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Real artists
No committee signings, no manufactured faces. If we can't watch you play it live, we don't put our name on it.
Independent label · Burns & Co. Group
Signal
Real Sound.Real Artists.Real Blood.
A record label for artists who still plug in. We cut live, play in one room and keep the breath in the vocal. If we can hear a human in it, it belongs here.
Real sound✦Real artists✦Real blood✦Cut in one room✦Signed by ears✦
The manifesto
Music got clean. Machines took the mistakes out and the soul with them. We're putting the mistakes back.
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Real instruments
Wood, wire, skin and brass. Our rooms are full of things that need tuning, because tuning is where the character lives.
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Real sounds
Played by hands, mixed by a human. Perfect is a preset. We're after the take that made the room go quiet.
Signed by ears, not algorithmsOpen to unsigned artists worldwideEvery demo gets a listen
The sanctuary
Wood. Wire.
Hiss.
Two rooms and a collection of instruments that get played harder than they get cleaned. Every record we make starts here, with the amps on.
Room 01
The Desk
NEVE 8048 · 32 INPUTS
Run hot, never clean. Every channel gets pushed and the room does the rest.
Live Room
All In One Take
LIVE ROOM · 6.4M CEILING
Full band, one room, no click if the song doesn't need one.
NEVE 8048·EMT 140 PLATE·WURLITZER 200A·LUDWIG 1968 KIT·FENDER TWIN·RCA 44-BX·TANNOY SGM·
Transmission portal · Open
Send us the take
you're scared of.
The one with the squeaky pedal and the vocal that nearly broke. That's usually the one. No polished pitch decks required, just the music.
Send signal→- 01
Send the sound
A link to your best three tracks. Rough is fine. Rough is preferred.
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We listen, properly
One of us, in the room, all the way through. Not a skip-through.
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We answer
Every demo gets a reply within fourteen days. Yes or no, with reasons.
Industry desk
Let's
talk.
A room, a good set of microphones and a standing offer: come down, hear a session, judge us on the sound.
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