Metropolis Records
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Metropolis Records is a record label that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993, by Dave Heckman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries, such as Off Beat, and since 1995 has been instrumental in promoting and distributing underground electronic music in America.<ref name="assimilate">Template:Cite book</ref>
On June 9, 1999, Metropolis bought the American industrial label, Pendragon Records. It assumed distribution responsibilities for Pendragon's back catalogue, as well as that of 21st Circuitry, another industrial label that had gone out of business.<ref name="cmju2">Template:Cite magazine</ref>