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Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. Geffen Records was founded in 1980 by music industry businessman David Geffen who, in the early 1970s, had founded Asylum Records. Geffen stepped... down from Asylum in 1975, when he crossed over to film and was named a vice-president of Warner Brothers Pictures. He was fired from Warner circa 1978, but remained locked in a 5-year contract, preventing him from working elsewhere. He returned to work in 1980 and struck a deal with Warner Bros. Records to create Geffen Records. Warner provided 100 percent of the funding for the label's operations and distributed the label's releases in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom - CBS/Epic Records handled distribution in the rest of the world until 1985, when Warner Bros. also took over those territories. However, in the United Kingdom the label switched distribution from Warner Bros. to CBS in 1981. Profits were split 50/50 between Geffen and the respective distributors.
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City Slang is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1990 by former tour agent Christof Ellinghaus, exclusively to release The Flaming Lips’ In A Priest Driven Ambulance . With bands The Lemonheads, Das Damen, and Yo La Tengo also looking for a label to... release their 1990 albums, City Slang became, almost by chance, a home for US bands looking to bring their music to the European market, principally the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia and Benelux. Over the past 22 years, City Slang has grown into an extensive and varied catalogue with releases ranging from veteran acts to up-and-coming favourites. It is now home to several European acts, but Its focus on US- and Canada-based acts remains, maintaining its established relationship with several key North American independent labels. On 1st October 2011, the label expanded into the French market with the inception of City Slang France.
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DGC Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and currently operates as an auxiliary label of Interscope Records. DGC Records was launched in 1990, as a subsidiary label of Geffen Records and was distributed by Warner Bros. Records until 1991, when it was acquired by MCA... Music Entertainment Group. The label was created as a response to the success Geffen had with the harder rock acts on its roster. Though it initially focused on more progressive rock and heavy metal, as the decade progressed it would also embrace the emergence of alternative rock - with influential acts like Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Weezer and Beck. The label also released early titles by hip hop band The Roots. In 1999, during the consolidation of Geffen’s Universal Music Group parent and PolyGram, the DGC label ceased operations. The retained acts would go on to record for the main Geffen label. In the years to follow, the DGC title and logo would occasionally appear on reissues of its past catalog items.
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