Hed Kandi
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Hed Kandi is an UK-based record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle
Mark Doyle
Mark Doyle is a UK-based nightclub DJ, A&R man and record label owner.In 1999 he founded the record and lifestyle label Hed Kandi for Jazz FM, and began an extensive marketing campaign within the UK and abroad with the label's house and chill music compilations and club nights in several nightclubs...
, specialising in funky, soulful house music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
. Hed Kandi's catalogue includes both artist albums and various genres of club compilations. As well as producing music albums and compilations, Hed Kandi host events all over the world. From their famous Saturday night parties in Ibiza to pool parties in Las Vegas, their distinct brand of uplifting house music accompanied by a live saxophonist and percussion player can be found in every corner of the globe.
History
The record label has made a lot of collections, like Back to Love and Beach House, with cds produced in UK, USA and Australia.Hed Kandi originally opened up in 1997 under Jazz FM
Jazz FM
Jazz FM may refer to:*Jazz FM , a digital jazz radio station in the United Kingdom.*102.2 Jazz FM, a defunct radio station based in London, England.*100.4 Jazz FM, a defunct radio station based in Manchester, England....
and released their first compilation 'Nu Cool', in 1999, the company went private and gradually transformed into what it has become today. In 2002 they held their first club night in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, today they run hundreds of nights a year in clubs across the world. They have also had several chart topping hits including Stonebridges 'Put 'em High'.
In January 2006, Hed Kandi Records was acquired by the UK record company Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...
for an undisclosed sum. Since then, Mark Doyle and his team created a new record label, Fierce Angel. The leadership of Hed Kandi was taken over by Dan Baxter, who had previously worked for the label/brand when it was owned by UK media company, the Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group plc is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd in 1907 when C. P. Scott bought the Manchester Guardian from the estate of...
. As of 2009 the Hed Kandi brand, together with Ministry of Sound, belonged to the MSHK Group.
In February, 2011 Hed Kandi America partnered up with ME Hotels to hold monthly events on their resorts and hotels in Cancun
Cancún
Cancún is a city of international tourism development certified by the UNWTO . Located on the northeast coast of Quintana Roo in southern Mexico, more than 1,700 km from Mexico City, the Project began operations in 1974 as Integrally Planned Center, a pioneer of FONATUR Cancún is a city of...
and Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas , commonly called Cabo, is a city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the municipality of Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,463 people...
.
The Brand has also opened up various factions across the world outside there central London HQ including Hed Kandi America, Hed Kandi France, Hed Kandi Asia, Hed Kandi Germany and Hed Kandi Australia & New Zealand.
FlyKandi
The Brand partnered with Monarch AirlinesMonarch Airlines
Monarch Airlines, often shortened to and trading as Monarch, is a British charter and scheduled airline based at London Luton Airport in Luton. It is one of the United Kingdom's largest charter airlines, operating to Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, India and Africa, serving mainly leisure...
to offer flights to various clubbing destinations in Europe such as Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
, Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
, Tenerife
Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
& Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
from airports in major British cities such as Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
and London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
's Gatwick & Heathrow.
Audio Equipment
Hed Kandi have put out a range of audio equipment, including headphones and iPod speakers.Bars
The brand currently own and operate three bars, the 'Hed Kandi Bar' in ClaphamClapham
Clapham is a district in south London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.Clapham covers the postcodes of SW4 and parts of SW9, SW8 and SW12. Clapham Common is shared with the London Borough of Wandsworth, although Lambeth has responsibility for running the common as a whole. According...
, London, the 'Hed Kandi Beach Bar' in Hurghada
Hurghada
Hurghada is a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. It is a main tourist center and second largest city in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.- Overview :...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
and the 'Hed Kandi Bar' in Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
, In late summer of 2011, a Hed Kandi Bar in Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
is set to open.
Stores
Two stores are operated by the brand, one in the Liverpool One in LiverpoolLiverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and one in the Bluewater in Greenhithe
Greenhithe
Greenhithe is a town in Dartford District of Kent, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe.Greenhithe, as it is spelled today, is located where it was possible to build wharves for transshipping corn, wood and other commodities; its largest cargoes were of chalk and...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, England. Both recently were forced to shut down due to demand.
Back To Love
- Back to Love (1999)
- Back To Love 2 (2000)
- Back To Love 3 (2001)
- Back To Love 03.02 (2002)
- Back To Love 03.03 (2003)
- Back To Love 03.04 (2004)
- Back To Love 03.05 (2005)
- Back To Love: True Club Classics (2006)
- Back To Love: True Club Classics (2007)
- Back To Love: The Mix (2008)
- Back To Disco (2011)
Beach House
- Beach House (2000)
- Beach House 2 (2001)
- Beach House 04.02 (2002)
- Beach House 04.03 (2003)
- Beach House 04.04 (2004)
- Beach House 04.05 (2005)
- Beach House (2006)
- Beach House (2007)
- Beach House (2008) (Australia)
- Beach House (2008) (USA)
- Beach House (2008)
- Beach House (2009)
- Beach House (2010)
- Beach House (2011)
Disco Heaven
- Disco Heaven 02.02 (2002)
- Disco Heaven 02.03 (2003)
- Disco Heaven 01.04 (2004)
- Disco Heaven 01.05 (2005)
- Disco Heaven (2006)
- Disco Heaven (2007)
- Disco Heaven (2008) (Australia)
- Disco Heaven (2008)
- Disco Heaven (2009)
- Disco Heaven (2010)
- Disco Heaven (2011)
Disco Kandi
- Disco KandiDisco KandiDisco Kandi is the first compilation album in the Disco Kandi Series and features various artists performing disco tracks. It is the fifth series released by Hed Kandi, following the release of the Nu Cool, Serve Chilled, Winter Chill and Back To Love albums.-Disc one:# Cunnie Williams – A World...
(2000) - Disco Kandi 2 (2000)
- Disco Kandi 3 (2001)
- Disco Kandi 4 (2001)
- Disco Kandi 5 (2001)
- Disco Kandi 05.02 (2002)
- Disco Kandi 05.03 (2003)
- Disco Kandi 05.04 (2004)
- Disco Kandi (2005)
- Disco Kandi (2006)
- Disco Kandi The Mix (2007)
- Disco Kandi USA (2009)
Hed Kandi The Mix
- The Mix: Summer 2004 (2004)
- The Mix: Winter 2004 (2004)
- Summer Mix 2004 (2004)
- The Mix: 50 (2005)
- The Mix: 2006 (2005)
- The Mix: Summer 2006 (2006)
- Hed Kandi Classics (2006)
- Hed Kandi Deluxe (2006) [Downloadable only]
- The Mix: Summer 2007 (2007)
- The Mix: 2008 (2007)
- The Mix: Summer 2008 (2008)
- The Mix: USA 2009 (2008)
- The Mix: 2009 (2008)
- The Mix: 2009 (2008) (Australia)
- The Mix: Spring 2009 (2009)
- The Mix: Summer 2009 (2009)
- The Mix: USA 2010 (2009)
- The Mix: Ibiza 2010 (2010)
- The Remix 2011 (2011)
- The Mix: Ibiza 2011 (2011)
- Hed Kandi Classics 2 (2011)
Nu Disco
- Nu Disco (2009)
- Nu Disco 2 (2010)
- Nu Disco 3 (2010)
- Nu Disco Hello Kitty Limited Edition (2010)
Nu Cool
- Nu Cool (1998)
- Nu Cool 2 (1999)
- Nu Cool 3 (1999)
- Nu Cool 4 (2000)
- Nu Cool (2006)
- Nu Cool (2007)
Serve Chilled
- Serve Chilled 1 (1999)
- Serve Chilled 2 (2000)
- Serve Chilled 3 (2001)
- Serve Chilled (2006)
- Serve Chilled (2007)
- Serve Chilled (2008)
- Serve Chilled (2008) - USA
- Serve Chilled (2009) - USA
- Serve Chilled: Electronic Summer (2011)
Stereo Sushi
- Stereo Sushi (2002)
- Stereo Sushi 2 (2002)
- Stereo Sushi 3 (2002)
- Stereo Sushi v. Futomaki (2003)
- Stereo Sushi v. Wasabi (2003)
- Stereo Sushi v. Sake (2004)
- Stereo Sushi Teriyaki (2005)
- Stereo Sushi 8 (2006)
- Stereo Sushi Sashimi (2006)
- Stereo Sushi 10 (2007)
- Stereo Sushi 11 (2007)
- Stereo Sushi 12 (2008)
- Stereo Sushi 13 (2008)
- Stereo Sushi 14 (2008)
Twisted Disco
- Twisted Disco (2003)
- Twisted Disco 02.04 (2004)
- Twisted Disco 02.05 (2005)
- Twisted Disco (2006)
- Twisted Disco (2007)
- Twisted Disco (2008)
- Twisted Disco (2009)
- Twisted Disco (2010)
- Twisted Disco (2011)
Winter Chill
- Winter Chill (1999)
- Winter Chill 2 (2000)
- Winter Chill 3 (2001)
- Winter Chill 06.02 (2002)
- Winter Chill 06.03 (2003)
- Winter Chill 06.04 (2004)
World Series
- The World Series U.K. Mix 1 (2003)
- World Series Live: Paris (2006)
- World Series Live : San Francisco (2008)
- World Series: Ibiza (2008)
- World Series: Brazil (2009)
- World Series: Tokyo (2010)
- World Series: London (2010)
- World Series: Miami (2011)
- World Series: Barcelona (2011)
Taste Of
- Hed Kandi : A Taste of Kandi Summer 2006
- Hed Kandi : A Taste of Kandi Summer 2007
- Hed Kandi : Hed Kandi Presents A Taste Of Kandi Summer 2008
- Hed Kandi : A Taste of Winter 2008
- Hed Kandi : A Taste of Winter 2009
- Hed Kandi : Winter Sampler 2010 / A Taste of Winter 2010
- Hed Kandi : Hed Kandi Presents A Taste Of Kandi Summer 2009
- Hed Kandi : A Taste Of Kandi Summer 2011
The Acid Lounge
- Welcome To The Acid Lounge Vol.1
- The Acid Lounge Goes West
- The Acid Lounge In Space
Base Ibiza
- Base Ibiza
- Base Ibiza: Base Bar
- Base Ibiza: 2002
- Base Ibiza: 2003
- Base Ibiza: 2004
Es Vive Ibiza
- Es Vive Ibiza
- Es Vive Ibiza
- Es Vive Ibiza: 2003
- Es Vive Ibiza: 2004
- Es Vive/Base bar Ibiza: 2005
- Es Vive Ibiza/Ibiza Base Bar 2006
- Es Vive Ibiza/Ibiza Base Bar 2007