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Indie from [independent] Came into usage in the late 1970s early 1980s to describe records distributed independently of the major record companies. Some of the larger [independent] record labels such as Rough Trade acted as distributors and at one point [independent] labels collaborated to distribute records through the Cartel. Although in recent years the term has become associated with guitar bands it was not originally so. For [example] records by Kylie Minogue appeared in the indie charts because her record label used an independent distributor. By the late 1980s the independent music scene ceased to have any real meaning as major record companies set up fake indie labels and some of the larger independent record labels sold out to majors. Nowadays the term is associated with a style of guitar music and has to some extent become a pejorative term. For example in the phrase "landfill indie", expressing the lack of originality in much of the genre.
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