Skam Records is an Electronic and IDM record label company in Manchester. Andy Maddocks established it in 1990. Skam is also known to produce records under another smaller sub label known as 33. One of the characteristic features of the packaging of Skam records is that the name of the label is printed in braille.
The company’s first release was a 12-inch single gramophone record, which was never released officially but was only distributed for promos. Some of the other early releases of Skam are Boards of Canada, Freeform, Jega and Bola. Skam was at its prime when it released the early ten label that are commonly regarded as classic electronic records. Skam still earns high prices for the early releases on the collector's market except for the reprinted EPs Boards of Canada's Hi Scores EP and Gescom's Keynell.
The year 1998 is a historical year for Skam as it
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entered the full-length market during this period. It released ‘Soup’ by Bola and ‘Music Has The Right To Children’ by Boards of Canada. The latter album was released jointly with Warp Records. Both the records have been highly praised by the IDM community and has been rated as classic recordings.
Skam introduced a number of series of record releases within the label, which were an anagram of "SKAM". “MASK” records, which are early 12" compilation of Skam are extremely rare and valuable now. The "SMAK" series of Skam began in 2001. The SMAK 12 record series featured two artists, one artists on each side of the record. Quinoline Yellow, a SMAK artists have become full time Skam musicians. Other artists like Ola Bergman and Posthuman set up their own record labels like New Speak and Seed Records, respectively.
Skam Records is a company that manufactures records and is based in Manchester.
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