Aquatic Lab is Australia’s first underground bass record label, and is recognised globally as one of the earliest international outposts of the UK dubstep sound.

Aquatic Lab boasts an adventurous back catalogue which includes releases from renowned producers Zed Bias, Truth, Cluekid and Seven. The label’s repertoire also extends to notable appearances by Ben Verse, Moving Ninja, Bardeya, Gantz and Spherix.

Aquatic Lab was also the incubator of experimental composer Paul Jebanesam aka Moving Ninja, who has clocked highly influential releases on Tectonic and Vertical Sound. 

Over the years, Aquatic Lab has found a comfortable niche inside the record bags of essential tastemakers such as Youngsta, N-Type, Skream, Mala, Benga, Joe Nice and Chef.

Aquatic Lab Records is  distributed through SRD and operates from both Sydney and Berlin.

For more info please contact:
management@aquaticlabrecords.com
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Contact / demos policy: https://www.ostgut.berlin/label/contact/

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

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Hungry Koala Records - Est.2014
#1 Beatport Minimal Techno Label 2014-2017
Top 10 Beatport Minimal Techno Label 2014-2025
#1 Beatport Minimal Techno Single Chart x 5
#1 Beatport Hard Techno Single Chart x 1
#1 Beatport Electro House Single Chart x 1
#1 Beatport Techno (Peak Time) Single Chart x 1

Hungry Koala Records has established itself as one of the leading Underground Electronic Music Labels in Australia and experienced a fast ride to become the worldwide #1 selling Minimal Techno Label on Beatport, Dance Music's go to Digital Music store for Dj's worldwide from 2014-2017 and maintained their heavyweight status in the Top 10 Record Labels from 2014-2025.

  "Far from the traditional style of House, Minimal and Techno, Hungry Koala Records has pioneered a Future style of Underground Music, combining elements of multiple genres, crossing the boundaries of Radio and Underground Dance Music while still upholding their reputation as one of the leaders in the Underground Electronic Music scene worldwide."
With regular Beatport Number 1's and Top 10's across Minimal, Techno, Electro and Psy-Trance, they've amassed a family of over 600 Producers from Australia, Europe, America and Asia that have signed to the Label, seeing it total over 50 million Streams across Spotify, YouTube and Soundcloud and over 100,000 downloads worldwide via Beatport and iTunes. 
  In conjunction to the high volume of releases each year, Hungry Koala Records have established a reputation of being involved in events around the world including regular Open Air & Club parties in Melbourne, Berlin and Brisbane

www.hungrykoalarecords.com

Bookings / Enquiries
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CT004 - 2200
CT003 - Elite Athlete
CT002 - J. Albert
CT001  - Grey People

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