We're signed to Teknofonic. We've released an EP and an album through Adam's label.

Very cool. Sounds like a good label.  Great questions... great answers.  Thanks guys!

Awesome podcast! I really enjoyed listening to Adam go into detail about how the label was started and how it works in benefit for the artist. I personally am an artist on the label and the preview for my first release on the label has already been posted. Link: https://soundcloud.com/teknofonic/electro-dgx-sunset-phileo

From the IM@GINE album http://www.northofnine.com
Track Artwork by Jerami Goodwin

Atlanta born artist, Jerami Goodwin, has been living and working in New York City for the past seven years. With no formal art school or training, he immersed himself in the downtown art scene, and while assisting other young contemporaries, began to create his own work. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions, and, in 2015, Howl Arts in NYC debuted Jerami’s first solo art show “Bowery Hieroglyphs”. Jerami works in different mediums, from tattoo to painting to sculpture and music. 

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Against All Odds

From the IM@GINE album http://www.northofnine.com
Track artwork by the NoN community

This artwork is a collage dedicated to North of Nine fans, for all their love and support these past couple of years. Im@gine was made possible thanks to you.

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Loving You

From the IM@GINE album http://www.northofnine.com
Track artwork by Jake Ede

Jack Ede is a pencil artist and tattoo apprentice from Sleaford, UK. Some of his latest influences include artists Kelvin Okafor, Michael Zafros and Ashley Oubre, for their photorealistic work. Ede specializes in realism, hyperrealism and photorealism, and for the three pieces he created for North of Nine, he drew most from his personal experiences. First, “The Man I Could Be” inspired him in terms of contrast and duality, and finding light in dark situations. Jack drew inspiration from young ‘puppy love’ for  “Loving You”; and finally, “Changes” reminded him of that the pains he’s endured in difficult situations are temporary and can be overcome with the right mindset.

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The Man I Could Be

From the IM@GINE album http://www.northofnine.com
Track artwork by David Donald Sutherland

David Donald Sutherland is an American visual artist based in Los Angeles, who is currently focusing on abstract expressionism. His works are part of the permanent collection at the Berloni Gallery in London, UK, and he also held a solo exhibit at the Castle Fitzjohns Gallery in New York City. For the artwork created in inspiration of North of Nine’s song “Applause”, Sutherland states: “To make any kind of art come alive, one simply needs to isolate the most basic part of oneself which is affected by whatever it is they are drawing from for inspiration and then deliver it through their own expression.”

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Applause

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One Step Up From The Bottom

Changes

From the IM@GINE album http://www.northofnine.com
The artwork by Dániel Taylor

Dániel Taylor (aka One Man Workshop) is a Hungarian graphic designer specialized in watercolor paintings and double exposures based in Budapest. Coming from an artistic family, Taylor’s influences include Dan LuVisi, Anthony Jones, and Agnes Cecile (Silvia Pelissero). For the art piece inspired by “Something Out of Nothing”, Taylor thought of childhood dreams. In this case, he chose a little boy dreaming of becoming an astronaut with a long path ahead of him, but one that also has endless possibilities. 

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Something Out Of Nothing

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Adam Reifsteck, the founder of the NYC-based electronic dance music label Teknofonic, takes a different approach to running a record label. "Artists first" is clearly the imprint's motto, as Adam lets his artist keep all their copyrights, and "have full creative control".

Listen to this WeSpin Recipes episode to learn how exactly it works out for the label and its artists, and to also get some useful tips from Adam. During the conversation, we talked about getting signed, earning money through SoundExchange and PPL, and more.

NOTE: The podcast was renamed from WeSpin Recipes to Music Growth Talks.

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