FFRR Records

FFRR Records
Parent company	PolyGram (original incarnation) Warner Music Group (current incarnation)
Founded	1986 (original) 2011 (current)[1]
Founder	Pete Tong
Defunct	2000s (original)
Status	Active
Distributor(s)	London Records (original) Parlophone (UK) Warner Bros. Records (US)[2] WEA International Inc. (outside the US/UK)
Genre	Dance
Country of origin	United Kingdom

FFRR Records is a dance music label run by English DJ Pete Tong. Originally distributed by London Records, FFRR is currently a dance music sublabel of Parlophone, a division of Warner Music Group.

The original incarnation of FFRR was founded in 1986, and also had two subsidiaries: Double F Double R Records and Ffrreedom Records. The label's ear logo was copied from the original ffrr logo source.

The name FFRR originally stood for Full Frequency Range Recording,^[3] which was an improved high-fidelity recording technique and marketing slogan used by Decca Records on its singles and albums, and especially its Western classical albums, in the 1950s and 1960s. These remain sought-after true high fidelity vinyl recordings. In the 1990s, the label distributed the bulk of the releases of the American hip hop label PayDay Records, through their then parent label, PolyGram. However, these releases remained with Universal Music when London became part of WEA. In the early 2000s, Warner merged FFRR and its catalogue into London Records.

In 2011, Pete Tong and Warner revived FFRR, and put the label under the Parlophone umbrella when the latter acquired that label in 2013.

An incomplete list of the modern FFRR Records artists is provided below.

Current artists

Blonde, Disciples, Icarus, Matoma, Thomas Jack.

Former artists

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All Saints All Seeing Armand Van Helden Artful Dodger Asian Dub Foundation (Slash/FFRR) Bananarama Berri Brand New Heavies Bronski Beat Brother Brown The Carburetors Carl Cox Caterina Valente CJ Bolland Clubhouse the Communards Cookie Crew D Mob Danny Campbell Dansson Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe DJ Icey DJ Krush DJ Skribble East Side Beat Electra Farley Jackmaster Funk

Fine Young Cannibals Frankie Knuckles Goldie Group Home (PayDay/FFRR) Oliver Heldens Hive Hothouse Flowers Jamie Principle Jay-Z (PayDay/FFRR) Jeru the Damaja (PayDay/FFRR) Joe Roberts June Montana Just Kiddin Lil Louis Lisa B London Symphony Orchestra Luke Vibert The Magician Marcel Mule Mantovani Matrix & Futurebound Monteux, Pierre Narcotic Thrust Nightcrawlers O.C. (PayDay/FFRR) One Dove Orbital Power Pill Richie Rich Sagat Salt n Pepa (Next Plateau/FFRR)

Salt Tank Sander Kleinenberg Sasha (DJ) Savoy Brown Blues Band Shakespear's Sister Shiva Showbiz & AG (PayDay/FFRR) Simon Harris Steve 'Silk' Hurley Stretch & Vern (Spot On/FFRR) Tinman Todd Edwards Together[4] Tube & Berger Urban Thermo Dynamics (PayDay/FFRR) Utah Saints Vapourspace Vera Lynn Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra WC & the Madd Circle (PayDay/FFRR) The Watts Prophets XYconstant Yousef Z factor

See also

• List of record labels
• House music

References

1. http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1177742/pete-tong-teams-with-warner-uk-to-relaunch-ffrr-label
2. http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6084928/warner-bros-records-hires-ultra-music-taryn-haight-lauren-lipsay
3. Lipman, Samuel,The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions, 1984, pp. 62–75, about the early record industry and Fred Gaisberg and Walter Legge and FFRR (Full Frequency Range Recording).
4. "Together - Hardcore Uproar (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2013-03-02.