Sound Performance is a broker established in 1994, based in Greenwich, London, UK. The company has offered optical disc replication and duplication, vinyl record pressing, audio cassette duplication, as well as printing and packaging and other related services during its existence, either as a broker or at its own facility in Telford, Shropshire (2009-14).
An office was opened in New York in 2008 to offer manufacturing services to the US market. (When crediting Sound Performance in CDs manufactured in the US, please use the Manufactured By tag, as Sound Performance is not known to have run their own pressing plant there.)
In January 2009, Sound Performance acquired a CD and DVD replication and audio cassette duplication plant in Telford, Shropshire from DOCdata Media Ltd. (DOCdata UK). Sound Performance ran this facility until the end of 2014 when the company went into liquidation, after which Sound Performance returned to its former status as a broker to continue business.
Sound Performance started to offer vinyl records to independent labels in September 2013 in a joint venture with the Diamond Black pressing plant in Luton.
Brokerage:
Sound Performance acted as a manufacturing broker from 1994-2009 through various UK manufacturers, and from 2008 onward in the US. The company is usually identified in such cases by 'SP', 'SOUND PERFORMANCE', or two Sound Performance logos in the disc matrix, without the company's phone number 020 8691 2121, or in rare cases by the phone number 020 8691 2121 without the Sound Performance logo and in combination with mastering SID code IFPI L13*. Please assign a Manufactured By role in such cases.
Telford manufacturing plant:
Sound Performance ran an optical disc manufacturing plant in Telford, Shropshire between 2009-14. Typical matrix information for discs manufactured at this plant in this periods are:
Matrix/Runout: [Sound Performance logo] 020 8691 2121 [release catalogue#]
Mastering SID codes: IFPI LP76, LT23
Mould SID codes: IFPI 04**, IFPI 4B**, IFPI 5H 42, IFPI 73**, IFPI AAHP1, IFPI AAHY2
Please note that all SID codes listed above were in use by other companies prior to Sound Performance, which apparently acquired equipment from various other manufacturing plants in this period (in some cases, Sound Performance had even acted as a broker through these companies using these same SID codes). Sound Performance should therefore not be identified and credited based on these SID codes alone without its name or phone number present in the matrix.
Please credit Sound Performance with Glass Mastered At and Pressed By when it is named in the matrix with the SID codes listed above.
Matrix numbers:
Sound Performance does not assign its own matrix numbers, and therefore should not have any kind of catalogue# entered in its LCCN entry. Many CDs include '020 8691 2121' in the matrix, which is actually the company's phone number.
Identifying manufacturing plants on brokered discs:
The following pressing plant may be identified and credited from the matrix of CDs manufactured through Sound Performance:
The ADS Group
Matrix pattern: SOUND PERFORMANCE 15133-CD-xxxx YY-DDD-xx
Mastering SID codes: IFPI LK13, LK15, LY89 – Mould SID codes: IFPI L81* or IFPI L82*, IFPI 3V43
Example: Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice.
Between mid-2006 and the end of 2009 EDC Blackburn Ltd. is a manufacturer this broker is also known to have used for glass mastering and pressing functions.
For releases during this period, with Glass master codes of IFPI L135, IFPI L136, please check the EDC Blackburn Ltd page for guidance on how to apply the LCCN credits.
Check Zanin for further guidance on potential additional LCCN credits where any of the following SID codes are also present in combination with a ZMnnnnnnn matrix number. Mastering SID codes: IFPI LG06 / LG07. Mould SID code: IFPI 9L**.
