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LABELS

Record labels featuring Bay Area musicians.

Recording label for the genre-busting artists
Jazz, Classical, Creative, etc.
Improvised music
Experimental music label from the Netherlands.
An artist-run, non-profit organization
Recorded in the Artship, Oakland CA
Creative Music
The New Wave of Heavy Free Jazz since September 2014
Ben Goldberg's record label
Sacramento, California based label focused on vinyl releases of contemporary music
Bandcamp’s mission is to create the best possible service for artists and labels to share and earn money from their music, and for fans to discover and enjoy it.
experimental, electronic, avant-garde, noise, ambient, prog, psych, ...
Post-modern Acoustic Jazz
BlackCopper Editions, a new label for improvised music.
Sarah Wilson's record label
World Music
BRUX--a record label dedicated to the documentation and release of homespun West Coast creative music, specializing in the unusual and genre-defying. With its genesis in the documentation of art rock/free jazz band Grex and its various musical enterp
Mainstream and Free Jazz
Creative Music
Creative Music
Portughese creative music label
Creative Music
These pieces for violin and interactive electronics were selected from a cycle of works that blend improvisation and composition. Using Max/MSP software, Tectonic Shifts employs real-time processing to create twisted echoes, jagged rhythms, and micro
The potent panacea for your musical malaise
Improvised Music
Digitalis Recordings was an American independent record label, established in 2003 by Brad Rose and Eden Hemming Rose, and based in Oklahoma.
new and experimental avant music and modern jazz
micro label operated by Andrew Weathers
self publishing imprint for digital and physical media by kevin corcoran
creative music
Cassette label dedicated to experimental, underground, and electronic music.
An anti-label record label.
Original Compositions, Improvised Music and New Jazz
experimental music
avant-garde music from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Freedom To Spend examines fully realized yet under recognized sonic statements from other eras when accessibility to technology did not always equate to accessible music.
Tokyo CD label focused on duo projects, evolved out of the previous imprint Improvised Music from Japan.
We release the work of young experimental artists in limited editions and unique forms.
Label for all things biffoz and lunar.
Grindcore, noise
The Art and Music of John Bergin
Unconventional Music for Unconventional Minds
Label of guitarist Manuel Mota, based in Lisbon, Portugal.
releasing the music of Amar Chaudhary
The music of T. Taylor
Belgian label contributing to the world of experimental soundscapes, noise, folk and improv.
innova is the label of the American Composers Forum
innova is the label of the American Composers Forum
Bridging the styles of world, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electronic music.
Karma Detonation Tapes is a micro label under MKUltra Productions which specialized in publishing experimental/improvisation/noise sound by recycled tapes. Based in Taiwan.
publishers and champions of contemporary poetry and experimental music from San Antonio, Texas.
publishers and champions of contemporary poetry and experimental music from San Antonio, Texas.
publishers and champions of contemporary poetry and experimental music from San Antonio, Texas.
publishers and champions of contemporary poetry and experimental music from San Antonio, Texas.
Creative music from Bay Area in Limited Editions
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Creative music, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Rova side projects
Creative Music
An Independent Classical and Jazz Label
Heikki Koskinen's label
Noise Netlabel
A label for experimental classics, today's musings, and tomorrow's possibilities, since nineteen eighty-eight.
New Edge is a independent label run by Jason Hoopes, a name under which for the time being he releases his own material.
Recorded Anthology of American Music
In 1977, the multi-instrumentalist, composer and band leader Vinny Golia formed Nine Winds Records. Since that time Nine Winds has grown substantially, presenting New Jazz, Contemporary Classical, and Improvised music from the West Coast of North Ame
New York based tape label releasing experimental and contemporary sound works
new balkan, jazz, and electronica recordings
Micro imprint featuring the projects of Wilson Shook.
music from the margins of our culture and psyches
Peachymango is the label for Franck Martin's releases
Master Recordings from Around the Globe
Dedicated to creative music--and the the musicians that make it.
Electronic Music
Recorded live at t-Berlin, (Berlin, Germany) on May 5th 2016.
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experimental, mimimalist, free jazz, electroacoustics and outsider recordings
a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting innovative artists who create art for noncommercial purposes
creative jazz and improvised music from the San Francisco Bay Area
Intelligent rock, folk rock, experimental pop, freeform jazz
Record label specialising in fingerpicking guitar, psych, acid folk, jazz, improv, Indian classical & avant-garde sounds from around the globe.
documenting and releasing free music in and around Portland, Oregon
Creative music from the Bay Area and Beyond
orchestral, chamber, and experimental music.
Creative Music
An experimental music label
Rivery touches the hearts and souls of everyone who listens to music
underground rock, guitar-based improv and organica
Paris label for "free jazz" plus other art-music recording. Absolutely the vision of owner Michel Dorbon. Catalog includes recordings by Ochs, Roscoe Mitchell, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Joelle Leandre, Nicole Mitchell, Didier Petit, and many more.
Label based in Angers, France, specialized in limited runs of adventurous musical projects on obsolete formats and physical objects
Label based in Angers, France, specialized in limited runs of adventurous musical projects on obsolete formats and physical objects
Creative music
improvised/creative/new music
making sounds available since 1994
Do It Yourself CD
Blues, Folk, Reggae, World, etc.
Avant / Creative Jazz and Improvised Music from Oakland and Chicago.
the label of John Schott
Experimental Music
Jazz, World, and Experimental Music
Creative Music
Jack Wright and Friends
Sacramento based independent label started in 2000 by Scott Soriano & Sakura Saunders. Run exclusively by Soriano since 2004.
Starkland releases engaging, compelling recordings of alternative classical, experimental, and avant-garde music.
Re-issues of classic Finnish Jazz albums
Coming from the pool of artists revolving around the New York City-based group W.O.O. Revelator and Sweetstuff Media label.
Tape Drift Records. Sounds that push boundaries.
Committed to the investigation of all auditory pathogens
The Jewel Garden is part label, pure vanity.
Experimental and avant garde music specializing in noise jazz crossover styles
Trestle records is a record label dedicated to putting out new instrumental music started by four friends in east london during 2011. Ranging from electronic to classical, pop to musique concrete supporting and distributing all manner of contemporary
Cassette label in Italy focused on experimental music
Avant garde and experimental music
Les Disques Victo
Experimental music label started in Sacramento in the early 2000s by the late Chad Stockdale, later operated by Davy Bui, both saxophonist/multi-instrumentalists involved in multiple Sacramento area projects.
Vinyl records and cassettes, paintings and books, vhs and dvds
The label of guitarist Philip Gayle. Jazz (Free Improvisation).
Zzaj Productions is a netlabel that's been up since the mid-1990's.