Cooltempo Records is a subsidiary of EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

. The label released albums by artists such as Kenny Thomas

Kenny Thomas (singer)

Kenny Thomas is an English soul singer.-Career:Thomas grew up on Hillside Estate in Stamford Hill and went to Cardinal Pole RC School in Hackney . He was a boxer and a BT technician before turning his hand to a singing career...

, Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli was a pop/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, visually fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album achieved international success and earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on Feb. 21, 1990. Milli Vanilli became one of the most...

, Adeva

Adeva

Adeva is a female African American house-music and contemporary R&B artist from Paterson, New Jersey, United States, the youngest of six children...

, Shara Nelson

Shara Nelson

Shara Nelson is a British singer and songwriter. She is notable for her work with the band Massive Attack in the early 1990s, and for her solo career in which she garnered five UK Top 40 hit singles...

, Mica Paris

Mica Paris

Mica Paris is an English soul singer, radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. Her forename is pronounced Misha.-Beginnings:Paris' roots are in soul and gospel music...

 or Innocence

Innocence (band)

Innocence was a British R&B band fronted by Gee Morris, that achieved some success in the UK in the early 1990s.Masterminded by the production team of Anna Jolley, Mark Jolley and Brian Harris, Innocence's sound was similar to then-popular group Soul II Soul, but also addied elements of downtempo...

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History

Cooltempo emerged at the end of the 1980s during the height of the UK acid house scene, signing dance acts such as Monie Love

Monie Love

Simone Riscoe , better known by her stage name Monie Love, is an English emcee and former radio personality in the United States...

 and Adeva. As the dance scene became increasingly fragmented, Cooltempo continued with soul/jazz vocalists such as Juliet Roberts

Juliet Roberts

Juliet Roberts is a British jazz, rock and house music singer of Grenadian descent.-Career:She originally recorded as Julie Roberts in 1982, and performed on the 1983 Top 10 hit single, "It's Over" by the Funkmasters...

, later branching out with jazz/hip hop artists Guru, Gang Starr

Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop duo that consisted of the late MC Guru and DJ/producer DJ Premier. Their style combined elements of New York jazz and hip hop.-Background:...

 and Arrested Development. DJ Trevor Nelson

Trevor Nelson

Trevor Nelson MBE is an English DJ and presenter.Born in Hackney to a family of St Lucian heritage, he attended Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School in Cowper St, Islington, London EC2 and Westminster Kingsway College...

 worked with the label from 1993 and signed Lynden David Hall

Lynden David Hall

Lynden David Hall was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer.- Life and career :Born in Wandsworth, South London, he won the 'best newcomer' accolade at the 1998 MOBO Awards....

 and D’Angelo.

Discography

• Adeva: The 12" Mixes, Adeva, Love Or Lust
• Afrika Bambaataa & Family: The Light
• Carleen Anderson: The Remixes/The Bsides
• D*Note: Lost And Found, Waiting Hopefully
• David Grant & Jaki Graham: The Very Best Of
• Earthling: Off The Radar
• Eternal: The Remixes
• Inner City: Praise, Fire, Paradise Remixed
• Kenny Thomas: Wait For Me
• Loose Ends: A Little Spice
• Luciana: One More River (album), If You Want (digital download & video), Get It Up For Love (digital download & video), One More River (digital download & video)
• Paul Hardcastle: Paul Hardcastle
• Ruthless Rap Assassins: Killer Album
• Silver Bullet: Bring Down The Rules No Limit Squad Returns
• Various Artists: Cooltempo Sampler
• Damage: Ghetto Romance
• Damage: Rumours
• Damage: Still Be Lovin' You
• Damage: So What If I?
• Jaki Graham: Heaven Knows
• Jaki Graham: Breaking Away
• Juliet Roberts: Natural Thing
• K-Klass: Remixes
• Lynden David Hall: Sexy Cinderella (remixes)
• Paul Hardcastle: No Winners