Finger Lickin' Records is an English

record label "Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...

. Founded by Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik (known collectively as Soul of Man) in 1998, Finger Lickin' is solely dedicated to

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance musi ...

, mainly covering

breakbeat Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip-hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat ...

, electro and

hip hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip- ...

, elements of

disco Disco is a music genre, genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightclub, nightlife, particularly in African Americans, African-American, Italian-Americans, Italian-American, LGBTQ ...

and

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...

can be found throughout these genres.

Artists On Label

Artists on the label include the

Plump DJs Plump DJs are an English dance music duo consisting of Lee Rous and Andy Gardner, considered to be early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in the late 1990s. Throughout the 2000s, they have been very prolific creatively, releasing many celebrated ...

, Soul of Man,

A Skillz A.Skillz (born Adam Mills) is an English electronic musician. He has worked across the UK at FabricLive, Spectrum, Chew The Fat, Supercharged, The Boutique and Sugarbeat as well as gigs around the world at major events, festivals and music indus ...

, Slyde, Brothers Bud, The Drumattic Twins, 2 InDaBush, Freaky Jalapeno, Grinny Grandad as well as working very closely with

Krafty Kuts Krafty Kuts (real name Martin Reeves) is an English producer and DJ of electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or g ...

, and one off releases from

Dreadzone Dreadzone are a British electronic music group formed in 1993 in London by ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer Greg Roberts and musician Tim Bran. They have released nine studio albums, two live albums, and two compilations. They gained a reputatio ...

Osmosis Osmosis (, ) is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane, selectively-permeable membrane from a region of high water potential (region of lower solute concentration) to a region of ...

, Criminal Element Orchestra and Arc-En-Ciel.

Awards

Finger Lickin' have placed highly in the Breakspoll awards, winning best label in 2002 through 2005. Several of their artists have also been recognized by Breakspoll, in particular Plump DJs who took three awards in 2004: Best Producer, Best Single (for Soul Vibrates/Bullet Train) and Best Remix (Freestylers – Push Up).

References

External links

Finger Lickin' Records official site
* British independent record labels Electronic music record labels Hip-hop record labels {{Independent-record-label-stub

Artists On Label

Awards

See also

References

External links