Beat the World Records
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| Parent company | EMI, The End |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | The Dandy Warhols |
| Distributor(s) | Caroline, Endless |
| Genre | Indie, Rock, Electronic |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Portland, Oregon |
| Official website | http://www.BeatTheWorld.com/ |
Beat The World Records is The Dandy Warhols owned and operated Portland, Oregon-based record label, originally launched in 2008.
In 2007 Portland, Oregon band The Dandy Warhols had the idea of starting their own label and signed Portland shoegaze outfit The Upsidedown, followed by indie electropop artist Logan Lynn. In 2008 The Dandy Warhols split with long-time record company Capitol Records and officially launched Beat The World Records as a Caroline Records EMI 3rd-Party label. Rockers Monstrous, indie pop boy band The Hugs, Los Angeles western rock group Spindrift and Dandy guitar rock proteges were signed in the years which followed.
In 2008 The Dandy Warhols released ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., the first official release on Beat The World. Shortly thereafter they put out an EP, Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume One, consisting of electronic remixed versions of tracks from Earth and Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume Two a few months later. The label released Logan Lynn's Feed Me to the Wolves EP and re-released his entire catalog in a package called "The Complete Collection" on the Beat the World label in 2008, followed by a full-length album from The Upsidedown in 2008 as well.
Logan Lynn released his critically acclaimed, full-length album From Pillar to Post on Beat The World Records in September 2009. In November 2009, Beat The World released a Dandy Warhols cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird" in tribute to the death of Michael Jackson, referencing the lyrics of their 2003 song "Welcome to the Monkey House", from the album of the same name: "When Michael Jackson dies/We're covering Blackbird". The following month, the band released The Dandy Warhols Are Sound, the original mix of their album Welcome to the Monkey House. This version of the record was the initial mix done by Grammy Award-winning soul producer Russell Elevado, which was rejected by Capitol Records and shelved for six years. Are Sound received a generally muted response, and fared poorly in comparison to the original album.
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