It was very run down when they first rented it, and the neighborhood was not great. ĭaptone built their studio, called Daptone's House of Soul, in a converted two-family home in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Wick, a subsidiary founded in the late 2010s with a roster of rock-leaning artists.Penrose, a South California offshoot of Daptone began by Bosco Mann in 2020.Dunham, a label run by Thomas Brenneck and Homer Steinweiss, best known for their releases of Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band.Ever-Soul, an imprint that reissues rare soul singles from the 1960s and 1970s.Imprints Īs of 2021, Daptone operates four specialty imprints. Since its founding, Daptone has released over one hundred 45' singles and fifty albums.

The label and members of her band were with her during the last weeks before her death. The Daptone Record label is inexorably tied to Sharon Jones. In addition to Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Daptone has recorded and released the music of Antibalas, The Sugarman 3, The Budos Band, The Poets of Rhythm, The Mystery Lights, The Daktaris, The Mighty Imperials, Lee Fields, Charles Bradley, Binky Griptite, The Sha La Das, and Naomi Davis. The Dap-Kings would tour with Winehouse in 2007. He brought in Amy Winehouse to record parts of her album Back to Black there with The Dap-Kings and Antibalas members Nick Movshon and Victor Axelrod. Producer Mark Ronson became a fan of the studio. The first album recorded there was Antibalas's 'Who Is this America?' in July 2003. In their first four years, Daptone would also put out Sharon Jones' sophomore album, Naturally, as well as original releases by the Sugarman 3 and Dap-Kings-adjacent The Budos Band.ĭuring this time, they also converted a two-family home in Bushwick, Brooklyn into an analog recording studio space. Their first release was 2002's Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Roth, who had played with Sharon Jones as part of the Soul Providers, subsequently founded a new label with Neal Sugarman, leader of The Sugarman 3, as the home of their new group, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. Roth and Lehman ended their band and business relationship in 2000. Daptone was born out of the closure of Desco Records, a label run by Roth with fellow musician Philip Lehman who both played in the band Soul Providers. History ĭaptone Records was formed in 2001 by Gabriel Roth ( Bosco Mann) and Neal Sugarman. Best known as the home of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Charles Bradley, the label boasts a roster which includes Menahan Street Band, The Budos Band, The Sugarman 3, and Antibalas, and runs the recording studio Daptone's House of Soul. Daptone Records is a funk and soul independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York.

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