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Why was the label set up?
Hit Club was set up as a kind of care home for the great new music that we felt the world needed to hear. It's run by Dan, Max and Ben, and although what any of us individually do is a mystery to the others, we're pretty sure it would crumble without any one of us. Hit Club is based in Manchester, York and London, making it the most cosmopolitan, yet geographically complex labels in the UK. We have most of our meetings using smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons.

Where did your name come from?
There was once a club night in Manchester, with legend perhaps comparable to that of the Sex Pistols at the Free Trade Hall, called Hot Club. That was the night that brought the three pieces of the Hit Club Jigsaw together, and therefore, seeing as we care only about the hits, hits and nothing but the hits, it seemed fitting that we name the label Hit Club.

What's the ethos of the label and which artists are on it?
So far we've been extremely proud of the songs we've released, from artists Egyptian Hip Hop, Wolf Gang, and . The only high-minded ethos that we share as a collective, is that the future of pop music is really important and so it's of vital urgency that we try and find, nurture and craft an excellent future of interesting and exciting pop music. We see ourselves as the custodians of a future of bad ass tuneage.

Any releases/gigs coming up that you want us to plug?
Releases from and Egyptian Hip Hop have just dropped in the last couple of weeks and we're currently working very closely with a couple of acts called and Books. We're confident they've both got stellar releases on the way and we're excited to be involved. A lot of our bands have a summer of festivals ahead of them so we're pretty hyped about that. Also, we have big shows at C.A.M.P. April 29th coming up, that's going to be The Shimmer's debut show so it should be pretty memorable.

If your label could sign any artist past or present, who would you pick and why?
We're torn between Scott Walker, Talking Heads and The Fall. All three acts took pop music extremely seriously, pushed it and pulled it in every direction possible before distilling it, time after time, into three or so minutes of sublime beauty. Plus they all had senses of humour, which is lacking in a lot of music today.

What's the favourite office snack at your label?
We all work in different bedrooms, but we do make an effort to synch our snack eating, to create the illusion we are in fact together.

If your label were an animal what would it be and why?
A deaf cat, because we'd love to be a big deaf white cat called Kajumba, happily spending most of our days lying on the floor of the magnificent Young and Lost club's office.

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