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Nation Records is a record label set up by Aki Nawaz which released the first new take on world dance music, an album called "Fuse". Featuring the earliest appearance by Talvin Singh as Mahatma T, the label went on to feature the early releases of Asian Dub Foundation, Transglobal Underground, Fun-Da-Mental, Loop Guru, Natacha Atlas, Joi, Swami, TJ Rehmi and Charged. Most of the UK alternative Asian music scene has passed through Nation's offices in some capacity or another.

The label also signed a number of UK hip hop groups, including the Birmingham-based Urban South (MC Mayhem, Guvna G and Embryo), who supported such acts as Ice T, Hijack, Rebel MC and Onyx. The group held legendary jams in south Birmingham called Brick House - and you can still see the tags left behind by Sticky Fingaz and Fredro Starr in Balsall Heath.

[edit] See also

• List of record labels

[edit] External links

• Nation Records website

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