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Trick
147 releases tracked from 2019 · 153 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Techno · also in Festival & crossover house, Tech house
8 tracks · 6 charting artists · 10 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Trick is the record label launched by producer and DJ Patrick Topping. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, it was conceived as a home for his own productions and a platform to showcase emerging talent from his DJ sets. Patrick Topping also appears in the catalogue, teaming with Rebuke and 1111 on 'Percolate', while artists such as Bruno Furlan, Matt Hibbert, TUCCI, and BiG MiK have releases on the label.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
27% one genreTech House, then House and Techno (Peak Time / Driving)
27% of the 147 releases we can tag · 9 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±6 BPM130 BPM typical, 126–137 across four in five releases
147 of 147 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.2 per record
4 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
11.1 yrs medianProducers here had a median 11.1 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 39 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
16 of 18
last debut
1 month ago
new here Detlef (Oct) · Bruno Furlan (Sep)
16 of the 18 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
85% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 126 of 149 · 4 various-artists compilations
remixes
13% of releasesRemixes appear regularly
19 of the 143 releases whose credits we can read
◢ how often the roster changes
12
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
26 of 87
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
1.7
releases a month
41 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.
pathVariety Music, Repopulate Mars +6 → Trick → Disorder, Factory 93 Records +68 before · 8 afterpath into
TrickVariety Music12Repopulate Mars11Defected Records10Hot Creations10TrickDisorder48 before · 8 after ↓◢ path into Trickwhere Trick artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Variety Musictier 312 artists
- Repopulate Marstier 211 artists
- Defected Recordstier 110 artists
- Hot Creationstier 110 artists
- Recovery Techtier 310 artists
- Snatch! Recordstier 110 artists
- Club Sessionno tier9 artists
- Insomniac Recordstier 19 artists
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02 · this label
Trick
03 · after · released here next
- Disordertier 24 artists
- Factory 93 Recordstier 14 artists
- A-Trak & Friendstier 23 artists
- Bamboleotier 13 artists
- blanctier 33 artists
- Dansu Discstier 23 artists
- Helix Recordstier 23 artists
- LTF Recordstier 13 artists
show all 8 ↓show fewer ↑
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 47 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Black Book Records (5), Club Sweat (5), Armada Music (4), Drumcode (4), Nervous Records (4), Experts Only (3), MADMINDS (3), Nothing Else Matters (3)
14 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 153
◢ who's on it
7 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 22 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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- Black Book Records (5), Club Sweat (5) and Armada Music (4) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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