After nasty business with Moving Shadow in 1997, five key members of staff (Caroline Butler, Simon Colebrooke, Sean O'Keeffe, Paul Rhodes and Gavin Newman) walked out of the Moving Shadow offices and started their own Partisan label with the backing of One Little Indian. In 1999, after the One Little Indian financial crisis, label moved across to the Truelove Music group of labels for a short spell, only for the same thing to happen again, at which point Partisan called it quits. A successor of sorts, Over/Shadow, was launched in 2020.