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BBC News By Mark Savage image captionThe accusations were made as part of an employment tribunal claim The head of influential dance label R&S Records discriminated against black and female artists, according to a former employee. Label founder Renaat Vandepapeliere dismissed music by some ethnic minority artists as meaningless and claimed the history of techno was very white , said former talent scout Raj Chaudhuri. Chaudhuri is suing R&S for unfair dismissal, citing race discrimination. The label said there was no truth to his spurious and damaging claims. Mr Renaat Vandepapeliere is certainly not racist and everyone at R&S Records embraces equality, said R&S co-founder Sabine Maes, who is also Mr Vandepapeliere s wife, in a statement. ....
R&S Records, the stalwart techno label that has released music by Aphex Twin, James Blake, Nicolás Jaar, and more, is being sued for racial discrimination, the BBC reports. In employment tribunal papers filed in London, former talent scout Raj Chaudhuri alleges unfair dismissal, citing discrimination by founder Renaat Vandepapeliere. The label denies the claims. In the papers, Chaudhuri says his repeated attempts to “diversify the label” and its roster met resistance and dismissive text messages, according to the BBC. He says one artist posted to Facebook an image of Hitler captioned, “You should have listened.” Vandepapeliere allegedly refused to sever ties with the artist, responding, “Remove his track? No way. Inform him of the danger yes.” Chaudhuri says that when he continued to express unease, he was told to “relax a bit.” He also argues that, in his opinion, Vandepapeliere canned an NHS charity album due to a prejudice against the Black and non-binary m ....