Glitterhouse Records

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Glitterhouse Records is a truly independent record label based in Beverungen, Germany. Initially started as a fanzine back in 1981, labelfounders Reinhard Holstein & Rembert Stiewe, two dedicated music lovers, felt that it was time to dare something new: A Record Label. Glitterhouse Records evolved out of the idea to work with some good (but at that time rather unknown) bands and soon they found themselves putting out a compilation cassette called “Battle Of The Bands” as their very first release and continued to publish (preferably) vinyl releases by a few Sixties-Garage Rock … , Psychedelia, Punk, and any other band that eventually matched their taste in music. Due to the fact that Glitterhouse Records dealt (and still is dealing) with a lot of so called hard-to-come-by bands and hard-to-get records, Reinhard & Rembert decided to open up the Glitterhouse Mailorder, that soon became a full time job for everyone involved.

1987 saw the start of a license cooperation with the Seattle based SUB POP label, which chose Glitterhouse Records to be the home for such acts like MUDHONEY, TAD, THE SCREAMING TREES and AFGHAN WHIGS just to name a few. Needless to say, the label almost single-handedly brought the grunge phenomenon to the European world. Somewhen around that time Glitterhouse Records even took care of some selected releases by the Minneapolis based AMPHETAMINE REPTILE RECORDS, being responsible for acts like the (in)famous HELMET, TAR, COWS and CHOKEBORE. However, after SUB POP got bigger and more notable, not only because of releases by a band called NIRVANA, it got taken over by the Warner Brothers Music Company and so the license cooperation to Glitterhouse had found its end.
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  • DieQuadratur

    best european label!

    December 2011

  • Rowstar

    Scott Matthew's debut album isn't showing up on his last.fm page, and I want to send a recommendation to my friends - can you rectify this?

    March 2008

  • uriah-hp

    schön das Ihr diese Plattform entdeckt habt, macht weiter so

    August 2007

  • uriah-hp

    super, endlich hat mein Lieblings-Label lastfm entdeckt!

    July 2007
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