DFA Records is an independent record label with an exclusive distribution deal with major record label EMI, launched in September 2001 by Mo' Wax co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, musician James Murphy[1] and mutual friend Jonathan Galkin.[2] James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy met whilst working in New York on David Holmes' album Let's Get Killed.[3] After recording had finished Goldsworthy stayed in New York, and they began to throw parties in the Lower East Side. They wished to start a record label but it was only when Jonathan Galkin quit his job to run the label that it took off.[2]