Escovator Records

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Escovator Records
Founded	2001
Founder	Andrew Townsend Jeffery Ayers Michael Croshire
Distributing label	Escovator Records/Kunaki LLC (US)
Genre	Rap & Hip Hop, Techno, Rock
Country of origin	US
Official website	http://www.escovatorrecordsusa.com/

Escovator Records is an American record label owned and operated by Andrew Townsend.

1 The Beginnings
2 Impulse Music of America & The LoD Project
3 Doomed Projects & The Re-Opening of Escovator Records
4 The Roster
5 See also
6 External Links & References

[edit] The Beginnings

In 1997, in Berlin, Germany a partnership between the artist Michael Ayers and the CEO of The Future Sound of Berlin, Paul Croshire, created Streammaker/Palace Records. With the help of the MOSB, Palace and The Future Sound of Berlin lasted until the spring of 2000. At that time recording artist DJ Studios (1999-2004, name changed to DJ Infection in late 2004) & member of The LoD Project Andrew Townsend had just received word that his first Electronic track "Club" had made charts sightings on international charts, in between his work for the FSOB, Jeffery Ayers had taken control of Palace Records when the contract between Michael Ayers, and Paul Croshire expired. In the winter of 2002, a deal between Andrew Townsend and Jeffery Ayers gave Andrew Townsend control of both Streammaker Productions, and Palace Record with a 25% share in the Future Sound of Berlin. Seeing that the name Palace Records, would conflict with already American production company called the same, Andrew Townsend decided to change the name of the label to Escovator Records in the spring of 2003.[1]

[edit] Impulse Music of America & The LoD Project

Well known for Andrew Townsend's 1st album entitled "Assistance Required", his dj gigs and helping the careers of JT Skee, Mastermind, Yung, and bands such as The Lucky Guys, and Fort 43, there was still one problem facing Escovator Records... their financial troubles was disrupting the company. In early 2005 a joint-venture between co-founder Jeffery Ayers and Takaito Yorimeshi of Japanese Label "Fan Recordings" established Impulse Music of America in established some stability in Escovator Records financial situation. With being known as a techno-only label, in fall of 2005 Andrew Townsend decided to take both Escovator and IMA and split them into two entites, Escovator handling rap, rock, and mainstream while Impulse Music of America handled techno. While this was happening The LoD Project was released, gambling both Andrew Townsend's music career, [2] and his business, because of the lack of sales, amount of money poured into the project.

[edit] Doomed Projects & The Re-Opening of Escovator Records

With Several doomed projects in the winter of 2005, to the spring of 2006, Escovator Records chairmen was forced to do something not even they wanted to... With the summer months coming to a crawl, Escovator official closed its door for the entire summer, so that the staff can re-organized and get count their finances.

On July 31st 2006, Andrew Townsend and the rest of the staff decided to open its doors after 4 months of reconstruction [3] to allow the stepping stones to be walked again