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12 Best San Francisco Record Labels
- Boost Collective
- Independent Distribution Collective
- Absolutely Kosher Records
- Alternative Tentacles Records
- Aphagia Records
- Black Hat Records
- Chubby Control Records
- Black dirt Records
- Kitchen Whore Records
- KOOLARROW Records
- Moment! Records
- Muti Music
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#1. Boost Collective
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#2. Independent Distribution Collective
Independent Distribution Collective is a San Francisco-based marketing and distribution firm.
It provides tailored marketing campaigns as well as a broad music distribution channel.
The Project Manager oversees the project from start to finish, enables communication with the Team, and ensures that all components of the campaign are carried out with the client's specifications.
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#3. Absolutely Kosher Records
Location: 1501 Powell Street, Emeryville, CA, 94608
Email: macher@absolutelykosher.com
Cory Brown launched Absolutely Kosher Records in San Francisco in 1998.
The label relocated to Berkeley in 2002, then to Emeryville in October 2006, when it merged with Misra Records.
Since 2005, it has been recognized on the RIAA website as a distribution label of a reporting member.
The label, however, is not a member and does not pay dues or interact with the RiaA.
On September 20, 2011, Cory Brown posted a message on the label's website alerting fans that the label will not be releasing any new recordings for the foreseeable future...
It was a good run! You can still hit Cory up and see what he's working on.
#4. Alternative Tentacles records
Location: P.O. Box 419092, San Francisco, CA
Phone: 510-596-8981
"Alternative Tentacles Records is based in Emeryville, California, and employs four employees.
(The label has always been based in San Francisco, but it relocated here in October 2002.)
Jello Biafra owns the corporation as a sole proprietorship.
It is not only a label, but also a mailorder shop that sells its own products as well as suitable underground culture t-shirts, books, and other stuff."
#5. Aphagia records
Email: aphagia@outlook.com
Recordings is a San Francisco-based independent record label that specializes in unusual rock and techno music.
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#6. Black Hat records
Address: P.O. Box 5081, San Mateo, CA
Phone: 650-572-COOK
Black Hat Records is an acoustic jazz record label.
Michael Cooke founded the organization in 1999 to help keep jazz alive in the new millennium.
Black Hat Records is committed to the uncompromising representations of jazz music as well as the jazz performers we record.
We are a Jazz label for true jazz enthusiasts.
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding where to buy our items, how to distribute them, or how to book our talent.
#7. Chubby Control Records
Location: 172 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA
Phone: (415) 642-2222
Cubby Control Records is an extension of The Cubby, a collection of people who have been creating art under the name of The Cubby since 1997.
Cubby Control Records will exist as a more formal medium.
You may release music, sounds, narrations, and anything else you can hear with your ear.
#8. Dirtybird Records
Location: 1177 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA
Phone: (415) 409-0793
"The record label "dirtybird" began distributing vinyl in 2005.
At the same time, Barclay made up the DJ identity "Claude VonStroke" as a joke...
But the moniker stuck after his debut album "Deep Throat" sold over 11,000 vinyl copies worldwide.
Since then, they have gone along to help many other ads gain recognition in the music space!
#9. Kitchen Whore Records
Location: 20700 Almaden Rd, San Jose, CA
"Lisa Dewey, Marc Moreland (previously of Wall Of Voodoo), Bethany Curve, Kelsi Arnold, Mute Angst Envy, and Gina Chiala live here.
Lisa Dewey founded Kitchen Whore Records in 1997 with the publication of her second full-length album, "Lola CUKI."
Lisa wanted to start a company that would allow her and other artists to develop and perform music without the restraints that come with being a major label artist."
#10. KOOLARROW records
Location: 530 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA
KOOLARROW Records is a label managed by musicians for musicians; the label will be made by our bands, not the other way around.
It will be a precursor of how it should be, a term that permits all types of individuals to give of themselves without being taken advantage of.
The label wishes to offer access to artists from all over the world who are content to stay incredibly gifted by being themselves...
Regardless of their place of origin, they are not interested in just reproducing Billboard's top 40.
#11. Moment! Records
Location: 237 Crescent Road, San Anselmo, CA
Phone: (415) 459-6994
Zakir Hussain launched Moment!
Records in 1991 to record and present remarkable moments from performances of Indian classical music and current global music.
Their broad CD and DVD inventory features the best of these genres!
Indian classical music is centered on improvisation, spontaneity, and a developed idea of the performer-audience relationship.
Their objective is to record and offer this music in its purest form to you.
#12. Muti Music
Location: 17 Parsons St, San Francisco, CA
Phone: 510 499 1568
"Muti" is derived from the Zulu/Xhosa word umuthi, which means "tree" and has the root -thi.
Muti Music is an indie record label situated in San Francisco, California.
It features a diverse spectrum of artists from a wide range of electronic music and bass music genres such as:
- Halftime
- Drum and Bass
- Dubstep
- UK Bass
- Trap
- Dub
- Jungle
- Garage
- 2-Step
- Glitch Hop
- Ragga
- Experimental
- Emerging sounds.
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