TOP LABELS: Urban

TOP LABELS: Urban

Former German House & Trance label, which turned to almost exclusively Rap, Hip-Hop and R&B artists in 2005.

Urban Records was founded by Sascha Basler in 1993 as a sub-label of Polydor Germany. In 1994 Urban became a sub-label of Motor Music. In 1995 it became the most succesful dance-label in Germany. In 1999 Urban became part of Universal Records, due to the Polygram-Universal merger into Universal Music GmbH. In a later stage, things changed a little bit and Universal decided to merge Urban/Universal Records with the rap-label Def Jam Germany into the Urban Def Jam label-group. In 2007 was launched a new dance imprint called Sound Of Urban. Urban also marketed & distributed various music releases by labels like Kontor Records, Superstar Recordings, Vandit Records, Strictly Rhythm, Tracid Traxxx and Low Spirit Recordings. Urban Records had a lot of great artists in the past like Talla 2XLC, WestBam, Nalin & Kane, Robert Miles and Energy 52 and more recently Paul van Dyk, Darude and Kai Tracid.

Parent Label:

Universal Music GmbH

Sublabels:

Peace Records, Pulp, Suburban, The Heart Of Urban, University, Urban Empire, Urban Tracks

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