Recommended Records
About
Rē Records was founded by Chris Cutler in 1978, as a vehicle for Art Bears and then other projects of his own. At the same time he launched Recommended Records, a specialised mailorder service which established its own label for outside releases. A Recommended shop opened in the early '80s, and in mid-decade the shop and distribution functions separated from the labels, becoming a workers collective and changing its name to These Records (independent branches were also opened in mainland Europe by , Recommended Records (Switzerland), and ). In the early '90s Cutler merged the labels under the name ReR Megacorp and set up a new distribution and mailorder service under the same name. These Records continued until 2006, when it finally closed. Label Code: LC 2676 / LC 02676. Often telling which label a release is on can be confusing, even with the release in front of you. The way to tell them apart is by the catalog numbers: Re or Rē numbers = Rē Records [generally releases featuring Chris Cutler] R.R. or RR numbers = Recommended Records [releases by other artists] RēR numbers = ReR Megacorp [releases after 1988]
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Sub-labels
Arc Records (3)
Short lived UK label based in London, England. Created by members of Henry Cow, and with connection to their company Arcades Music.
Freedonia Records
Sublabel of Recommended Records based in the Netherlands, established to release a The Plastic People Of The Universe album.
Third Step Printworks
An in-house silk-screen print shop established by Recommended Records circa 1981 to publish "The Henry Cow Book". They also specialised in limited run LP cover printing like the distinctive Recomme...
Image Print Resources
Sister printing resources (and neighbour) of Third Step Printworks, belonging to Recommended Records in the 1980s.
Contact Label
(address obsolete) 387 Wandsworth Road London SW8