Direct Hit Records was a record label and store based in

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. The record label is notable for releasing early recordings by North Texas musicians who would eventually go on to prominence at a national level ( Darlington (singer) (as the band MESS), Bedhead, Baboon, Brutal Juice, UFOFU, Slowpoke, the Grown-Ups, and Dooms UK). The label went on to release recordings by out-of-Texas artists, including Secession Movement, Malachai and Michael W. Dean, between 1998 and 1999. The label operated in

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's Exposition Park from 1989 to 1995. One critic compared the label's early outlook to other prominent record labels and the cities associated with them: "For a few years, it looked as though Direct Hit could have been to

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was to

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or Twin/Tone was to Minneapolis-St. Paul."

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Direct Hit Records
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