Label of love: Topic

Topic is the oldest independent label in Britain, if not the world. Not bad for a Marxist party offshoot that was started in a basementTony Engle is not a man much given to hyperbole, which is unusual in a record label boss. In fact, after 36 years in the job, he's still not entirely sure that he should be running a record label at all: he worries that the whole business of recording the kind of music he does runs contrary to its very essence. "The thing about folk music is that it existed prior...

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