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Because Music
540 releases tracked from 1977 · 298 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house
5 tracks · 5 charting artists · 32 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging
Because Music is an independent music company founded in November 2004 in Paris by Emmanuel de Buretel. It opened a London office in 2005. It has a long-standing partnership with Ed Banger Records. A Los Angeles office opened in 2019.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
23% one genreElectronica, then Hip-Hop and Nu Disco / Indie Dance
23% of the 540 releases we can tag · 0 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±30 BPM120 BPM typical, 85–144 across four in five releases
538 of 540 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.2 per record
8 chart entries since July · rate = entries per record over that window; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
4.1 yrs medianProducers here had a median 4.1 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 19 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
18 of 38
last debut
1 month ago
new here Alex Gopher (Sep) · Antoine Bourachot (Sep)
18 of the 38 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
83% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 518 of 622 · 24 various-artists compilations
remixes
28% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
151 of the 540 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Boston Bun, Joakim, NZCA LINES
◢ how often the roster changes
8
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
19 of 81
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.5
releases a month
61 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
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.
pathFool's Gold Records, Nervous Records → Because Music → Ninja Tune2 before · 1 afterpath into
Because MusicFool's Gold Records3Nervous Records3Because MusicNinja Tune32 before · 1 after ↓◢ path into Because Musicwhere Because Music artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Fool's Gold Recordstier 33 artists
- Nervous Recordstier 13 artists
02 · this label
Because Music
03 · after · released here next
- Ninja Tunetier 33 artists
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 30 traced
106 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 298
◢ who's on it
5 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 11 have pages here
charting now
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