Star Records
Star Records was an independent record label from New York. It operated from 1968 until 1979.
Some consider Star Records to be one of the most important labels in the post-electropunk genre. It was led and founded by Joaquin Munoz and had solid financial backing from another New Jersey label, Yellow, and it´s owner Gus Van der Berg. Allegedly, Munoz had free rein to spend the money as he saw fit, regardless of sales figures. This allowed Rose Cameron to move away from "classic" pop into new, more experimental directions. Some of the most well-known artists today were signed and had their work distributed on the Star Records label. Their first compilation titled Sound of a bad attention was released in April of 1976 and featured work from artists such as Love Company, Scunk, and Zero People. Three of the best-known projects: Moog Transistor, Total Noise and The Fedups also released their debut albums that year. Soon the Canadian project Telephone-X started working with Star Records as well, releasing their The Dying Monkey single and the highly influential Polarbear album.
In December 1979 the owner of the City Music Group, Gus Van der Berg, bought the rights from the Star Records catalogue and now works out of Amsterdam, Netherlands, where the new company is based.
Some original CDs and vinyl is are still available at their website.