4E&A

87 releases tracked from 2021 · 49 producers · latest aug 2026

3 tracks · 2 charting artists · 3 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active

Based in Fresno, California, 4E&A Records is a house music label headed by Jason Merle and situated between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Its output is bass-heavy, percussion-driven house music, with a catalog spanning releases numbered 4E&A049 through 4E&A063. Artists who have appeared on the label include JOBU, Scottie Soul, Dan Laino, and DJ Ibanez. The label's name is pronounced 'for-e-and-uh'.

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◢ what the catalogue measures

sound

61% one genre

Deep House, then Jackin House and House

61% of the 87 releases we can tag · 7 of the last 12 we could tag

tempo

±2 BPM

125 BPM typical, 122–126 across four in five releases

48 of 87 releases carry a tempo reading

career stage

12.5 yrs median

Producers here had a median 12.5 years of releases before their first record on the label

across 13 producers whose earlier history we can follow

format

78% solo/duo

Solo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases

counting compilations too, 68 of 87

remixes

83% of releases

Remixes are a large part of the catalogue

40 of the 48 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Jason Merle

◢ how often the roster changes

0.5

new names a year

averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace

67%

get a second record

8 of the 12 producers who debuted here over a year ago released again

1.3

releases a month

31 records in 24 months

◢ first records here, by year

20releases · first-time signings02021 · 5 releases · 3 first-time signings20212022 · 18 releases · 11 first-time signings2023 · 16 releases · 12 first-time signings2024 · 20 releases · 12 first-time signings2025 · 15 releases · 7 first-time signings2026 · 13 releases · 4 first-time signings2026

Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.

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◢ where the roster releases

also releasing onof 49

labels sharing this roster in the same period

10 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 49

◢ who's on it

2 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 6 have pages here

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