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Hard Times
45 releases tracked from 2014 · 47 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Classic & Chicago house · also in Soulful house
3 tracks · 2 charting artists · 9 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging
Hard Times Records, a house music label, released DJ Romain's 'The Lost D.A.T.S.' EPs in 2024, St. David's 'Message of Love EP', and Byron the Aquarius' 'One Of A Kind (Love Affair)'.
siteUnited Kingdom
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
71% one genreHouse, then Deep House and Tech House
71% of the 45 releases we can tag · 12 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±5 BPM125 BPM typical, 121–130 across four in five releases
43 of 45 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
no tier4 chart entries
chart entries per record since July; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
16.3 yrs medianProducers here had a median 16.3 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 16 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
4 of 8
last debut
2 months ago
new here FLETCH (GB) (Aug) · Jason Nevins (May)
4 of the 8 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
79% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 37 of 47 · 2 various-artists compilations
remixes
49% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
20 of the 41 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Louis Bailey, DJ Spen, Jay Vegas
◢ how often the roster changes
5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
6 of 24
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
8.5
releases a year
17 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.
pathNervous Records, Defected Records +6 → Hard Times8 beforepath into
Hard TimesNervous Records8Defected Records7Lapsus Music6Toolroom6Hard Times8 before ↓◢ path into Hard Timeswhere Hard Times artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Nervous Recordstier 18 artists
- Defected Recordstier 17 artists
- Lapsus Musictier 26 artists
- Toolroomtier 16 artists
- Cajualno tier5 artists
- Club Sessionno tier5 artists
- Recovery Techtier 35 artists
- Variety Musictier 35 artists
show all 8 ↓show fewer ↑
02 · this label
Hard Times
03 · after · released here next
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 22 traced
4 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 47
◢ who's on it
2 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 18 have pages here
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