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Daptone Records

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Hard funk, soul, and afrobeat by current artists. Made-up of musicians and producers from the now defunct 1990s funk revival pioneer label [l=Desco Records]. Label is run by [a=Gabriel Roth] (with his alter-ego "[a=Bosco Mann]" doing most of the studio mix work!) & [a=Neal Sugarman]. It is home to artists such as [a=Sharon Jones], [a=The Dap-Kings], [a=Lee Fields], [a=Sugarman 3], [a=Antibalas], [a=The Mighty Imperials], and others. The majority of Daptone's seven inch singles have a generic blue record label. However, all singles are pressed in limited quantities of 1000 - 2000 copies and some in-demand titles have received a second press run with a red colored label after the initial first pressing had sold out. Mikey Post, in charge of Direct Sales & Distribution at Daptone, talks about their releases being continuously "in-print", as of February 2019: "We started barcoding our records in 2009, so anything released prior to that did not include a barcode, initially (ie. Budos I + II). However, I'm still pulling stampers from the original 'Mother' plates, so the dead-wax is no different from the first press to the stock in print today...There are very slight differences in the color of the labels throughout the years (as I print all of our labels on an offset machine with stock paper."