Which labels have been your favorites this year?

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Posted by woscar on Dec-30-2008 04:05:

Which labels have been your favorites this year?

I discovered many labels I didn't know about before with a lot of nice surprises. Among my favorites, due mainly to the consistency in releasing quality material this year have been

Discoteca Music
Urbantorque
Dyinamic
Brown Eyed Boyz
Add2Basket Records
Anjunadeep *runs and hides*

Some others I might be forgetting...

Which have been yours?

Posted by Sykonee on Dec-30-2008 04:10:

Ultimae

Um, that's about it.

Posted by woscar on Dec-30-2008 04:16:

Oh, I forgot Freerange and Soma

Posted by idoru on Dec-30-2008 04:18:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
Oh, I forgot Freerange

Dave Pezzner ftw, amirite?

Posted by woscar on Dec-30-2008 04:23:

quote:
Originally posted by idoru
Dave Pezzner ftw, amirite?

urrite

Posted by RJT on Dec-30-2008 04:29:

Cecille, Dessous, Urbantorque, Spectral Sound, Aus Music, Buzzin' Fly, Supplement Facts, Crosstown Rebels, Innervisions, Pack Up and Dance, Freerange...

...come readily to mind.

Posted by wotyzoid on Dec-30-2008 04:30:

Wagon Repair
MBF
Drumpoet
Oslo
Kompakt
Get Physical
Dust Traxx
Amenti
Control
Urbantorque
Freerange
Raum...Muzik
Connaisseur

just off the top of my head, I know I'm forgetting some.

edit:

Great Stuff

Posted by manu.el on Dec-30-2008 04:39:

exquisite music
grouper recordings

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Dec-30-2008 05:28:

To be honest I rarely even check what label releases are on.

Posted by woscar on Dec-30-2008 05:33:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
To be honest I rarely even check what label releases are on.

Well, I think it helps me a lot whenever I want to search for new music. Labels (the serious, good ones anyway) generally release music of a certain type. With so much shit being released, it aids in narrowing stuff down.

Posted by idoru on Dec-30-2008 05:38:

Innervisions
Spectral Sound
Freerange
Ghostly International
Raum...muzik

Outside of that, I have a bad habit of not paying attention to labels.

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
urrite

Nice to see him getting some recognition outside of the states. He's a local and I can't tell you how excellent his live PA is both as a solo project and his work in Jacob London. Fucking solid producer and DJ, easily one of my favorites for the year.

Posted by wotyzoid on Dec-30-2008 05:38:

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Dec-30-2008 05:41:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
Well, I think it helps me a lot whenever I want to search for new music. Labels (the serious, good ones anyway) generally release music of a certain type. With so much shit being released, it aids in narrowing stuff down.

Truth be told, I haven't really been following the entire "scene" (sic) in at least a year now. There are certain labels I might check more actively (Distinct'ive etc.) but I just don't have the time to pay that much attention anymore...

Posted by woscar on Dec-30-2008 05:47:

Ever since I took the big leap into learning how to DJ, I've been paying more attention to labels. If I was just a listener I'd probably wouldn't care that much about them to be honest.

Posted by rizo on Dec-30-2008 06:47:

*back home

Posted by bas on Dec-30-2008 09:37:

quote:
Originally posted by wotyzoid
Drumpoet
Oslo

Good lad

Diynamic
Aus Music
Innervisions (although I must say they've had a relatively slow year compared to some of my other favorites)
be chosen
Cecille/Cecille Numbers
Compost
Liebe Detail (they tapered off toward the end but had a stellar two quarters)
Dial (HUGE releases this past quarter)

Honorable mention: Tsuba

Favorites that had a relatively slow year / labels to watch out for next year:
Deep Vibes
STLHMAudio Recordings
Mood Music (only liked a few releases this year, hopefully next year will hit big with me)
Quintessentials
Running Back

Posted by Ian on Dec-30-2008 09:52:

Propulsion. Solid debut album from Nicholas Bennison & some good releases prior to it, keeping trance how it should be, albeit as a lone star usually.

Posted by ponsshin on Dec-30-2008 11:51:

Meerestief.
Rock solid tunes this year.

Posted by wotyzoid on Dec-30-2008 12:52:

quote:
Originally posted by bas
Honorable mention: Tsuba

cheers, and +1. They put out some real good stuff this year. Good taste.

I'm also gonna go ahead and say 8bit and Mothership released some really decent music this year.

Posted by Prototrance on Dec-30-2008 13:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Sykonee
Ultimae

Um, that's about it.

Isn't this the label that Solar Fields releases on? Just remembered because I've been trying to get 'Leaving home' for a sensible price.

Posted by woscar on Jan-09-2009 01:20:

Have been really enjoying the stuff Night Drive Music is putting out lately.

Posted by Domesticated on Jan-09-2009 01:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Truth be told, I haven't really been following the entire "scene" (sic) in at least a year now. There are certain labels I might check more actively (Distinct'ive etc.) but I just don't have the time to pay that much attention anymore...

Yeah, must be a tough life trolling TA and policing discogs like a Nazi all day.

In 2008 I liked Nano Recordings, Neurobiotic, Vagalume and Alchemy.

Posted by elFreak on Jan-09-2009 01:25:

CDR

Posted by enydo on Jan-09-2009 01:32:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
Have been really enjoying the stuff Night Drive Music is putting out lately.

I bought a bunch of stuff from them last time I went music shopping.

As for labels, I couldn't really say myself. I gravitate towards a lot of stuff that's already been mentioned though, mostly through listening to other peoples' mixes and such. Maybe next year I could answer this a little better, I'm still kinda new to most of this.

Posted by PETRAN on Jan-09-2009 03:32:

Seriously now, is there any modern EDM with melody except for the usual epic and progressive trance? With melody i don't mean some random 2-note segment over the "bleep-click" sequence. Because i begin to think that modern EDM is pretty much dead melodic-wise.

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