Deep house labels accepting demos
267 deep house labels are in this catalog and 57 of them carry a written history: who founded it, in what year, in which city. Deep house is unusually well served by labels that have simply kept going, which is why the years matter here more than they do elsewhere. Freerange has been running in London since Jamie Odell and Tom Roberts started it in June 1996, and Poker Flat has been Steve Bug's since 1999. Some of them also answer the demo question in advance and answer it no: Local Talk's own Bandcamp, which is where the label's official word now lives, carries a flat request not to send demos, and that is worth reading before you write rather than after.
What this page is, and what it is not
It is a scene page. Every one of these 267 names releases deep house, and the 57 with a paragraph have one because the research has reached them; the 210 listed by name further down are waiting their turn, which is a gap in the work rather than a verdict on the label. The paragraphs are where the useful distinctions sit: 803 Crystal Grooves Collective Cuts exists specifically to release Cinthie's peers rather than her own records, and Stay True Sounds was built in Johannesburg because its founder could not find a home for South African underground electronic music.
It is not a list of open inboxes. Several operations on this page run a premiere channel and a label under one name, so "are they open" has two different answers depending on which door you mean, and both move without notice. Whatever a list tells you, a demo address printed beside two hundred labels was true on the day it was scraped, if it was ever true.
So the routes live in the app instead. Sessions carries this catalog as a searchable directory, with the current known route for a label next to somewhere to record what you learn yourself: the address that bounced, the form that is down, the reply that came back in nine days.
How to read this list
- Alphabetical, not ranked. Nothing here is scored, and the ordering says nothing about size or age: labels founded in the nineties are in one list with labels that opened during the pandemic, and which of them is the right send depends on the record.
- The line under each name is the catalog's own genre tagging, and deep house is where it goes deepest: all 57 of the written-up entries name a sub-genre there, so you can see at a glance whether a label leans jazzy, minimal, lo-fi or techy rather than only that it is filed under deep house.
- Labels and outlets are kept apart. The section further down holds 10 premiere channels and 9 magazines, which do not sign records and want a link and a line about the release rather than an imprint-style demo email.
- A few of these charge to consider a demo, and nothing in a label's history tells you which: whether one does is a separate field in the catalog, flagged inside the app on the free tier. This page does not say which, and it names no fees.
57 deep house labels, with their history
13th Hour Records
13th Hour Records is a New York-based independent label whose own site says it was 'initially started by two friends looking for dance music on the darker end of the spectrum' and has 'since evolved into an eclectic outlet for experimental, ambient and electronic sounds,' under the tagline 'Music for the Witching Hour.' Resident Advisor lists it as established 2018, matching its first catalogue entry, the compilation 13th Hour Vol. 1 (2018). It ran a numbered compilation series (Vol. 1-5, 2018-2020) alongside artist EPs, and gave Colombian house producer Felipe Gordon an early outing on Vol. 3. The founders' names and a founding city beyond 'New York' could NOT be verified: the label deliberately does not name them anywhere reachable, so no founder name is asserted.
20:20 Vision
20/20 Vision was founded in 1995 by Ralph Lawson, the long-standing resident of Leeds club night Back to Basics, together with Carl Finlow, working out of a farmhouse studio outside Leeds. The name was chosen for the idea of perfect vision at a moment when house music was splintering into ever smaller subgenres, and the label deliberately refused to specialise. It has run for three decades as one of the UK's most durable independent house imprints, releasing deep house, tech house and broken electronics from Ralph Lawson, Random Factor (Carl Finlow), Nightmares On Wax, Chez Damier, Ron Basejam and Janeret among many others. Its own summary of itself is 'Leeds based purveyors of quality electronic music from around the globe'. The label marked its thirtieth anniversary with a series of records and events under the banner Full Circle.
3am Recordings
3am Recordings was founded in June 2003 by DJ, producer and remixer Al Bradley, starting in Manchester and later relocating to Leeds. Its stated inspiration was the late-90s northern UK house lineage (2020Vision, Paper Recordings, Toko and Glasgow Underground) and it still trades under the tagline 'Fine house music since 2003.' The label hosted its tenth-birthday party at fabric in 2013 and returned to vinyl in 2015 with its 3am Wax series. Bradley also runs a sister imprint, Dragon Parade.
4lux Recordings
4lux Recordings is a Rotterdam house label founded in 2002 by Gert-Jan Bijl, the Dutch producer better known as Gerd (he also records as Sensurreal). It started closer to broken beat and soul before turning hard toward raw, jazzy, deep house around 2009, and it has stayed there since. Clone Distribution handles the vinyl, which is why the 12 inch catalogue reads like a who's who of the deeper end of house: Enrico Mantini, Kez YM, Arttu, NY Stomp, Alex Agore, Jimpster. The label runs a family of sibling imprints rather than one line: 4lux White, 4lux Black, 4lux Brasil, 4lux Deluxe and a 4luxltd series. It is still releasing in 2026 on both vinyl and a very busy Bandcamp.
803 Crystal Grooves Collective Cuts (Cinthie / Elevate.Berlin)
Collective Cuts is the various-artists sublabel of 803 Crystal Grooves, the imprint run by Berlin DJ and producer Cinthie (Cinthie Christl). She launched Collective Cuts in 2020 with a stated purpose: where 803 Crystal Grooves carries her own raw, classic-leaning house productions, Collective Cuts exists as a platform for the music of her peers. It runs as numbered various-artist EPs, reaching Volume 8 in June 2025. The label has introduced or hosted KETTAMA, 9th House, S3A, UC Beatz, Anaxander and Azuni among others, which has given it a reputation as an early stop for the harder, raw end of contemporary house. It sits inside a larger operation: Cinthie also runs the Elevate record store in Berlin with Carsten Schuchmann, and the labels Beste Modus, we_r house, Unison Wax and Beste Freunde alongside it.
8bit Records
8bit was founded in 2004 in Mannheim, Germany by Nick Curly and Gorge, and it is one of the load-bearing labels of the German tech-house sound rather than a recent arrival: its roster over two decades reads like a survey of the genre, taking in Audiojack, Oxia, Steve Lawler, Darius Syrossian, Sidney Charles, Tuccillo and Danny Howells, and it was prominent enough to get its own Beatport Decade tech-house compilation. It is still running in 2026 and still centred on its founders: Nick Curly returned to the imprint with the Bahia EP, and the current release run mixes label regulars like Piem, Qubiko and Carlos Sánchez with newer names such as Julius Strieder. Beyond the founding line little more could be established: there is no reachable about page and no substantial interview, so any account of turns in its history would be invention.
Abracadabra Music
Abracadabra is the house music brand of BLOND:ISH (Vivie-Ann Bakos), which started as an event series and grew a record label alongside it. The official site dates the series to December 2017, with the first party at Basement Miami on 8 December 2017, and it has since run 46 events across 16 or more cities, with a flagship weekly Wednesday residency at Pacha Ibiza in 2025 and again from 13 May to 29 July 2026. The music sits in melodic house, organic house and Afro house, and the site now splits the recorded side into Abra Records and an experimental arm called Abra X. Retailers catalogue the imprint as Abracadabra Music while its Bandcamp trades as Abracadabra Records, so the name varies by surface. The parties emphasise long sets, art installations and an environmental stance.
Abstract Architecture
The personal imprint of Satoshi Tomiie, described by Resident Advisor as 'a Japanese label from house music legend Satoshi Tomiie'; Tomiie himself is based in New York and has been a fixture in house since its early days. He launched the label in 2015 alongside his second album 'New Day' (via search snippet, unverified). The catalogue is mostly his own long-form work and collaborations rather than an open roster: 'Abstract Nature' (2017), 'Echos Cosmiques', the 'Magic Hour' album (2024), the A_A project with Nao Gunji and TAKT with Kamran Sadeghi. The sound sits in deep house, dub techno and minimal rather than club techno.
Afrocentric Records
Founded in late 2015 by DJ and record collector Cory Centric, who started DJing in the late 1980s, ran two London house nights in the late 1990s and then the Centric Music label for seven years before relocating to Dubai in 2011. Afrocentric began as the Gulf region's leading Afro House and Afro Beat party brand and became a label built to give African house producers global distribution on digital and vinyl, often commissioning remixes from producers outside the genre. The label operates under the banner 'Home of Afro House' and the stated policy 'Quality House Music NO FILLERS'.
Airtime Records
Airtime is an independent house label and events brand from the Netherlands, founded in 2019 by Utrecht DJ and producer Jesse Jacob. Jacob started out in techno before moving into house, and the label followed him: it rebranded around a sound he describes as deeper and more underground styles of house combined with an influence of garage, which is why Beatport files its catalogue across deep house, tech house, minimal and deep tech, jackin house and UK garage or bassline. The AT catalogue has passed twenty-four releases and the roster is built around emerging producers rather than names, a point Jacob makes explicitly about how he picks records. The label marked its fifth year with a '5 Years Of Airtime' various-artists compilation.
All Day I Dream
Began as a daytime party on a Brooklyn rooftop in 2011 and became an international series and label led by Lee Burridge, with the early musical identity shaped alongside Matthew Dekay; Burridge has said 'Matthew Dekay and the music that he dreamed up with me sitting around peeling oranges really set the whole thing in motion.' The brand is as much about staging as sound, transforming each venue with bespoke production design of structural art, hanging gardens, fabrics and lanterns. Musically it explores 'beautiful, emotional and melancholic shades of House and Techno'; Burridge has said they called it 'melodica' and 'romantic techno' before Beatport filed it under organic house and downtempo.
All Possible Worlds
All Possible Worlds is the imprint the anonymous German producer Traumprinz (previously Prince Of Denmark) launched in April 2018, at the same time he announced his departure from Giegling and retired the Prince Of Denmark alias. It opened with two simultaneous album-length releases presented through a deliberately crude MS-DOS-styled web front. In practice it is a self-release vehicle rather than a roster label: essentially every catalogue entry is another one of the same artist's aliases, and the whole project is built around withholding identity. After a long quiet stretch it returned with the Irini box set 'Lost In Dreams' in late 2025 and the Traumprinz album 'life' in May 2026.
Apparel Music
Apparel Music was set up in 2009 by Giuseppe D'Alessandro, who produces as KiSk, and has operated as a label with what it calls a 'Jazzy' sound since 2010 out of Milan. The whole idea was to push dance music toward jazz (the label's own line is that jazz 'becomes a way of reconfirming the most virtuoso elements of house music', bringing a human dynamic to cold electronic music), and its logo, two dogs standing for yin and yang, day and night, good and bad, is meant to read as love. It has since branched into a small family of imprints: Apparel Tronic in 2017 with Ludovico Schilling (SCHiLLiNG) for trip-hop, downtempo, jungle and lo-fi; Apparel Wax and AppaRec, both fronted by anonymous ghost-producer collectives; Apparel Music Red for live music in 2022; and an Apparel Music Extra line carrying the APDEXTRA catalogue prefix. The operation is licensed through Seisei S.r.l. and distributed by Word and Sound.
Aterral
Aterral is a Berlin label and mix series started in 2020 by Carlo, a DJ and producer originally from Malaga in Andalucia who moved north and launched the imprint during the pandemic. He set it up partly as an outlet for his own records and partly to push friends and under-exposed producers, opening with releases from Black Loops, Lis Sarroca and himself. The sound is warm, unhurried deep house with a Mediterranean tint, running into two-step, minimal and richly textured grooves, and Carlo has described the aim as showing his own taste in house music and releasing records he could not easily find elsewhere. Around the label sits an extensive mix series, now past 140 episodes, plus a radio strand, sample packs and merchandise. It hit its 40th release and fifth anniversary in January 2026 with the compilation VA - V.
Aubele
Aubele is a Tokyo electronic label founded in 2012, describing itself as existing to release Japanese modern electronic music with an emphasis on techno, minimal and other electronic beats, and framing that around introducing Tokyo's old and new culture to the world through original music and products. Its catalogue is small and centred on Foog, the project of veteran Japanese producer Yukihiro Fukutomi, with Peter Clamat, Prismer, Takaaki Tsuchiya and Tsuyoshi Ogawa also on the roster. It ran roughly 13 releases across about 67 tracks under the AUBELE catalogue prefix, mostly between 2012 and 2017. Output thinned to almost nothing after that, with a single release in 2020 and a final remix package in 2022. Its own website no longer exists.
Aus Music
Aus Music was founded in 2006 in London by producer and DJ Will Saul together with Ninja Tune artist Fink, as a more experimental and leftfield counterpart to Saul's earlier Simple Records. It explores the outer edges of house, techno, electro and dub, and is credited with early releases from Bicep, George FitzGerald and Dusky. The label passed its 200th release in 2024 and is part of the !K7 Label Group.
Automatic Writing
Automatic Writing is a Paris vinyl label founded in 2016 by Darween, Jacan and Nico Dee, dedicated to what it calls the minimal side of house music and releasing both local Parisian and international producers. Its own strapline is 'Grooving Fragments of Imagination, automatically written'. The name covers three things: the label, the Automatic parties in Paris, and a DJ trio of the same name made up of Darween, Jacan and Guillermo Jamas. Releases are vinyl first, distributed by the Paris distributor Yoyaku, with A&R credited to Darween and Jacan and artwork by Darween. It marked ten years in 2026 with Scenarii Vol.3, a twelve track various artists box set limited to 100 copies.
BEEYOU Records
A London house and techno label built around a bee/hive conceit. Its own SoundCloud bio reads 'Spreading love and happiness through the form of music and dance culture,' and Bandcamp lists it in London, UK. No founder is publicly named anywhere on its own channels; the catalogue is organised into series instead (BEEY for vinyl, BDIGI for digital, SBEE/Subee, BEESWAX, BEEYDM), alongside a Buzzcast mix series and parties, including a recurring Beeyou & Dungeon Meat Christmas event and a Buzzcast recorded live at FOLD. The oldest vinyl catalogue posts on its SoundCloud date to roughly 2019-2020, and BEEYOU RECORDS LTD was incorporated on 7 April 2020 with a registered office in Braintree, Essex. A 2017 founding year is claimed on the label's LinkedIn and a 2024 rebrand is credited to designer James Willsher (both via search snippet, unverified).
Berg Audio
Berg Audio is a dub techno label that describes itself as taking its aesthetic inspiration from the lost monuments of the Soviet era in eastern Europe. Its releases run through deep, dubby and hypnotic territory, with an ongoing ELEMENTS series that hands a record over to a single producer at a time. Recent instalments have gone to Zone+, Traumer and Mihai Popoviciu, several of them running to multiple volumes. The label is distributed and stocked through European dance specialists including Clone, Yoyaku and Traxsource, and it is releasing steadily into 2026. Its own website has not been touched in years, but the discography has not slowed.
Bobby Donny
Bobby Donny is the Amsterdam imprint of Dutch producer Steve Mensink, better known as Frits Wentink, launched in 2015 as a home for his own records and a small circle of friends. Discogs describes it plainly as 'Label by Steve Mensink. Home of Frits Wentink and others.' Early catalogue numbers gave early exposure to DJ Boring, Tlim Shug and Low End Activist alongside Wentink's own jazz-tinged, swing-heavy house. The label now runs largely through its ACE Series strand, a rolling run of various-artist EPs and Wentink/Malin Genie collaborations that keeps a steady 2025-2026 release pace.
Church
Church is a south London label that grew out of a club night Seb Wildblood and Dom Apes started in the early 2010s, named after the Camberwell church whose basement hosted the first parties; once the church worked out what the events actually were the nights were cancelled and the brand moved to Corsica Studios. Releases began in 2012 with CHURCH000, and the label became a reference point for jazz-tinged, lo-fi, unhurried deep house, adding a CHURCHM sub-series and a 'Volumes' compilation strand. Wildblood went on to found Coastal Haze and then all my thoughts in 2017, and his current bios still list him as owner of all three, but Church itself has not issued a record since 2022.
Code3qr
COD3 QR is a French label run by Laurent Garnier with Oliver Way. Its own copy states the pitch plainly: 'The people behind the label are Laurent Garnier and Oliver Way, curating for the curious, the seekers, the adventurers and the brave', and elsewhere that it wants to stay 'free of all expectations and all prejudices because only one thing counts: the music'. In practice that means techno, house, electro, drum and bass and ambient sitting in one catalogue. The imprint began with a numbered COD3 QR 001 to 016 series and later switched to a self-describing catalogue code encoding day-of-year and year, and it has also carried Laurent Garnier's own material.
Deeply Rooted
Deeply Rooted was started in Paris in 2003 by DJ Deep (Cyril Etienne des Rosaies) as Deeply Rooted House, built to release records by the American house producers he counted as friends and mentors, beginning with people like Kerri Chandler, K Alexi and Jovonn. In 2013 he dropped 'House' from the name because he did not want the label read as one style only, and the later catalogue turned decisively toward techno with Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Mike Dehnert, François X, Zadig and Roman Poncet. DJ Deep has described the operating principle as releasing music by people he can talk to directly, with no ego in the conversation. The catalogue reached DRH061 in October 2019 and nothing has been added since early 2020.
Defected Records
Simon Dunmore founded Defected in London in January 1999, leaving his job running A&M's dance division AM:PM to bet on himself, with initial funding from Ministry of Sound. It hit immediately (debut release Soulsearcher's "Can't Get Enough" went top five in the UK, and Roger Sanchez's "Another Chance" went number one in 2001), and it became the closest thing UK house has to an institution, spanning a dozen sub-labels (DFTD, Glitterbox Recordings, Classic Music Company, Nu Groove, Soulfuric, Big Love, 4 To The Floor, D4 D4NCE, The Remedy Project), the Glitterbox nightlife brand conceived in 2014, radio, and a 25th-anniversary world tour across 25 countries in 2024. The turn that matters: in September 2022 Dunmore sold the company to investor Stephen Devonshire and CEO Wez Saunders through Optimum Defected Holdings Limited, ending 23 years of founder ownership. The second, for anyone submitting: in September 2023 Defected opened its demo process to unsolicited submissions for the first time in its history, via a partnership with Beatport-owned LabelRadar.
Don't Need A Million
A Marseille house label created by Wilko, Olivier (better known in the French house scene as Dub Striker) and Ben Davelly. Their own Bandcamp text frames it as a reset: 'The time to start a new chapter from scratch had arrived. Although starting fresh, the love and passion for house music never diminished. House music is all about shared emotions and collective stories.' The catalogue is built around multi-artist compilations rather than single-artist EPs, which has pulled in names well above the label's own profile: Tour-Maubourg and Retromigration among them. No official page states a founding year, and the newest datable release is from 2025.
EELF
EELF began in 2017 as a lo-fi/underground house premiere channel and has since grown a real label arm. Its own site states 'Since 2017 EELF has carved out its own niche in the underground & lofi house world with its YouTube Channel launching careers for the artists it's featured. In 2024 the channel launched its own label and debut world tour.' The premiere channel is the larger half and is extremely active: @EELFtrax has 109K subscribers and about 1,600 videos, with an upload 7 hours before checking. The label side is genuine, not decorative: eelf.bandcamp.com carries roughly 16 releases under the bio 'Hazy pads, punchy drums, crisp hi-hats and all other things house', and eelfrecords.com lists tour dates across New York, Berlin, Paris, Dublin and Vienna into February 2026. It is Lithuanian, and a WELOFI feature attributes it to 'Andrius from Lithuania', the only operator attribution found, a first name from a single blog, so not settled.
Ensis Music Group
Established in 2013 in Romania, Ensis grew into one of the larger dance label groups in Eastern Europe and now operates several imprints.
Esuoh
Esuoh ('house' spelled backwards) is a small independent label out of Palma, Mallorca, curated by the pair Alex Caro and Sote De Lino, who also release on it as a duo. Its own Bandcamp copy states the brief plainly: rooted in the true spirit of house, 'inspired by the raw essence of Chicago and the refined pulse of European club culture', promising no gimmicks, just music for proper dancers and real music lovers, always made for the dance floor. The catalog backs that up: deep and classic house EPs from mostly under-the-radar international producers, released steadily since roughly 2017-2018, with side series 'Esuoh White' and 'Esuoh Limited' for various-artists vinyl and Symphonic handling distribution; by March 2024 the label was describing a release as its 32nd, and by May 2026 the catalog had reached ESUOH045. To be straight about the limits: no interview, press feature or founding announcement exists for this label, so there is no verified founding date or founding story. Everything above comes from the label's own Bandcamp pages and release credits.
Four Framed Music
Four Framed Music is an Amsterdam-based house label whose stated premise is pairing records with visual art. Its own description is 'a record label that brings together music and art in a unique way. Focusing on releasing high-quality NYC, Detroit, Chicago and Italo-influenced house records, always with a deep connection to the dancefloor.' The catalogue is small and vinyl-led: FOURFRAMED001 through FOURFRAMED007, with sleeve art credited per release and pressing at Deepgrooves. Coverage is genuinely thin: no founder's name, founding year, or press feature could be verified. The 'dave@' address on file implies a Dave runs it, but nothing on the label's website, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Instagram, Linktree or any release page names a person, so no founder is asserted.
Freerange
Freerange was started in June 1996 in London by Jamie Odell (better known as Jimpster) and his old school friend Tom Roberts, initially as nothing more than a place to put out Odell's own Jimpster and Audiomontage records. Roberts brought the business head, Odell the music, and the label grew into what its own Bandcamp calls one of the most consistent and acclaimed UK indie house labels operating today, with a reputation built on finding producers early. The pair later launched a sister imprint, Delusions of Grandeur, to run alongside it. It passed thirty years in 2026: through that year the label rolled out '30 Years Of Freerange', thirty tracks from thirty artists spread across five EPs mixing label veterans with newer signings.
Groovence Records
A Paris label whose own SoundCloud describes it in five words ('Deep, Broken, IDM, Jazz and Soul infused') and which releases under the GRVNC catalogue prefix, also styling itself 'Groovence Discs'. Its Bandcamp is based in Paris and its records are self-tagged broken beat, deep house, leftfield, techno and house, which is a wider remit than a straight house label. It works heavily through the premiere circuit, placing tracks with Bolting Bits, Le Mellotron, SlothBoogie and Nightclubber, and its bio doubles as a roster list of roughly 25 artists. A 2015 founding year is attributed to it in aggregator label copy (via search snippet, unverified); no founder is named on any of its own channels and no founding year appears there, so neither can be confirmed.
Happiness Therapy
Simon Blondeau (known as the DJ/producer Crowd Control) ran Happiness Therapy as a party around France for four or five years before deciding the night needed a label attached to it; the first record landed in June 2018. It is based in Lyon, not Paris, and it is unapologetically fun house music: piano riffs, disco-house edits, garage swing, all wrapped in a deliberately retro-90s identity Blondeau says took months to settle because he refused to look like every other imprint: 'we wanted to be known for quality music', which survives today as the bio line 'Quality music, quality people.' Jesse Bru's 15-track album The Coast (2020) is its biggest seller and the release that made its name outside France; Beatport made it Hype Label of the Month in February 2023. It has since branched into sub-series (Crucial Traxx, Saṃsāra Cycles, the Happy House compilations, and anniversary various-artists sets at three and five years) while the main HT catalogue has run past HT27.
Houseum Records
Houseum is a Paris operation that runs in two halves. It began in 2016 as a YouTube channel uploading house music daily, now 441,000 subscribers, 3,100 videos and individual uploads in the tens of millions of views (Swales' 'In Detroit Edit' at 28M, Bellaire's 'Paris City Jazz' at 17M). In 2018 its creator, Grégoire (who also DJs as HSM), spun a vinyl and digital label out of the audience. Resident Advisor lists five people behind it (producers Gavinco, Ricky Razu, Holo and Marc Brauner plus founder HSM) and the label has a sublabel, Ellipse Records. It also throws parties at Djoon in Paris. Crucially for a submission tracker, the label states flatly that it does not take demos.
Knee Deep In Sound
Knee Deep In Sound is Daley Padley's own imprint (the Yorkshire DJ and producer better known as Hot Since 82), launched in 2014 on the back of his breakout years and his 2013 debut album 'Little Black Book'. Dance Music NW covered the launch in May 2014, when the early single 'Don't Touch The Alarm' arrived with a Booka Shade remix, and the label settled quickly into a big-room tech-house and deep-house lane, releasing peers like Cristoph, Nick Curly, Riva Starr and Steve Lawler alongside Padley's own records and a long-running 'Hot Since 82 Presents: Knee Deep In Sound' mix and event series. The notable turn is structural rather than musical: the label no longer keeps a website at all: kneedeepinsound.com now 301-redirects straight to its Instagram, and everything else routes through a Linktree, so it operates as a social-first imprint hung off Padley's artist brand. It is very much alive in 2026: his album 'Obsessions', his first full-length since 2020, is due 4 September 2026 on the label, led by 'Shaded', which reworks Shades Of Rhythm's rave-era 'Sound Of Eden'.
Lacuna Recordings
Lacuna Recordings is a Manchester house/tech-house imprint credited on its own Instagram bio as 'LABEL BY @paul_lacuna @tommwatkins', and its Facebook page describes it as a 'Record Label & hosting unique, underground parties in intimate spaces', so the label sits alongside a party series rather than standing alone. The LCN catalogue is verifiable and continuous, running from LCN 012 (October 2020) to LCN 035 (July 2026), with a vinyl offshoot under LCNA. Could NOT verify from any official page the widely repeated claim that the label began in 2016 as a promoter of house/techno nights across Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire, nor the founders' full names beyond the two Instagram handles.
Local Talk
Local Talk came out of Stockholm around 2010, dreamed up at one of Mats Karlsson's Raw Fusion Recordings events where Tobias Lidström was DJing. Karlsson is Mad Mats, a Stockholm hip-hop-jam resident turned Raw Fusion and G.A.M.M. man, and Lidström is Tooli, who runs the city's 24:HRS party. They built it around one common factor, house music, and made sure they had enough records banked before launching. The early catalogue landed them a 90s-house-revival reputation that they then deliberately broke out of to avoid stagnating, and they now sit past 180 releases with two sub-labels, 1nce Again and OneOffs, having marked thirteen years with a two-volume compilation of new material. One quirk worth knowing: their old site, thelocaltalk.se, now simply redirects to their Bandcamp, which is where the label's official word lives, and that word includes a flat request not to send demos.
LoveStyle Records
A Hungarian independent label established in 2013, working in nu-disco, deep house and house.
Ltd, W/Lbl
A Berlin jazz-house label that began as a YouTube channel. Its own words: 'Independent record label, born from a passion for Jazz-House music. Our journey began in 2015, rooted in a simple idea: to create a platform on YouTube dedicated to showcasing the nuanced world of sophisticated Jazz-oriented electronic music.' It grew from curation into pressing records, and now runs parallel series alongside premieres, playlists, live streams and a shop. The series are Black Label (LTDBLBL, originals), White Label (LTDWLBL, vinyl re-issues of previously digital tracks), Single Sided (with its own sub-label, Ltd, S/Sided), and Unlimited (digital-only EPs). It describes its remit as 'classic House with a pinch of Jazz to flavour the dance floor.' No founder is named in prose on any of its channels; its site's Terms of Service gives Nicolai Zagrodnick at an Alexandrinenstraße 49, 10969 Berlin address as the responsible party, which is the closest thing to an operator name it publishes.
Maniana Records
A deep house, nu-disco and indie dance imprint operating within the Proton Music family of labels.
Nervous Records
Nervous was founded in New York in 1991 by Mike Weiss together with his father Sam Weiss, who had run the disco label SAM Records since 1976. Mike first revived SAM in 1989, then started Nervous under his own banner on Frankie Crocker's advice, and the label's cartoon-character logo made it recognisable almost immediately. Its first big dance record was Sandy B's "Feel Like Singing" in 1992, but the label promptly detoured through hip-hop and reggae: the Wreck imprint put out Black Moon's "Enta Da Stage" and Smif-N-Wessun's "Dah Shinin'", and the Weeded imprint signed Mad Lion, whose "Take It Easy" moved over 250,000 units. It swung back to electronic music in 1994 with Josh Wink as Winx, and in 1996 led a garage-house revival with Byron Stingily's "Get Up" hitting number one on club charts including Billboard's. Thirty-five years and 5,000-plus releases later it bills itself as America's longest-standing independent dance label, still run by Mike Weiss as president, with Andrew Salsano appointed VP in 2024 and output now running three to five titles a week.
No, She Doesn't
No, She Doesn't is a record label and collective based in Lisbon, Portugal. It publishes no history. Its official bio on both Bandcamp and SoundCloud is a values statement rather than a story: 'NO SHE DOESN'T is not just a label but also a movement: an open minded way of approaching life has led us to put values such as equality, freedom and fun as priorities. We try to express it in our tunes and parties and in the feelings they provide us...' The catalogue is small, vinyl-led and built largely around DJ Spielberg, running NSD001 (2018) to NSD007 (June 2025), the last of which moved into breakbeat and jungle territory. Could NOT verify a founder, a founding date beyond the first release in 2018, or a party series beyond the bio's own mention.
Novaj
A Paris operation that is a premiere channel first and a label second: its own SoundCloud describes it as 'Selector/Producer, music share media, Youtube channel & label' and says it is 'Run by Novaj', the DJ/producer of the same name, with the label side billed as 'Novaj Records'. The channel is the large part of it (27.1K SoundCloud followers and roughly 2,448 tracks, mostly premieres for other people's records) while the label's own catalogue is much smaller: various-artists compilations such as 'International Love' (Kolter, Oden & Fatzo, Harrison BDP, Marc Brauner), 'Utopia 2' and 'Space Energy', plus a sustained run of Novaj & Louis Seigner singles. No founding year is stated on any channel it controls; the label's releases playlist on SoundCloud dates to about six years ago, which is the earliest label marker establishable. Recent output leans peak-time and 90s-house-referencing rather than deep.
Omena Records
Omena (Finnish for 'apple', per the label's own line 'Omena is finnish for apple. It's also a record label set up in 2014') was started in Stockholm in 2014 by Tobias 'Tooli' Lidström, better known for running Local Talk. It opened with HNNY's 'Always' 12" in April 2014, and HNNY's album Sunday followed in 2015 and remains the calling card people know it by. The line was warm, sample-led, deep and jazzy house with a disco tilt (Mella Dee, Casino Times, Westcoast Goddess, Jesse Futerman, Nuage, Golden Retriever) and it spun off a sublabel, Omena LTD, in 2015. The later years drifted toward a more UK-facing roster (TREE THREES, Half Dead Dave, Ognib, Moonee) and then it simply stopped: the last release was Moonee's Cactus Theory EP on 24 May 2024, the last post on its Facebook page was 8 June 2024, and omenarecords.com no longer serves the label's site at all.
PIV Records
PIV was founded in 2015 in Amsterdam by the Dutch DJ and producer Prunk, and the name originally stood for 'Prunk Invites' before being reframed as 'People Invited' / VIP backwards, a nod to the inclusiveness of its parties. It began as a label-and-party platform for producers with, in its own words, a soft spot for the classic US house era of 80s/90s New York and Chicago, and it became the launchpad for the Amsterdam house wave around Prunk and Chris Stussy. The label's own webshop notes it returned in 2026 with the vinyl-only PIV Limited series after a roughly two-year pause, and in 2026 it was promoting a 10 Years festival. No published founding month or interview confirming the exact pause dates could be found beyond the retailer copy.
Poker Flat
Poker Flat Recordings was founded in 1999 by German DJ and producer Steve Bug, whose own three-track EP 'Double Action' was the first release and set the deep, minimal, techy house template the label became known for. Built in Berlin around an early residency at Sternradio that drew guests including Josh Wink, Richie Hawtin and Ricardo Villalobos, it went on to become one of the defining house imprints of the 2000s and has now passed 25 years. The label also operates the sister imprint Sublease Music. One wrinkle worth flagging: it was founded in and is still associated with Berlin, and Steve Bug is described as Berlin-based in 2026 coverage, but the imprint on the official site gives a Hamburg business address. The Hamburg address was verified on the site, but no relocation could be dated or confirmed.
Pont Neuf Records
Pont Neuf Records is a Paris house imprint that has described itself since inception as 'Record label based in Paris since 2016' under the motto 'IN HOUSE WE TRUST'. A decade in, it is widely credited with platforming much of the new French house wave (Tour-Maubourg, Dylan Dylan, Mira Ló, THEOS and Goldie B among them) alongside a Rex Club residency and parties at Concrete, Badaboum, Djoon and Sacré. It ran a tenth-anniversary campaign across 2026: a compilation, 'Pont Neuf 10 Years — In House We Trust', was announced for September 4, 2026, with anniversary events on 31.07.26 at Cité Fertile (Pantin) and 07.08.26 at the Citadelle de Marseille. The founder's name, Thomas Prunier, comes from a Music is 4 Lovers feature dated June 2026 (unverified against an official page), though the official SoundCloud bio does give booking as [email address removed], which is consistent.
Quintessentials
Quintessentials has been running since 2008 out of the UK on a three-word brief it has never really moved off: deep, raw and real. The pitch is essential deep and raw house (tracks that are raw but still have soul, the thing people loved about old house records) and it has used that as a platform for unknowns and established underground names in equal measure, from Anton Zap and Vakula early on through to Motor City Drum Ensemble, Borrowed Identity, S3A and Felipe Gordon. It marked a decade in 2018 with the 'Ten Years Quintessentials' double-12", and passed its hundredth record with the 'Quite Essential' various-artists compilation, six tracks on vinyl plus four digital bonuses drawing on label stalwarts. Who actually runs it is not published anywhere findable: the label keeps no about page, no site of its own, and operates entirely through its Bandcamp and the @qemusic accounts.
Rawsome Recordings
Rawsome Recordings was founded in 2016 by Thomas Greco (who now records as DR. GRECO) in New York City, as the direct evolution of his earlier imprint Spira Music Records which he had started in 2014. The pitch has stayed consistent: raw, groove-driven underground house that keeps the genre's roots intact while pushing production forward, and the label was first properly introduced to the scene during ADE in Amsterdam. The meaningful turn is that it stopped being one label and became a group of three: Rawsome Recordings up top, with Rawsome Deep for the minimal and tech-house material and Rawsome Rave for hard dance, hard groove and techno (a Rawsome LTD imprint also exists on Beatport). It runs its own annual ADE showcase, a summer boat party in New York, and a dedicated stage at Odyssey Music Festival, so it functions as a scene operation rather than just a release schedule.
Shanti Moscow Radio
It is a record label, not a broadcaster: the 'Radio' in the name refers to its mix and podcast series, not to a station. Discogs describes it as an 'Organic House record label and the division of life-asserting music,' originally from Moscow, later based in London (2022-2024) and now resident in Düsseldorf, Germany; Resident Advisor dates the label to 2015. It was founded and is run by the Russian duo Gorje Hewek & Izhevski, who appear as the most frequent artists across the catalogue. The important turn for the book: it has RENAMED and RELOCATED. It now trades as SHANTI MANSION. Bandcamp, Instagram, Facebook and SoundCloud all sit on the shantimansion handle, Beatport now displays the label as 'Shanti Radio', and Discogs still files it under the legacy name while pointing every URL at shantimansion.
Sirup Music
Founded in 2001 in Zurich by the producer Maurizio Colella, better known as EDX, Sirup Music has been one of Switzerland's steadiest dance exports.
Soave Records
Started in 2016 and based in Rotterdam, Soave is a collective of artists, curators and promoters built around chill and balearic-leaning house, and grew a very large playlist following on streaming services.
Spectrum Recordings
A London based label working in deep, chill and tropical house.
Start Local Records
Start Local Records is a Sydney label (it writes its home as 'Eora / Sydney,' using the Aboriginal name for the country the city sits on) with the stated remit 'a record label, with an affinity for house music' and the tagline 'Support your local record dealer.' Discogs files it as a 'House / Disco digital label based in Sydney, Australia,' and its Instagram bio reads 'Sydney Record Label spreading music and love.' It opened with the compilation Dance Ready Edits Volume 1 in 2019 and built out through a run of various-artists volumes before moving to single-artist EPs, staying close to a small circle of Australian producers. No founder name or exact founding month could be verified: the label publishes neither, and its own domain no longer serves a site.
Stay True Sounds
Kid Fonque (Allan Nicol) started Stay True Sounds in Johannesburg in 2016 with deep house DJ Jullian Gomes, and he started it out of necessity: he had been label manager at Soul Candi Records and was retrenched as that label declined, so he built his own. Gomes left early on to run his own imprint, leaving Nicol running it essentially single-handed on a stated principle of good taste over hits and longevity over trends. As he put it to DJ Mag, at the time 'there weren't an obvious home for independent underground electronic musicians' in South Africa. What it became known for is being the launchpad for a whole generation of South African deep house: DWSON, China Charmeleon, Sio, FKA Mash, Hypaphonik and Jazzuelle all built careers there, and Dwson's 2018 album 'Impulsiv' was the label's first full-length. Two turns matter: during the pandemic he ran 'STS Friday', a weekly release cadence that hugely expanded output and reach, and he added a sister imprint, STY TRU BTS, for singer-songwriters; the label's compilation series has since reached Vol. 6 with Defected handling it, and it is now routinely described as the biggest independent electronic label in the country.
This Never Happened
This Never Happened is Daniel Goldstein's label and touring concept (Goldstein is Lane 8), founded in 2016 and run out of Denver, Colorado. It came directly out of his Anjunadeep years: Jody Wisternoff signed him to the English label in 2013 and his debut album 'Rise' landed there in July 2015, after which he built his own imprint to house his records and to introduce artists on his own terms. What the label is actually known for goes beyond the music: TNH shows ban phone and camera recording outright, under the banner 'Experience the moment. Don't Record It.', and that no-phones rule became the label's whole identity. The roster tours as his support acts and remixes each other, and the long-running 'Root to Branch' compilation series (tenth volume as of 2024) is the label's A&R shop window. In 2026 it hit its tenth-anniversary mark, with a London date on 22 May and a Colorado run 6-14 June, and Le Youth's album 'who are you really?' was its most recent headline release.
Traxx Underground
Traxx Underground is a house label founded in 2012 in Italy, run and curated by Samann, a DJ and producer who also founded its sister imprint Quality Vibe Records. It works several parallel catalogues (TU for the main line, TULTD for limited runs, a newer TUD series, and the QV numbers alongside) and it still presses vinyl rather than going digital-only, which fits its stated identity of 'authentic music, pure club energy and a strong connection to underground culture'. The roster is a genuine mix of pedigree and new blood: Resident Advisor's page lists Chicago and deep-house names like Glenn Underground and Kai Alce alongside Black Loops and Baltra, while the current release run leans on newer European producers. Nothing more could be established: there is no interview, press feature, or about page beyond the label's own one-line self-description, so anything about why it started or how it evolved would be guesswork.
WOLF Music Recordings
WOLF Music was set up in 2009 by Matt Neale and Stu Clark, two house and disco devotees who started out on the South Coast of England and later based the label in London. Their first ten releases nearly all sold out and needed immediate repressing, after which the label settled into a steady, unhurried output of roughly 80 records across the main imprint and its sub-labels, deliberately shifting over time from sample-heavy house and disco toward original compositions while keeping edits on a separate imprint. Neale has described the A&R test as simply 'Would we buy it ourselves?', and the label has built a reputation for pairing established names with new signings. Over sixteen years it has become one of the UK's most trusted sources for deep, soulful house.
210 more deep house labels in the catalog
These are in the directory, genre-tagged and searchable, but they have no written history yet. The research is ongoing and every install gets the grown catalog free with the next update, so this list gets shorter over time rather than longer.
- 7teen Records
- Aniara Recordings
- Artesian Sounds
- Banoffee Pies Records
- BM
- Boogie Cafe Records
- Bosconi Extra Virgin
- Bosconi Records
- Botanica
- Cabaret Recordings (CABARET)
- Catune
- Chikyu-u Records
- Classic Music Company
- Closer To Truth
- Coloring Lessons Records
- Comatonse Recordings
- Copie Blanche
- Cosmic Angles
- Cosmic Rhythm
- Cosmocities Records
- Crew Love Records
- Crosspoint
- Cycle Records
- DAYDREAM
- Deep Explorer
- Deep Ground Records
- Deep&Disco Recordings
- Defected Records / Defected In The House / Most Rated (compilation appearances)
- Delsin
- Delusions Of Grandeur
- DFTD (Defected Records sublabel)
- Dial
- Disko Universal
- Diynamic
- Dotei Records
- E-Beamz
- Enclave Records
- Ene Records
- EWax
- E&X Records
- Faces Records
- Far East Recording
- Fat! Records
- Fauxpas Musik
- Ferrispark Records
- FINA RECORDS
- Flower Records
- Forever Records
- Forget The Clock
- FXHE Records
- Gallery Recordings
- Genesys Entity
- Gents & Dandy's Records
- Gestalt Records
- Get Physical Music
- GLITTER COWBOY
- Go Deeva Records
- Gorin Recordings
- Green Kiwi (Records)
- Handy Records
- Handy Supply Co
- Harmonie Park Records
- Heist Recordings
- Heldeep
- Higher Ground
- Holic Trax
- Honey Butter Records
- Honne Music
- Hotflush Recordings
- House Cookin' Records
- House of Disco Records
- Hustler Trax
- Ibadan
- In Dust We Trust
- Incienso
- Inhale Exhale Records
- Innervisions
- Jupiter's Depth
- Kann Records
- KDJ
- Keinemusik
- Kindisch
- King Street Sounds / Nite Grooves
- Kirapica
- Kooley High Records
- La Vida
- Loftsoul Recordings
- Lost Palms
- Lüüd Discs
- Madorasindahouse Records
- Mahogani Music
- Makin' Moves
- Meda Fury
- MicroHertz
- minimood
- Mixmode Recordings
- Mixotic
- Monologues Records
- Monstercat Silk
- Mood Hut
- Moon Harbour
- Moonrise Hill Material
- Mörk
- Morris / Audio
- MOS Deep
- M>O>S Recordings
- Mule Electronic
- Mule Musiq
- Music Is Love
- Mussen Project (Mussen Project Records)
- Natural Frequencies
- NDATL Muzik
- Needwant
- Neovinyl Recordings
- Neroli
- Nite Grooves
- Nocturnal Groove
- Noire & Blanche
- Nothing But...
- Offering Records
- Other remix/compilation-only appearances
- Pale Product
- Pampa Records
- Peach Discs
- Permanent Vacation
- PetFood
- Phisica
- Pitch Records
- Planet E Communications
- Plastic City. Play
- Plastik People Digital
- Poetry in Motion Music
- Politics Of Dancing Records
- Porridge Bullet
- Proibito
- Pulse Msc
- pusic records
- Q Tape
- R2 Records
- Ragrange Records
- Ravanelli Disco Club
- Rawax Motor City Edition
- Recycle Records
- Relaxine
- Resonance Music
- Restless Planet
- Rhythm Section International
- Rose Records
- Sacred Rhythm Music
- Safe Music
- Safe Trip
- Salin Records
- Scissor and Thread
- Scorpios Music
- Seeds And Ground
- Serenity Records
- Siamese
- Sistrum Recordings
- SITU Records
- Skylax Records
- Slices Of Life
- Slightly Sizzled White
- Smallville Records
- Snaza
- Snazzy Traxx
- Sondela Recordings
- SORA
- SoSure Music
- Soulistic Music
- Sound Of Vast
- Sound Signature
- Soundofspeed
- Sounds Of Beaubien Ouest
- Specials Worldwide
- Spinnin' Deep
- Standalone Records
- Stranjjur
- STRCTR
- Studio Barnhus
- Superfreq
- Sure Cuts Records
- The Playground
- Third Ear
- Thirty Year Records
- Three Fingerz Musique
- Tour Records
- Transit Records Kyoto
- Trimsound
- Tsuba Records
- Uncanny Valley
- Union Jack
- Unknown Season
- Up The Stuss
- Upstairs Asylum Recordings
- Vibes And Pepper Records
- Vibes New & Rare Music
- Virage Records
- Warung Recordings
- Wasabi Recordings
- Watergate Records
- Watusi High
- Wiggle Room
- Wild Oats
- Workshop
- World Without End
- X Recordings
- Yore Records
- Yoruba Records
- Young Ethics
- Zatar Music
Not labels: 25 deep house radio shows, blogs and channels
These do not sign records. They play them, write about them or premiere them, which is a different pitch with a different message, and sending one an imprint-style demo email is a wasted send. They are here because a show or a blog is often the more realistic first yes, and the app marks every one of them as an outlet rather than a label for the same reason.
030esar0303Premiere channel
A Berlin premiere channel run by Lucas Eb, not a label. The SoundCloud profile states 'Berlin', 5,771 followers and 280 tracks, and its bio is nothing but 'Contact: [email address removed]'; every upload is titled 'PREMIERE: <artist> - <track> [<label>]' for a third party's release, filed into yearly playlists. The YouTube channel @030esar0303 joined 28 Nov 2011 and shows country Germany, 56.2K subscribers, 1,235 videos and 27.5M views. The Lucas Eb link is confirmed two independent ways: the channel's own oldest playlist is titled 'Podcasts/Sets (Lucas Eb)', and the Zosse Records SoundCloud reposts an episode titled 'Lucas Eb (030esar0303) - HOUSEWARMING Podcast'. His RA profile describes him as a Berlin DJ, co-founder of Zosse, operator of the 030esar0303 channel, and co-founder of CLIFF MUSIC.
AnjunadeepCurator
Included because it was asked for, and the honest answer is a useful negative. Anjunadeep runs new-releases, recommendations and 'Chill with Anjuna' playlists across Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, plus radio shows. But no demo submission route could be found: anjunadeep.com/demos, /pages/demos and anjunabeats.com/demos all return 404, and their contact form's topic dropdown covers General, Events, Malta, Music Store, Sync & Licensing, Press, Radio & Promotions and ABGT Shout-outs, with NO demo option at all.
Bolting BitsBlog
Montreal-based online music magazine running since 2014, promoting underground electronic music and running its own monthly events. Coverage spans broken beat, deep house, techno, acid, funk, disco, minimal, garage, house, jazz, ambient and breakbeat, and it invites 'local and international artists to share their vision of music and innovation'. Small, independent and premiere-heavy.
ChillYourMindPremiere channel
Serbian-registered curation channel and label live since 20 January 2014, describing itself as 'a Leading Dance Indie Record Label & YouTube Tastemaker Curation channel... A mix of deep house, tropical house, chill house, electronic dance-pop'. 1.02M subscribers, 290M views, posting near-daily.
Deep House AmsterdamMagazine
Amsterdam-based house music platform covering news, mixes, events and premieres, with SoundCloud channels split into DHA AM and DHA FM reflecting two different sound directions. Run by founder/managing director Lex van Aken. Archive extends back to at least 2016.
DJ MagMagazine
Long-established UK dance music magazine, print and digital, based in London and publishing news, features, reviews, videos and a daily track premiere. It maintains an unusually transparent public pitching guide naming every editor and their remit, with explicit lead times per content type.
Electronic GrooveMagazine
Electronic music site publishing premieres, news and features across house, techno, deep house and progressive house, with genre-segmented premiere sections. It operates a published, tiered paid-premiere product. Founding date and base could not be established.
Eton MessyPremiere channel
UK channel turned record label, joined 15 July 2011, describing itself as 'a house music, disco, deep house, tech house, progressive and funky music Youtube channel turned Record label, which has included dance music events and an international DJ outfit'. 408K subscribers and 150M views. The genre fit is the tightest of any channel researched, and it has been quiet for about 21 months.
Inverted AudioMagazine
London-based underground electronic music platform running reviews, features, interviews, mixes and a heavy premiere series. Registered as Inverted Audio Ltd in London SE4, describing 'an extensive network across the UK, Europe and beyond'. Well regarded in the leftfield/house/techno critical press; founding date could not be established from the site.
Juno DailyMagazine
Editorial arm of the London record retailer Juno, publishing music and studio-tech news, reviews, features and interviews with heavy coverage of house, disco, techno and reissue culture. Based at 10 Greenland Street, London NW1. It splits editorial between a Music Editor and a Tech Editor.
La Belle MusiquePremiere channel
French curation channel joined 21 June 2013, built around aesthetic visuals plus chill/deep/tropical house selections. Its About panel points submissions straight at a Groover profile. Historically one of the biggest chill-house curation brands in France, but what it posts has changed: every one of the 15 entries in its feed from 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-30 is a Short (aesthetic clips and DJ event promos for ARTBAT, Boris Brejcha, Adam Beyer, Eric Prydz), with zero full-length track uploads in that window.
Magnetic Magazine
US electronic music publication based in Beverly Hills, California, covering news, features, reviews, gear and dance music culture, and running its own imprint (Magnetic Magazine Recordings). Notably it staffs dedicated genre editors including a House Music Editor and a Disco Editor, which makes targeted pitching realistic.
Maslow UnknownPremiere channel
This row is not a record label, and that is the most important thing to record about it. Maslow Unknown is a London-based DJ and house-music premiere channel: its own SoundCloud bio reads, in full, 'Deeeeep into the vibe of house / DJ / London / Bookings: [email address removed]', with links out to matching YouTube, Instagram and TikTok channels and a donate link to 'Support The Channel'. With roughly 51,000 SoundCloud followers and 2,300+ tracks, what it actually does is post several 'PREMIERE:' uploads a week for other people's labels (Happiness Therapy, Gradient Recordings, REKD, Magic Carpet and many more) alongside its own DJ mixes, edits and mashups drawn from 1990s and 2000s deep, classic and tech house. There is no catalogue, no catalogue numbering and no signed artists anywhere on it. It is a genuinely valuable promo and tastemaker outlet to pitch, but it is not a place a track gets signed, and treating it as a label in a submission tracker will produce a send that can never come back as an offer.
MrRevillzPremiere channel
UK curation brand running since 19 September 2011, self-described as 'a music brand connecting artists and their tracks with fans. Specialising in genres such as but not limited to; Afro House, Chill House, Dance Pop, Deep House, Lounge and Tropical House.' 3.27M subscribers and 2.6bn views, uploading multiple tracks daily. Also feeds a label, Casual Jam.
Resident AdvisorMagazine
Founded in 2001, RA is the most influential editorial and listings platform in electronic music, describing itself as 'A platform to discover electronic music, artists and events'. It publishes news, features, reviews, films and podcasts with a global team of writers. A review or feature here carries more weight than anything else in this category, and is correspondingly the hardest to get.
Selected.Premiere channel
A house-dedicated music blog, record label and event brand. Its own YouTube About panel reads 'selected is a house dedicated music blog & record label. founded june 2013 in Berlin.' Founded by Nick and Nico, joined by Klaus and Michael in 2015; their about page claims a 6 billion stream milestone in 2025 and 'two of the biggest playlist brands on all streaming services'. It is one of the largest house-only curation channels on YouTube at 3.37M subscribers and 2.63bn lifetime views, uploading several tracks a week, and it runs a label that is actively signing.
SlavPremiere channel
Slav is a house-music promo/premiere channel, not a record label: its YouTube channel (@slavhaus, 294K subscribers, 325 videos) describes itself in its own words as 'An esoteric house music channel with a deep and groovy selection', and its SoundCloud holds only 28 own tracks against a wall of reposts. Four/Four Magazine profiled it in March 2018 as run by Oskar Koch from Poland, calling it 'one of, if not the synonymous player in popularising lo-fi house' and crediting it with breaking DJ Boring, DJ Seinfeld and Baltra; the article described the channel as already over a year old then, so it dates to roughly 2016-17. It has grown into a small promo network (the official Linktree also lists Slav's Hip Hop Channel, Slav's Ambient Channel, a Discord, an FB group and a Reddit), and the resource it publishes for producers is a list of promo channels, not of labels. It has never released records: there is no Slav discography on any distributor or Bandcamp.
SlothBoogieCollective
SlothBoogie began life in 2010 as a music blog run by three house and disco obsessives (Pat, Danny and Conor) and grew from there into a full London operation: a DJ collective, a record label, a radio show and a party series. The blog side never went away, and the platform is still one of the more trusted premiere and guest-mix outlets in UK underground house, with its guest mix series past episode 474. The label side is considerably younger than the blog: Resident Advisor dates the label to 2017, and its catalogue runs on an SBR prefix now at SBR020. They marked fifteen years in 2025 with a '15 Years Of SlothBoogie' double-LP compilation and a Berghain/Panorama Bar party, and they hold a long-running connection to Berlin's Sisyphos.
Stamp The WaxBlog
London-founded independent music magazine, started in 2011 by two friends, with editorial ties to London, Bristol and Brighton. It ran exclusive premieres, documentaries and videos, in-depth features, live reviews, a radio show, guest mixes and its own parties, and was well regarded in the UK leftfield/disco/house scene. Coverage spanned electronic, jazz, soul, hip-hop, reggae and world music.
StereofoxBlog
'Digital music discovery magazine, playlist curator, and record label established in 2013' per its own About panel. Runs stereofox.com plus a label. 15.6K YouTube subscribers over 893 videos, with the larger reach on the blog and Spotify/Apple curator profiles (Spotify 132,900 followers per their own Groover profile).
TECH ME HOMEPremiere channel
France-registered house and techno promo agency and YouTube channel, joined 9 May 2020, describing itself as 'a budget friendly Promo Agency that helps artists achieve their dream of breaking into the industry without breaking the bank'. 12.9K subscribers over 1,162 videos, uploading several times a week. Included specifically because it is an explicitly pay-to-play operation.
Test PressingBlog
Founded October 2008 by Paul Byrne, a.k.a. Apiento, Test Pressing sits at the intersection of music, design and art, and is widely treated as the go-to destination for the Balearic and Balearic-disco scene. It began around the Balearic sounds of mid-to-late-80s Ibiza and broadened into reviews, news, interviews, mixes and archive material. Contributors include Piers Harrison, Martyn Pepperell and Bruce Tantum; Byrne also A&Rs International Feel and has released on Leng, Claremont 56 and World Unknown.
When We DipMagazine
Dance music magazine covering premieres, audio exclusives, podcasts, interviews and event coverage, with a strong melodic/deep house and indie-dance identity. Founded in Dublin, Ireland; the site's masthead reads 'Montreal - Dublin - Berlin' and the main office is now Montreal. It also runs When We Dip Records and the When We Dip Radio SoundCloud channel.
XLR8RMagazine
Veteran electronic music and culture publication, originally a US print magazine and now digital, publishing news, features, premieres, mixes and artist content under the tagline 'Accelerating Music and Culture'. It operates a paid membership tier, XLR8R+, bundling music, features and artist content such as sample packs and project files.
Also in the catalog, without a written history yet:
- Free is in Da House
Where the routes and the tracking live
Saltado Sessions is a desktop app for producers. It scans every project on your drives into one searchable library, and it carries this whole catalog, more than 1,200 labels and outlets, as a directory you can filter by genre next to the track you are about to send.
The directory is free. Searchable, genre-tagged, the histories, the outlets kept visibly apart from the labels, and the pay-to-play warnings, with no cap and no trial clock. A warning is worth nothing to the person who has already paid, which is why that flag is not the paid part.
Known demo routes are part of Pro, a $44 one-time purchase that is never a subscription, together with submission tracking Pro: you pick a label and hit send once, the app opens that label's route and logs the send in the same click, and the history then lives on the track itself with dates, replies, and an amber flag when a send has sat unanswered for 30 days. A route you dig up yourself is yours on any tier, and so is every note you write about a label.
It runs on your machine and only your machine. There is no account, nothing about your library leaves the computer, and the catalog is a local database that you own.
Keep going
There is a longer write-up on how to submit a demo to a label and keep track of every send, covering the parts of the process that are yours rather than the app's. The other genres are on the labels by genre index, and everything the app does is on the features page.
If something here about a deep house label is wrong, or you know one that should be listed, tell us and it goes into the next catalog update, which every install gets free.
Labels by genre
The other genres in the catalog, split by what each label actually releases.