Tuff City Records
Tuff City Records is a New York-based record label founded by journalist Aaron Fuchs in 1981. Initially concentrating on hip hop music, the label's roster expanded to include doo-wop, dancehall, and hip hop-jazz fusion, and releases included reissues of music from as far back as the 1940s.
History
Aaron Fuchs was a journalist with Cash Box, and Tuff City was one of the earliest hip hop labels, with Fuchs quitting his job as a journalist to run the label. After the label's first two releases, a distribution deal was signed with CBS Associated Records, although Tuff City severed the link after only a year. The label pioneered the release of albums of break beats—the building blocks for others to use in their recordings. Fuchs also bought the rights to earlier recordings that were sampled by others, bringing money into the label via licensing costs. One of these, "Impeach the President" by the Honey Drippers, was the subject of a court case with Fuchs filing a lawsuit against Sony Music and Def Jam Recordings for illegally sampling the track on recordings by LL Cool J and EPMD. The case was settled out of court.
City Records
City Records (full legal name in Serbian: Предузеће за издавачко-пропагандно делатност City Records д.о.о. Београд, Preduzeće za izdavačko-propagandno delatnost City Records d.o.o. Beograd) is a Serbian record label.
Founded in 1997, the record label is part of the Pink Media Group, which also owns RTV Pink. It is the home of some of the best selling Balkans pop artists.
Registered as a limited liability company, it has 14 full-time employees.
City Records has signed licensing agreements with many European artists, increasing the exposure of these artists and the distribution of their musical work in the market.
Artists
Artists signed to City Records, or who had been in the past, include:
Podcasts:
