Martin Goldschmidt is Chairman and Founder of the Cooking Vinyl, which comprised Cooking Vinyl Records, Cooking Vinyl America, (all sold to Exceleration in 2025) and Cooking Vinyl Australia, Cooking Vinyl Publishing, Cooking Vinyl Australia Publishing.
Cooking Vinyl Records, home to The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Billy Bragg Nina Nesbitt and Passenger, is one of Europe’s prime artist-focused independent labels and the originator of innovative services-only deals that claim no stake in artists’ copyrights.
Martin founded the UK's first online distribution company (sold to IODA/Orchard/Sony), a management company and a booking agency (sold to Rob Challice/CODA), Essential Music, sold to Sony Orchard, co-founder of Palestine Music Expo, and has promoted more anti nuclear benefit gigs then anyone else on the planet.