French label founded in 1986 for folk, traditional and "urban" music. They released more than 400 records under Buda Musique and Buda Records. Distributed in France by Socadisc.

London

Label founded by music journalist Yuzuru Agi in 1978.

The electronic label was founded in 1978 by the pioneer Klaus Schulze and Michael Haentjes.

This is for releases which don't have a label:
Items such as self-released albums, limited edition tour merchandise, white labels, bootlegs, etc.

A very small German label which focuses on early 1980s cassette-only releases from Germany, often electronica.
All releases in very small editions (usually between 100 and 300 pcs.).

Formerly known as Was Soll Das? Schallplatten

Eclectic label founded by David Byrne and Yale Evelev. Originally distributed by Warner Bros., then by Narada/Virgin/EMI, then was independent, then wound up at V2 Records, where it has remained to the present.

Label based in US and devoted to music that was previously unavailable, especially cassette material from the 80s.

Limited edition vinyl and digital only label from Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Asthmatic Kitty was set up in 1999 by a community of musicians in Holland, Michigan as a means of releasing their material. The label now has offices in Lander, Wyoming, Indianapolis, Indiana and New York City, as the original collective have moved away from their hometown. Asthmatic Kitty is currently distributed through Secretly Canadian in conjunction with Sounds Familyre

Spanish label established in 2001, specialized in licensed vinyl and CD reissues and compilations of Soul, Latin, Afro, Funk, Jazz and Rare Groove recordings with focus on the 1960s and 1970s. Sister label of Munster Records. A division of Distrolux SL.

München
Germany

Seattle based label & concert productions company broke into the local scene in mid-2001, promoting gigs by Saul Williams, Royksopp, Spinna, Interpol, Ladytron, Clinic, and Prefuse 73. Soon after, Light In The Attic started to reissue lost classics with present-day packaging and production.

Founded by DJ Koze in 2009.

Straight was a record label founded by Frank Zappa and his manager at the time, Herb Cohen, in the spring of 1969. This was a particularly apt label title for an artist who exercised an anti-drug regime among his band members- and an artist who would have been referred to in the 'hip' language of the time as 'straight'.

Vinyl only label run by Frank Maier and specialized in late 70s and early 80s industrial, noise, avantgarde, as well as minimal synth, wave, goth releases. Mostly taken from extremely limited tape publications, often with exclusive bonus tracks and unpublished extras.

Angelika Köhlermann is a fresh label from Vienna. Founded by people from both the Cheap and Mego dynasties, to spread music from all around the world, that is unrepresented in the current electronic music scene.

MPS stands for "Musik Produktion Schwarzwald" (Music Production Black Forest) and was founded 1968 as a successor of SABA in Villingen, Germany. MPS was distributed from 1971 onwards by BASF and from 1976 onwards by Metronome Musik GmbH. In 1983, the rights were sold to Polydor, whose sister company Motor Music has been re-releasing some MPS recordings since 1993. In 1999, the MPS archives were handed over to Universal Jazz (Germany) in Hamburg.

The SABA label (SABA = Schwarzwälder-Apparate-Bau-Anstalt) was founded in 1958 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. In 1968 the label was renamed in MPS Records.

USA

Founded in 1979 by John Stedman, JSP is an acronym for John Stedman Productions and is based in London, England. They mostly issue compilations and reissues of old public domain jazz and blues records.

London

Slovenia

Registered trademark of Image SaS in Italy

Legendary UK compilation label set up by Morgan Khan, specialising in early electro/hip-hop, and other underground black music.

DC-based record label started by Jeff Nelson (Minor Threat) and Ian McKaye (Fugazi,Minor Threat, The Evens). Mostly local emo and punk-based bands signed to this DIY underground label started in the 80's.

Upfront New York Disco, Electro and No Wave label launched by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban in 1978. Crew members included James White, Material/Bill Laswell, Fonda Rae, Suicide, Was (Not Was), August Darnell/Kid Creole amongst others.

Early '80s label owned and run by Disc O'Dell.

Paris (France)

Italian label founded by Alexander Robotnick.

Bristol Archive Records is a record label dealing in Bristol post punk 1977 onwards.

Important indie label founded by Iain McNay.

Established in 2000 by Jerome Hill, Don't has been fighting against the blandness and sheep mentality that pollutes the techno scene.. Don't releases music by a whole range of un-like-minded producers and it's aim is for the tracks to stand out in a set, meaning that if you like "safe bets" then you should look elsewhere.

a composer's collective

What is HSM? "HörSpielMusik" definable in the symbols the way we like to see clubmusic. Music is always the constant factor if it is for our ears ("Hör") you can also interpret our pretension, or our game ("Spiel") or dance but all is in the listeners own conception. "HörSpielMusik" was found as a basis for fresh talents and publicised unconventional experimental and electronic clubmusic. Founded in December 1998 from Pierre Blaszczyk and Mark Pecnik alias DJ Pierre & DJ Marky (2) many known from their resident DJ job at "Aufschwung Ost" since 1994 , "Stammheim" since 1997 and "Hotel Reiss" since 2002 in Kassel, Germany.

Josie Records began as a doo-wop label in the mid 1950s, morphed into a Soul in the early 1960s, and was making hard funk by the end of the 1960s.

Independant Montreal based label directed by Eric Mattson, independant audio and sound art exhibition curator. ORAL_records is dedicated to all kind of explorations in sound.

Label, established in 1986 by John Peel and Clive Selwood that put out releases of the more popular BBC Radio 1 (John Peel among others) sessions.

Parent-label of the German Ladomat label. At the end of 2006 / beginning of 2007 Lado Musik was in danger of getting insolvent. The CEO Carol von Rautenkranz could anticipate it, but now it is uncertain which artists stay with Lado, so e.g. Tocotronic, one of the most important acts for the company, left L'Age D'Or.

"Ladomat 2000" was founded in 1994 by Carol von Rautenkranz & Charlotte Goltermann. It was distributed via EFA.
From July 2003 until Januar 2006 Ladomat 2000 was licence label of Mute Tonträger (Germany). Now Intergroove distributes Ladomat 2000 worldwide.
At the end of 2006 / beginning of 2007 Lado Musik was in danger of getting insolvent. The CEO Carol von Rautenkranz could anticipate it, but now it is uncertain which artists stay with Ladomat.

Hamburg based electronic trash label

Label for the international releases of the Lado Group. At the end of 2006 / beginning of 2007 Lado Musik was in danger of getting insolvent. The CEO Carol von Rautenkranz could anticipate it, but now it is uncertain which artists stay with Lado, so e.g. Tocotronic, one of the most important acts for the company, left L'Age D'Or.

Popacid is a collaboration of Profan and Ladomat

German "Independent" label that started in the Eighties. Produces Krautrock, Industrial and Reggae.
Distributed by EFA until 2004.

French Reissue Label, mainly focused on French grooves, Brazil and Ethio Jazz

Label of Modeselektor.

UK home to Blue States and Broadway Project.

HHYR Records is a subsidiary of the Rush Hour Music Group

Over the past nine years Rush Hour has cultivated itself into an institute for electronic music, a haven for music lovers worldwide.

Chicago label run by Tevo Howard.

Postrock, Indierock, Hiphop, Electronica, Indietronics, Singer/Songwriter (Hamburg)

AUTOMATIK-DATAMATIK founded in 2008 by Adalbert C. Kupietz a.k.a. Interfunk is an independed record-label based in western Germany (Dortmund).

The label runs on two cat. numbers releasing one-sided 12" vinyl records with an average quantity of 66-99 but maximum 123 copies.

Rastermusic/Noton is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Germany. In 1999 labels Rastermusic and Noton.archiv für ton und nichtton merged and a foundation stone, for a collaboration uniting sound and art design with strong attention to scientific sequences, was laid down.

As a sublabel of Kernkrach, "Hertz-Schrittmacher" has it's focus on Elektro-Beats of bands from the 90s up to now.

Community Library was founded as a club night by DJs P.Disco (aka Strategy) and DJ Brokenwindow (aka Solenoid) in 2003, and then as a label in 2005. The label is based in Portland, Oregon, Cascadia, and releases music from a wide range of genres.

An off-shoot of Carpark Records specializing in reissues of out-of-print material from the NYC & European experimental "No Wave" underground.

Label based in France and founded by Joakim.

Flexipop is a bootleg label.

The compilations have nothing to do with the magazine "Flexipop", except for the name.

All tracks are taken from various sources and then burnt on a computer drive - without any permission by the artists or publishers. Moreover, reproducing the CD-R's is even encouraged.

Alan Jenkins' record label. (UK)

Austrian experimental label founded in 2003 by Stefan Németh and run by Michaela Schwentner since 2008.

The influential 4AD label was started in 1980 by music enthusiasts Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent with financial help from Beggars Banquet, whose record store chain the pair worked for. (UK)

Started in 2000 by Scott Soriano & Sakura Saunders. Run exclusively by Soriano since 2004.

Contact Info:
Denovali
Alterauge & Hack GbR
Graf-Engelbert Str. 4
44791 Bochum
Germany

French label formed in Paris, France, in 1967. BYG is an acronym of the founders of the label; Fernand Boruso, who worked previously on film director Lelouch's "Saravah" label; Jean-Luc Young, who was at "Barclay Records"; and Jean Georgakarakos (also known as 'Karakos'), a French record dealer and distributor. The company's 'Actuel' tag encompassed promotional & marketing activity, such as a regional music magazine, and was a BYG series produced by drummer Claude Delcloo.