Engine Room Recordings

Engine Room Recordings is an independent record label, nationally distributed through Select-O-Hits. Engine Room Recordings released music by Goat, Porter Block, a compilation called "Guilt By Association" with Devendra Barnhart, Jim O'Rourke, Luna, Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billie and others covering INXS, Destiny's Child, Paula Abdul, Mariah Carey. Engine Room Recordings was co-founded by Mark Christensen, a musician who was formerly signed to Interscope Records and toured with Radiohead, the Wallflowers and the Gin Blossoms. Mark is also a music studio owner (Engine Room Audio), a mixing/mastering engineer (Ben Folds, Gavin DeGraw, Moby, Nick Cave, Ben Kweller), and a producer. Engine Room Recordings was also co-founded by Peter Block, owner and managing director of Block Music; a production company developing and producing Broadcast TV and DVD content. Peter co-develop and executive produced "And You Don't Stop" a hip hop documentary on VH-1 in 2004, and produced "The Cobain Case" film and DVD. The label seems to have had a precursor called "The Engine Group" which was mentioned in CMJ in September 2000. The website was active as enginegroup.com until July 2001.