- published: 14 Mar 2010
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White label records are vinyl records with adhesive plain white labels affixed. Test pressings, usually with Test Pressing written on the label, with catalogue number, artist and recording time or date, are produced in small quantities (usually under 5 copies) to evaluate the quality of the disc production. Plain white label promos were produced in larger quantities by bigger record labels, often containing a biography of the band, to distribute as demonstration discs ("demos") to music distributors, and radio stations in order to assess consumer opinion. Today, white labels are usually produced in small amounts (fewer than 300) by small record companies or DJs and are most popular with house music and hip-hop DJs. In the early 1990s, hardcore techno/house artists created tracks in home or local studios and had 500 or a few thousand singles pressed on 12" white labels, which were easy to sell at dance music record stores. Steve Beckett of Warp Records recalls that "shops would take fifty white labels off you for five pounds each, no problem. Dance music was all imports, then people in Britain started doing it for themselves, and their tracks started to get better than the tunes in America." Record labels like Warp and Shut Up and Dance were begun as white-label enterprises, providing cutting-edge dance music to pirate radio stations and music stores.
Congratulations you've finally won.
Living the life of a champion.
A modern Priestley the self made son.
Final creation of flesh and blood.
When your friends are gone who will sing along?
Terrible mistakes are the trends you make.
But you're dressed to kill you're an idlebill.
Hold on to something than let it go.
Just shake your shoulders. How could you know?
Un-repetition is what you praise.
Colored and coated built to amaze.
Penalty was lost at a minor cost.
So much more to chose. Cover up your bruise.
When you're dressed to kill you're an idlebill.
Follow your god
I'll be here laughing at you all.
Roll for the bone
But I'm just waiting for a friend to come back home.
Leave a fucking trace. I can't stand your face.
Overstimulate while we sit and wait.