Style: Leftfield, downtempo and hip-hop Established: In 1999 by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roch. After brief stops in San Francisco, Cincinnati, New York...
Style: It encompasses house and progressive house, and we touch on bits of techno and breaks, says label chief Chris Fortier. We're not focused on one...
Style: Independent hip-hop Established: In 2000 by El-P (aka Jaime Meline) and his manager, Amaechi Uzoigwe Artists: Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, C-Rayz Walz,...
Style: Forward-thinking electronic music, from abstract IDM to electro and techno Established: In 1999, by Sam Valenti IV in his dorm room at the University...
Style: Electronic, hip-hop, jazz, funk, soul and some other shit we dig, says Jeff Waye, Ninja Tune label manager for the U.S. and Canada office. Established:...
Style: Underground, true hip-hop and soul Established: In 1996, by the Hieroglyphics crew Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Casual, Pep Love, Souls of Mischief...
Style: Everything Established: In 1999, by Andy Hurwitz in New York City Artists: We do mostly one-offs, Hurwitz says. We don't believe in binding artists...
Style: Scream-hop, goth-hop, folk-hop, electronic-hop, space-hop, hip-rock Established: In 1998, by artists sole and the pedestrian somewhere outside...
Style: Multigenre mlange with a sect of post-rock, electronic innovators Established: 1992 by Bettina Richards to create an environment in which label-artist...
DJ-mix CDs don't just happen overnight. Unlike mix tapes, CD compilations are not a matter of a DJ getting loose, recording the set and releasing the...
LABEL LINKErsatz Audio ESTABLISHED: In 1995 by Adam Lee Miller; Nicola Kuperus came on board on 1996. Together, the pair produce music as Adult. STYLE...
Environ Records ESTABLISHED: In 1995 by Morgan Geist ARTISTS: Morgan Geist, Metro Area, Daniel Wang ESSENTIAL LISTENING:Morgan Geist, Remnants EPMetro...
STYLE (according to Travis T):Energizing underground dance tracks, sometimes disco-ish, sometimes funky, sometimes techy. ESTABLISHED:In 1999 by Travis...
Indie labels rarely master both the music and business angles of the game; most dance imprints excel at either one or the other. Phatt Phunk Records is...
For San Francisco based label Om Records, innovation has always been the name of the game. Founded by DJ and producer Chris Smith in 1995, the label set...
Ten years ago, major record labels were only interested in pushing new rock acts or promoting dance releases by established superstars. If you were an...
Francois Calonne, DJ and owner of Montreal, Canada's Disktrick/In-Filtration Records, fulfilled his long-held dream of starting a record label almost...
Topaz Records' seemingly endless string of independent releases shows that some small labels are willing to put their money where their ears are or better...
Like a classic fiction story, Base 9 Records started on a train in Paris. While vacationing in France back in 1997, brothers Shane and Ryan Ries were...
Abstrakt Reality was founded three years ago by Zimar Manigualt, whose original concept was to make the label an online enterprise that would sell products...
Celestial Recordings a haven for hip-hop and drum bass. It took until 1998 for someone to name a record label Celestial Recordings, and that's especially...
REV Records is nestled in a relatively remote corner of Scotland, but the music it releases is anything but quiet and quaint. When label owner John Pauley...
Aspiring underground hip-hop artists in Southern California would have to try pretty hard to find a record label that gives them more personal attention...
Journees Music - bringing techno-funk culture to the heart of Silicon Valley.Most businesses established in California's Silicon Valley in 1997 were either...
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