Big Dada

Big Dada is the name on the phonographic copyright line of Birds and the BEE9, the 2017 Sampa the Great mixtape album, and on the singles “Rhymes to the East” and “Bye River” that preceded it. The credit reads “Big Dada” with no licence wording and no mention of the artist or any company of hers.

No record label of that name is registered as a company in the United Kingdom. A search of the UK register for “Big Dada” returns no active or dissolved company carrying the name as a record business. It returns STUDIONEURAL LIMITED, company number 12125298, which was incorporated on 26 July 2019 and did trade under the previous name BIG DADA LTD from 26 July 2019 until 2 February 2026. That company is classified under television programme production, exhibition and fair organising, and artistic creation, and it was incorporated two years after the Sampa the Great release in question. Nothing fetched for this profile connects it to the record label, and it is not asserted to be the same business. The other matches, BIG DADA’S SELBY LIMITED and BRIJ’S FOOD DADA LTD, are both dissolved Leeds food businesses.

What the catalogue documents do establish is the barcode. Birds and the BEE9 carries barcode 5054429121131 and the MusicBrainz catalogue number BDDNL287. That barcode sits in the same 5054429 GS1 prefix as the Ninja Tune releases in the same catalogue, including The Return at 5054429138092. The products were registered through the same prefix holder.

Big Dada is described as a Ninja Tune imprint, sub-label or sister label across trade coverage and on its own site, and it relaunched in January 2021. Ninja Tune’s own label page for Big Dada returned HTTP 404 to this desk, so the corporate relationship is not asserted here on the strength of a primary document. The shared barcode prefix is the harder evidence and it is recorded as such.