Pure Mint Recordings is a British

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based in London. The

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was established in 2004 by Anthony Hall (a dual qualified English and New York lawyer and musician) together with Dashal Beevers, growing out of an earlier incarnation called Mint Source Recordings. In 2003 Mint Source released the critically acclaimed compilation Flowers in the Attic featuring some of

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's rising stars of

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, including

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, Bent – with their remix of the

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classic "I Can't Go For That" (which Bent chose to finish their Big Chill set with in 2004), Zoe Johnston (who has written and performed with

Faithless Faithless are an English dance music Band (rock and pop), band that formed in 1995, with its core original members being Rollo Armstrong, Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. During the band's initial period of success, Sister Bliss and Maxi Ja ...

), Oz from

The DiY Sound System DiY Sound System, also known as the DiY Collective, was a British house music sound system, co-founded by Harry Harrison, Rick "Digs" Down, Simon "DK" Smith and Pete "Woosh" Birch, in 1989. The group "divided their activities between free parties ...

, Heavy Deviance and Neon Heights amongst others. The label has found supporters worldwide for its eclectic catalogue and has licensed repertoire to

Norman Jay Norman Jay MBE (born Norman Bernard Joseph on 6 November 1957) is a British club, radio and sound system DJ. He first came to prominence playing unlicensed "warehouse" parties in the early 1980s, and through his involvement with the then-pir ...

(Giant 45)], Carl Cox in Australia, Junior Vasquez, Fabric (club), Fabric – Fabric Live 17 (mixed by AIM),

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(CUTSCD-58 Mastercuts Chilled,)

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and others. Releases include T-Total's version of Brian Eno's "Baby's on Fire" – with guest 'featured vocals' from Soft Cell's

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– and the debut long player "A Slow Walk Down The Stairs" from Heavy Deviance, themselves favourites of Chris Coco, Mark Rae,

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, KCRW (LA), Laurent Garnier, Bent, Crazy Penis etc. A Slow Walk Down The Stairs was voted 16th best album of 2005 by M8 Magazine. The label has moved away from its originally exclusive dance release-base to include

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(T-Total ft Marc Almond),

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(Nigel of Bermondsey), ex

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– nominated for the XFM 2009 New Music Award rock (Hungary's

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), indie-dance (

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(

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's 16 Words) and

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(Michael Morph), with collaborations and artist releases from Long Range (Phil Hartnoll from

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and Nick Smith]),

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, Alex Metric and others. As of November 2009, the label's catalogue comprises approximately 25 releases (singles, 12 inch vinyls and LPs) On 4 December 2009 Hall resigned from the BPI Rights Committee and the

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's International Legal Committees citing irreconcilable differences over the industry's approach to

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and their support of the draft Digital Economy Bill (DEB) going through the UK parliament at the time. He was quoted as saying:

I am particularly surprised that the record industry has chosen to endorse s.17 of the DEB, which I consider is wholly undemocratic and contrary to centuries of good practice regarding the forming of our copyright legislation. I also believe it may set a dangerous precedent going forwards (and could come back to haunt the industry)

References

External links

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