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(LONDON) - Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is launching Transcopic, a label to be based in the offices of the band's London-based management company, CMO.|
First signing is U.S. band Assembly Line People Program. A double-A-sided limited-edition 7-inch single, "Noise Vision 80"/"Who's Outline (live)," is due March 9. CMO's Niamh Byrne will have day-to-day responsibility for the label.
"We're not expecting to release great, polished music," says
Byrne, explaining that Transcopic will be an outlet for new acts
and "lo-fi" music. U.K. distribution is via SRD;
no international deals are in place. Blur's fifth album,
Blur, is on EMI imprint
Food in the U.K., Virgin in the
U.S., and EMI internationally.