A Reggae label, owned by Larry Lawrence. Ethnic Fight was the result of a merger between two of Lawrence's existing labels, Ethnic and Fight (q.v. both). It released records from 1975 till around 1978; the lack of dates on a lot of the labels makes attributing a year to many of the earlier and later singles difficult, and there are conflicting opinions online about many of them. Catalogue numbers were in an EF-000 series which reached EF-088, but as can be seen from the discography below odd numbers seem only to have been used early on. A few of the later missing numbers were used for 12" singles.
One label design served throughout, but it came in several different colour schemes. Up to and including EF-028 the colours veered between light-blue-on-white, purple-on-white, pink-on-white, red-on-white and red-on-yellow, but with EF-032 light-blue-on-white became the norm - for some reason EF-044 went back to the red-on-yellow labels. I haven't seen enough Ethnic Fight singles in the vinyl to offer a valid opinion about which company handled their manufacture, but several have the pronounced bevel and the narrow raised island around the spindle hole that I associate with Linguaphone products (2, 3). The few singles that are listed in 'Music Master' credit marketing and distribution to Ethnic Fight. At some point in 1978 Ethnic and Fight separated, and from then on they concentrated on 12" singles and LPs. Thanks to Robert Bowes for the first and second scans.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.