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| founder = Dave Heckman | | founder = Dave Heckman | ||
| distributor = NAIL, [[Outside Music|Outside]], [[INgrooves]] | | distributor = NAIL, [[Outside Music|Outside]], [[INgrooves]] | ||
| genre = [[Electro-industrial]] | | genre = {{hlist|[[Electro-industrial]]|[[synthpop]]|[[gothic rock]]|[[punk rock]]}} | ||
| country = U.S. | | country = U.S. | ||
| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | | location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
| website = {{ | | website = {{url|metropolis-records.com}} | ||
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'''Metropolis Records''' is a record label that was founded in [[Philadelphia | '''Metropolis Records''' is a record label that was founded in [[Philadelphia]] in 1993, by Dave Heckman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist.php?id=198 |title=Metropolis Records |work=metropolis-records.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140423174700/http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist.php?id=198 |archive-date=April 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/dave-heckman-obituary-metropolis-records-digital-underground-music-philadelphia-20220804.html| date=4 August 2022 | title=Dave Heckman, music entrepreneur and founder and president of Metropolis Records, has died at 68| author=Miles, Gary }}</ref> The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries including [[Off Beat (label)|Off Beat]], and since 1995 has been instrumental in promoting and distributing underground electronic music in the U.S.<ref name="assimilate">{{cite book |last1=Reed |first1=S. Alexander |title=Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music |year=2013|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199832583|oclc=1147729910|via=the Internet Archive|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/assimilatecritic0000reed |pages=283–284}}</ref> | ||
On June 9, 1999, Metropolis bought the American industrial label, [[Pendragon Records]]. It assumed distribution responsibilities for Pendragon's back | On June 9, 1999, Metropolis bought the American industrial label, [[Pendragon Records]]. It assumed distribution responsibilities for Pendragon's back catalog, as well as that of [[21st Circuitry]], another industrial label which had gone out of business.<ref name="cmju2">{{cite magazine |last=Comer |first=M. Tye |date=June 28, 1999 |title=rpm news |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zDJToDVsTA4C/page/n29/mode/2up |access-date=April 13, 2020 |magazine=[[CMJ|CMJ New Music Report]] |publisher=CMJ |location=New York |pages=31, 37 |volume=59 |issue=624}}</ref> | ||
== Artists signed == | == Artists signed == | ||
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Metropolis Records is a record label that was founded in Philadelphia in 1993, by Dave Heckman.[1][2] The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries including Off Beat, and since 1995 has been instrumental in promoting and distributing underground electronic music in the U.S.[3]
On June 9, 1999, Metropolis bought the American industrial label, Pendragon Records. It assumed distribution responsibilities for Pendragon's back catalog, as well as that of 21st Circuitry, another industrial label which had gone out of business.[4]
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