THE DIELECTRIC
ANTICRACY
AWAX
DJ****
VlLADISLAV BUBEN
ODRADEK
JERICO ONE>
INTERCITY3
PROJECT BLUE
SIGMATRON
AGATAK
KYOSUKE TOKANAGA
DAKOATA NORTH
B3B
URBANITE
DISCOFREQ
FACELESS INC
[ COMPILATION ARTISTS ]
VENETIAN SNARES
SOMATIC RESPONSES
DJ SCUD
SUDDEN INFANT
UNIFORM
FIRST AID 4 SOULS
SI-CUT DB
KENJI SIRATORI
2ND GEN
NEBULA - H
JC001
SHORBUT
FIRE AT WORK
ANTISTASIS
PANGEA
ALAN RIGGS ( DELTA 5 )
KINHO
BIONIK PHUNK
ALIEN SIX
DEATHSTAR
GLENN LOVE
SEROTONIN
RADIO-CONTROLLED
THE NOISE
GAG THIS POP
THE BRAIN BUILDER GROUP
ELECTRIC DOG
JOY
BEHEST
BLACKPEPPER
Always a forward thinking and fearless artist-run label, not afraid of taking risks. The underground cult imprint URBCOM remains true to its independent vision, and resilient as ever . After a decade of producing, and releasing recordings by various new unknown and established artists in the crossover post-industrial-breakcore experimental electronic arena. URBCOM over the years have built up a devoted growing fanbase in the UK and across Europe, as well as parts of the US and Japan. With their street-wise limited-edition small-run label,better known to most leftfield genre fans, and newcomers alike via their long-standing, well-known music-website [ WWW.URBCOM.NET] First lanched in 97 on-line; in conjunction with the short-lived off-shoot underground music print METROPLEX MAGAZINE -DISPLAY DISOBEY ( produced and instigated with the help of established collaborators Biba Kopf @The Wire, Kevin Martin@Techno Animal, Colin Newman@Swim,Marc Istead@Mute,Amanda@Haywire,Douglas Benford@The Sprawl ) among many others.
Starting out above a recording studio off the Liverpool Road, The Angel, London in May 1996 with their first-ever white label 12" release of 500 copies. The DIY spirit of URBCOM was born, instigated primarily for fun,and a labour of love. As well as an essential channel of release for their own individual band-projects,recordings and concept-artist compilations. Promoted and marketed directly to a progressive, modern open-minded worldwide-audience. Combined with the exposure, and support from numerous music allies, writers, magazines / E-zines,DJ's and pirate-college radioshows around the globe. From the outset URBCOM chose to deviate, and take the bull by the horns, bypassing a cynical,corporate over-commercialised music industry. In favor of running and establishing their own independent production label with complete artist control. While still showcasing, encouraging, and working with other affiliated artists on the music-media-art-scene. Dedicated to producing new edgy,innovative electronic music. Journeying from industria,drum & noise soundscapes to ambient IDM and the avant-garde.
Much less a record label, and more a movement of likeminded artists bouncing around new ideas,sound and thought.URBCOM are already known veterans within the global-electronic music underground. Continuing to attract,and
introduce an ever-growing pool of newcomers from all corners of the world. After years of dedication to their art, and countless promotion on behalf of other artists,allies,networks.URBCOM has Survived
againest all the odds,where most of their contempories have either shut-up shop or lost the plot completely. URBCOM our still very much on a mission.Operating the label between the UK and The German frontlines. Still hell-bent on infiltrating the mainstream one day soon, with their own indivdiual brand of leftfield-breakcore electronica .More than a labour of love URBCOM remaines an obsession, with a definite sence that the best is yet to come.
Words: Amanda Lewis
THE DIELECTRIC ( Operative edit ) promo
URBCOM | CAT NO | LABEL DISOGRAPHY 1996 - 2009 |
[ URBCOM-001 ] FACELESS INC | DISINFORMATION 2-TRACK 12"
[ URBCOM-002 ] URBANITE | BULLET-IN | 4-TRACK CDEP
[ URBCOM-003 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS | INDUSTRIALIZATION | CD COMPILATION
[ URBCOM-004 ] URBANITE feat JC001 | OFF-WORLD TOURIST | CDEP
[ URBCOM-005 ] B3B CORPORATION | TEST-TRANSMISSION | 3-TRACK 12"
[ URBCOM-006 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS | ELECTRONICSTATIC | CD COMPILATION
[ URBCOM-007 ] B 3 B Vs NAGATAK | DREAMSTATEXTREAM | CD/EP
[ URBCOM-008 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS | HI-TECHWARS | MP3 COMPILATION
[ URBCOM-009 ] JERICO ONE | REPLICA AUTOMATA | CDLP
[ URBCOM-010 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS | ELECTRONICSTATIC V2 | CD/LP
[ URBCOM-011 ] JERICO ONE | LIVE-ALT-CTRL | CD/LP
[ URBCOM-012 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS |DISPLAY DISOBEY | COMPILATION CD
[ URBCOM-013 ] JERICO ONE |NO BLIND RUNNER | CD/EP [ URBCOM-014 ] JERICO ONE | NO BLIND RUNNER | EP CD
[ URBCOM-015 ] AWAX | EMOTIONAL RESISTOR | (unreleased)
[ URBCOM-016 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS | RECREATION X V2 | 2 X CD
[ URBCOM-017 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS | RECREATION X | DV2 | DOWNLOAD
[ URBCOM-018 ] INTERCITY3| WINDOWS [ PROMO-ONLY | 2 TRACK CD
[ URBCOM-019 ] JERICO ONE | EXTERMINATOR BLUES | DOWNLOAD / CD
[ URBCOM-020 ] CROWDKONTROL | bURN YOUR GOD |(unreleased )
[ URBCOM-021 ] INTERCITY3 | LOVE THE WAY | DOWNLOAD EP [ URBCOM 021 ]
[ URBCOM-022 ] AWAX | INTRANSIGENT EP DOWNLOAD
[ URBCOM-023 ] THE DIELECTRIC| MECHANISMS 12" PROMO-ONLY
[ URBCOM-024 ] THE DIELECTRIC | FLICKER OF AN EYE EP DOWNLOAD
[ URBCOM-025 ] PROJECT BLUE | DUALITY EP DOWNLOAD
[ URBCOM-026 ] VLADISLAV BUBEN | SELECTR FREE DOWNLOAD ( LTD ED )
[ URBCOM-027 ] VARIOUS ARTISTS| DISPLAY DISOBEY SAMPLAR 001( TBA )
REQUEST ( URBCOM ARTISTS ) ON YOUR LOCAL RADIO-STATION |
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