SPY Records

SPY Records was a New York based independent music label created in 1977 by John Cale and Jane Friedman.

History

The label was created in 1977 by John Cale and Jane Friedman, who was the manager of Patti Smith, and Cale's girlfriend at the time. It was housed in Cale's 250 West 57th Street office.

The concept of the label that all artists were to be produced by Cale. The label was distributed by I.R.S. Records Its logo was designed by Michel Esteban, using an image of Cale's eye from his Fear album cover. Cale introduced Esteban to British-born entrepreneur Michael Zilkha, and in 1978 Esteban and Zilkha left SPY records to found their own label, ZE Records.

SPY Records closed in 1980. John Cale then released three albums on ZE Records: Music For A New Society (1982), Caribbean Sunset (1983) and Comes Alive (1984).

Discography

Spy Records (Italy)

Spy Records was Italian record label, specializing in Italo dance and Eurodance, and owned by TIME Group. It was founded by Giacomo Maiolini in 1999. Spy label rose as departament of Time Records, after the death of Italian Style Production.

History

After founding the record label, Maiolini handed Spy Records to Rossano Prini at the midst of 1999. After that, Prini began to select established artists to musical repertorie and contracted the Tristano and Erika De Bonis brothers and DJs, in order to work in his recording.

In 2004, Prini left Spy Records to work in Label 73 and, in 2005, the record label closed its doors.

Spy Records artists

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