Brighton Music Directory
Brighton Record Labels
With
the proliferation of producers and music makers around this town, it’s lucky
that there are plenty of record labels to disseminate their wares. Everyone
knows about Skint but there are many more high profile Brighton labels filling
up record bags around the world.
ATOMIC
Tops
off, whistles out, Atomic will delve into any realm of electronic music but
it’s most likely to be techno and psychedelic trance.
Alternative
beats and hip-hop combined into quality originals.
BN1
RECORDINGS
Home
of funky house with reliable releases from the likes of local lads EDP.
Hip-hop,
breaks and downtempo danceables. Biggest success to date is Pepe Deluxe
(soundtrack to the twisted Levi’s ad). Also (ir)responsible for Saturday night
bash Our Thing at the Volks.
DISORIENT
The
breakbeat division of Brazilian beat freaks Mr Bongo.
Bringing
Iceland to the world in the form of Sigur Ros and Mum
FULL
FRONTAL
In
cahoots with club night Orion’s Gate and free parties everywhere. One for hard
house/acid trance.
LOADED
Older
sister to Skint with a diverse past including the first Jason Nevins release,
Super_Collider’s debut and Norman Cook’s Pizzaman guise.
LUMENESSENCE
Tireasis
and Mechanical Me among others, roll out chilled downbeats.
MARINE
PARADE
Named
after the seafront street and came to the fore with Adam Freeland’s nu-skool
breakthrough.
Young
upstart and purveyor of chunky hip hop seven inches laced with funk licks and
horns.
Online record shop, associated with Dirty Squatters
SCRAPS
Songwriters
+ beats + alt-country + rap + Brighton = Scraps
Famed
for spawning big beat and sponsorship of the Albion. Back with quality house
from recent signings X-Press2 and uncompromising electro-techno from nice guy
Dave Clarke.
Party
people release rip-roaring tech house and top notch remixes.
Intrepid
explorers of hip hop and funk, Brighton DJ Rob Luis keeps it eclectic with a
roster including Bonobo, Quantic and Jon Kennedy. New off-shoot label Zebra
Traffic runs along a more purist hip hop vein. Only getting bigger.
Reviews by Nick Elson & Lyndsey Winship.
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Elsewhere in the South East
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New Essex-based independent label set up in 2008, who also have online vinyl store.
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