Enemy Records

{{Infobox record label

| name = Enemy Records

| founded = {{start date|1986}}

| founder = Michael Knuth, Bill Laswell

| country = Germany, United States

| location = Munich, Brooklyn

}}

Enemy Records is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York and Munich, Germany, founded in 1986. Its debut was the free jazz album Last Exit by the band of the same name.{{cite book |first=Todd S. |last=Jenkins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SkAHIkNh3CIC&pg=PR80 |title=Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |date=2004 |page=80 |isbn=9780313333132 |accessdate=October 18, 2014}}

History

The label was founded in 1986 by music enthusiast Michael Knuth and composer Bill Laswell. Eventually the two parted ways, with Knuth retaining sole distribution rights.{{cite book |first=Gary |last=Lucas. Rage Records Inc was also a subsidiary with Rosalie Sendelbach, and Melvin Gibbs as partners. However, Rosalie and Melvin parted ways with Enemy due to accounting issues. They continued Rage and released 6 albums and many singles. Melvin Gibbs then joined The Rollins Band and the two parted amicably and Rosalie Sendelbach went on to be the sole owner of Rage Records releasing albums also from her studio in Jamaica of Richie Brown and Tyrant. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbvXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT69 |title=Touched by Grace: My Time with Jeff Buckley |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |date=September 1, 2013 |page=69 |isbn=9781908279460 |accessdate=October 18, 2014}} The label primarily focused on issuing records by artists who were influenced by jazz and experimental music. It served as an outlet for musical acts such as Gary Lucas, Sonny Sharrock, Last Exit, 24-7 Spyz, Crash Worship and Universal Congress Of.

Discography

Enemy Records released 60 albums between 1986 and 1996

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Catalog ! Artist ! Album
EMY 101 \|Last Exit \|Last Exit
EMY 102 \|Sonny Sharrock \|Guitar
EMY 103 \|Last Exit \|The Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo
EMY 104 \|Sonny Sharrock Band \|Seize the Rainbow
EMY 105 \|Last Exit \|Cassette Recordings '87
EMY 106 \|SXL \|Into the Outlands
EMY 107 \|Blind Idiot God \|Undertow
EMY 108 \|Sonny Sharrock \|Live in New York
EMY 109 \|Friction \|Replicant Walk
EMY 110 \|Last Exit \|Best of Live
EMY 111 \|Various Artists \|Live at the Knitting Factory Volume One
EMY 112 \|Various Artists \|Live at the Knitting Factory Volume Two
EMY 113 \|Various Artists \|Live at the Knitting Factory Volume Three
EMY 114 \|Bachir Attar with Elliott Sharp \|In New York
EMY 115 \|Myra Melford Trio \|Jump
EMY 116 \|Elliott Sharp / Carbon \|Datacide
EMY 117 \|Universal Congress Of \|The Sad and Tragic Demise of Big Fine Hot Salty Black Wind
EMY 118 \|Various Artists \|Live at the Knitting Factory Volume 4
EMY 119 \|Sonny Sharrock \|Highlife
EMY 120 \| \|
EMY 121 \|Various Artists \|Knitting Factory Tours Europe 1991
EMY 122 \|Defunkt \|Live at the Knitting Factory NYC
EMY 123 \| \|
EMY 124 \| \|
EMY 125 \|The Jazz Passengers \|Live at the Knitting Factory
EMY 126 \|Gary Lucas \|Skeleton at the Feast
EMY 127 \|Jean-Paul Bourelly \|Trippin'
EMY 128 \|Jungle Pilots \|Near-Miss
EMY 129 \|John King / Electric World \|Hot Thumb in a Funky Groove
EMY 130 \|Kelvynator \|Refunkanation
EMY 131 \|Myra Melford Trio \|Now & Now
EMY 132 \|David Lopato \|Inside Outside
EMY 133 \|Gary Lucas \|Gods and Monsters
EMY 134 \|Elliott Sharp / Carbon \|Tocsin
EMY 135 \|Defunkt \|Crisis
EMY 136 \|Universal Congress Of \|The Eleventh-Hour Shine-On
EMY 137 \|Manu Dibango \|Afrijazzy
EMY 138 \|Liquid Hips \|Fool Injection
EMY 139 \|Various Artists \|Know Your Enemy
EMY 140 \|Defunkt \|Cum Funky
EMY 141 \|The Killer Shrews \|The Killer Shrews
EMY 142 \|Liquid Hips \|Static
EMY 143 \|Royal Crescent Mob \|Good Lucky Killer
EMY 144 \|Defunkt \|Cum Funky [Limited Edition Bonus Tracks]
EMY 145 \|Defunkt \|Live & Reunified
EMY 146 \|Gary Lucas \|Bad Boys of the Arctic
EMY 147 \|Joe Baiza, Rafa Gorodetksy and Tony Cicero \|Mecolodiacs
EMY 148 \|Defunkt Special Edition \|A Blues Tribute - Jimi Hendrix & Muddy Waters
EMY 149 \|Cyclone Temple \|My Friend Lonely
EMY 150 \|24-7 Spyz \|Temporarily Disconnected
EMY 151 \|Crash Worship \|Triple Mania II
EMY 152 \|Ed Hall \|La La Land
EMY 153 \|H.P. Zinker \|Mountains of Madness
EMY 154 \|Liquid Hips \|Rageaholic
EMY 155 \|24-7 Spyz \|6
EMY 156 \|Sonny Sharrock \|Into Another Light [Compilation]
EMY 157 \|James Chance and the Contortions \|Molotov Cocktail Lounge
EMY 158 \|Belizbeha \|Charlie's Dream
EMY 159 \|Mars \|Psycore
EMY 160 \|RinneRadio \|Rok

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Catalog

! Artist

! Album

EMY 101

|Last Exit

|Last Exit

EMY 102

|Sonny Sharrock

|Guitar

EMY 103

|Last Exit