Partisan Records
Partisan Records is an independent record label with offices in London, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as in New York City, where the company was co-founded in 2007 by Tim Putnam and Ian Wheeler. The label, initially run out of Putnam's South Brooklyn apartment, relocated in 2009 to Williamsburg.[1] HistoryHoly Sons (Decline of the West) was the first release on the label, and early success followed shortly thereafter with the signing of the band Deer Tick (War Elephant).[2] In 2008, while working as the night manager for the Knitting Factory venue at their Leonard Street location in Manhattan, Putnam was approached by Knitting Factory Entertainment CEO Morgan Margolis to form a strategic partnership with Partisan.[3] Together, they reissued the Fela Kuti catalogue and revived their label, Knitting Factory Records, which also includes Grammy Award-nominated members of the Kuti family, Femi Kuti, and Seun Kuti.[4] Partisan has since cultivated a wide variety of genres, prioritizing an artist-friendly philosophy, and achieving international acclaim. In 2019, they earned their first-ever Grammy nomination for Deran by Bombino[5] followed by three more nominations between 2020 and 2023, for A Hero's Death by Fontaines D.C., Song for Our Daughter by Laura Marling, and I Inside the Old Year Dying by PJ Harvey.[6][7] In 2020, they achieved a #1 UK album for Ultra Mono by Idles, followed up by further #1 UK albums for Fontaines D.C.'s Skinty Fia and Idles's Tangk.[8][9][10] They also won their first Mercury Prize in 2023 for Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant to Be. [11] Music Week's International Woman of the Year award went to Partisan's managing director, Zena White, in 2019.[12] Putnam now serves as President of Partisan, and Wheeler manages Talkhouse, a digital media outlet and online magazine which he founded in 2015 and shares an office with Partisan.[13] Today, Partisan also releases music on behalf of sister labels Knitting Factory Records, Section1, and Desert Daze Sound, all of which operate under strategic partnerships with Partisan.[14][15][16] RosterCurrent
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