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Kashmir75 
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Posted: November 10 2009 at 20:25 |
What label do you think has done the most to help prog artists get exposure in the 21st century? Roadrunner, usually a metal label, has recently signed several great metal-prog crossover bands like Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, and Opeth, giving each of these bands a new audience.
Inside Out is another great label, who have distributed albums by so many great bands, including Pain Of Salvation, Spocks Beard, Threshold, Riverside, Devin Townsend, Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Transatlantic, and more.
Any others come to mind?
I think Inside Out are the best thing to happen to progressive music in a long time.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Posted: November 10 2009 at 20:36 |
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Cuneiform are a good one, Musea.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: November 10 2009 at 20:38 |
Tzadik, by far, because of their ethos. Without John Zorn's pure awesome, Kayo Dot may never have gotten off the ground! Then Cuneiform. ReR seems to have stopped releasing things these days so they don't count.
Dream Theater did not get a boost from being signed to Roadrunner, they're on of the most famous metal bands of all time! Opeth was also signed after their most famous albums. The only one I think you could make a case for helping is PT, but that still doesn't make them a prog label.
You got me on Inside Out, but I just don't care about the people who are signed to them. ;-)
Edited by Henry Plainview - November 10 2009 at 20:47
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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chefrobb
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Posted: November 10 2009 at 21:08 |
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Famous Charisma, by far
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Posted: November 10 2009 at 21:09 |
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My bad.....you did say 21st, now didn't you, but still.......
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Finnforest
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Posted: November 10 2009 at 21:22 |
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Musea, Mellow, BTF, Black Widow, Lizard
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friso
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 06:54 |
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ELP's Manticore label did a lot for the Italion progressive scene. They introduced it to northern Europe. A special collecter's lable for prog would be Vertigo Swirl.
Famous Charisma printed a lot of prog, bands suchs as Genesis and related and VdGG and related. It's not my favourite record producer however, the high notes on the end of the lp's are always destorted.
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 06:55 |
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Owh.. I skipped on the 21th century part of the story... sorry
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Dean
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 07:05 |
I vote for "The Internet" - the world's biggest independant record label. The key part of the 21st century has been the rise of self-released and single-artist independant labels. Without the Intermess labels like Burning Shed, Musea, Cyclops, RēR Megacorp, Toff, etc and the niche distributors such as CD-Baby could not survive.
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 09:14 |
Musea and Tzadik, two of the strongest labels.
Also Cuneiform.
BTW how did Zorn do to maintain a very wide of catalog, is he rich?
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Padraic
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 09:24 |
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Global answer:
I think $LABEL because they signed $MY_FAVORITE_BAND_1 and $MY_FAVORITE_BAND_2
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 09:31 |
Wounded Bird is always releasing titles which have been lost to time.
Edited by Vibrationbaby - November 11 2009 at 09:32
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:07 |
Famous Charisma Label and the owner Tony Stratton Smith, they took the risk with a band like Genesis that nobody knowed or liked, also with VDGG, The Nice (In 1970 when Emerson had leftt), Refugee, etc
That means a lot, when Prog was young, they took the risks.
Iván
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:12 |
 Padraic wrote:
Global answer:
I think $LABEL because they signed $MY_FAVORITE_BAND_1 and $MY_FAVORITE_BAND_2
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Hilariously true. XD I think ATLANTIC because they signed YES and PROBABLY ANOTHER BAND I LIKED.
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Dean
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:15 |
Kashmir75 wrote:
What label do you think has done the most to help prog artists get exposure in the 21st century? |
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What?
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:21 |
This does raise the supplemental question, are record labels even relevant to prog these days? I do have to give a thumbs up to CD Baby, which isn't a record label as far as I know, but CD Baby loves me.  Have to put in a good word for Caroline, Cuneform, Wounded Bird (I'm probably leaving some other important guys out) for releasing old stuff that I thought would never see the light of CD. 
Edited by Slartibartfast - November 11 2009 at 10:24
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:38 |
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Yes, Tzadik are very important, but I think more in RIO/Avant
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:42 |
snobb wrote:
Yes, Tzadik are very important, but I think more in RIO/Avant |
As Musea in Symphonic.
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:31 |
Atlantic/Atco
By bringing prog to the states (Yes, Genesis, ELP) in the 70's these labels have ensured that there is still a 21st century prog scene to discuss.
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topofsm
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Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:41 |
Atlantic is quite obvious. Of course they were more of a general rock label back in the 70s, but seriously, they launched a lot of classic careers. Prog definitely wouldn't gotten as far without the ones Trademark just mentioned.
Seriously Trademark, I was about to post Atlantic first, and I was dissapointed that you had already posted.  
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