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Stolen Recordings

music label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ2480850
Source-derived summary

Stolen Recordings is a British independent record label founded by two musicians, Paul Jones and Mérida Sussex and one artist, Rachael Robb, and is based in Tottenham, London. Stolen's first release was in May 2005. In 2009 they founded a publishing company, in association with Beggars Music, called "Stolen Publishing". Stolen's releases include albums by Thomas Cohen, Bo Ningen, East India Youth, Pete and The Pirates, and Serafina Steer.

Stolen Recordings won the Award for "Best Small Label" at the inaugural AIM Awards on 10 November 2011.

Artists

Thomas Cohen

Bo Ningen

East India Youth

Pete And The Pirates

JEFF The Brotherhood

Serafina Steer

Let's Wrestle

Screaming Tea Party

Race Horses

Hot Silk Pockets

Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts

Catalogue

Thomas Cohen ‘Bloom Forever’ (SR083, LP / CD / DL) 2016

Thomas Cohen,"Bloom Forever" / "Honeymoon" (SR082, 12” / DL) 2016

East India Youth, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (SR081, CD / DL) 2014

Bo Ningen & Savages, Words to the Blind (POPNSR01, LP / CD / DL) 2014

Bo Ningen, III (SR077, LP / CD / DL) 2014

East India Youth, "HINTERLAND" (SR076, 12” / DL) 2014

East India Youth, TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER (SR073, LP / CD / DL) 2014

East India Youth, "DRIPPING DOWN" (SR074, 10” / DL) 2013

Serafina Steer, Disco Compilation (SR068, 7” / DL) 2013

Serafina Steer, The Moths Are Real (SR063, LP / CD / DL) 2013

Bo Ningen, Line The Wall (SR060, LP / CD / DL) 2012

Race Horses, Furniture (SR058, LP / CD / DL) 2012

Race Horses, "My Year Abroad" (SR057, 7” / DL) 2012

Bo Ningen, "Live at St.

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“Stolen Recordings” enters the record as music label. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stolen, Recordings and music can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2009, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stolen, Recordings and music.
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“Stolen Recordings” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stolen, Recordings and music provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2480850. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Stolen Recordings” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.