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Soleilmoon Recordings is an American record label that began in 1987 as a cassette label, operating from the back of a record shop called the Ooze in Portland, Oregon, US.
The first releases were by Smegma, Muslimgauze, Coil, and Nocturnal Emissions. In 1991 the shop was sold and Soleilmoon became a full-time label.
On February 15, 2017, Soleilmoon was declared a provider of hate music by the Southern Poverty Law Center for distributing albums by Death in June, and Boyd Rice's project NON. [1] Charles Powne, the label's owner, denied that Soleilmoon was racist, and said that Douglas Pearce and Rice are not racist either. [1] This designation has since been rephrased at Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Map to distributing hate music. [2]
This article relies largely or entirely on a
single source. (April 2017) |
Soleilmoon Recordings is an American record label that began in 1987 as a cassette label, operating from the back of a record shop called the Ooze in Portland, Oregon, US.
The first releases were by Smegma, Muslimgauze, Coil, and Nocturnal Emissions. In 1991 the shop was sold and Soleilmoon became a full-time label.
On February 15, 2017, Soleilmoon was declared a provider of hate music by the Southern Poverty Law Center for distributing albums by Death in June, and Boyd Rice's project NON. [1] Charles Powne, the label's owner, denied that Soleilmoon was racist, and said that Douglas Pearce and Rice are not racist either. [1] This designation has since been rephrased at Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Map to distributing hate music. [2]