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Z Records
299 releases tracked · 201 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Soulful house
24 tracks · 21 charting artists · 22 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
56% one genreNu Disco / Indie Dance, then House and Deep House
56% of the 299 releases we can tag · 10 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±5 BPM123 BPM typical, 117–127 across four in five releases
299 of 299 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 14.7 per record
75 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
12.7 yrs medianProducers here had a median 12.7 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 13 producers whose earlier history we can follow
format
63% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 249 of 398 · 76 various-artists compilations
remixes
79% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
236 of the 299 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Joey Negro, Dave 'Love' Lee, Sean McCabe
◢ how often the roster changes
4
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
1.2
releases a month
28 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: 1 new entry · 0 top-20 placements · avg rank ▼ 2.3 places
pathNervous Records, Peppermint Jam Records +6 → Z Records → Soulfuric Recordings, Atjazz Record Company +68 before · 8 afterpath into
Z RecordsNervous Records6Peppermint Jam Records4GOGO Music3Guesthouse3Z RecordsSoulfuric Recordings58 before · 8 after ↓◢ path into Z Recordswhere Z Records artists released before and after
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01 · before · artists released here first
- Nervous Recordstier 16 artists
- Peppermint Jam Recordsno tier4 artists
- GOGO Musicno tier3 artists
- Guesthousetier 13 artists
- Large Musictier 13 artists
- Recovery Techtier 33 artists
- T's Boxno tier3 artists
- Yoruba Recordsno tier3 artists
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02 · this label
Z Records
03 · after · released here next
- Soulfuric Recordingsno tier5 artists
- Atjazz Record Companytier 14 artists
- BBE Musictier 14 artists
- RH2tier 34 artists
- Afroterraneo Musictier 23 artists
- Club Sessionno tier3 artists
- Good Vibrations Musicno tier3 artists
- LW Recordingstier 33 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 45 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Glitterbox Recordings (4), Groove Culture (4), Groove Odyssey (4), Quantize Recordings (4), Defected Records (3)
19 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 201
◢ who's on it
19 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 61 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
charting now
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- Glitterbox Recordings (4), Groove Culture (4) and Groove Odyssey (4) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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