An independent music label ยท Since 2019

Songs made to be loved,
built to be used.

Every name on this label is me, Lars, working out of one room in the Netherlands. Different projects, very different genres, one person who never managed to pick a lane. If you have ever played a song forty times and then wondered how they did the drums, you will probably feel at home here.

  • 27 projects on the label
  • 7 years of chipping away
  • 1 person making them
How I work
01

Melody, always.

If the hook doesn't catch you on the first listen, no clever line is going to save it. I've tried. Melody gets a nine from me, lyrics a steady six. Now and then both land at once and a song takes off in a way I didn't see coming.

02

Made to be used.

The thirty seconds behind your video, the loop under a montage, the song that finishes off a mood. I love it when a track ends up somewhere I never planned. There's nothing cynical about wanting your music to have a life of its own.

03

Every artist, treated as real.

Each project gets its own sound, its own story, its own biography. I write them the way a press kit would: early releases, quiet years, comebacks. Different genres, because I never could pick just one and eventually stopped trying to.

A taste of the catalogue

Press play.

A few favourites up top, then it wanders across genres. Somewhere in here is probably a song for you, and definitely one that isn't. Both are fine by me.

New music lands here most weeks.
Some of it might be your thing.

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