Hib-Tone is an Americanrecording label, based inAtlanta, Georgia, founded by Jonny Hibbert, a law student at Woodrow Wilson College of Law, in 1981.[1] The label has released eight records, including two full-length albums by the bands Design and RF and the Radar Angels. The most recent release is by singer-songwriter Noёl Hamilton.
The label is notable because it releasedR.E.M.'s debut single "Radio Free Europe" and its B-side "Sitting Still". "Radio Free Europe" was re-recorded and released on the band's first full-length album,Murmur. "Sitting Still" was remixed byMitch Easter and also included onMurmur.[2] The mix produced by Hibbert and engineered by Easter of the "Hib-Tone" version of "Radio Free Europe" was subsequently released on R.E.M.'s 1988 compilation albumEponymous. The original Hibbert mixes of both songs were collected on 2006'sAnd I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S Years 1982–1987.
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