Label Watch: Black Hole Recordings

A little back history—for nearly 20 years, Black Hole Recordings has positioned itself as one of the premier indie EDM labels worldwide by continuing to live by their credo—”Captivate, Communicate and Celebrate.”

Launched in 1997 by Tiësto and Arny Bink to exclusively release Tiësto’s productions, beginning with Magic One: First Flight and Space Age 1.0, instantly established the artist and the label as important and major players in the electronic dance scene. During the early years of the label’s operation, and under the direction of Tiësto, DJ Mix albums featuring the work of artists including DJ Stigma, Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, Johan Gielen, Cor Fijneman, DJ Montana and Ton TB were set upon the masses. Tiësto is also the creator of the “In Trance We Trust” series, one of the leaders under the Trance genre. To date, over a million copies of the DJ Mix Compilation Series have been sold worldwide. In August 2009 Tiësto decided to part ways with Black Hole Recordings, creating a new label Musical Freedom with [PIAS] Entertainment Group. Now jumping forward to the present, Black Hole Recordings fans can still expect tons of Trance, but they’ve diversified a bit to cater to an audience that can now enjoy releases that cover a wider spectrum of the electronic dance genres. The Black Hole Recordings catalogue of today represents progressive house, tech trance, progressive and electro house and continues to grow its very impressive catalogue featuring releases from Paul Oakenfold, Cosmic Gate, Dennis Sheperd, Deadmau5, Daniel Wanrooy, Ferry Corsten and dozens more. Here’s something you most likely don’t know, Black Hole also operates a distribution arm, releasing Pop, Reggae, Blues and Classical music, as well as handling several ‘in-house’ labels and imprints.

The label’s Social Media footprint is also quite large with over 200,000 page likes on Facebook, 245,000 followers on Twitter and a dedicated Youtube channel with over 137,000 subscribers, featuring a weekly podcast that airs in over 23 countries. Black Hole Recordings has their own portal and now sells digital downloads, vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and official merchandise and look for their new app for Smart Phone users.

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