RECORDS
Independent label: Beats Records was formed in 2005, Mike Skinner and Ted Mayhem launched the independent record label The Beats Recordings. A subsidiary of 679 Recordings, The Beats was home to British hip-hop acts such as The Mitchell Brothers, Example and Professor Green. The label closed in 2007, but reopened in 2012. It issued singles in an BEATS-0 numerical series. Michael Geoffrey "Mike" Skinner (born 27 November 1978) is an English rapper, musician, record producer, and actor, best known for the music project The Streets. Skinner was born in Barnet, North London. He moved to West Heath, Birmingham and started playing with keyboards at the age of five. When he was seven years old he began experiencing symptoms of epilepsy, which worsened in his early teens. He began writing hip-hop and garage music in his home in West Heath and later built a sound booth in his bedroom, using a cupboard and a mattress. In the mid-1990s, following secondary education at Bournville School, Skinner became a student at Sutton Coldfield College, in Sutton Coldfield, and was working in fast-food jobs while trying to start his own independent record label and sending off demos. The Mitchell Brothers are a Ghanaian British rap duo from London, England. They consist of cousins Owura "Tony" Nyanin from Manor Park and Kofi "Teddy" Hanson from Stockwell. They were the first signing to Mike Skinner’s The Beats imprint and are sometimes known as the "Geezers with skills". Elliot John Gleave (born 20 June 1982), better known by his stage name Example, is an English rapper. Distributed By 679 Recordings Records.
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| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Routine Check (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 5 |
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| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Routine Check (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 7 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Routine Check (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 8 |
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| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Harvey Nicks (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 10 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Excuse My Brother (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 11 |
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| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Harvey Nicks (Promo) | BEATS | BEATS | 13 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Harvey Nicks (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 14 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Harvey Nicks (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 15 |
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| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Excuse My Brother (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 17 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Excuse My Brother (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 18 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Excuse My Brother (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 19 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Excuse My Brother (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 20 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | A Breath Of Fresh Attire (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 21 |
| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | A Breath Of Fresh Attire (Album) | BEATS | BEATS | 22 |
| 2005 | Not Traced | Alone With The TV (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 23 |
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| 2005 | Mitchell Brothers | Alone With The TV (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 25 |
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| 2005 | Professor Green | Stereotypical Man (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 28 |
| 2006 | Mitchell Brothers | Alone With The TV (CD 1) (CD, Maxi) | BEATS | BEATS | 29 |
| 2006 | Mitchell Brothers | Alone With The TV (CD 2) | BEATS | BEATS | 30 |
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| 2006 | Example | What We Made | BEATS | BEATS | 32 |
| 2006 | Example | What We Made (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 33 |
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| 2007 | Professor Green | Before I Die (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 36 |
| 2007 | Not Traced | BEATS | BEATS | 37 | |
| 2007 | Professor Green | Before I Die (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 38 |
| 2007 | Example | You Can't Rap | BEATS | BEATS | 39 |
| 2007 | Example | You Can't Rap (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 40 |
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| 2007 | Mitchell Brothers | Solemate (12") | BEATS | BEATS | 42 |
| 2007 | Example | I Don't Want To (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 43 |
| 2007 | Example | I Don't Want To | BEATS | BEATS | 44 |
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| 2007 | Example | What We Made (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 46 |
| 2007 | Example | I Don't Want To (cd) | BEATS | BEATS | 47 |
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| 2007 | Example | So Many Roads (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 49 |
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| 2007 | Example | So Many Roads | BEATS | BEATS | 51 |
| 2007 | Example | So Many Roads (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 52 |
| 2007 | Example | So Many Roads (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 53 |
| 2007 | Example | What We Made (Album) | BEATS | BEATS | 54 |
| 2007 | Mitchell Brothers | Michael Jackson (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 55 |
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| 2007 | Beats | Absolutely Dame Judi Dench (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 57 |
| 2007 | Mitchell Brothers | Michael Jackson (CD) | BEATS | BEATS | 58 |
| 2007 | Mitchell Brothers | Dressed For The Occasion (Album) | BEATS | BEATS | 59 |
