Remote Control Records was established in 2001 by Steve Cross and Harvey Saward. It provides publicity, label management, distribution and marketing services to international and local artists and labels.
Remote Control's roster of international artists includes Adele, Queens of the Stone Age, The xx, FKA Twigs, Jungle, Vampire Weekend, Alabama Shakes, Radiohead, the National, Purity Ring and SBTRKT. The company represents various international record labels in the Australian and New Zealand markets, including 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade, True Panther, XL Recordings, and Young Turks. By October 2009 Andrew McMillen of Mess+Noise felt, "[it] represents a substantial roster of international artists in Australia and New Zealand."
In 2004 Remote Control established Dot Dash Recordings with Inertia Distribution, exclusively for Australian acts. The Dot Dash roster includes Pearls, Teeth & Tongue, Client Liaison, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Total Giovanni, Dorsal Fins, Saskwatch, Jeremy Neale, Methyl Ethel, and Velociraptor.
Remote Control also works in partnership with a number of independent Australian and New Zealand labels, including Milk!, Flightless and Barely Dressed, providing support to such artists as Courtney Barnett, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Fat Freddy's Drop, Babe Rainbow, Kllo, and Banoffee.
In 2013 Remote Control opened a new publicity and promotions department via Recon Music, an established, boutique PR agency specialising in strategic national media campaigns. Recon's list of past and present clients included Sharon Van Etten, Ty Segall, Josh Pyke, The Clean, Elizabeth Rose, Allday, DZ Deathrays, Say Lou Lou, Loon Lake, Sally Seltmann, Sugar Mountain Festival, Saskwatch and Philadelphia Grand Jury.
The label celebrated its 15th birthday in June 2016 by a party with, "a wide range of dope beat pushers, from Jim Lawrie at the start to Teeth & Tongue in the middle to Milwaukee Banks at the end."
theMusic.com.aus reviewers described the company in February 2018, "one of the country’s leading record labels." They observed, "they’ve opened up a completely different avenue of upcoming talent and assisted in building strong communities within the local scene" and determined that, "2017 saw the label have its strongest and most consistent year ever on the ARIA Album Chart."
Representation
Labels
Beggars Group 4AD Matador Records Rough Trade True Panther XL Recordings Young Turks Dot Dash Recordings Flightless Barely Dressed Records Omnian Music Group 2MR Body Double Ltd Captured Tracks Couple Skate Fantasy Memory Honor Press Manufactured Recordings Sinderlyn Squirrel Thing
International acts
AC Newman Adam Green Adele Alabama Shakes Alexander Algiers Atlas Sound Atoms For Peace BeeGeeDee Belle & Sebastian Basement Jaxx Bauhaus Beirut Benjamin Booker The Big Pink Blonde Redhead Body/Head Boulevards The Breeders British Sea Power Ceremony Camera Obscura Cat Power Civil Civic The Cave Singers The Cocteau Twins The Creases The Cult Daughter Delorean Deerhunter DIIV Dillinger Escape Plan East India Youth Efterklang Eddi Reader EMA Emiliana Torrini Elvis Perkins Esben & the Witch Eyedress Fat Freddy's Drop FKA Twigs Francoiz Breut Friendly Fires Fucked Up Future Islands Future of the Left Gang Gang Dance Giggs Glasser Grayson Gilmour Guerre Holy Fuck The Horrors Houndmouth Iceage Inc Indians Holly Herndon Howler Ibeyi Iron & Wine Jamie xx Jane Badler Jeffrey Lewis Jenny Lewis Jungle Kelly Dance King Krule Kirin J Callinan Kurt Vile Lapsley Lee Ranaldo & the Dust Le1f Lo Fang Love Migrate Lower Lucianblomkamp Majical Cloudz Merchandise Micachu Mike Turner The Mountain Goats The National Ned Collette New Gods The New Pornographers Palma Violets Panthu Du Prince Parquet Courts Pavement Paul Banks Peaches Pixies Prodigy Purity Ring QT Queens of the Stone Age Radiohead Ratking Ratatat SOAK Sagamore Sampha Savages SBTRKT Scott Walker Shamir SHLOHMO Sigur Ros SOAK Sohn Sonic Youth St. Vincent Stereolab Stornoway Super Wild Horses T54 Thom Yorke Thurston Moore Tindersticks Tobias Jesso Jr. Tune-Yards Twin Shadow Vampire Weekend Velociraptor Warpaint Wild Nothing The White Stripes Willis Earl Beal Woods Yo La Tengo The xx Zomby
Australian acts
Banoffee Client Liaison Courtney Barnett Dirty Three Dorsal Fins Jess Ribeiro Jim Lawrie King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Leah Senior Love Migrate Miami Horror Milwaukee Banks Methyl Ethel The Murlocs Oh Pep! Pearls Pipe-Eye Saskwatch Sui Zhen Sunbeam Sound Machine Teeth & Tongue Velociraptor
See also
Lists of record labels
References
External links
"Remote Control" record label credits at AllMusic