Cooking Vinyl Announce Biggest Raft Of Signings To Date - Get Cape, Underworld & Charlatans

• Albums To Be Fully Marketed And Distributed As Service Deals• Signings Build On Suzanne Vega, Groove Armada, Prodigy Successes21st June 2010, London:- Leading independent Cooking Vinyl is proud to announce a trio of exciting signings Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., Underworld, and The Charlatans. The trio of deals mark an expansion of the company’s service deal capability, which sees leading acts’ releases fully marketed and promoted for a share of sales revenues as opposed to a royalty based agreement.The signings follow the company’s considerable success servicing albums by Groove Armada, Suzanne Vega and The Prodigy, who’s Invaders Must Die was the best selling independent release in the UK and Europe in 2009.Underworld’s new album, Barking, recorded in Essex and co-produced with (among others) Paul van Dyk, Dubfire, Mark Knight & D Ramirez and High Contrast among the collaborators, is the band’s first output since 2007’s critically acclaimed Oblivion With Bells. Released 13th September on underworldlive.com, lead single Scribble, released 28th June, has already received heavy rotation and Hottest Record In The World status from Radio 1’s Zane Lowe. Smith and Hyde headline the Roundhouse on 17th July as part of the iTunes festival.Also released 13th September is the Charlatans’ eleventh studio collection, Who We Touch. The campaign will see lead single Love Is Ending released across all formats on 19th July. Meanwhile, a thirteen date tour has just been announced, beginning in Newcastle on October 7th and running to Birmingham on October 23rd , taking in eight O2 Academies including London’s O2 Academy Brixton.Released a week earlier is the third studio album from the critically acclaimed Sam Duckworth aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Released on Cooking Vinyl the campaign began with the first track Morning Light from the as yet untitled album being made available as a free download. The band kick off a number off festival appearances and a short UK tour with an evening gig at Glastonbury’s Leftfield Stage on Friday 25th June.Said Mike Gillespie, co-manager Underworld, "It's great to be working with the Cooking Vinyl team on our new record. Martin, Anette and Rob lead a highly motivated enthusiastic team of "do-ers" - very refreshing and so no surprises they're as hot as they are right now!"Commented Paul Bonham, Manager, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., "It's pleasant to work with a team who genuinely understand the important role they play in providing a service to enable the facilitation of music to fan bases both new and old. Too many labels currently are forgetting the record. You can tell Cooking Vinyl loves them and wants to sell them to you"Cooking Vinyl founder Martin Goldschmidt said “The success of the Prodigy record has really help us attract some great artists. I like the services model because it aligns our interests with the artist and creates a strong partnership. The accounting is very transparent and everyone knows how much all parties have made or lost from the deal.”The signings follows marked service deal successes with Suzanne Vega, Groove Armada and The Prodigy, which saw the company score their biggest success to date.Vega issued the first of four thematic albums – Suzanne Vega Close-Up, Vol 1, Love Songs – that reinterpret a majority of her catalogue, on worldwide release on July the 14th, with a campaign that has raised her profile to its highest point in years. UK appearances ranging from BBC Breakfast, R2’s Radcliffe and Maconie and Bob Harris shows, Radio 4’s Front Row and a slew of great press coverage were matched by equally high profile campaigns in France, Italy and Australia.Groove Armada’s sixth studio album Black Light, also released on Cooking Vinyl records, has been received as their most critically acclaimed album to date, leading to the band enjoying their highest profile in years. Appearances included Jonathan Ross, a Maida Vale session for Pete Tong, and features in the Guardian and an Independent covermount, with Sunday Times Culture naming it their best album, and Q their best material in more than a decade.About Cooking Vinyl RecordsCooking Vinyl has developed a reputation as one of Europe’s prime artist-focused independent labels, inspiring an enviable loyalty among its artist roster. It is also in the vanguard of music companies offering innovative services-only deals that claim no stake in artists’ copyrights.Cooking Vinyl take full responsibility for the management of a project whether functioning as a label or in a services-only setting. Adding more than just marketing muscle, Cooking Vinyl devise and implement worldwide sales, marketing and distribution plans for their artists, working alongside booking agents and artist managers.Artists signed to services deals with Cooking Vinyl include The Prodigy, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly,, Underworld, Groove Armada, the Charlatans and Dolores O’Riordan. Such is the loyalty and affection among artists for the label that the likes of Jackie Leven and Frank Black have returned close to 20 times to record fresh collections with them. Cooking Vinyl’s deal with Ingenious for The Prodigy created Europe and the UK’s biggest selling independent record in 2009.The broader Cooking Vinyl Group comprises Cooking Vinyl Records, distributor and marketing services provider Essential Music & Marketing, and publishing company Cooking Vinyl Music, which is run by Paul Kinder, a former director at Chrysalis.www.cookingvinyl.com