Pantone Music is an independent record label based in Brighton, UK, and was founded in 2004 by Gav Smith. Pantone Music currently specialise in broken beat, nu jazz, and hip-hop from Japan and The West. Their roster includes Jazztronik, Jafrosax, Yukihiro Fukitomi and Bun (artist). Pantone Music are releasing a series of seven-inch vinyl records dedicated to Hip-Hop and lo-fiSoul in the summer of 2006. An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ... Brighton is a town on the south coast of England, which together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton & Hove. ... Brokenbeat is an electronic music genre first appearing around the change of the second millennium. ... Nu-jazz (sometimes electro-jazz) was coined in the late 1990s to refer to styles which combine jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation with electronic music. ... Hip hop refers primarily to either hip hop culture or to hip hop music. ... The West can refer to : The U.S. West or the American West The Western world, or Western Civilization. ... Hip hop refers primarily to either hip hop culture or to hip hop music. ... Lo-fi â from Low Fidelity â describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ... The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is a self aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being. ...
The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ... This is a list of record labels based in the United Kingdom that are independent from the Big four record labels and typically specialize in different forms of indie rock, punk rock, and styles of alternative rock, electronica and hip-hop. ...