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XL Recordings

CTL-E-0480 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

UK record label that licensed Roy Davis Jr.'s Chicago house record 'Gabriel' for the British market in 1997.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-177; source research type(s): Institution. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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