Agit-Prop Records
- This article refers to the United Kingdom based record label and should not be confused with Agitprop! Records.
Agit-Prop Records was an independent record label founded in 1985 by the members of the then-peace punk band Chumbawamba.
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History
Before starting the label, Chumbawamba had distributed their records and tapes using the Sky and Trees label. As well as releasing their own recordings, Agit-Prop also put out a number of records by other groups.
Agit-Prop was run in co-op form adhering to anarchist philosophy.
Agit-Prop released its last album, Shhh, in 1992. Chumbawamba felt it was too much work to maintain a band and a label. Band member Alice Nutter adds:
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- We realised long ago while still running Agit-Prop that we were existing within a capitalist system, and belonging to a small but pure indie ghetto wasn't going to have any effect other than making us feel holy.[1] The label was disbanded, and Chumbawamba signed onto One Little Indian Records.
Name
The term "agit prop" originates from the Soviet Union's Department for Agitation and Propaganda.
Discography
Original UK release dates for vinyl records given. Some of the following may have been re-issued in CD format.
(For full Chumbawamba discography see main Chumbawamba discography)
- AGIT 1 - Chumbawamba, "Revolution" EP (1985)
- AGIT 2 - Chumbawamba & A State of Mind, "We Are The World?" EP (Agit-Matter Records, 1986)
- AGIT 3 - Chumbawamba, "Smash Clause 28!/Fight the Alton Bill" Single (1988)
- AGIT 4 - Credit to the Nation, "Pay the Price" EP (1991)
- AGIT 5 - Chumbawamba, "I Never Gave Up" Single (1992)
- AGIT 666 - Chumbawamba, "Behave" Single (1992)
- AGIT 8 - Papa Brittle, "Status Quo / Global intensified Nationalism" EP (1992)
- PROP 1 - Chumbawamba, Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986)
- PROP 2 - Chumbawamba, Never Mind the Ballots (1987)
- PROP 3 - Chumbawamba, English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 (1988)
- PROP 4 - Sportchestra!, 101 Songs About Sport (1988)
- PROP 5 - Bassa Bassa, Bassa Bassa (1991)
- PROP 7 - Chumbawamba, Slap! (1990)
- PROP 8 - Thatcher on Acid, Frank (1990)
- PROP 9 - Chumbawamba, First Two (1992) (compilation of Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records and Never Mind the Ballots)
- PROP 11 - Chumbawamba, Shhh (1992)
- PROP 12 - Papa Brittle, Obey, Consume, Marry And Reproduce (1992)
