Fav electronic label?

If we're talking all time faves then I couldn't choose between Locked On and Moving Shadow really.

I don't like everything they put out but I reckon Hyperdub is the only label from the last decade that can even get close to those two.

This is obviously a very UK biased view though, and I just thought of Trax so...

kmt

It's a bit sad to think there isn't, nor is there ever likely to be, an equivalent of Moving Shadow or Locked on for the UK Funky scene. Or the Grime scene come to that. There should probably be a whole thread about the 'death of the great UK dance music label' really.

I can't even have a favourite tune never mind label.
Thats the best thing about dance music there is a perfect tune for every hour of the night

I Don't think the great UK label will ever disappear to be honest.
There's rarely been a time when UK labels haven't been leading the rest.
Hessle and hyperdub are selling all the world to all sorts of djs.

Factory, Azuli, Warp, Metalheadz, ice cream, Locked On, full Cycle, Public Demand.
Even at the end of the ninety's the the likes of Positiva, Inferno, Tidy and all the ministry imprints ruled the roost.
Fair enough it was trance but that was the thing at the time.

Even when things swang over to Gigolo, the UK still had crosstown rebels.
Germany has the Kompakts, Ostgust Ton, Perlon, Tresor but what is there outside of techno.

France has nearly been the same crew in a different incarnation forever.

I think the thing about there not being a dominant Funky label must mean its all staying in the club,
in the djs hands which can only be a good thing.

suburban base.

Mego

No U Turn or Skull Disco.
Metalheadz and Virus both kinda went down-hill but I think No U Turn. Obviously Hyperdub, Warp, Ninja Tune et al are all worthy though.

Anyone else support my broad analogy that Tempa == Metalheadz (Asides from having a giant beast of a man heading the label) in their respected movements/sounds/decades?

Suburban Base plus R & S were the first that came to mind. Moving Shadow, Reinforced, Locked On would all be up there too. Potentially loads of them though, I'm not too up on labels. Strictly Rhythm had a really good run at one stage didn't they?

I was a nineties kid so Metalheadz & Mo wax had the biggest impact for me



in the last decade, Tempa & Hyperdub, DMZ have done the most interesting stuff for me but now there are SO many good labels, its not really about a few labels pushing a new sound: Hessle, Punch Drunk, Applepips, Hemlock, Swamp, etc

*MetalHeadz did fall off tho:slanted:

from the last 5 years - dmz, tempa, hyperdub, deep medi

recently - hessle, swamp81, apple pips


also worth a mention - social circles, dump valve, road, soulja, shelf life, white labels (i.e 99% of grime releases)

some personal recent faves - road, dumpvalve, soulja, tempa (though i wasnt always into the design of all their stuff, bit too boringly minimal at times, even if it was tasteful/nicely done), terrorthythm.

a lot have been posted already

i'll add confetti records

touch

INA GRM, Deutches Gramophon, Trax Records, Nation, Reinforced, Warp, Rockin' House, Spectral, Chill, York Electronic Studios, Leo (Italian Library), early Schematic, early Skam, Mille Plateaux, Vinyl On Demand, Celia Records...

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Yeah, that's what I first thought of too.

In terms of a flawless back-catalog, there isn't many....DMZ is close to perfect in my mind, but then # 012 & 013 came along. So the only one I can actually think of would be Burial Mix/Rhythm & Sound where I could draw any release from the shelf and put on any track and not finding one weak one (then again, it's a 'single' artist label...).
edit: thinking again, this sounds arse. obviously there's tons of great other labels. But thinking about it while writing I honestly couldn't think of anything close to those 2 and being still impressed with every release (and again, having only 10 odd releases of a single artist makes this simpler than releasing 100s or different artists' releases...). No doubt the previously mentioned as Warp, Rephlex, Ninja, Reinforced, UR, Metalheadz, Planet Mu , Hyperdub, Tempa are all great labels, but all also have had stretches of good/bad releases or even full on shift of scope (Metalheadz) or even loss of scope/vision (No U-Turn) which didn't go down well with me at all ... but to contribute and add a few more that haven't been named yet - as far as multi-elektronic-(now)-pop-sound a la warp/ninja goes - Leaf, Lo, Plug Research, Kitty Yo, Nonplace all had pretty good runs as well. As for some genre specialisations - Sähkö, Raster Noton, Staalplaat - Whitehouse, Rugged Vinyl/Intense, Science (for the Source Direct & Photek releases) - soundkit/soundhack/mmm, fxhe, workshop are all mighty fine.
c.

rephlex, hyperdub, metro area, lo recordings, mu, trax, brainfeeder.

Surely its consistency + number of releases?

There's loads of consistently good labels, but few that keep it up for long. Reinforced/Shadow/Sub base each have about 100 (give or take) brilliant releases. Rephlex and WARP both score pretty highly as well.

Suburban Base, Deathchant