Butterfly Recordings is the name used by three

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

1970s

"Butterfly Records", a

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record label created in 1977 by A.J. Cervantes in Los Angeles, California, and closed down in 1980.

1990s

"Butterfly Recordings", formed by the artist and electronic dance music producer

Martin Glover Martin Glover (born 27 December 1960), better known by his stage name Youth, is a British record producer and musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the rock band Killing Joke. He is also a member of the Fireman, along with Pa ...

(commonly known as Youth). Youth set up the second incarnation in the 1990s before setting up

Dragonfly Records A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...

. It released many electronic dance albums by such bands as

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, often in conjunction with

Big Life Big Life was a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry. It featured hundreds of releases from artists such as The Orb, Stare, Yazz, Junior Reid, Coldcut, De La Soul, and Damage. In 1999, the label was put into receivers ...

. It is sometimes cited as Butterfly Records.

2007

Youth and

Simon Tong Simon Tong (born 9 July 1972) is an English guitarist and keyboardist who was a member of the Verve between 1996 and 1999. He has played with Damon Albarn on tour with his bands Blur and Gorillaz, and as a member of the Good, the Bad & the Qu ...

formed the third incarnation to focus on folk and acoustic music. The label's first release is ''What the Folk'' (12 February 2007)."Youth and Simon Tong’s Butterfly Recordings release their first album, showcasing the label"
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Butterfly Recordings
— official site

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1970s

1990s

2007

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