Mordam Records catalogs

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Identifier: 8157

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Content Description

30 sales catalogs and 1 handbook from records distribution label Mordam Records’ Sacramento era, dating from 2002 to 2004. Catalogs each include unique cover designs welcoming new labels as clients; profiles for new record releases; artist tour dates; order forms; and price lists for cassettes, vinyl, books, magazines, videos, t-shirts, and other label merchandise. Handbook includes a staff list; company overview; sample distribution agreement; sales numbers, details on warehouse management, and a report on the record sales across various geographic territories, in stores, online, and via mail order. Also included are policies for how labels can submit record profile information, promotional material, and pricing rates for Mordam to distribute to retail businesses.

Dates

2002 - 2004

Creator

Mordam Records (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

Mordam Records was a California-based record distribution company founded by Ruth Schwartz, a former co-editor of the online zine Maximum Rocknroll. Originally founded in San Francisco, the company moved to Sacramento in 2000. Mordam Records specialized in distribution for punk rock and independent labels, including Vermiform, Six Weeks, TKO, Gravity, Prank, Dr. Strange, Crypt, Bomp!, Adeline, and others. Its print catalogs featured its labels on the front covers. Not long after its sale to Lumberjack Distribution in 2005, Mordam (then Lumberjack Mordam Music Group) went out of business in 2009.