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RECORD LABELS
Codek Records
for phat deep beats with far eastern musical fusions.
www.codek.com
HipBone Records
for soulful dance music including Alexis P. Suter, Glen Turner, Vicki Bell, Cookin' With Gas, Groove Collective:
www.walrus.com/~cookin
Yellorange
The legendary Tony Humphries very own imprint label dedicated to releasing soulful, deep, vocal, peak hour dance floor music on vinyl to drive the dancefloor wild. Also, lots of audio files including his weekly internet dj set and others. There's Yellorange merchandise as well available for those ready to represent.
www.yellorange.com
Guidance
Phat, funky, soulful music from uptempo house to downtempo trip hop to brazilian flavors, to vocals and on and on this label will never stop amazing your ears. There's CD and vinyl releases to satisfy your needs. www.33rpm.com
SOM Records
Sound of Music Entertainment or SOM represents many labels in aiding these indies with manufacturing and distribution of vinyl. Lables include Cassioware, Underground House Vibes, Jersey Underground, Bronze Mocha, Hypo, flight, Imani, Natural High, New Generation, Wake Up, the imprint label SOM and many more. Most are dancefloor house based labels...explore for yourself these hidden jems. www.somhouse.com
Velour Music
You can catch some real underground New York favorites being released on the regular on Velour including Saxaphonist Topaz and human beatbox and consciencious rapper Baba with DJ Logic. Check out the Velour catalog of live music both on CD and vinyl. www.Velourmusic.com
Sweet Mother Recordings
for multi-rhythmic grooves including Dragon Fly Time Stream
www.neverstop.com/sweet/index.html
Groove Garden
for multi-rhythmic grooves including local talents around Minneapolis including Happy Apple, Rhyme Sayers +many, many, many more..
www.bitstream.net/groovegarden
Dorado Records
for soul to dance to phat beats including Outside, Jelissa, Amalgamation of Soundz, Filter Records, Arthur Bakers Minimal Records:
www.dorado.co.uk
Pork Recordings
For trip hop, chill head music that you'll get hooked on check out this long standing indie label.
www.pork.co.uk
Chilli Funk Records
Very jazzy, smooth dance releases on Vinyl and CD. Dr. Bob Jones and Lofty are at the helm of this London label based in the Flying Record shop near Oxford Circus. www.chillifunk-records.com
Barely Breaking Even aka BBE
There 'ain't' no stoppin' this label from releasing so many compilations that capture hard to find grooves to new grooves on CD and vinyl. Check out the 2 box sets of MAW releases collected from the 10 years of production history this team has behind them. Also, Kev Beedle continues his Nu Jazz series. There's retro tunes from the 70's as well collected by the many music efficianados that make London's music scene so rich. www.bbemusic.co.uk
MoFunk Records
for soul to dance to multirhythmic phat beats feat. Nordic Tracks
www.mofunk.com
Northcott
for dance music hard and soulful including Suburban Records & Victor SImonelli's Westside Records.
www.northcott.com
Chez Music
for deep down French house influenced booty shakers.
www.Chezmusic.com
OM Records
for soul to dance to phat beats including Naked Music NYC, 80 Mile Beach & Mushroom Jazz
www.om-records.com
Shanachie Records
for Groove, Jazz & World Music including Groove Collective, Nusfaret Fati Ali Kahn, Najama Quareeb, Mutabaruka+more
www.Shanachie.com
Tinder Records
for music representing artists from the many countries of Africa. http://Tinderrecords.com
Sounds True
music from the heart of the world is their motto covering some of the most amazing spiritually infused music globally from Glen Velez to Alessandra Belloni, Hmza El Din and more. www.SoundsTrue.com
SunBurn Recordings.
Sweet Electronic stylings with old school break sensibilities.
www.sunburn.org
Ninja Tune Records.
From Up Bustle and Out to Ryiuchio Sakamoto to Coldcut to Funki Porcini -Major sweet tunage!
www.ninjatune.net
Ubiquity Records
for Raregroove to Newgrooves including Pucho & the Latin Soul Bros., Bobby Mato, Bugs, DJ Wally & Swingsett, Greyboy+more
www.ubiquityrecords.com
Mush Records
featuring Jazzy, Trip Hop Grooves & Dirty Loop Records feat. a little harder edge of dance/electronic
www.dloop.com
Mammoth Records
Mammoth Records celebrates ten years of excellence in music ranging from alternative rock to
electronica, country to hip-hop. Featuring a variety of alternative styles including Jocelyn Montgomery w/ David Lynch.
www.mammoth.com
Statra
The label of out there electronics to deep house. They call themselves "vibe merchants for the new millennium.." www.statra.com
Word Sound Records
- Straight out of Brooklyn representing dub and deep down underground Hip Hop Stylings
www.wordsound.com
Cosmic Flux Records
Eclectic, Electronic Dance music from Hip Hop to Jungle from Jazz to House to Drum & Bass.
Open to the new and creative evolution of electronic music.
www.cosmicflux.com
Caipirinha Music
Electronic soundscapes to jams. Catalog includes the "Modulations" soundtrack.
www.caipirinha.com
Compost Records
The German connection to good soulful dance beats and chill beats. There's Compost and JazzaNova's label JCR as well. Beanfield, Rainer Truby, etc..eminate from this pool of amazing talents on the soulful and jazzy tip. Great CD compilations and vinyl too!
www.compost-records.com