Independent Record Market Prepares For 4th Year

 
Art & Culture

At 4 years old, London's Annual Independent Record Label Market has become a welcome fixture in our diary. The Spitalfields Market hosted event, taking place on July 12th, is always a good chance to grab some exclusives and bargains direct from labels, especially because it's (currently, anyway) free from the madness, dumb hype and endless queues of Record Store Day.  This years big draw is the announcement that Martin Mills, head of Beggars Group- the independent label umbrella organisation that is made up of 4AD, XL, Matador and Rough Trade – will be manning a special 'Beggars Archive' stall, which is set to feature rarities from the groups illustrious back catalouge. Other labels making their debut this year include Hyperdub, Greco Roman, Eglo, City Slang, 37 Adventures and Glassnote.

As everyone knows, there's nothing to guarantee you'll go home with great music quite like getting pissed while you record shop. Fortunate then, that there's going to be a craft brewery offshoot to this years market, where there will be selling all sorts of fine and unique beers. Probably best leave em til after you've bought the tunes though…

The full, extensive list of labels involved is as follows:

K7! 
37 Adventures
4AD
Acid Jazz
Aesop
AUS
Basick Records
Because 
Beggars Archive 
Bella Union
Best Fit
Big Dada
Blood & Biscuits
Brille Records
Brownswood
Caught By The River
Chess Club
City Slang 
Claremont
Communion Records
Cooking Vinyl
Critical Heights
DEEK
Dead Oceans 
Defected
Domino
Double Denim Records
Drag City 
East London Printmakers 
Eglo
Electric Minds
Elefant
Exit 
Faber & Faber
Fabric 
Factory Benelux 
Faux Discx
Fire
Five Easy Pieces
Fortuna Pop!
Freerange Records
Full Time Hobby
Gearbox
Glassnote
Greco Roman
Grebo 
Gringo
Heavenly 
Houndstooth 
Hospital Records
Hydra 
Hyperdub Records
Infectious
Italian Beach Babes 
Jagjaguwar
KayaKaya Records 
Late Night Tales
Leng
Les Disques du Crépuscule
Levels
Lex
Lionbeat
Lost Toys Records
Mais Um Discos
Marathon
Memphis Industries
Milk 
Monotreme 
Moshi Moshi
Narcsville
Ninja Tune
No Pain In Pop
Non Plus
Oak Ten
Oh Mercy 
One Little Indian
Parlour
Peacefrog
Phantasy Sound 
PIAS
Proville
R&S
Rega (TURNTABLES)
Robot Elephant
Secretly Canadian 
Sonic Cathedral
Soundway
Soul Jazz
StiffyByng
Stolen Recordings
Strut
Sunday Best
Topic Records
Upset The Rhythm
Wah Wah 45s
Warp Records
World Circuit
WYAIWYA
XL
ZZK Records

Phew! More info over on the facebook event