Producer Night:
Navigating Labels & Releases
May 19th, 2025
7-11 PM
Navigating Labels & Releases
May 19th, 2025
7-11 PM
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
Why work with a record label in 2025?
What’s in it for you?
What’s in it for them?
Let’s talk about it.
What’s in it for you?
What’s in it for them?
Let’s talk about it.
In the not-too-distant past, maybe you’d cobble together a demo tape and send it out to your favorite record labels, hoping to get some interest or even an “advance” for a recording contract. Maybe you’d get a single on the radio, your album in record shops, support for your upcoming tour. What happened?
Well, that model no longer exists. Technology changed everything, from the way you make music, to the way it’s distributed, to the way people listen to it. You can now go direct-to-consumer, and skip the middleman that is the Record Label. You can, but will you?
NO SIGNAL x IMPULSE CØNTROL invite you to participate in a very illuminating discussion about the current state of music distribution. Join us as we open up a candid conversation from the perspective of both artists and labels in the electronic music scene. We’ll talk about:
- -What should you know and what can you expect from the artist-label relationship?
- -What kind of deals exist and how do they work?
- -What are the incentives for each side and how do you create a good partnership?
- -What could go wrong and how do you avoid a bad deal?
- -Why should you even sign with a record label these days?
- -Is it worth starting your own label?
- -And a chance to ask your own questions, figuring out the best path forward for YOU.
The night will include a panel discussion with IMPULSE CØNTROL label head Ramsey Neville and NO SIGNAL co-founder Justin Lin (additional guests TBA), plenty of time to chat with other producers, DJs and label folks, share tracks and drop contacts.