Vinyl Solution was a

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of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the offshoot of an independent

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-based record store based at 231 Portobello Road (now known as Intoxica Records). The label signed many unconventional acts in a number of uncompromising genres, such as skatepunk

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band

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, Britcore rappers

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, and Bomb Disneyland. The label had its biggest success when one of the label's

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groups,

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, made the

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with the song "Playing with Knives".

Artists

Jonathan Saul Kane

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Jonathan Saul Kane J Saul Kane (born 1969) is an English DJ, musician who has released recorded material since 1987 as Depth Charge and The Octagon Man, amongst other noms de disc. He is also the owner of the record labels DC Recordings and Electron Industries. H ...

was a key member in the organisation of the label, with a number of projects releasing discs on the label. In the mid 1990s he set up

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as a replacement for Vinyl Solution, with several other new offshoots catering for a number of subgenres in the dance music spectrum. The label's name was a pun on "The Final Solution", a Pere Ubu song.

Other artists

Bolt Thrower Bolt Thrower were an English death metal band from Coventry. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling b ...

* The Bollweevils * Bomb Disneyland/ Bomb Everything *

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* Chemical People * The Edsel Auctioneer *

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* The Fell Downs *

Fudge Tunnel Fudge Tunnel were an English rock band formed in Nottingham by Alex Newport, David Ryley and Adrian Parkin. They were known for straddling noise rock and metal. History After two singles on Pigboy/Vinyl Solution Records ("Fudge Tunnel" in 19 ...

The Hard-ons The Hard-Ons are an Australian punk rock band, which formed in 1982 in Punchbowl, New South Wales. Its founding members were Keish de Silva on lead vocals and drums, Peter "Blackie" Black on guitar and backing vocals, and Ray Ahn on bass guit ...

* Iowa Beef Experience *

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* The Madeira Cakes *

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* Mercedes Valentino *

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* Soufflé With A Knife * The Sound Asleep * Spacemaggots *

* Testicular Warts * The Venus Beads * The Would Bes

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Artists

Jonathan Saul Kane

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