Van Richter Records
Van Richter Records was formed November 1993 in San Diego California by Paul Van Richter, former KCR DJ and long time fan of Industrial Music. His Label's mission has been to develop the careers of the leading Bands in the Industrial music genre. Since its formation Van Richter Records has a small but selective Artist signings. The Independent label has a dynamic and diversified roster of ten of the leading bands in the genre including Testify, The Fair Sex, Plastic Noise Experience, Sielwolf, Death and Horror Inc., Girls Under Glass, Underwater Pilots, Paracont, Trauma and Nice Gods Bleed. The label roster covers the entire spectrum of the Industrial sub genres including Aggro, Electro, Darkwave, Noise, and Ambient. During the long history of Van Richter Records the label has had physical distribution through Navarre Corp, Ryko, and Fontana Distribution (UMVD) Van Richter Records went to digital only releases in the early 2000's and distributes its releases exclusively through Apple Music and Bandcamp. The label is an active curator and influencer on Groover.co where they have a 100% answer rating.
References
https://aeafanzine.blogspot.com/2025/09/interview-with-paul-van-richter-of-van.html
https://www.metal-archives.com/labels/Van_Richter_Records/48047
https://www.discogs.com/label/14491-Van-Richter
http://fabryka.darknation.eu/php-files_en/articles.php?article_id=327
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/umvds-fontana-launches-with-15-labels-2-1416452/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0z4AmdfPU
https://kcr.sdsu.edu/history-of-kcr1.pdf
https://groover.co/en/influencer/profile/0.van-richter-records/
https://vanrichter.bandcamp.com/
This article "Van Richter Records" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Van Richter Records. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
