Base Record

Italian (Bologna) indie label operating between January 1979 and April 2010. In the 1980s specialized in licensing/pressing of well-known new wave and metal acts as well as acts on Factory, Rough Trade (both since 1981) and Les Disques Du Crépuscule (since 1982). The company first resided at Via Castiglione 109 but moved to Via Collamarini 26 in October 1981. So, all releases carrying Via Collamarini (since 1987 also with a fax number), cannot have been released earlier than 1981 or are reissues. Since 2001 the label was residing at Via Giuseppe Massarenti. The re-issues they did of the material (Fugs, Godz, and Sun Ra) were NOT licensed by Bernard Stollman, owner of the music and of ESP Disk.