Draft:Dutch East India Trading
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{{Short description|American music distributor}}
{{For|the trading company|Dutch East India Company}}
Dutch East India Trading was an American independent record label based in the Long Island village of Rockville Centre. It released music by such artists as Sun Dial, The Orb, The Smiths, Soul-Junk, Die Monster Die, Prong, The Cure, Robert Wyatt, A Guy Called Gerald, Bongwater, Opium Den, Indian Bingo, Meat Beat Manifesto, Christian Death, and Doom.
Homestead Records, Giant Records, Grass Records and Rockville Records were among the imprints of the Dutch East India Trading group.
Dutch East India Trading was an umbrella music distributor that operated from 1980 to 2003.{{cite web |title=Dutch East India Trading |url=https://rateyourmusic.com/label/dutch_east_india_trading/ |access-date=28 October 2024}} Barry Tenebaum was the CEO.{{cite journal |title=Homestead Records: Frontier Days |journal=Magnet Magazine |date=26 August 2006 |url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2006/08/25/homestead-records-frontier-days/ |access-date=28 October 2024}}
The company ceased operations in 2003.
Record labels
=Giant Records=
{{For|the Irving Azoff-founded label|Giant Records (Warner Bros. subsidiary label)}}
Giant Records was an independent record label run by Steev Riccardo, based in Long Island, New York. Giant was dedicated to punk rock groups, such as Dag Nasty and Uniform Choice.{{cite web |last1=Rettman |first1=Tony |title=INTERVIEW: STEEV RICCARDO PT I |url=https://rettman.substack.com/p/interview-steev-riccardo-pt-i |website=No Idols |access-date=4 October 2024 |date=25 August 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Rettman |first1=Tony |title=INTERVIEW: STEEV RICCARDO PART II (FINAL) |url=https://rettman.substack.com/p/interview-steev-riccardo-part-ii |website=No Idols |access-date=28 October 2024 |date=10 September 2021}}
==Giant Records artists==
- 7 Seconds
- Anna Domino
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Dag Nasty
- Government Issue
- Indestructible Noise Command
- Marginal Man
- Uniform Choice
- Verbal Assault
=Homestead Records=
{{Main|Homestead Records}}
=Rockville=
Sources
Could be useful
- {{cite news |last1=Powell |first1=Austin |title=Slanted & Enchanted |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2010-01-22/940846/ |access-date=28 October 2024 |work=www.austinchronicle.com}} also https://www.austinchronicle.com/download/2010-01-22/chronicle.pdf
- {{cite news |last1=Garrett |first1=Jonathan |title=Not What They Had Planned: The Unlikely Endurance of the Wrens |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9219-not-what-they-had-planned-the-unlikely-endurance-of-the-wrens/ |access-date=28 October 2024 |work=Pitchfork |date=18 September 2013}}
- {{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Shawn |title=thus spake drake: Gimme indie rock! |url=https://drakelelane.blogspot.com/2006/08/gimme-indie-rock.html |website=thus spake drake |access-date=28 October 2024 |date=10 August 2006}}
- {{cite journal |title=New Music Seminar |journal=The Hard Report |date=17 June 1988 |issue=83 |page=21 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Hard-Report/1988/Hard-1988-06-17.pdf |access-date=28 October 2024 |format=PDF}}
- {{cite news |last1=Helou |first1=Paul |title=Independents Find Niches in World of Records |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/nyregion/independents-find-niches-in-world-of-records.html |access-date=28 October 2024 |date=28 Feb 1993 |archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.10.28-201748/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/nyregion/independents-find-niches-in-world-of-records.html |archive-date=28 October 2024 |quote=For the Dutch East India Distribution Company in Rockville Centre, marketing and distribution is also of utmost importance. The company distributes to more than 700 accounts, including large chains like Tower Records and Sam Goody. The owner, Barry Tenenbaum, began his business in high school as a mail-order service for Beatles records and memorabilia, a line of business that is still active. "The bread and butter of the company is the mom-and-pop independent-record stores," the vice president, Alan Mann, said. Dutch East, which has 35 employees, has three labels for hard rock, punk or alternative rock. In the last 13 years the company has manufactured and distributed the records and CD's of more than 50 bands, said Camille Sciara, the buyer for the company for 10 years. Homestead has signed bands like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Junior and Nick Cave that have contracts with major labels like Geffen, Warner Brothers and Epic, respectively, Mr. Mann added. In the avant-garde and underground genres, whose audiences are mainly high school and college students, he said, Homestead is one of best-known independents. Rockville Records features a band called Uncle Tupelo, which was produced by Peter Buck, the guitarist from REM. The band is the best-selling in-house group, Mr. Mann said, and, the company has hired an independent producer because it feels that the record should have a wider appeal.Vegetarian Musicians The newest label, Grass, is releasing a collection of alternative-rock arrangements of Frank Sinatra songs. "We sell a lot of straight-edge hard core," said Ms. Sciara, noting that although the nomenclature sounds gruesome and perhaps even dangerous, "the musicians don't drink, don't do drugs and usually are vegetarians. "You'd never know if you listened to the music," she said. "Now this group," Mr. Mann added as he held up a CD in a plastic bag sprinkled with fake marijuana, presumably oregano, "they do do drugs."}}
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