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After visiting San Francisco on their honeymoon and falling in love with the city, DJs Jody and Michael McFadin went back to Southern California, sold most of their possessions, and moved to San Francisco with a fuzzy dream of starting a record company. While continuing to dream about starting a label, they invested the last of their savings into a business that would combine their passion for music and provide an income to live on, and opened the Groove Merchant record store on Haight Street in1990.

Within a year the small shop had built a reputation the world over as a place to find rare records and learn about new sounds. A haven for collectors, DJs, and producers looking for funk, soul & jazz, and break beats, the Groove Merchant even earned a toast on the Beastie Boys song "Professor Booty", "This one goes out to my man the Groove Merchant, comin' through with the beats that I've been searchin'," rapped Mike D. on 1992's "Check Your Head" album.

With start-up capital of one thousand dollars and little knowledge of the record business, the Luv n' Haight record label (named after the Sly and The Family Stone song) was launched. In 1993 the company incorporated as Ubiquity Recordings and has since grown into a company with multiple label imprints, a worldwide distribution network, clothing label and an unusually high success rate at placing music in film, TV and commercials. Incidentally, the name Ubiquity was chosen because of the label's mission to make unheard music ubiquitous.

Over the past fourteen years, the Ubiquity brand has strengthened while maintaining an eclectic roster of artists that currently includes: PPP, Shawn Lee, Nino Moschella, Connie Price and the Keystones, The Lions, Orgone, Ohmega Watts, Eric Lau, Clutchy Hopkins, NOMO, Radio Citizen and many more. Recent re-issues on the Luv N'Haight label include Bay Area soul-man Darondo and funk hero Eugene Blacknell along with compilations like California Soul and Bay Area Funk. A unique guarantee backs all music releases for customer satisfaction on musical content, and the label strives for quality in a music market that's saturated with average and over-hyped product.

Ubiquity clothing and accessories (bags, belts, wallets, slipmats, mousepads, etc) have picked up the musical mission of the record label and current styles can be seen at www.ubiquityrecords.com