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Knitting Factory Records

Knitting Factory Records

Sub-label of Knitting Factory Records Inc.

80 releases 5 sub-labels 1991–2022
Afrobeat African Free Jazz Jazz-Funk Funk Post-Punk

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Top Knitting Factory Records Releases

Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso
2014
A Hero’s Death
A Hero’s Death
Fontaines D.C.
2020
Arrow
Heartless Bastards
2012
Heart Under
Just Mustard
2022
Shakara
Fela Ransome‐Kuti and the Africa 70
1972
Horizon Unlimited
Lijadu Sisters
1979
Zombie
Fẹla and Afrika 70
1976
Transmalinnia
Lumerians
2011
Danger
The Lijadu Sisters
1976
Weather Alive
Beth Orton
2022
He Miss Road
Fela Ransome-Kuti & the Africa 70
1975
Expensive Shit / He Miss Road
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
1999
Bonjour
Bonjour
Rachid Taha
2009
Future Jazz
Howard Mandel
1999
Alright You Restless
AgesandAges
2011
Red Hot + Fela
Various Artists
2013
Cowboy Guilt
TORRES
2015
A Place in the Sun
Friends of Dean Martinez
2000
Expensive Shit
Fela Ransome Kuti
1975
Limonchiki
Amsterdam Klezmer Band
2001
Africa for Africa
Femi Kuti
2011
Teenage and Torture
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
2011
Out of the Reeds
Out of the Reeds
Pharaoh’s Daughter
2000
Roforofo Fight
Fela Ransome Kuti & the Africa 70
1972
Confusion / Gentleman
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
2000
Andasol
Ash Black Bufflo
2011
Horizon Structures
Lumerians
2012
Vinyl Box Set 1
Fela Kuti
2011
Confusion
Fela Ransome-Kuti & the Africa 70
1974
Everything Scatter
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
1975
Gentleman
Fela Ransome Kuti & the Afrika 70
1973
Live!
Live!
Fela Ransome‐Kuti and the Africa ’70 with Ginger Baker
1971
Fela's London Scene
Fela Ransome Kuti & Nigeria 70
1971
I Am a Man
Harriet Tubman
1998
Opposite People
Fẹla and Afrika 70
1977
From Africa With Fury: Rise
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80
2011
Open & Close
Fela Ransome‐Kuti and the Africa ’70
1971
Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
1986
Atardecer
Friends of Dean Martinez
1999
Kalakuta Show
Fela & Africa 70
1976
Finding Fela
Fela Kuti
2014
Savor Flamenco
Savor Flamenco
Gipsy Kings
2013
Underground System
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
1992
Sorrow Tears and Blood
Fẹla and Afrika 70
1977
Afrodisiac
Fela Ransome-Kuti & the Africa ’70
1973
Music of Many Colours
Music of Many Colours
Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Roy Ayers
1980
Mother Africa
The Lijadu Sisters
1977
Lagos Baby 1963-1969
Fela Ransome Kuti
2008
Box Set 5
Fela Kuti
2021
Why Black Man Dey Suffer
Why Black Man Dey Suffer
Fela & the Africa 70 with Ginger Baker
1971
Alagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey Suffer
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70
2007
The Mindeater
The Mindeater
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Phantom Family Halo
2011
Stalemate
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti and the Afrika Seventi
1977
Sunshine
Lijadu Sisters
1978
Unknown Soldier
Fela Anikulapo Kuti & his Africa ’70
1979
No Agreement
Fela Aníkúlápó-Kuti and Afrika 70
1977
Alagbon Close
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70
1974
Beasts of No Nation
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
1989
Shuffering and Shmiling / No Agreement
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti and the Afrika 70
1999
Excuse O
Fela and the Africa 70
1976
Repent
Charles Gayle
1992
The ’69 Los Angeles Sessions
Fela Ransome Kuti & Nigeria 70
1969
Live in Amsterdam
Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80
1984
Keter
Zöhar
1999
Testaments
Charles Gayle
1995
Shuffering and Shmiling
Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the Afrika 70
1978
A Long Way to the Beginning
Seun Kuti + Egypt 80
2014
J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop)
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti and Afrika 70
1977

Knitting Factory Records Artist Roster

Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti
62 releases
Person
A7
Africa 70
38 releases
Group
Various Artists
Various Artists
10 releases
Other
Gary Lucas
Gary Lucas
5 releases
Person
CG
Charles Gayle
4 releases
Person
LS
Lijadu Sisters
4 releases
Group
E8
Egypt 80
3 releases
Group
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
3 releases
Person
TC
Thomas Chapin Trio
3 releases
Group
L
Lumerians
2 releases
Group
BK
Briggan Krauss
2 releases
Person
WH
William Hooker
2 releases
Person
Ballin' the Jack
Ballin' the Jack
2 releases
Group
HN
Hasidic New Wave
2 releases
Group
N7
Nigeria 70
2 releases
Group
Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker
2 releases
Person

Sub-labels

Knit Media Production

Instinct Records

Founded as a dance label in a Greenwich Village living room, Instinct Records gained prominence in the early 1990s by releasing compilations of Acid Jazz-label material in the US. The simultane...

Knit Classics

Mainly reissues of Survival Records (2), so the mentionded Studio is Studio 77, NYC.

Jewish Alternative Movement (JAM)

Knitche Distribution

A division of Knit Media

Contact Label

Knitting Factory Records 361 Metropolitan Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211