He was subsequently brought on board the progressive German label, Kuckuck Records of Munich, where he produced three more albums of original material.

While pigeonholed as a progressive label, its releases in fact cover a broad spectrum of modern dance music, reflecting the eclectic tastes of its owners.

Later a Japanese progressive label, Marquee purchased licensing to distribute the CD overseas.

Feeling that the band would benefit from signing to a more progressive label, manager Taylor arranged a gig at Hatfield University, to which significant figures from the record industry were invited.

CBS competed actively for this new market against other "progressive" labels such as Elektra, Island, Immediate, and the EMI subsidiary Harvest, who followed with similar samplers of their acts.

Active from 1970 to 1975, it was set up largely as Pye's 'underground and progressive' label, a rival of the EMI and Phonogram equivalents, Harvest and Vertigo.

Jeffrey Kalinksy, the owner of Jeffrey, the New York purveyor of progressive labels like Balenciaga and Helmut Lang, said that his store gets a surprising quarter of its business from women over 60.

Founded in 1964 in the Netherlands by Marieke and Willem Olsthoorn, Oilily considers itself a progressive art-based label, and according to its press materials, is inspired by the work of famous Dutch artists and designers like Rem Koolhaas, Mies van der Rohe and Rembrandt.

In 1969, Decca launched a true progressive label called Nova, which lasted less than a year.

After releasing a number of singles for PYE and The Road album on PYE's progressive label, Dawn, they broke up the band and moved into contemporary music.