Jive Electro was a sublabel of the Zomba Group's
Jive Records noted for releasing albums by
Groove Armada
Groove Armada are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They achieved chart success with their singles " At the River", " I See You Baby" and " Superstylin'". The duo have released nine studio albums, four of ...
,
Hardknox, and
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese the only constant member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the grou ...
as well as few remixes for the
Madchester band
the Stone Roses
The Stone Roses were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band's classic and most prominent lineup consisted of vocalist I ...
.
The label was largely active between 1984 and 1987. Jive resurrected it in the 1998 to accommodate a boom in
electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
, but it appears to be inactive since
Zomba and Jive were integrated into a major label structure in 2004.
See also
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List of record labels
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External links
Jive ElectroDiscogs.com Profile
Defunct record labels of the United Kingdom
Electronic music record labels
Record labels established in 1984
Zomba Group of Companies subsidiaries
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