Agit-Prop Records
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- This article refers to the UK based record label and should not be confused with Agitprop! Records.
Agit-Prop Records was an independent record label founded in 1985 by the members of the then-peace punk band Chumbawamba.
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[edit] History
Before starting the label in '85, Chumbawamba had distributed their records and tapes using the Sky and Trees label. As well as releasing their own recordings, Agit-Prop also put out a number of records by other groups.
Agit-Prop was run in co-op form adhering to anarchist philosophy.
Agit-Prop released its last album, Shhh, in 1992. Chumbawamba felt it was too much work to maintain a band and a label. Band member Alice Nutter adds:
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- We realised long ago while still running Agit-Prop that we were existing within a capitalist system, and belonging to a small but pure indie ghetto wasn't going to have any effect other than making us feel holy. [1]
The label was disbanded, and Chumbawamba signed onto One Little Indian Records.
[edit] The Name (meaning)
The term "agit prop" originates from Soviet Russia's Department for Agitation and Propaganda.
[edit] Discography
Original UK release dates for vinyl records given. Some of the following may have been re-issued in CD format.
[edit] Chumbawamba releases on Agit-Prop
Nb. For full Chumbawamba discography see main Chumbawamba page.
- "Revolution" (AGIT 1, 1985)
- "We Are The World?" (Agit-Matter Records, AGIT 2, 1986, split with US band A State Of Mind).
- Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (PROP 1, 1986)
- Never Mind the Ballots (PROP 2, 1987)
- "Smash Clause 28!/Fight the Alton Bill" (AGIT 3, 1988)
- English Rebel Songs (PROP 3, 1988)
- Slap! (PROP 7, 1990)
- Shhh (PROP 11, 1992)
[edit] Other artists
- Bassa Bassa- Bassa Bassa (PROP 6, 1991)
- Papa Brittle- Obey, Consume, Marry And Reproduce (1992)
