ATP Recordings

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ATP Recordings
Founded	1999
Founder(s)	Barry Hogan Helen Cottage
Distributing label	Festival Records
Genre(s)	Various
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Location	London
Official Website	ATP Records

ATP Recordings (All Tomorrow's Parties) was a record label started in 1999 by London concert promoters Barry Hogan and Helen Cottage of Foundation. Bored with the corporate festivals that were forced down their throats they decided to design a unique event that would be something they personally would want to go along to. The idea behind All Tomorrow's Parties is to invite a curator be that a musician, artist, or writer to choose a selection of bands/performers that reflect their record collection or people that they feel influenced by or connected to. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth perfectly described the ATP Festival as 'the ultimate mixtape'.

Festival line-ups have included artists such as Autechre, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Múm, Nobukazu Takemura, Kid606, Matmos, Prefuse 73, Public Enemy, Kool Keith, Arkestra, Television, Lambchop, Bonnie Prince Billy, Smog, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sigur Rós, Tortoise, Sonic Youth plus many more.