Island Records · Record label RA - Resident Advisor Island Records was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall. Until Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989, Island was the largest indie record label in history. In May 1962, Blackwell relocated the label to the UK in order to market music by Jamaican artists to immigrant communities in London and Birmingham. In 1967, however, Island shifted its focus to relatively ...