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Crosstown Rebels
443 releases tracked from 2003 · 655 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Underground tech house · also in Melodic house & techno, Afro house, Festival & crossover house
53 tracks · 39 charting artists · 27 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Founded in 2003 by DJ and producer Damian Lazarus, Crosstown Rebels is based in London, UK and considers discovering and nurturing new talent its core mission. Over more than twenty years, the label has introduced artists such as Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler, Maceo Plex, and Art Department. It organizes the Get Lost and Day Zero events, which it describes as setting a benchmark for electronic music events worldwide, and launched a sustainability project called Crosstown Consciousness to make all label operations greener. The label runs two sibling imprints, Rebellion and Secret Teachings, and its sublabels include Crosstown Digital Rebels, Rebellion, and Rebelone.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
28% one genreDeep House, then Tech House and Melodic House & Techno
28% of the 443 releases we can tag · 1 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±5 BPM124 BPM typical, 119–128 across four in five releases
443 of 443 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 17.6 per record
250 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
8 yrs medianProducers here had a median 8 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 92 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
22 of 33
last debut
24 days ago
new here Jamek Ortega (Oct) · Monolink (Sep)
22 of the 33 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
51% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 234 of 459 · 19 various-artists compilations
remixes
55% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
235 of the 427 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Jamie Jones, Radio Slave, Art Department
◢ how often the roster changes
24
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
35 of 121
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.6
releases a month
62 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.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 19 oct: 0 new entries · 4 top-20 placements · avg rank ▲ 7.7 places
pathGlobal Underground, Kling Klong Music +6 → Crosstown Rebels → Nu Groove Records, tszr +68 before · 8 afterpath into
Crosstown RebelsGlobal Underground14Kling Klong Music12Freerange Records10Go Deeva Records10Crosstown RebelsNu Groove Records98 before · 8 after ↓◢ path into Crosstown Rebelswhere Crosstown Rebels artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Global Undergroundtier 214 artists
- Kling Klong Musicno tier12 artists
- Freerange Recordstier 110 artists
- Go Deeva Recordstier 110 artists
- Vega Recordsno tier10 artists
- Altra Modatier 29 artists
- Glasgow Undergroundtier 19 artists
- Keinemusikno tier9 artists
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02 · this label
Crosstown Rebels
03 · after · released here next
- Nu Groove Recordsno tier9 artists
- tszrtier 19 artists
- BBE Musictier 17 artists
- Mood Childtier 17 artists
- Three Six Zero Recordingsno tier7 artists
- Hudd Traxxno tier6 artists
- Interstellar Recordings (Insomniac)tier 36 artists
- Mahooltier 26 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 216 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Get Physical Music (27), Variety Music (24), Defected Records (19), Hot Creations (18), Rebellion (18), Recovery Tech (18), Higher Ground (13), Moon Harbour (13)
86 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 655
◢ who's on it
36 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 104 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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- Get Physical Music (27), Variety Music (24) and Defected Records (19) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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