Kscope
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| Parent company | Snapper Music |
| Founded | April 2008 |
| Distributor(s) | Snapper Music |
| Genre | Progressive rock,post-progressive,alternative rock, art rock, psychedelic rock, experimental rock |
| Country of origin | England |
| Location | London |
| Official website | www |
Kscope is an independent record label that is part of Snapper Music, and a sister-label of Peaceville. It is dedicated to artists in the progressive rock genre. The label has released albums by Steven Wilson and his projects Porcupine Tree, No-Man and Blackfield. In 2008 it branched out and has since signed the post-progressive artists Anathema, Lunatic Soul and Ulver, and progressive rock stalwart Ian Anderson to their roster. In 2013, the Steven Wilson release The Raven That Refused To Sing (and Other Stories) received the Album of the Year award at the Progressive Music Awards.
Established in the late 1990s, the label was initially used exclusively by Wilson and Porcupine Tree. In this first incarnation Kscope featured as an outlet for the 1999 album Stupid Dream, while being distributed through Snapper Music. It was followed by Lightbulb Sun in 2000 and a collection of left-over material Recordings. After the band signed to Atlantic Records in 2002, the name was used for Wilson's side projects. This included the albums Together We're Stranger (2003) and the re-issue of the Flowermouth (2005) by No-Man. It also released Blackfield (2004) and Blackfield II (2007) - a collaboration with Aviv Geffen.
When Snapper Music acquired the earlier Porcupine Tree recordings from Delerium Records in 2006, a re-release programme was rolled out. At the same time, talks began to expand the remit of the label, and Wilson suggested to "have [it] for releasing only new music. Just go after some of these [post progressive] bands and model yourselves on those old ’70s labels, like Harvest and Vertigo, [who] would allow artists to develop both musically and with a fan base over a period of albums”. As a result, Snapper music remodeled Kscope to focus on post-progressive music, with Wilson actively involved with the acts that were signed.
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