This blog was never meant for only blowing our own
East Project trumpet and so we have always tried to cover the labels, artists, producers, DJs and music, in this great big world of dance music of ours, that have influenced us or we are currently diggin'... And this week is no exception!
We caught up with the label boss of the excellent London based
Daylight Robbery Records!
Tell us where the idea and concept for the label come from?
Well the label was basically a result of my flat being
burgled one day whilst I was at work. Came home to find the front door kicked
in, all my sound equipment and various other items gone. I hadn't backed up for
a while, didn't have insurance and had lost practically everything. Needed a
silver-lining to the shitty situation and decided it was time to start a label,
the name Daylight Robbery seemed an appropriate choice!
You are nearly a year old, how has the first year gone so
far?
Much better than I could have hoped to be honest! We were
really lucky early doors to get original tracks from some name producers that
we admired and who trusted to us to release a Free EP to help build the profile
of the label. We had Trav + Volta, Marco Darko, Jamie Antonelli, Ashworth,
Cutting Agents and myself releasing on a free EP (which is still available).
Still not exactly sure how I managed to convince them, but
the EP did really well and helped get us noticed. Then our first release on
Beatport was featured by Mixmag on their website and Soundcloud, and since then
we've just tried to grow with each release. Our current EP is our most
successful yet; it's at no.7 on Beatport at time of writing - which is
something I never really thought that we would achieve.
In what ways do you think Daylight Robbery stands out from
the other labels out there?
That's a hard question, there are so many good labels out
there doing their thing. To be honest, I'm just trying to put out releases that
I think are great and that I want to share with people. Some releases will be
more disco, or more techy, or more housey - but I just try and get a lot of
artists that I admire all under our roof and releasing EPs that I want to hear.
That's kind of the philosophy, we just want to be known for putting out
consistently good house music.
If you could have signed one track to the label, past or
present, what would that track be?
There's a couple that stick in my mind! From last year it
would be 'Newbie Nerdz & Going Deeper - Your World', massive massive tune
and I'm big fan of Newbie Nerdz. This year it would have to be 'Mark Wells
& Marco Darko - Who's Ya Daddy'. This track is 'the one that got away' for
me - we were planning to release it on another Free EP, but Nervous NYC heard
it and unsurprisingly swooped in and offered a full release - definitely my
tune of the year so far this one!
What are you really excited about with regards to the future
for Daylight Robbery?
Many things, got some really exciting releases in the
pipeline that I can't wait to share with people, from big name artists &
upcoming ones. But at the moment I'm mostly excited about building on our debut
label party which saw 150people meet in a secret location in Brixton for what
turned out to be an amazing party.
We're now in talks for our next party which will be us
moving to a big venue with the hope of doing regular nights in London. We want
to be running a consistent successful Daylight Robbery club night in London,
and then we plan to take that on the road as well. Oh and maybe another Free EP
soon too ;)
Last Question... What is your music guilty pleasure?
Easy one this... Spandau Ballet - Gold! My old producer name
was Spangled Ballet, and if I had to sing any song at karaoke...
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