DGC

An acronym for David Geffen Company, which was used for a Geffen Records subsidiary created in 1990 to focus on more progressive sounds than its parent label’s more mainstream fare. Wound down in the late 1990s as most of its artists were absorbed by either Geffen Records or Interscope Records when the MCA Records and PolyGram families merged in 1999, creating the Universal Music Group, and Geffen became part of Interscope Records. However, DGC Records continued with Beck and Sonic Youth as its only artists until 2003. In 2007, it was relaunched as a direct subsidiary of Interscope Geffen A&M Records. Counterfeit / unofficial releases that pretend to be issued under this label must use DGC (2) instead.