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Sample the Legendary Latin and Afro-Caribbean Label Ansonia Records

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Jakarta Records - The Sweet Spot for Sampling Organic Grooves

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Sample Amazing Cuts from Fabled French Library Label Tele Music

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Labels

9498 Library is a boutique sample library from Toronto, Canada that was founded by Adrian Bellaire & Thabo Publicover. We offer some of the most high quality RnB, Soul and Hiphop original compositions.

9498 Library

ALIBI Music is the leading provider of licensed music & SFX for trailers, promos, network programming, advertising, branded content, video games and all forms of multimedia. Pretty much everything we do is in support of your creative expression. We obsess over the details of audio quality, emotion, structure, and precision. Our ever-growing catalogs are curated by career professionals. And all of our files are beautifully organized for search and functionality.

ALIBI Music

Aloha Got Soul is a blog-turned-record label founded by Roger Bong focused on rare and relatively unknown music of Hawaii. Its mission is to contribute to the diversity of Hawaii’s music scene and strengthen the reputation of the Hawaiian Islands in the global music community.

Aloha Got Soul

One of the oldest independent record labels in the United States. Formed in the late 1950's by Leonard Silver, Amherst Records has issued releases by a variety of artists such as Spyro Gyra, Glenn Medeiros, Doc Severinsen, and The Tonight Show Band, Jackie DeShannon, David LaFlamme, and Solomon Burke. In 1984, Amherst Records acquired all the master recordings of the AVCO Embassy and H & L Records labels, which included those of The Stylistics, Van McCoy, The Chambers Brothers, and The Softones.

Amherst Records

Analog Africa is a label based in Frankfurt, Germany, owned by Samy Ben Redjeb, releasing compilations with African and South American music mainly of the 70s and 80s.

Analog Africa

In the 1940s, Rafael ‘Ralph’ Pérez was an A&R rep for the Latin American division of Decca Records in New York. As a proud Puerto Rican, he wanted to champion the authentic Latin music that mainstream American labels largely ignored. He saw the need to address this lack of music in a market he felt was underserved, so he founded Ansonia Records in 1949, naming it after a popular hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where the company often housed visiting recording artists.
 
Some of the first Ansonia sides were Dominican merengues. Pérez put together what became the most popular group in that genre outside of the Dominican Republic in the 1950s: Ángel Viloria y su Conjunto Típico Cibaeño. From this initial success, Pérez and Ansonia would continue to release music made for Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican immigrants in the Spanish-speaking New York communities of El Barrio (Spanish Harlem), The Bronx and Brooklyn, as well as for listeners in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America. During the 1950s and 60s, the Ansonia catalog grew to contain a long list of artists from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and other countries including Haiti and Spain.

Ansonia Records

Bandai Namco Music Live Inc., formerly Bandai Namco Arts, is a Japanese company formed by the merger of Bandai Visual and its subsidiary Lantis by its owner Bandai Namco Holdings in February 2018. The company is responsible for the same area of its predecessors, which those being anime production and distribution and music production and distribution.

BANDAI MUSIC

UK-based soul, funk and jazz dance reissue label; name derived from Beat Goes Public. The initial label heads were DJs Baz Fe Jazz and Gilles Peterson - the name came from their initials but was dubbed Beat Goes Public - until their departure in the early 1990s. Russ Dewbury was in charge for most of the 1990s. Current label head is Dean Rudland.

UK label conceived in the 70s by Ted Carroll, who started out selling 2nd hand 45s on a London market stall. He was joined by Roger Armstrong and together, they set up Chiswick Records. They were later joined by record fanatic, Trevor Churchill. Towards the end of the 70s, they were releasing work by a series of "pub rock" bands. With the arrival of the 80s and MTV culture, Ted, Trevor and Roger decided to focus on the re-issue market. It was at this stage that the label name came into being; with the permission of Johnny Vincent of Ace Records, Mississippi, Ace Records of Camden Town was born.

Ace has cemented its reputation in the re-issue market, with many sub-labels catering for a wide range of styles, including soul, funk, jazz, rock n roll, folk, country, punk, rockabilly, psychobilly and world music.
Since the middle of the 80s Ace frequently licensed Kent and other Bihari Brothers labels releases and in the early 90s they acquired the rights and start to use this labels.

Ace Records Ltd

The official archive of Jimmy Gray's seminal independent label & collective, based in Richmond, VA between 1975 and 1993. Formed by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray in Richmond, Virginia, and following in the footsteps of other influential black-owned independent labels like Strata-East and Tribe, the foundation of Black Fire coincided with saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch returning to Richmond from New York to form Oneness Of Juju. The band’s ‘African Rhythms’ album in 1975 was the perfect fusion of jazz, deep African polyrhythms and empowering lyrics. Bassist Muzi Branch, a trained artist, created the first of many Black Fire hand-illustrated sleeves for this release.

The album set the tone for a series of landmark releases on the label, including Oneness Of Juju’s ‘Space Jungle Luv’ (1976) and debuts from soulman Wayne Davis (1976), and early go-go pioneers Experience Unlimited (1977). Gray continued to use his influence and strong A&R instincts to bring in more key artists – great jazz players like Byard Lancaster and Hamiet Bluiett, Ghanaian master percussionist Okyerema Asante and talented collectives including Southern Energy Ensemble and music/drama troupe Theatre West. Due to personal and cashflow issues, many releases had to be canned and only surfaced subsequently on CD releases during the early ‘90s. Strut Records is working in collaboration with Plunky Branch to make the sounds of Black Fire available once more. Reissues and previously unreleased sessions are taken from the original master tapes.

Black Fire

Cavendish Music was launched in the late 60s as a series of Boosey & Hawkes production music LPs, Cavendish became a fully fledged library label when Boosey switched to CDs in 1987. It later became an imprint of Imagem Production Music (BooseyPM's new name as of September 2010), alongside Abaco Music Library, Strip Sounds, PPM and the Boosey & Hawkes Classical Library.
In 2016 the company behind the imprint was acquired by the "OLE Music Network"

Cavendish Archive

Cinedelic Records is an Italian independent label founded in the 2001 by Marco D'Ubaldo mostly specialized in unconventional music: soundtracks, library music, jazz, bossa, electro.

Cinedelic Records

Colemine Records was founded in late 2007 with the simple idea of putting out quality music with soul. The label is owned by Terry Cole.

Colemine Records

The Swedish label Country & Eastern was started in 2005 by musicians for lovers of the international music equivalent of slow food - al dente music.

Country & Eastern produces live music and a magnificent little catalogue of great music on our label: old recordings from India and Ghana, contemporary music from Sweden, Turkey and elsewhere as well as Chinese crickets recorded live.

Country & Eastern

Crabtree Music Library is a collection of original compositions from Grammy & Juno nominated producer Matthew Crabtree, aka MTK. These compositions draw inspiration from soul music made in the 70s and 80s, and are brought to life through vintage keys, guitar, bass, brass, full string sections, and the trademark Crabtree vocal harmonies.

Crabtree Music Library has been used by Logic, Trippie Redd, Nipsey Hussle, Timbaland, Royce Da 5'9", Conway and more.

Crabtree Music Library

US label founded by Aldo Marin and Amado Marin.
Cutting Records has successfully maintained itself as one of the long standing and leading Dance and Latino Urbano independent labels in the US. The music catalog features song selections that cross multicultural boundaries ranging from Electro, Hip Hop, Freestyle, House, Latin Urban to Rock and Tropical.

Cutting Records

Daptone releases hard funk, soul, and afrobeat by current artists. Made up of musicians and producers from the now defunct 1990s funk revival pioneer label Desco Records. Label is run by Gabriel Roth (with his alter-ego "Bosco Mann" doing most of the studio mix work) & Neal Sugarman. It is home to artists such as Sharon Jones, The Dap-Kings, Lee Fields, Sugarman 3, Antibalas, The Mighty Imperials, and others.

Daptone Records

Swedish independent record label founded in 1998 by the members of Looptroop Rockers.
Mainly releasing Hip Hop, Beats, Alternative R&B, Jazz, Soul and Electronic music.
Heavy focus on vinyl and cassette tapes. The imprint 93 Feet Beats releases instrumental beat albums.

David vs Goliath

Established in 1982, eelmanrecords.com website is the official online archive of the music recordings and video that were developed in the period 1980 -1989 for bands, The Rodents, The Hulamen, Tombolas, The Holidaymakers, The Economic Wizards, The Ranchsliders, The Spines, The Preservatives and Solo Artist Recordings by Andrew Clouston, John Niland, Bill Lake & The Living Daylights, Bill Lake & Rick Bryant.

Eelman Records

Eraserhood Sound is Philly’s only Synth & Soul record label and production company.
 
EHS was founded by longtime collaborators Maxwell Perla and Vincent John. After working for years in both New York City and Philadelphia as writers and performers with acts like Lee Fields & the Expressions, Lady, El Michels Affair, Aaradhna, and more, the two shared an interest in cultivating a unique style of music which they dubbed “Synth & Soul”. The sound is a blend of soulful rhythms, featuring Perla on drums & John rounding out the rhythm section, with layers of silky synthesizers setting the mood, all captured on vintage analog recording equipment. The label is named after the 1977 David Lynch classic Eraserhead, and borrows many of the eerie textures featured in this iconic Philly film.
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The label launched in the fall of 2019, producing and releasing 7” singles from a wide range of artists who each inhabit the spirit of Synth & Soul in their own unique way. Whether it be the intergalactic synth funk of house band Fantasy 15, the dusky desert soul of La Dante, the electro-infused R&B of Vincent John, or any other number of standalone releases, everything that comes out of Eraserhood Sound is imbued with a unique cosmic aura.

Eraserhood Sound

Falk & Klou thrives in the glorious nostalgia of the golden age of grooving jazz, jazzy libraries and pfunky stuff, reimagined in the year of the Corona. The Swedish duo consisting of multi instrumentalists Carl Johan Fogelklou and Fredrik Segerfalk who haphazardly met over a pile of vintage synthesizers that required immediate attention, only to realize that they had a common goal in this life - to pretend that they were recording producers and artist in the seventies. The urge led to actual sessions, first only the two, later to be followed by horn players, drummers and other desperate pandemic struck musicians. In the end ten prominent tracks emerged, with the common denominator being the love of great music. The library of Falk & Klou. Carl Johan Fogelklou usually plays bass in Swedish band Mando Diao and teaches Yoga. He has also met the king of Sweden. Fredrik Segerfalk runs Analog Sweden, a synthesizer venture, and also owns a harpsichord. Carl Johan helped him carry it. It's a beast.

FK Library

Four Flies is a Rome-based record label and music publisher specializing in Italian film and library music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. The Four Flies team is committed to digging up underrated scores and sounds – often ones that were never circulated outside the Italian film, radio or TV industry – and to unearthing master tapes tucked away and long forgotten in attics or basements.  Like archaeologists of Italian library music, we go to great lengths to rescue from oblivion previously unreleased or lesser-known pieces by great composers, making them available to listeners everywhere.

Four Flies Records

Frollen Music Library creates unique and organic compositions grounded in an appreciation for music of the 60s and 70s.

Frollen Music Library

Sub-label of Tuff City Records, releasing re-issues of Funk records.

Funky Delicacies

Tuff City Records is a New York-based record label founded by journalist Aaron Fuchs in 1981. Initially concentrating on hip hop music, the label's roster expanded to include doo-wop, dancehall, and hip hop-jazz fusion, and releases included reissues of music from as far back as the 1940s.

Tuff City Records

A new vibe, a sound that will make you dream again. It's the music of tomorrow created in a retro manner.

Future 80’s Records

Started by Nick DeVan and Dave Singleton in the geographical center
of Tennessee, USA, G.E.D. Soul has been producing and recording
original soul and funk music in their very own "Poor Man Studios" since
2007, using a similar technical and aesthetic approach that celebrates the very best
qualities of what made soul music great all those years ago.

G.E.D. Soul Records

Label based in Berlin providing you eclectic sounds and vibes from the Arab world.

Habibi Funk Records

Heart Dance Records is a woman-owned and operated instrumental label with a mission to, through their collective artists, create peaceful music for well-being to help listeners relax, reduce stress, focus, inspire, grieve, heal, meditate and calm.

Heart Dance Records

Hopestreet Recordings is an artist-run record label based in Brunswick, Australia since 2009. From the humblest of DIY beginnings, this community of musicians, producers and writers has carved out a global niche for their old-school inspired crusty analog creations. HopeStreet represents the diversity, quality of musicianship and originality of Melbourne’s inner Northern music community, and keeps developing their distinct sound, production approach year to year, and audiences all over are responding.

Hopestreet Recordings

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music.

The label is home to artists such as London Elektricity, Flava D, Metrik, Degs, Nu:Tone, DRS & Dynamite, Fred V, Grafix and Mitekiss but also releases tracks from a whole host of other artists across the drum & bass genre. From its HQ in Herne Hill, South London, Hospital also runs the publishing company “Songs In The Key Of Knife”​ and their worldwide events brand “Hospitality”​.

Hospital Records

Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes' boutique label while he was signed to ABC Records. Hayes came to ABC after the 1975 bankruptcy of Stax. The record label was named after Hayes' first hit album, 1969's Hot Buttered Soul. His first album on HBS was Chocolate Chip, a best selling R&B album chart hit. His later releases fared with less success, and in late 1977 Hayes left ABC for Polydor.

In addition to Isaac Hayes' own recordings (solo, leading the Isaac Hayes Movement and a duet album with Dionne Warwick), the only other artists to have released albums on HBS were The Masqueraders, a five-man group from Texas.

Just prior to his death, Concord Music Group reissued Hayes' HBS recordings on the revived Stax label.

Hot Buttered Soul Recordings

HOUSE OF WAVES Music Library is a diverse sample library created and curated by Brian “Deep” Watters. Featuring producers and musicians from around the world, its GRAMMY Award-winning roster has collaborated with artists such as Kodak Black, Brent Faiyaz, Ari Lennox, Mac Dre, Kingsway Music Library, and more.

HOUSE OF WAVES Music Library

I.O.T. (In Out Thru) is an electronic music label founded by IOT, based in Marseille, France.

I.O.T Records

Jakarta Records is a record label from Berlin/Cologne, Germany releasing music with a passion since 2005.

Jakarta Records

Janko Nilovic Projects was founded in 2017 to represent and preserve the catalog of Maestro's oeuvre that stretches from classical, jazz, and funk to pop, psyche and easy listening.

Janko Nilovic Projects

Légère Recordings is the home of authentic, modern funk and jazz. Starting in 2006, the label released albums by Young Gun Silver Fox, Myles Sanko, Jay W. McGee, Boca 45, The New Mastersounds, Eddie Roberts, The Mighty Mocambos, The Pepper Pots, The Impellers, Hot Border Special, Nick Pride & The Pimptones, JetTricks, Caroline Lacaze and the renowned “Come On Soul” compilations. The sound of Légère Recordings is organic, original and full of soul.

Legere Recordings

Bongo Joe explores contemporary undergrounds to dig out extraordinary sounds and plows the furrows of time to unearth rare nuggets from here, there and everywhere.

Les Disques Bongo Joe

Independent record label, founded by David Byrne in 1989.

Luaka Bop

Lyrichord is an American independent label featuring traditional and contemporary world music, dance music, early and classical music since 1950.

Lyrichord World

Naxos Records is the world’s leading classical music label as measured by the number of new recordings it releases and the depth and breadth of its catalogue. Naxos was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born entrepreneur based in Hong Kong.

Naxos

American library music label, linked to Chesky Records.

Manhattan Production Music

The boutique original library of LA-based, Billboard-charting producer duo - max & kyle. In the past, their works has been exclusively available for select industry producers, but as of summer 2022 their compositions are being released to the public via Tracklib. Max Levin and Kyle Scherrer have production credits including Travis Scott, Tinashe, 88rising & more.

max & kyle

Established in 2016 as sort of the eccentric kid brother to Sundazed Music, they have an ear for the esoteric and oddities abound.

Modern Harmonic

Mood Sound Collection

MSXII, as a company & sound design collective, boasts 4 Grammy nominations, 2 Billboard #1s (H.E.R. “Back of My Mind”, Migos, Culture II, “Made Men”), 5 platinum plaques, 5 gold plaques, Super Bowl ad placements, and countless more. We specialize in hiphop, urban creative sound design solutions for music producers & companies.

MSXII Sound Design

Amsterdam based record label releasing visionary electronic music from both past and present. Founded by Jamie Tiller & Tako Reyenga.

Music From Memory

Musilogue is a Japanese label and a music project started by Ryota Nozaki (Jazztronik).

Musilogue

Network Records, originally called Kool Kat Records, was an independent record label founded in Birmingham, England, in 1988 by Neil Rushton and Dave Barker. It was instrumental in first introducing Detroit techno to British and European audiences.

Network Records

Founded in early 70s by historical Rai TV trumpeter and composer Cicci Santucci (Looking Around, On The Underground Road etc.), New Tape grown up during the golden period of Italian music production and was dedicated to experimentation of new forms of sound, always hailing from the solid Jazz basis of the musicians and theme music inspiration. Andrea Galtieri aka Cavalier Piscopo sequenced the very best shots from the whole label production including exclusive liner notes, with an explosive mix of Jazz-Rock, Bossa, spellbinding groove and raw experimental stuff.

With a ridiculously small pressing of only 100 copies per title, NEW TAPE is among the most interesting discoveries to date in terms of original production library music, and as a result, a very respectable journey begins inside the creative underground jazz of 1970s.

New Tape

Sonor Music Editions born in 2013 from an idea of Lorenzo Fabrizi, owner and founder of the label, that was one year later joined by his friend Andrea Galtieri. The label's name actually derives from the Italian term used to describe Library music, which is what the label focused on during its entire activity, which is "Sonorizzazioni". From rare and obscure Pop, Jazz, Cinematic Lounge, Funk, Easy Listening to underground Psychedelic, Sonor Music Editions dug into the deepest sounds of Italian Library and Soundtrack golden age, releasing and reissuing some of the most rare and beautiful recordings of this prolific music scene from 1970s/80s. In 2016 the label started to invest in the acquisition of original archival music, developing its own production library series with a nod to new, emerging and talented artists.

Sonor Music Editions

Onza Records is a NYC based record label specializing in Hip-Hop, Funk, and Soul. Founded in 2018 by music producer Statik Link, the company focuses on releasing music and media that is unique. Statik Link brings 12 years of music industry knowledge to Onza Records. Statik is a Recording Academy member and has worked with ASAP Ferg, Machine Gun Kelly, OG Maco, and more. Every Onza Records release is a unique experience. As soon as you press play, you'll recognize it's an Onza recording!

Onza Records

Parry Music Library was a Canadian production music library founded in 1974 by John Parry and Chris Stone.
Since 2013, Parry Music stopped producing new albums. Nevertheless, two years later, the library's assets were acquired by BMG Rights Management and in consequence received new logo.

Parry Music Library

Philly Groove Records was a soul music label started by Stan Watson and Sam Bell in 1967, with noted producer Thom Bell doing A&R. The label's best-known artists were male vocal group, the Delfonics and female group, First Choice. Both acts enjoyed a run of hits during the late 60s and early 70s, especially on the R&B charts. The label also had other artists such as Nat Turner's Rebellion and David Lasley. It, along with Philadelphia International Records, was instrumental in establishing the famed Philadelphia soul sound.

The label was distributed by Bell Records from its inception in 1967 until 1974, when the label closed down shortly after Bell Records was folded into Arista Records.

In 2012, independent music publisher Reservoir Media Management acquired Philly Groove Records and its sister music publishing company, Nickel Shoe Music. In 2013, Reservoir released its first original record featuring music from the Philly Groove catalog, a compilation of select tracks by The Delfonics called Philly Groove Records Presents: This Time kicking off the album series Philly Groove Records Presents.

Philly Groove Records (Reservoir Media Management)

Phonoscope Studios is a record label and music production/graphic design studio, founded by Frank Maston in 2017.

Phonoscope Studios

The Polyphonic Music Library was created & curated by Grammy Award Winning producer Mario Luciano 
to bring back the authenticity of Jazz, Gospel, Soul & Psych recordings from the 60s 70s & 80s by using rare equipment of those times as well as exact recording and processing techniques to deliver an authentic sound. Since starting out in late 2019 they’ve been sampled by Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Madlib, H.E.R., Jack Harlow, Westside Gunn, Conway and countless others.

Polyphonic Music Library

Powers Supply is a contemporary music library creating high-quality samples and compositions that highlight the best of soul, jazz, hip hop and R&B.

Powers Supply

Established in 2003, Record Kicks is a Milan based independent record label and music publishing with over 250 releases under the belt. Home to artists such as Calibro 35, Hannah Williams, Tanika Charles, The Tibbs, The Diasonics, Marta Ren & The Groovelvets… and many more. Side by side with similar outfits like Daptone, Truth And Soul, Freestyle or Timmion, under its motto “The explosive sound from Today’s scene” Milan-based independent label Record Kicks has been pitching the contemporary funk & soul scene since day one. Record Kicks has released bands from all over the globe and earned the support of VIP fans such as Kenny Dope, Jamie Cullum, Craig Charles. Its catalogue has been sampled by quite a few rap superstars such as Jay-Z thanks to which the label has received a Grammy nomination in 2018 for HOV’s use of Hannah Williams’ “Late Nights And Heartbreak” as backdrop for his “4:44” album title track, Tyler The Creator and Dr. Dre.

Record Kicks

shanks. Music Library

Tim van Berkestijn, better known by his stage name Benny Sings, is a Dutch pop musician, songwriter, and producer from the Netherlands. He formed his first band, the Loveboat, in high school. He attended the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he studied sonology.[2] He made beats before choosing his established name Benny V Kreamtits.[3] In 1999, Berkestijn adopted the stage name Benny Sings when he joined the Dutch hip hop group Abstract Dialect as a bassist. During this period, he also worked with hip hop collective De Toffen and the soul group Heavenly Social. In 2003, Sings released his first solo album, Champagne People, which did well in the Netherlands and Europe. During the 2010s, Sings gained more attention in the United States.[4] In 2017, he helped pen the Rex Orange County single "Loving Is Easy", In 2018, he joined the roster of American record label Stones Throw. Beyond his solo career, Sings has collaborated with, written for, and produced many notable artists, including Mayer Hawthorne, Rex Orange County, Free Nationals, GoldLink, Mac DeMarco and Tom Misch. He also composed songs for the anime Carole & Tuesday.[5] In 2022, Benny Sings co-produced Rex Orange County's album Who Cares?, which debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200.

Sings Records

Soul Bank Music

Swedish label established in 2018 releasing new Soul and Funk music.

Soul Tune Records

Strata-East Records is an American record company and label specializing in jazz founded in 1971 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the release of their first recording Music Inc. The label released over 50 albums in the 1970s. Many of the label's releases are now hailed as prime examples of 1970s post-bop, spiritual jazz, and afro-jazz.

Strata-East Records

Since first founded in London in 1999, Strut has become one of the leading labels for reissues, compilations and new studio albums in the field of African, Caribbean, Latin, jazz, soul and disco.

During the early days, they released the first Nigeria 70 and Disco Not Disco compilations, as well as documenting some important milestones in dance music history, including DJ sets from Grandmaster Flash and Bristol's Wild Bunch. Re-launched in 2007, in conjunction with Berlin’s !K7 Music, they continued their journey with four compilations selected by London DJ collective Horse Meat Disco alongside rare post-punk and industrial sounds on Trevor Jackson’s Metal Dance series and the Fac. Dance Factory Records compilations, to name but a few. They also started inviting original legends to record new studio albums including Mulatu Astatke, Lloyd Miller, Orlando Julius,Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas plus the late, great drummer Tony Allen and Jimi Tenor.

Since 2014 they have had an ongoing relationship with the estate of Sun Ra and the Arkestra, curating definitive box set editions of Ra’s recordings in Egypt in 1971, the Singles and the Lanquidity album from 1978. In 2020 they released Swirling, the first new Arkestra album in over 15 years.

Most recently they have been working closely with the back catalogues of Patrice Rushen, Miriam Makeba, Black Fire Records and Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids; and they continue to support younger talent with recent critically acclaimed artist albums from Nubiyan Twist, Electric Jalaba, Kondi Band and The Souljazz Orchestra.

Strut Records - a division of K7 Music GmbH

Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee in February 1952. Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American musicians because Phillips loved rhythm and blues and wanted to bring it to a white audience.

Sun Records

Bob James' imprint label with Columbia, named after the Tappan Zee bridge which spans across the Hudson River in the New York suburbs.

Tappan Zee Records

Tele Music is a French production music library and distributor founded in 1966 by Roger Tokarz. It is known from being one of the pioneers of French music library industry (along with L'Illustration Musicale).
In 2018, the company's owner Editions Musicales Sforzando was acquired by BMG Production Music.

Tele Music

The Film Music Of Ronald Stein

The Rucker Collective is a sound design group/label formed in 2019 by Marcus "Motif Alumni" Rucker and Derek "Kas" Kastal with the intention of delivering original sounds/compositions for producers to sample that are hassle-free on the clearance side as well as filling the void for fans of jazz, soul, prog rock, & library music. Upon forming, they’ve been sampled by the biggest artists in the world including: Drake, J Cole, Westside Gunn/Griselda, Rod Wave, Lil Baby, Rod Wave, Rick Ross, Moneybagg Yo, Brent Fayiaz, Don Toliver, Fabolous, Doja Cat, The Lox, Fat Joe, Snoop Dogg, & producers ranging from Metro Boomin to Timbaland to Jermaine Dupri to Madlib, etc.

The Rucker Collective

At The Sample Lab, we house a carefully selected collection of over 200 sample libraries and drum packs for every music production hobbyist or hip-hop lover wishing to expand their music experience with unique and inspiring sounds.

The Sample Lab

Tru Thoughts is a British independent record label founded in Brighton in 1999 by Robert Luis and Paul Jonas. Since the acclaimed first album release of Bonobo's debut Animal Magic, the label has put out over 200 LPs, across genres from electronic, funk, soul and hip hop to jazz, tropical, grime and more.

Tru Thoughts

UNKWN Sounds is a production music library created and curated by multi-genre producer, DJ, instrumentalist, and songwriter UNKWN. The label produces musical pieces ranging from R&B, Soul, Mo-Town, Jazz, to even Psych working with a collection of analog gear, live instrumentation, and talented vocalist world-wide. With over 50 volumes of music available, UNKWN Sounds promises to provide the best music pieces for productions or sync with film and television.

UNKWN Sounds

Valentino Production Music Library is an American production music library founded in 1932 by Thomas J. Valentino as a sound effects company.
In the 1950's, Valentino established the "Valentino Production Music Library", under the Major Records label which was used until 1981. Around 1982, all records are under the name "Valentino Inc".
In 2008, Valentino's assets were acquired by Selectracks, who's parent company was acquired by BMG Rights Management in 2011.

Valentino

Genre defying, vinyl cutting, gig loving independent UK label. Releasing beautiful music for over 18 years. Soul, Jazz, Funk music and beyond.

Wah Wah 45s

From compilations of psychedelic Cambodian rock to the Grammy-nominated Indian slide-guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya, World Music Network (WMN) has been responsible for the most consistent and varied output of world music for the past 30 years.

World Music Network

YB Music is an independent record label established in São Paulo, Brazil. It started in 1999, releasing music from new underground artists as well as revival acts. Its catalog includes different syles of Brazilian music featuring hip hop, samba-rock, electronic music, instrumental music including classical music and jazz, and mangue beat.

YB Music

AAM Music is the label that releases CDs produced by Antonio Adolfo, internationally. It is the US branch of Brazilian Artezanal label, which was created in 1977, by Antonio Adolfo.

AAM Music

Abstrak Jaz

Formed back in the heady days of 1987 at the start of the ‘acieed’ explosion, Acid Jazz was the first of the groundbreaking new indie labels and paved the way for the likes of Mo Wax, Wall Of Sound and Talkin’ Loud…

Initially a simple bedroom operation established by Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson, within three months of the first 45 release (Galliano’s Frederic Lies Still), the label had grown rapidly, acquired premises in London’s east end and laid out a unique manifesto of alternative club sounds – jazz, street-soul, funk, latin, reggae and jazz poetry all put in an early appearance. Galliano, Chris Bangs, The Night Trains, The Last Poets, A Man Called Adam and Snowboy & The Latin Section were amongst the first wave of label signings and they all appeared live at groundbreaking jazz themed nights at London clubs like the WAG in Soho and Camden’s legendary Dingwalls.

Acid Jazz

Adil Manuel

Afrikan Smell

Aláfia Cultural

ALEA Experimental

AL HUG Recordings

Record label founded in 1991, providing the best of American military band recordings.

Altissimo

The super-budget label of the Naxos family of labels. It offers a wide range of original recordings of the core classical repertoire but also titles deleted from the Naxos catalogue.

Amadis

Italian label founded in 1992 by Matteo Silva and Marc Eagleton. Amiata is an independent, creative, imaginative and cross-cultural label. It presents music for curious souls and intelligent ears. Its recordings offer sounds for those who, leaving behind prejudices, are inquisitive enough to journey into new lands

Amiata Records

Sub-label of Tuff City Records, releasing re-issues of New York Latin music.

Andale

Apiru

APOLLON

Sub-label of Manhattan Production Music, the american library music imprint linked to Chesky Records.

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