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Watergate Records
216 releases tracked from 2008 · 322 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Melodic house & techno · also in Progressive house
4 tracks · 3 charting artists · 18 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Based in Berlin, Watergate Records is associated with the Watergate club in the same city and operates a sublabel called Watergate Affairs.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
28% one genreMelodic House & Techno, then Nu Disco / Indie Dance and Tech House
28% of the 216 releases we can tag · 6 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±4 BPM124 BPM typical, 120–128 across four in five releases
216 of 216 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 20.6 per record
11 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
9.3 yrs medianProducers here had a median 9.3 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 55 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
13 of 19
last debut
1 month ago
new here Curol (Sep) · Victor Alc (Sep)
13 of the 19 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
56% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 126 of 227 · 14 various-artists compilations
remixes
41% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
86 of the 211 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Adana Twins, Ruede Hagelstein
◢ how often the roster changes
12.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
27 of 103
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
1.5
releases a month
37 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 12 oct: 0 new entries · 0 top-20 placements
pathClub Session, RH2 +6 → Watergate Records → Unreleased Records, Interstellar Recordings (Insomniac) +68 before · 8 afterpath into
Watergate RecordsClub Session12RH211Armada Music10Freerange Records9Watergate RecordsUnreleased Records88 before · 8 after ↓◢ path into Watergate Recordswhere Watergate Records artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Club Sessionno tier12 artists
- RH2tier 311 artists
- Armada Musictier 210 artists
- Freerange Recordstier 19 artists
- Madorasindahouse Recordstier 28 artists
- Exit Strategyno tier7 artists
- Snatch! Recordstier 17 artists
- Correspondanttier 26 artists
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02 · this label
Watergate Records
03 · after · released here next
- Unreleased Recordstier 28 artists
- Interstellar Recordings (Insomniac)tier 37 artists
- When Stars Aligntier 17 artists
- Ulu Recordstier 36 artists
- CircoLoco Recordsno tier5 artists
- Kunyeno tier5 artists
- Aluku Recordstier 24 artists
- Disordertier 24 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 118 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): DIYNAMIC (14), Stil Vor Talent Records (11), Frau Blau (10), Recovery Tech (10), Innervisions (9), Anjunadeep (8), Global Underground (8), Afterlife Records (7)
14 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 322
◢ who's on it
8 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 49 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
sending a demo
- DIYNAMIC (14), Stil Vor Talent Records (11) and Frau Blau (10) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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