What have been your favorite labels of 2009 so far? For me:

Freak N Chic
Contexterrior
Tsuba
Urbantorque
Wolf + Lamb
Circus Company
Spectral Sound/Ghostly
Playhouse
Raum...Musik
Vakant
Dial
Be Chosen
Wagon Repair
Mule Musiq/mule electronic
Cecille
Crosstown Rebels
Mobilee/Leena Music
Moon Harbour
Oslo
murmur

I'm probably missing some, but I've enjoyed pretty much everything coming out of those labels.

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Wow too many to name

But I think I came to the conclusion yesterday that 2600 Records and Night Drive Music may just be my 2 favorite labels atm.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

Duh, those labels have been putting out good music for a while

For me I've been enjoying discovering new and old stuff on labels I hadn't known much about before like Plug Research, Guidance, Late Night Audio, Mojuba

I went through Plug Research' catalog on beatport the other night and bought like 15 tracks.

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Originally posted by Clovis Mojuba

Yes!

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by Clovis Duh, those labels have been putting out good music for a while

Yeah, I know that now. But a little over a year ago I didn't know most of them even existed.

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I've been listening a lot to albums released on Dial.

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Originally posted by woscar Yeah, I know that now. But a little over a year ago I didn't know most of them even existed.

+1

All the labels you have listed put out music that I've only gotten fully into in the last half year or so, and as such are the labels I've been religiously following/trawling through their back catalogues this year. I would have to say Contexterrior would be the standout label over the last while for me, seems every single release is an absolute bomb, particularly the Shonky and Dachshund releases.

Some of the ones mantioned +

Robsoul
Third Ear
Mimosa
Seasons Limited (the three or four releases lol)
Peng
Lomidhigh Organic
Echocord
Doubledown
Guesthouse
Running Back
Frankie
Elevation
Ostgut
Harthouse
Bpitch
Grouper


...off the top of my head.

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Forgot to add the dutch labels like Remote Area, Intacto, and particularly 100% Pure, been going through their back catalogues recently and been finding absolute gems.

ROSH!
Minimal and Melodies Music
Plusquam Division
Underground Lessons
Silver Screen Recordings
Meerestiefe
Feiyr

Just a few standouts that have been really resonating with me this year.

Urbantorque also seems to have really picked things up.

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Speaking of UrbanTorque, I wonder what they've got in store for their 100th release

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

Armada
Ajunabeats
Black Hol-

Oh, FAVORITE labels.

Uh. Lately I've just been buying up a lot of music from the 90s and early 2000s. I've been staying away from too much new stuff, focusing more on getting older stuff I've missed over the years.