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Samy Ben Redjeb by Ferhat Bouda

21/07/2018 GMT

New Labels

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The minds behind new record labels, their music and the thinking that supports artists.

Max Reinhardt meets the minds behind new record labels to hear about their music and the fresh thinking that supports artists.

When the internet exploded onto the scene, it blew apart the way the music industry worked. Recording artists were no longer dependent on winning the attention of a record label. They could reach millions of potential fans all around the world direct. 

For a moment it looked as if record labels were on a downward slide, but as it turns out this was wrong. And for new labels that's been very good news, judging from their ever increasing number. Some are dedicated to a particular genre or the music of a particular country, for example Tiger’s Milk, which is on a mission to make Peruvian grooves old and new available to a global audience.
 
Then there’s Glitterbeat, with offices in Ljubljana and Berlin, which releases everything from the raw sound of King Ayisoba from Ghana and psychedelia from Turkey to minimalist and ambient records. Or  Erased Tapes, which has become a byword amongst aficionados for introducing an intriguing range of avant-garde meditative sounds by young and old artists from USA, Europe and Japan .
 
Presenter Max Reinhardt will be meeting the minds behind these labels (and several more) to hear about the records they are promoting, their fresh thinking and the role they play today in supporting artists and as curators in a world awash with hot and cold running music, accessible 24 hours a day, from every source we can currently devise.

(Photo: Samy Ben Redjeb, the mind behind Analog Africa, which re-releases music from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Credit: Ferhat Bouda)

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