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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: 2 Tone Records, ANTI-, Auralux Recordings, Basic Replay, Beverley's, Blood and Fire (record label), Blue Beat Records, Blue Cat Records, Charly Records, Crab Records, Creole Records, Culture Press, DEP International, Dub Store Records, Fashion Records, Four Music, Front Line (record label), Greensleeves Records, Heartbeat Records, Island Records, Island Reggae Greats, I Grade Records, JAD Records, Jahtari, Jah Warrior, Jamaican Gold, Jet Set Records, Jet Star, Lightning Records, Madhouse Records, Nature Sounds, Nicola Delita, Nighthawk Records, Pama Records, Pressure Sounds, Profile Records, RAS Records, ROIR, Shanachie Records, Socialist Roots Sound System, Spit Shine Records, Studio One (record label), Summer Records, Trojan Records, Tuff Gong, Tuff Gong Worldwide, Unidisc Music, Uprising Records, Upsetter Records, VP Records, Wackies. Excerpt: Heartbeat Records is an independent record label based in Burlington (formerly Cambridge), Massachusetts. The label specializes in Jamaican music. Founded by reggae music enthusiasts Bill Nowlin and Duncan Brown, the label's first release was a vinyl LP reissue of Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood (1981). In 1989, Chris Wilson was hired as VP of A&R and the label began their association with Studio One label founder Clement Dodd and released Best of Studio One, a compilation of Dodd-produced music by artists including Dennis Brown, Alton Ellis, The Gladiators, Marcia Griffiths, The Heptones, Slim Smith, Sugar Minott, and Johnny Osbourne, among others. Heartbeat has released over 60 Studio One albums. The label licensed music from a number of different Jamaican producers including Lee "Scratch" Perry, Joe Gibbs, Sonia Pottinger, Clancy Eccles, Alvin Ranglin, Duke Reid, Niney the Observer, Sly & Robbie, Steely & Clevie, and Lloyd Daley. The label financed and booked the Heartbeat Culture Splash Tour, consisting of Michael Rose, Sister Carol, the Meditations, Derrick Morgan, and the S.A.N.E. band, that toured the United States in 1996. In 2000, Heartbeat Records received a Grammy Award for Burning Spear's Heartbeat album entitled Calling Rastafari (1999) which has since been deleted from the catalog. Heartbeat Records won Boston magazine's Best of Boston 2000 award for Best Record Label. In January 2007, Heartbeat relocated to Burlington, Massachusetts. The same year, Heartbeat launched the web site and podcast entitled the Heartbeat Reggae Podcast. (1999) Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group. The label now operates as a division of The Island Def Jam Music Group in the United States (where it is now a largely rock-oriented label, much like in its heyday) and as a standalone label in the United Kingdom (al
