Brian Long

Who is Brian Long?

Brian Long's career began as a producer for Spin Magazine's syndicated radio shows. He did radio promotion at the venerable SST Records; started his own Ringers Lactate Records; founded Astralwerks Records and was General Manager at Caroline Records; did A&R at Geffen Records and MCA Records and set up Australia's Modular Records for business in the US. He's worked closely with Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Meat Puppets, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Firehose, The Descendents, Negativland, Opal, Bad Brains, Das Damen, Velvet Crush, The Moles, The Chemical Brothers, Future Sound of London, the Excursions In Ambiance compilation series, Seefeel, u-Ziq, System 7, Spacetime Continuum, Tranquility Bass, Idaho, Walt Mink, Bracket, Lida Husik, Pitchshifter, Robbie Fulks, Sunny Ledfurd, Merlin, Wolfmother, Cut Copy, and The Presets.

Long spearheaded the re-release the catalog of revolutionary Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti on Knitting Factory Records. Subsequently he was behind the release of FELA! Original Broadway Cast Recording and records by Seun and Femi Kuti.