Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing
I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose. . . with or without the permission of the artist.
A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.
I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never thought I was going to be on a label in general, I was like 'Oh, I wouldn't do that,' and then we ended up on the same label basically.
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.
I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.
There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.
The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ass rock !!!
The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.
I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.