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Tempa Recordings

record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4050822 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tempa is a garage and dubstep music label founded in 2000 by Neil Jolliffe, who also coined the term "dubstep" in 2002.

The label, along with Big Apple Records, and parent label Ammunition, was part of the formation of dubstep as a genre.

A key member and the face of Tempa Recordings is DJ and producer Youngsta, who has been in charge of artists and repertoire for the label since its inception.

The label's biggest release is the "Midnight Request Line" by Skream which was released in 2005.

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

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2002, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tempa, Recordings and label.
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“Tempa Recordings” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tempa, Recordings and label 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 Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4050822. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2002 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tempa 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.