Angular Recording Corporation is an
independent record label originally based in
New Cross, South East
London. Set up in June
2003 by two ex-
Goldsmiths College students, Joe Daniel and Joe Margetts, who reclaimed a local
Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station and made it their first artefact: ARC 001. The label's founders claim to have been influenced by a love of angular
pop music and the
Manchester label
Factory Records. Gaining funding through medical testing, Angular Recording Corporation was able to finance its debut release in November 2003, the
NME-championed
The New Cross : An Angular Sampler. NME made it the lead review in the magazine ahead of many major label releases.