC 036
|Zah und Zaheet (single) |7 Jul 2008 |
| ARC 037
|Enterprise Reversal (album) |28 Jul 2008 |
| ARC 038
|Singles (album) |20 Oct 2008 |
| ARC 039
|One Eight Zero (single) |8 Dec 2008 |
| ARC 040
|Angular Recording Corporation |Trig Point 1385 | |
| ARC 041
|Je Suis Animal |Self-Taught Magic from a Book (album) |1 Dec 2008 |
| ARC 042
|Je Suis Animal |The Mystery of Marie Roget (single) |1 Feb 2009 |
| ARC 043
|Departure (single) |9 Feb 2009 |
| ARC 044
|Alight of Night |16 Feb 2009 |
| ARC 045
|Angular Recording Corporation |Angular T-shirt | |
| ARC 046
|Barons Court Turret (single) |23 Feb 2009 |
| ARC 047
|Navvy |Disco (single) |9 Mar 2009 |
| ARC 048
|Navvy |Idyll Intangible (album) |16 Mar 2009 |
| ARC 049
|The Vichy Government |Carrion Camping (album) |2 Mar 2009 |
| ARC 050
|Angular Recording Corporation |Angular enamel badge | |
| ARC 051
|The Vichy Government |Whores in Taxis (album) |16 Mar 2009 |
| ARC 052
|The Vichy Government |White Elephant (album) |29 Mar 2009 |
| ARC 053
|The Vichy Government |Vanity Publishing (album) |13 Apr 2009 |
| ARC 054
|Love is a Wave (single) |25 May 2009 |
| ARC 055
|The Vichy Government |The Man Delusion (single) |August 1988 |
| ARC 056
|The Sound-Board Breathes (album) |26 Oct 2009 |
| ARC 057
|Angular Recording Corporation |Spotify playlist | |
| ARC 058
|Cargo Cult (single) |17 Aug 2009 |
| ARC 059
|Sea Containers House (single) |21 Oct 2009 |
| ARC 060
|Angular Recording Corporation |An Angular hamper |31 July 2010 |
| ARC 061
|Angular Recording Corporation |Angular badge | |
| ARC 062
|Lower Leg (single) |2 Nov 2009 |
| ARC 063
|Frauhaus! (album) |30 Nov 2009 |
| ARC 064
|We Want War (single) |12 Jan 2010 |
| ARC 065
|Hidden (album) |18 Jan 2010 |
| ARC 066
|Yowser Yowser Yowser (EP) |22 Feb 2010 |
| ARC 067
|Various artists |Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics, Vol. 1 (album) |9 Mar 2010 |
| ARC 068
|Wymmin's Final (single) |10 May 2010 |
| ARC 069
|E. Gold feat. Alexis |Separate our Hearts (EP) |26 Jul 2010 |
| ARC 071
|Yowser Yowser Yowser remixes (single) |22 Mar 2010 |
| ARC 072
|Attack Music (single) |19 Apr 2010 |
| ARC 073
|Pamplona (single) |15 Jun 2010 |
| ARC 074
|Angular Recording Corporation |Angular badge |17 May 2010 |
| ARC 075
|Play Dusty For Me (album) |5 Jul 2010 |
| ARC 076
|Hologram (single) |10 Aug 2010 |
| ARC 077
|Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. (album) |8 Nov 2010 |
| ARC 078
|Ruth |Polaroïd/Roman/Photo (album) |22 Nov 2010 |
| ARC 079
|Hidden remixes (EP) |15 Nov 2010 |
| ARC 080
|Angular Recording Corporation |Trig Point 3220 |25 Aug 2012 |
| ARC 081
|Angular Recording Corporation |Independent label market, Berwick Street (artefact) |21 May 2011 |
| ARC 082
|New Harmony (single) |4 Apr 2011 |
| ARC 083
|New Harmony (album) |18 Apr 2011 |
| ARC 084
|This Many Boyfriends |Young Lovers Go Pop! (single) |22 Aug 2011 |
| ARC 085
|The Ethiopian (12" EP) |27 Feb 2012 |
| ARC 086
|Angular Recording Corporation |Independent label market, Brooklyn (artefact) |8 Oct 2011 |
| ARC 087
|Angular Recording Corporation |An Angular Nudge Pot (artefact) |10 Dec 2011 |
| ARC 088
|Angular Recording Corporation |Independent label market, Spitalfields |10 Dec 2011 |
| ARC 089
|Angular Recording Corporation |An Angular Tombola (artefact) |10 Dec 2011 |
| ARC 091
|This Many Boyfriends |Starling (single) |20 Feb 2012 |
| ARC 092
|Eleven Pond |Watching Trees (12" EP) |23 Apr 2012 |
| ARC 093
|This Many Boyfriends |I Should Be A Communist (single) |21 May 2012 |
| ARC 094
|Angular Recording Corporation |Independent label market, London |19 May 2012 |
| ARC 096
|This Many Boyfriends |Number One (single) |1 Oct 2012 |
| ARC 097
|This Many Boyfriends |This Many Boyfriends (album) |8 Oct 2012 |
Samplers
The first two Angular samplers launched the careers of a number of bands, including: Art Brut, Bloc Party and The Long Blondes.
ARC 002: The New Cross
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- Bloc Party - "The Marshals Are Dead"
- The Fairies Band - "Pink Socks Rock"
- The Vichy Government - "Make Love to the Camera"
- Nemo - "Picadilly in Sepia"
- The Violets - "Laxteen"
- Luxembourg - "Making Progress"
- The Swear - "High Rise"
- Elizabeth Harper - "Don Juan"
- Lovers of Today - "Guy Fawkes"
- Art Brut - "Formed a Band"
- Lady Fuzz - "What's it Worth?"
- Gifthorse - "You Save my Life, I'll Ruin Yours"
- The Bridge - "First Frenzy"
- Mark Sampson - "The London Eye"
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ARC 004: Rip Off Your Labels
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- The Vichy Government - "I Control Discourse"
- The Violets - "Stealer"
- Art Brut - "Top of the Pops"
- The Fucks - "Argos"
- The Long Blondes - "Autonomy Boy"
- Showboys - "Factory"
- The Swear - "Advert Boy"
- The Boyfriends - "No Tomorrow"
- Elizabeth Harper - "Trouble in the Palace"
- Gifthorse - "Happy Daggers"
- Lovers of Today - "A Short Nasty Shock"
- Luxembourg - "Let Us Have It"
- The Rocks - "We Got It (Galen Remix)"
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References
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External links
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- [https://angular.greedbag.com/ Angular Store]
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Category:British independent record labels
Category:Record labels based in London
Category:Record labels established in 2003
Category:Alternative rock record labels
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