Secretly Group is a family of

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based in

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. The group is made up of

Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Secretly Canadian is a label included in Secretly Group, which ...

, Jagjaguwar, and

Dead Oceans Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also ...

. Secretly Canadian, the first of the labels, was formed in 1996 by brothers

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and

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, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill. Their first release was a re-issue of an album by

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. Weddle later left to form label Family Vineyard; the remaining trio were joined by

Darius Van Arman Darius Van Arman is an American businessman, co-founder, and co-owner of Secretly Group, an independent label group that is based in Indiana. Early life Van Arman's father was a math professor who grew up in Detroit. Education and early car ...

, as well as his label Jagjaguwar, in 1999. The two labels had worked closely before Jagjaguwar's offices moved to Bloomington to work alongside Secretly Canadian's.Secretly Canadian: Mythological Proportions
Spacelab, August 8, 2007. Accessed September 30, 2008. In February 2007, the partners behind Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, along with Phil Waldorf, former label manager of

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, announced a third label, Dead Oceans. The three labels share offices and staff in Bloomington, IN; however, they maintain distinct and separate aesthetic visions. In June 2013,

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, an existing re-issuer out of Chicago, joined forces with Secretly Canadian and the collection of labels known as Secretly Group. All four labels are distributed by Secretly Group's in-house distribution arm, Secretly Distribution.

Artists

A number of artists have appeared on the four labels over the years.

Secretly Canadian

Jagjaguwar

Dead Oceans

Numero Group

* Trevor Dandy *

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*Julian Leal *

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