James Nice founded
LTM Publishing (Les Temps Modernes) in 1984. His earliest releases championed the work of
Section 25,
Happy Family, The and
Crispy Ambulance, among others.
In 1987 he moved to Brussels and began work at
Les Disques Du Crépuscule, handling their mail order operations. His role expanded swiftly into being, in his words, "a full-time job as a gofer for [Crépuscule boss] Michel Duval". His work was rewarded with his own sub-label,
Interior Music.
In 1988, he switched from Crépuscule to a position at
Play It Again Sam (PIAS), and in 1990 decided to reactivate LTM. This second phase of his label really hit its stride when Nice started licensing and reissuing classic, long-deleted
Factory and Crépuscule albums.