Matthew King Kaufman

Producer Matthew Ruler Kaufman was the creator of Beserkley Information, among the seminal American separate labels from the ’70s. A indigenous of Baltimore, he afterwards relocated to Berkeley, CA, founding Beserkley there in 1973 with the purpose of resurrecting the three-minute 45 rpm one in an period dominated by album-oriented radio airplay and graph sales. Kaufman’s initial putting your signature on was the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA band Globe Quake, who have scored a local strike making use of their cover from the Easybeats’ traditional “Fri on My Brain.” The label released only singles until 1975, finally issuing the group’s full-length, Rockin’ the planet, due to well-known demand. In 1976, Kaufman agreed upon Beserkley’s best-known action, Greg Kihn, who debuted that season using a self-titled work. A year afterwards, he also brought aboard the renowned Jonathan Richman, who quickly have scored a high Five U.K. smash using the one “Egyptian Reggae”; that same season, the Rubinoos also reached the low rungs from the U.S. graphs making use of their cover of Tommy Adam’ “I BELIEVE We’re Alone Today,” offering Beserkley its initial domestic chart strike. In 1983, Kaufman helmed Kihn’s LP Kihnspiracy, producing the one “Jeopardy,” which reached the quantity two i’m all over this the American graphs; its achievement was Beserkley’s industrial apex, nevertheless — by this time around Richman was no more in the roster, as well as the Rubinoos had been along the way of suing Kaufman for mismanagement. He shut the label’s doorways a couple of years afterwards, resurfacing through the middle-’90s with Child of Beserkley, a business specialized in re-releasing traditional material.