Editing I.R.S. Records (section)

==Faulty Products labels==
Faulty Products was the UK holding company for I.R.S. Records of the UK record labels set up by Copeland. It included [[Illegal Records]], [[Deptford Fun City Records]] and others. Faulty Products was also an American [[independent record label]] and distribution company for other indie labels between 1980 and 1982. Faulty handled artists (such as [[The Bangles]]) that did not go through I.R.S.'s distribution deal with A&M.

Illegal Records was set up by Miles Copeland with his younger brother Stewart and the manager of The Police, Paul Mulligan.<ref name=PaulMarko/> The label released The Police's debut single, "[[Fall Out (song)|Fall Out]]". Deptford Fun City Records was set up by Miles Copeland in the late 1970s as an outlet for Deptford, England bands such as [[Alternative TV]] and [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]].<ref name=PaulMarko>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4bmVbNSnk4C&pg=PA177 |page=177 |first1=Stuart |last1=Borthwick |first2=Ron |last2=Moy |title=Popular Music Genres: an introduction |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |date=2004 |isbn=9780748617456 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcnVLioLCNIC&pg=PA229 |page=229 |title=The Roxy London WC2: A Punk History |last=Marko|first=Paul|publisher=The Roxy Club London:Punk |date=2007 |isbn=978-0955658303}}</ref>

[[I.R.S. No Speak]], also known as No Speak Records, was set up as an all-instrumental imprint of I.R.S. in January 1988. It released albums by Stewart Copeland, Wishbone Ash, and [[William Orbit]].

Tribal America was a label run by Rob DiStefano that was distributed by I.R.S. from 1991 until IRS folded in 1996. It concentrated on [[house music]], a type of electronic dance music. The most prominent releases on its roster were by the production team [[Murk (band)|Murk]] and also the song "[[So Get Up]]" an iconic vocal poem by Californian author/songwriter [[Ithaka (artist)|Ithaka Darin Pappas]], backed by the [[Progressive house]] sounds of USL from Lisbon, Portugal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redbull.com/mx/es/music/stories/1331605858568/ocurri%C3%B3-aqu%C3%AD...-el-dance-portugu%C3%A9s-salta-a-la-fama|title=Ocurrió aquí... El dance portugués salta a la fama|website=Redbull.com|access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref> DiStefano went on to found Twisted America Records.