Angular Records

Angular Recording Corporation
Founded	2003
Founder	Joe Daniel, Joe Margetts
Defunct	2012
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Location	London
Official website	Angular Store

Angular Recording Corporation was an independent record label founded in New Cross, South East London. It was established in June 2003 by two ex-Goldsmiths College students, Joe Daniel and Joe Margetts, who reclaimed a local Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station and made it their first artefact: ARC 001.

The label's founders were influenced by a love of angular pop music and the Manchester label Factory Records. Gaining funding through medical testing, Angular Recording Corporation was able to finance its debut release in November 2003, the NME-championed The New Cross : An Angular Sampler. NME made it the lead review in the magazine, ahead of many major label releases.

In the 2011 England riots, the label lost all its stock and entire back catalogue in the PIAS warehouse fire.

An Angular Store website remains active.

The first two Angular samplers launched the careers of a number of bands, including: Art Brut, Bloc Party and The Long Blondes.

ARC 002: The New Cross

ARC 004: Rip Off Your Labels

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