Constantinople Records

American record label

Constantinople Records

Founded	2000
Founder	Billy Corgan
Defunct	2001
Genre	Alternative rock
Country of origin	US

Constantinople Records was an independent record label created by Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins. Little is known about the label and no official website or company exists. The US Patent Office's website listed the label as being trademarked by Corgan. When word of the label was made public, a domain name was registered but no website ever appeared. After one year the URL had expired.

The label was ultimately created to only release The Smashing Pumpkins' sixth studio album: Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music and the EPs that were associated with it, because Corgan's relationship with Virgin Records had deteriorated. Virgin had refused to release Machina and Machina II as a double album, and when Machina sold poorly, refused entirely to release the sequel. Since the band was breaking up at the time, Corgan decided to release Machina II for free download on the internet. Only twenty-five vinyl copies were pressed, and were shipped via FedEx to several prominent fans in the online community, with instructions to immediately redistribute it on the Internet free of charge.

Releases

Five releases have come out on Constantinople Records:

CR-01: The first EP in Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
CR-02: The second EP in Machina II
CR-03: The third EP in Machina II
CR-04: The double LP in Machina II
CR-05: Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88

It was rumored that this label would support all future releases for work done by Billy Corgan. However, starting in 2003 he began publishing work under the label "Martha's Music," with distribution by Reprise Records.

References

E! Online News- Smashing Pumpkins' Swan Songs, September 12, 2000

"I Am One"
"Tristessa"
"Siva"
"Cherub Rock"
"Today"
"Disarm"
"Rocket"
"Mayonaise"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"1979"
"Zero"
"Tonight, Tonight"
"Thirty-Three"
"The End Is the Beginning Is the End"
"Ava Adore"
"Perfect"
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Stand Inside Your Love"
"Try, Try, Try"
"Untitled"
"Tarantula"
"That's the Way (My Love Is)"
"G.L.O.W."
"Freak"
"The Celestials"
"Panopticon"
"Being Beige"
"Drum + Fife"
"Run2me"
"Solara"
"Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)"
"Cyr/The Colour of Love"
"Beguiled"
"Spellbinding"

Promotional singles

"Rhinoceros"
"Drown"
"Muzzle"
"Eye"
"Crestfallen"
"Doomsday Clock"
"Widow Wake My Mind"
"Owata"
"One and All"

Other songs

"Soma"
"Landslide"
"Let Me Give the World to You"
"FOL"
"A Song for a Son"
"Quasar"

Promotional releases

The Smashing Pumpkins 1991–1998

Videos

Vieuphoria
Greatest Hits Video Collection (1991–2000)
If All Goes Wrong

Tours

Touring personnel

Bands	Catherine The Frogs Starchildren Zwan A Perfect Circle
Albums	Let It Come Down Life Begins Again TheFutureEmbrace Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Look to the Sky Ogilala The Parable Cotillions
Other	Discography Songs Band members Awards and nominations Constantinople Records