Trepan Records

{{Short description|English independent record label}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}

{{infobox record label

| name = Trepan Records

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| founder = Gus Robertson, of Razorlight
Adam Greves

| country = England

| location = London

| url = http://www.myspace.com/trepanrecords

}}

Trepan Records is an English independent record label and promotion company founded in London in 2007. It hosted The Great Brain Robbery, a B-movie themed evening of live music, burlesque, and DJs featuring guest spots and guerrilla gigs from musicians such as Johnny Borrell of Razorlight,Source Magazine: {{cite web |url=http://www.thesourcemag.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=63&task=videodirectlink&id=1 |title=Johnny Borrell – thesourcemag.net |accessdate=2008-10-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724101949/http://www.thesourcemag.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=63&task=videodirectlink&id=1 |archivedate=24 July 2011 }} Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen, Mystery Jets, Ed Harcourt and Pete Doherty.Grove Magazine: {{cite web |url=http://www.grovemagazine.co.uk/people-honeysuckle-weeks-smells-like-free-spirit--88543 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-10-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203172527/http://www.grovemagazine.co.uk/people-honeysuckle-weeks-smells-like-free-spirit--88543 |archivedate=3 December 2008 }}

Trepan Records described itself as "the label of the cranially connected – dedicated to drilling a hole in the side of the British music industry to expose our collective cortex". Its merchandise and advertising often uses the term: You Need This... Like A Hole in the Head.{{Cite web|url=http://trepan.it/index.html|title=roll up roll up...|date=30 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630080340/http://trepan.it/index.html|accessdate=2 September 2020|archive-date=30 June 2009}} Trepan Records released three Cranial Connections compilation albums with a fourth was due in Easter 2008 but it never eventuated. Trepan's first 7" single was released in 2009. It has since fallen into inactivity.