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129 releases tracked from 2023 · 74 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Soulful house
4 tracks · 4 charting artists · 8 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging
A part of Category 1 Music, LLC, the label has operated for over 40 years in the dance music industry, focusing exclusively on soulful, vocal house.
sound
38% one genreHouse, then Soulful House and Jackin House
38% of the 129 releases we can tag · 3 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±2 BPM124 BPM typical, 122–126 across four in five releases
129 of 129 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.1 per record
2 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
12.1 yrs medianProducers here had a median 12.1 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 40 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
new here Pauline Henry (Sep) · ROMBE4T (Sep)
15 of the 39 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
60% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 79 of 132 · 3 various-artists compilations
remixes
75% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
50 of the 67 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Marc Cotterell, Richard Earnshaw, Ron Carroll
11.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
42 of 55
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
3.3
releases a month
79 records in 24 months
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.
01 · before · artists released here first
02 · this label
Category 1 Music
03 · after · released here next
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 40 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): LW Recordings (6), ArtFunk Records (3), Groove Culture (3), Merecumbe Recordings (3), RH2 (3)
13 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 74
4 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 13 have pages here
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