Labels by genre

1,176 record labels and 76 outlets, grouped by what they actually release, with a written history behind 271 of them. Pick a genre and read who is who.

House 501 labels · 102 with a history Deep house 267 labels · 57 with a history Techno 252 labels · 45 with a history Tech house 137 labels · 44 with a history Disco and nu-disco 151 labels · 28 with a history Dubstep and bass 108 labels · 21 with a history UK garage and bassline 89 labels · 21 with a history Ambient and downtempo 119 labels · 18 with a history

What these pages are, and what they are not

They are scene pages. Each one lists the labels working in a genre, and the ones with a paragraph have it because somebody read up on them: the founder, the year, the city, the turn in the label's history that matters. That is what you actually need when you are deciding which labels your track would sit next to.

They are not lists of open inboxes. Whether a label is taking demos changes constantly. Labels close submissions for a season and reopen without saying so, print "closed" on the site while an A&R still listens to everything that lands, or hand the whole thing to a platform for a while. Any page that prints a demo address next to 200 label names is showing you something that was true on the day it was scraped, and some of it was never true. We would rather say that plainly.

So the routes live in the app rather than out here. Sessions carries this catalog as a searchable directory, with the current known route for a label sitting next to somewhere to write down what you learn yourself: the address that bounced, the form that is down, the reply that came back in nine days. Research is the only thing that answers "are they open right now".

Why only these genres

A genre gets a page here when the catalog has enough written history to make the page worth reading, which is currently 15 labels with a real paragraph. Everything else is in the app's directory already, genre-tagged and searchable, and pages appear here as the research fills in. A thin page padded out with names would rank about as well as the scraped lists, and it would be worth about as much.

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 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.