Volition

Volition Records was a Sydney, Australia-based record label specialising in electronic music styles such as house, techno, synthpop, and trance. It was founded by Andrew Penhallow and was active from 1984 to around 1997.

Andrew Penhallow founded Volition after he earlier created GAP Records with Paul Gardiner (1945-2004), which licensed British post-punk recordings from UK labels Rough Trade and Factory Records as well as releasing Australian bands such as Pel Mel. He chose the name to reflect its meaning "the faculty or power of using one's will"

Volition is widely credited with the early and successful promotion of techno and electro music - “what would usually be seen as underground music into the mainstream consciousness”. The label's cult status attracted aficionados of the underground who could previously only buy imports of overseas dance acts. "If you were all loved up with the dance music scene in the 1990s, you had several Volition CDs in your collection"

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