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[l=Battle Worldwide Recordings] is an independent record label and publishing (music and literature) company based in Brighton, United Kingdom. [l=Battle Worldwide Recordings] has more than 50 releases to its furious name, including records by [a=Co-Pilgrim], [a=Swaying Wires], [a=Blacklevel Embassy], [a=Kid Wave], [a=Falling Stacks] and [a=Empty Pools]. [l=Battle Worldwide Recordings] artists have been lauded by the likes of BBC Radio (Lamacq, Laverne, Coe), Spin, The Big Takeover, Drowned In Sound, Q and triple j and toured internationally, sweating the festival circuit. [l=Battle Worldwide Recordings] adheres to an old school ideology stemming back from the 1980s punk scene labels like SST, Merge and Au Go Go – and that’s where the [l=Battle Worldwide Recordings] story begins. Founder [a=Darren John Smallman] grew up in the Australian punk underground, spending many fierce years in the loud and influential band [a=Warped] as well as [a=Toad] and The Sun & The Silver Anthology artists. From there, he developed [l=Low Transit Industries], a record label and touring agency which released classic records by [a=Okkervil River], [a=C.W. Stoneking], [a=Thalia Zedek], [a=Black Mountain], [a=SubAudible Hum] and [a=Of Montreal]. “One of my favourite labels… check out every band they have been putting out, they’re really on it in terms of quality control”Jack Rabid, Big Takeover Artists: [a=Alarm Bells] | [a=ASx] | [a=Blacklevel Embassy] | [a=Co-pilgrim] | [a=El Grumpos] | [a=The Disciplines] | [a=Dog in the Snow] | [a=Empty Pools] | [a=Falling Stacks] | [a=Kid Wave] | [a=Margins] | [a=Mike Gale] | [a=Mike Gale] & [a=Ilona V] | [a=Mother Me] | [a=Pelotons] | [a=Kim Salmon & The Surrealists] | [a=Swaying Wires] | [a=The Paranoid Style] | [a=The Sound Platform] | [a=Thee Vinyl Creatures] | [a=The Wells Collective] | [a=Young Things]