Machinery Records

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Machinery Records (or simply Machinery) was a record label founded by Jor and Anna Rosen in 1989 and based in Berlin, Germany. The label was best known for releasing Industrial and experimental acts, several of which (such as Oomph! and Cubanate) went on to achieve later success.

The label's heyday was the early 1990's. From 1991 Machinery came under the Noise Records banner, as part of the Modern Music Records group. However it appears that Jor did not work easily within the larger organisation and by the end of the decade Machinery seemed dormant, with many of the original acts instead releasing on the Dynamica sub-label. When Modern Music was acquired by the Sanctuary Records Group in 2001, the Machinery imprint was finally dropped.