London Independent Label Market will return this winter
London Independent Label Market (ILM) is set to return this winter, celebrating a decade of pop up events aimed at DJs and vinyl collectors across the world.
To mark the ten year milestone, ILM will hit Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross on 27th November. DJ sets will be performed throughout the day, with an afterparty set for Spiritland once the stalls close.
4AD, Bella Union, Late Night Tales, Erased Tapes, Black Beacon Sound, Brownswood, Claremont 56, Mute, PIAS, and Secretly are among the imprints confirmed. A full list can be found below.
In addition to the London event, ILM will hit Manchester for the first time on 5th December as part of Tim Burgess’ Vinyl Adventures Record Fair. Live performances, interviews and talks will be held across the northern English city. Meanwhile, the market itself centres on The Royal Exchange.
Piccadilly Records, Mars Tapes, Vinyl Resting Place, Clampdown Records, Eastern Bloc Records, Vinyl Revival, and Bury-based Wax and Beans are the shops involved.
“We’d been wanting to come to Manchester for a long time and for one reason or another had never quite found the right time or place to make it happen,” said ILM co-founder Joe Daniel. “When Tim asked us to be part of Vinyl Adventures we leapt at the chance, it’s a perfect fit.”
Beginning life in 2011 on Soho’s Berwick Street, ILM has now hosted 70 markets in locations including Berlin, Rome, Los Angeles, and Toronto. More than 600 independent record stores have been involved during that time. The first event in honour of the ten year anniversary was held in London in July. According to figures released around the same time, independent labels made up 25% of all UK vinyl sales in 2020.
Indepent Label Market London Winter 2021 Labels
42’s
4AD
AD93
Airbag
Africa Seven
Analogue Trash
Apron
Band On The Wall
BBE
Be With
Bella Union
Biophon
Black Beacon Sound
BLBX
Blitzcat
Breakdown Press
Brownswood
Castles In Space
Cherry Red
Claptrap
Claremont 56
Cold Bow
Distiller
Drag City, Inc.
Dynamite Cuts
Earth
East London Printmakers
Erased Tapes
Far Out
Fierce Panda
Fire
First Word
Forever Living Original
Full Time Hobby
Gare du Nord
Happy Robots
Hassle
Hospital
Kit
Late Night Tales
Leng
LEX
Memphis Industries
Menace
Mexican Summer
Mukatsuku
Mute
Nothing Fancy
Non-Classical
None More
On The Corner
One Little Independent
Partisan
PIAS
Polarface
PRAH
SA Recordings
Sad Club
Scratchy
Secretly
Skep Wax
Slowfoot
Sonic Cathedral
Spacetalk
Speedy Wunderground
Spiritmuse
The Get Down
Transgressive
untitled (recs)
Velocity Press
Vintage League Music
