Label
Rough Trade
Rough Trade is a UK-based experimental music label founded in 2000, known for its 116 eclectic releases blending industrial and avant-garde sounds.
About
Rough Trade, an experimental crucible, emerges from the United Kingdom in a singular year, 2000, leaving behind a sculptural archive of 116 releases. With a format distribution heavily skewed towards LPs, the label serves as a liminal space where Cabaret Voltaire's fractured narratives and Virgin Prunes' theatrical provocations meet the industrial clamor of Einstürzende Neubauten. This was a scene of exploratory sounds, where Chris and Cosey’s interdisciplinary synth work dances alongside the post-punk shadows of The Smiths. The label's aesthetic pulse is process-driven, with 'Silence is Sexy' by Einstürzende Neubauten embodying its ethos — a vinyl exploration of sound as an evolving element, rather than a fixed form. Rough Trade’s catalog acts as a map to uncharted territories, eschewing commercial constraints in favor of a provocative approach that embraces bondage aesthetics and hypnotic grooves. Rough Trade's sonic evolution is not just about music; it's a political dimension, a reflection of society’s fringes given voice. The inclusion of Chris and Cosey’s multi-instrumental arrangements or the spectral harmonies of Young Marble Giants signifies a commitment to interdisciplinary art forms, where each release becomes a sculptural process, an object of sound and vision.
Catalog
111 total
Is this
Silence Is Sexy
Lipstick Traces
Blood
Die Hamletmaschine (Text Heiner Müller)
The Curse Of The Mekons
Pioneers Of The Hypnotic Groove
Die Hamletmaschine
This Is Our Music
Haus der Lüge
Sit Down
A Way Of Life
Life's Too Good
Helleborine
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Anatomy Of Love
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Herstory
Cavalry Of Cloud
2x45
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Shakespeare's Sister
Colossal Youth
Sweet Surprise
Sloblands / The Fairest Of Them All
The Golden Palominos
Kicker Conspiracy
Earth vs. Shockabilly
This Charming Man
Compilation Rough Trade Deutschland
Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T.
October Love Song
A New Form Of Beauty Parts 1-4
Yashar
Liliput
Hai!
The Faculties Of A Broken Heart
The Animals Film
Kangaroo?
Pagan Lovesong
Baby Turns Blue
The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain)
If I Die, I Die
Hail
Nothing Can Stop Us
2x45
Song Of The Bailing Man
Trance
Document And Eyewitness
King Of Kings
The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian
Live at The Lyceum 08.02.1981
A New Form Of Beauty 2
Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain
A New Form Of Beauty 1.
A New Form Of Beauty 3
Jazz The Glass / Burnt To The Ground
Moments And Mine (Despite Straight Lines)
Twenty Tens
Document And Eyewitness
NME/Rough Trade C81
Furious Pig
2
Seconds Too Late
We Are Time
Born In Flames
Live At The Y.M.C.A. 27.10.79
Big City Bright Lights
The Voice of America
Final Day
Silent Command
Dresden Style
Soldier Soldier
....In "Jane From Occupied Europe"
Colossal Youth
Three Mantras
We Are All Prostitutes
Eine Symphonie Des Grauens / Lester Leaps InLabel literature
Artists
People
- Geoff Travis — ran Rough Trade
