SUPPORTING MUSIC SINCE 1987

Rham Records is a British independent record company formed in 1987 to release dance music predominantly from the north west of England.

The label released in 1988 early UK acid house anthem and Hacienda club classic Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald. The single spent 18 weeks on the UK Singles Chart eventually reaching number 12, and was awarded best selling independently released single of 1989 by Music Week and the British Phonographic Industry.  Warlock Records licensed Voodoo Ray from Rham for the U.S. - adding a Paradise Ballroom remix by Frankie Knuckles.

Rham Records' de facto in house A&R and production team for most of its releases were Manchester ensemble Chapter And The Verse. Aniff Cousins(Aniff Akinola) and Colin Thorpe also performed with A Guy Called Gerald on his Rham releases, and on the three song session recorded for the BBC Radio One's John Peel Show in 1989, that also achieved significant sales when released as a single. Chapter And The Verse subsequently released two albums influenced by soul, funk, jazz, hip hop & house, a melting pot of styles which preceded the acid jazz scene in the early 1990s.

In 1989, the remixed version of the second A Guy Called Gerald single featured two Youth remixes of "Hot Lemonade", and was an early example of trance house.

Two albums have been recorded and released on the label: Hot Lemonade by A Guy Called Gerald and Great Western Street by Chapter & The Verse (subsequently released for Rham by Virgin Records).

The comic art Rham! logo was designed by Aiden Hughes of BRUTE!

The name for the label was inspired by the song "Hoots Mon" by Lord Rockingham's XI.  Then shortened to Rham.