Skint Records is a

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based

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owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of

Loaded Records Loaded Records was a British dance record label, formed in 1990 by Tim Jeffery and JC Reid. It launched artists like Pizzaman, Slacker and Wildchild. More recently, it released albums by Super Collider (featuring Jamie Lidell) and singles by ...

, also founded by Reid and Jeffery. Along with

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, the label was a leader in the

big beat Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno. The term has been used by the British music industry to describe music by artists such as th ...

music scene of the mid to late 1990s. The label's roster at this time included big beat scene leaders

Fatboy Slim Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist f ...

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, Indian Ropeman,

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and

X-Press 2 X-Press 2 are an English electronic dance music duo. The members are DJ Diesel (Darren House) and DJ Rocky (Darren Rock). Ashley Beedle left to pursue solo projects in 2009. They were DJ Award winners in 2002 and Ivor Novello winners in 20 ...

. Towards the end of the 1990s and at the start of the 21st century the label expanded its range of releases to include more house based songs. The most prominent example was " Lazy" by X-Press 2, which charted at number 2 in the

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. There were also releases by

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artist Dave Clarke as well as artists as diverse as Lucky Jim,

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Bentley Rhythm Ace Bentley Rhythm Ace (BRA) are a British electronic music duo formed in Birmingham in 1995, consisting of Mike Stokes and Richard March. Career The band was formed in Birmingham by Richard March, formerly with the group Pop Will Eat Itself, and ...

REQ Ian Cassar (born 20 February 1966), better known as Req (stylized as REQ), is an English DJ, record producer, and graffiti artist. Career In the words of AllMusic's Sean Cooper, Req began in his native Brighton as "one of the U.K.'s most respec ...

and

Ralfe Band Ralfe Band is the work of English songwriter Oly Ralfe. The debut album ''Swords'' was released in UK in 2005 by Skint Records and elsewhere in Europe in 2007 by Talitres, with ''Mojo'' awarding a 4-star review, calling it "a whiskey-soured fo ...

. One mainstay band of the label has been the Lo-Fidelity Allstars who have changed and diversified their style along with the label. Skint were the main kit sponsor for Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. for nine years until the relationship ended in 2008, one of the longest

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league sponsorship deals. The Skint name does not appear consistently across all the Brighton and Hove shirts, with some variation in logo and even the complete replacement of the company's name with

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on one of the shirt designs. Skint also have a sub-label for more underground releases called "Under 5's", which originally ran from 1997–2001, but was re-launched as a digital only label in 2009 to host new artists such as Linton Brown, Kinzy and Rory Hoy. In 2002, Skint released a

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, ''We Are Skint'', featuring tracks from the label's artists. From 1996-1998, Skint released a series of albums, ''Brassic Beats'', also containing songs from the label, but all of the songs were new, therefore not being a

series. Skint Records had one UK number one album,

's ''

You've Come a Long Way, Baby ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby'' is the second studio album by Fatboy Slim, a project of English electronic music producer Norman Cook. It was first released on 19 October 1998 in the United Kingdom by Skint Records and a day later in the Unit ...

'' (1998), and also brought about short-lived "intelligent big beat" pioneered by albums such as REQ's '' One'' and Lo-Fidelity Allstars' '' How to Operate with a Blown Mind''. In April 2014,

BMG Rights Management BMG Rights Management GmbH (also known simply as BMG) is an international music company based in Berlin, Germany. It combines the activities of a music publisher and a record label. BMG was founded in October 2008 after Bertelsmann sold its ...

acquired Skint Records. Before the BMG acquisition, Skint Records was distributed by

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internationally. Fatboy Slim's catalogue is owned by Skint and BMG internationally, except in USA and Canada, where it is owned by

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under the Astralwerks label.

References

External links

Official site
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