Airdrop

When AirDrop was founded in 2006, the labels’ mission was clear: to drop some delectable, danceable high quality releases produced by cutting-edge audio and visual artists, new talents and established musicians from all around the globe - with no delay. With the means of digital distribution, and a great love for new technology, the airborne combat plan was to frequently release new sounding music, leaving the inhabitants of this planet’s dance hubs gagging for more. Owing much to their international ...

Alphahouse

Archipel

Archipel is a collective of musicians and designers in question to unite their skills in achieving new creative projects. As a label, Archipel release music on CD, 12" and mp3, with songs made from a collective library of sounds. By forcing musicians to think again of their own music production routine, we hope to see emerge music with it's own identity Archipel is also about clothing and CD sleeve design. All CD releases are limited because of the original design ...

Blueprint

Broque

Broque.de represents fresh danceable electronic sounds and experiments from the surroundingfield of the “Oder auf Brot” community. We release our music as mp3, but also on vinyl and CD. We hope you enjoy our stuff. And if you like to give us some feedback - we are happy about it.

Clapper

Welcome to CLAPPER, a new recording label run by Geneva-based producers Dachshund and Quenum, longtime collaborators and friends. Quenum and Dachshund, who have worked together previously on tracks and in live appearances, founded CLAPPER to have the freedom to release their music with complete spontaneity. Their musical kinship is based on an open approach and a taste for what is unpretentious yet complex; a preference for groovy music crafted under the influence of emotions, not fashion. Dachshund and Quenum will ...

CLR

2009 was definitely the year of change, not only in the US of A, but also here at the CLR headquarters. On the one hand because the label turned 10 this year (it is said that it takes 10 years to really go beyond the standards), and on the other hand because we restructured the business side of things. Michael Weicker is the new booker and "brain" in our recently opened office in Berlin and with Tom Keil we found ...

CSM

Berlin | Germany

CSM began in 1996 as a sub-division of NYC based electro and experimental music label Serotonin Records. The abbreviated name was a homage to John Selway’s very first electronic dance music project. The sound and style of this early work was the musical basis from which Selway founded CSM. The sound was equally influenced by UK bleep, Detroit techno and underground deep house from Chicago and New York, combined with the inspiration of the new sounds from the early techno ...

Dust Science Recordings

Leading techno label Dust Science has relaunched. Run by The Black Dog and known for releasing quality underground electronic music. Dust Science has also spawned the successful DS93 collection of limited edition releases. The label has been revitalised following The Black Dog’s lengthy run of barnstorming club performances all across Europe.

Electric Deluxe

Speedy J’s own label "Electric Deluxe":http://www.electricdeluxe.net is a platform for artists, operating within any conceivable genre in the broad spectrum of techno, who wish to fully explore and embrace the ever-expanding technological possibilities, manifesting in the label and the event series "Electric Deluxe Presents":http://www.electricdeluxepresents.net, currently resident at Melkweg, Amsterdam. Beyond Music, it’s the platform for music and its culture in the digital age, concerned with technology, creation, distribution, intellectual property rights, how people consume and experience music. While pushing the ...

Foundsound

Philadelphia-based label showcases quirky, dancefloor-friendly minimal techno and microhouse constructed from fragmented samples, sounds, and random field recordings.

Hideout

Barcelona | Spain

Hideout Music is free from labels like Techno, Minimal or House. Its trademark is sexy, quality dance music. It's momentum, emotion, inspiration, expression of the here and now of the artists involved. The project brings different artist together to get creative. It’s always fun to exchange both technical knowledge and inspiration, making a track based on a common emotion, beyond words and concepts. This mix of different tastes, backgrounds and visions creates something new: Hideout Music.

Lefthanded

Italian Touane is one of the few original voices in present day club sounds. While keeping his profile quietly underground he managed to release during the last 5 year on some of the most appreciated european techno and electronica labels, detaining his peculiar approach while exploring different genres. Mixing a strong jazz influnce and a tight funk with IDM and glitches, his music is fresh air, but very dense, thoughtful and amusing at the same time. In 2009, after a ...

Little Helpers

Little Helpers is a conceptual digital label courtesy of Andrew Rasse (a.k.a. Butane) and Sean O'Neal (a.k.a. Someone Else) launched in December 2009. Each track is a strong, reduced groove-tool aimed to satisfy the increasing number of digital DJs. Much like the traditional lockgroove vinyl, these tracks are suitable for looping, editing and layering. Yet at the same time, each track has enough variation to stand on its own. That is, each tune lies somewhere between a full track and ...

Ltd 400

Berlin | Germany

Meerestief

Germany

"A fire can be quenched but water will always find a way" A digital lifestyle isn’t purely based on noughts and ones, but also incorporates organic and natural elements straight out of nature. Those bits and bytes need to be combined in harmony. At least that’s meerestief’s philosophy.

Planete Rouge

Prologue

Munich | Germany

Prologue is a independent underground Techno label and open minded record label with a large range of musical styles and taste. The most important characteristics of Prologue is atmospheric, magnetic, deep, hypnotic, a touch of darkness and sometimes straight forward. Our philosophy is open-minded with much passion and love of music and we desire to push electronic music. Prologue try to find the soul of techno and try to establish their own unique image and branding of electronic music.

Recognition Records

Warsaw | Poland

Rootknox

Sandwell District

Berlin | Germany

short description sandwell district

Soma Records

Glasgow | United Kingdom

Stil vor Talent

Berlin | Germany

Stil Vor Talent, the name says it all: It’s not about how good you are at doing something; it’s about having your own personal signature and fun with what you are doing. Well known DJ and producer Oliver Koletzki runs the label with this do-it-yourself-philosophy. In September 2005, shortly after the release of his top selling track “Der Mückenschwarm” on Sven Väth’s techno empire Cocoon, Oliver Koletzki decided to realise one of his life dreams: to be his own boss. ...

Stroboscopic Artefacts

Any of various instruments used to observe moving objects by making them appear stationary,especially with pulsed illumination or mechanical devices that intermittently interrupt observation. Stroboscopic Artefacts showcases adventures into electronic music from artists across the world. The label, as the name suggests, acts like a strobe light illuminating pioneering club sounds with each vinyl release. Stroboscopic Artefacts borrows the curiosity of a scientist to search the underground scene for the freshest and deepest Techno. Mostly releasing original tracks with no ...

Thema

New York | USA

Based in New York City, THEMA is a multi-media record label featuring thematic works of music, art and design. Each artist exploring the full spectrum of their discipline, while generating dialogue and collaboration across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. The Project promotes the necessity for relevant artistic discourse. The label encourages artists to develop a distinct personal voice while pushing the boundaries of the medium and environments. Aiming in creating a global multi-artist platform for an international voice, Thema will strive ...

TheSongSays

Trunkfunk

Ware

Cologne | Germany

We Are

the we are label was started by dj agaric aka patrik skoog in the spring of 05 in malmoe, sweden and is now based in kreuzberg berlin, germany. the group of producers and artists of various origins and influences involved crossbreed styles and genres to generate a sound that fits just as well on the energetic dancefloor as in your home. contributing artists agaric (se/de) aon flux (se) [a]pendics.shuffle (us) ben parris (us) big bully (us) bulgur brothers (se) christopher ...