Battle Worldwide Recordings

Battle Worldwide Recordings is an independent record label and publishing (music and literature) company based in Brighton, United Kingdom. Battle Worldwide Recordings has more than 50 releases to its furious name, including records by Co-Pilgrim, Swaying Wires, Blacklevel Embassy, Kid Wave, Falling Stacks and Empty Pools. Battle Worldwide Recordings artists have been lauded by the likes of BBC Radio (Lamacq, Laverne, Coe), Spin, The Big Takeover, Drowned In Sound, Q and triple j and toured internationally, sweating the festival circuit. Battle Worldwide Recordings adheres to an old school ideology stemming back from the 1980s punk scene labels like SST, Merge and Au Go Go – and that’s where the Battle Worldwide Recordings story begins. Founder Darren John Smallman grew up in the Australian punk underground, spending many fierce years in the loud and influential band Warped as well as Toad and The Sun & The Silver Anthology artists. From there, he developed Low Transit Industries, a record label and touring agency which released classic records by Okkervil River, C.W. Stoneking, Thalia Zedek, Black Mountain, SubAudible Hum and Of Montreal. “One of my favourite labels… check out every band they have been putting out, they’re really on it in terms of quality control”Jack Rabid, Big Takeover Artists: Alarm Bells | ASx | Blacklevel Embassy | Co-pilgrim | El Grumpos | The Disciplines | Dog in the Snow | Empty Pools | Falling Stacks | Kid Wave | Margins | Mike Gale | Mike Gale & Ilona V | Mother Me | Pelotons | Kim Salmon & The Surrealists | Swaying Wires | The Paranoid Style | The Sound Platform | Thee Vinyl Creatures | The Wells Collective | Young Things