what labels are really exciting now?

LuckyMe for reals.

  On 2/11/2011 at 7:31 AM, Wall Bird said:

Numero Group are great, although the music they release is far from new. They're an archival record label with a couple of different series in which they compile forgotten or obscure music into solid gold, my favorite being their 'Eccentric Soul' series which focuses on the best funk and soul releases of a particular small label. Other ongoing series they have include:

 

Cult Cargo: foreign interpretations of American music genres

Wayfaring Strangers: folk music, usually from privately-pressed LPs

Good God!: religious soul and funk

Local Customs: a document of an area's music scene, typically centered around one particular studio

numero puts out awesome records. the folky one, wayfaring strangers, that's the shit right there.

the cult cargo one is pretty funky aswell

Lil B

Moodgadget/Ghostly

Kompakt

R&S

hmm...i guess i dont buy most stuff according to label...but i like those four

forgot to mention:

Acroplane

Future Image Records

030303

  On 2/14/2011 at 3:27 PM, disparaissant said:

Sacred Bones and Olde English Spelling Bee have been keeping my interest over the last year.

OESB really slayed it in December simply by releasing "Bamboo For Two"... it almost made up for the disappointment of the new James Ferraro album. Almost.

/Skaters fan

Not Not Fun. Duh

  On 2/11/2011 at 8:34 AM, Awepittance said:

 

 

Vinyl On Demand - if you like minimal wave or obscure old synth or industrial music, this is the label for you. Basically it's a vinyl fetish collector label. Nearly every release is a decently priced Vinyl boxset ranging anywhere from 2xlp to 8xlp.

my favorites include the Esplendor Geometrico, Severed Heads, Insane Box & Nocturnal Emissions Set. They just put out a Rapoon 4xlp called 'ghost in the machine' , looking forward to hearing that one http://www.discogs.com/label/Vinyl-on-demand

 

thanks. very knowledgeable and informative post.

Just discovered Mille Plateaux --some really nice glitchy/melodic electronic music.

http://www.myspace.com/milleplateaux1

Hessle Audio, R&S, Planet Mu is hitting some interesting new places, Brainfeeder can only get better, Martyn's 3024 is picking up some interesting producers, Modern Love/Daphne/HATE.

OESB for sure.

Vinyl On Demand too. The upcoming release of the John Bender box set makes it the label of the decade as far as I'm concerned.

Finders Keepers Records

Now-Again Records

Mello Music Group

Ubiquity Records

Leaving Records

Woodsist Records

Yeah:

Touch Music

Not not fun

Raster Noton

12k

Important Recs

Rune Grammofon

and this synth-only label, run by Emeralds' John Eliott and Peter Rehberg.

http://editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools/

Hessle Audio: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/116-rising-the-genesis-of-hessle-audio/ nice mix from Ben UFO in there too.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Ultra.BrainDance

just got me a big part of their catalogue, most vinyl i bought for years.

Anticon is still pretty consistently good. You just have to sift once in a while.

  On 5/10/2011 at 11:34 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

Yeah:

 

Touch Music

Not not fun

Raster Noton

12k

Important Recs

Rune Grammofon

 

and this synth-only label, run by Emeralds' John Eliott and Peter Rehberg.

 

http://editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools/

Yeah Spectrum Spools is killing it right now. Everything that's come out so far is awesome.

I tend to follow artists more these days than labels so in short don't really know.

honest johns

monkeytown / 50 weapons

donkypitch

editions mego

hemlock

The Vinyl Factory

http://www.residentadvisor.net/record-label.aspx?id=6102

Clone

Big Chill Recordings

Back in the Box

Sound of the Cosmos

Breakin Records

i sort of take back what i said about Important, while they have a lot of great releases they are continually punctuating their catalog with pretty mediocre uninteresting stuff. It's definitely the spottiest of the labels i mentioned to check out.