Tribe Records

Tribe Records was an American jazz independent record label, active during the 1970s, whose artists included Doug Hammond, Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison.

History

Based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, Tribe Records was a collective of local musicians. The group included Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave, Harold McKinney, Ron Brooks, Charles Moore, and Doug Hammond amongst others. Besides the record label, Tribe held a publishing house for a magazine and a production company under its roof.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Tribe Records (Norway)

Tribe Records was a Norwegian record label founded in 1998. The company became one of the biggest contributors to the Norwegian record chart VG-Lista Topp 20 the following years. Tribe fast became a commercial label focusing on dance, trance (music) and pop.

Tribe Records was among the first record-companies in Norway to fully start with the 360-deals when building their artist. The label had management-, booking-, and the standard label-functions.

History

Originally, four partners founded the company: Christopher Collings, Andreas Papandreu Høyer, Anders Dybvik and Martin O. Muren. In 2001 John Sørensen joined the group.

In 2002 Tribe Records became the biggest domestic hit-label in Norway with a total of 28,9% of the Norwegian hit-share on VG-Lista. Many artists as Dina, Spritneybears, 2PM, L8R and Spin-Up was attached to the label.

In the 3 last years, Tribe Records had a cooperation with the Danish company Capella Music, owned by the founder of Mega Records Edel-Mega Records Kjeld Wennick. At the end of 2003, the label was closed down.