As a fully independent record label, Thrills Records aims to showcase new artists, while ramping up production quality and numbers for established artists. After seven years of hyper-specialization in house & deep house music, we’ve acquired the skillsets to onboard the next generation of groundbreaking artists. Not following in anyone’s footsteps, we aim to create our own signature brand, network and infrastructure for our artists.
Nalestar’s “A Different Way” has been a Thrills catchy on-repeat future house staple, taking up the #1 spot on various of our best deep house playlists.
A house music record label by the people, for the people.
As a fan and listener of Thrills, we won’t treat you as just another number: another view, another listener on Spotify or another cash cow for merch purchases. We will tailor our preferences to your preferences, because we know that the culture within house music lies with the listeners.
We have had great success taking previously unsuccessful tracks with good production quality, and putting it in front of many of the right people’s house music playlists.
We’ve watched many artists come and go throughout the years. We know what makes an artist successful or unsuccessful in the house music industry, and what makes artists stuck as bedroom producers indefinitely.
We’ve shown our fans over and over our capacity to pick the best music before it becomes popular, and in many cases, actually make it popular.
With seven years of experience in the digital streaming industry, we’d like to think we’ve mastered the front & back ends of all things streaming.
An estimated 1% of the world has seen the Thrills brand through our viral marketing efforts, for a total of >600 million impressions.
Dray is an artist we signed early upon hearing his deep house summer track Heat Rush. Dray performed outstandingly on our channels, and was consequently noticed by larger labels.
Our house & deep house playlists are everywhere.
Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and Tidal, our collection of the best house music is paralleled by few labels.
An origin story you can share with your grandma.
Analogous to an early 20th century brewery setting up during the days of prohibition, Thrills was started by a lone teenager with big dreams of becoming a club owner during a time in which the music industry was dominated by three companies. Obviously, Thrills has become much larger in scale than that. Being tired of hearing subpar music, we strive to uphold our promise of delivering only the best house & dance music playlists. We’ve had many ups and downs throughout the years.
From being an underground unlicensed and gray-area-only music blog, to being mostly legitimate and having to wipe our catalogue clean, to the squeaky clean era, and finally graduation into a real-world business: becoming an independent house music record label.
Artist before label.
Revival is an artist that had a catchy track, yet wasn’t released on any DSPs. We worked with Revival to get his track out on digital streaming platforms worldwide and heard by our audience.
A label may be good at marketing music, but the talent lies with the artist. We endeavor to give our artists the best treatment, as a reflection of us to the whole world.
What kind of artists are we looking for?
If you’re already Calvin Harris, there’s not much we can do to help each other. However, if you’re an up-and-coming artist looking to get your name out, let’s work together. We’ll make a great team if you want to:
— Get your music heard by more people that actually like this type of music: grow your core enthusiastic audience and not a passive one
— Increase your streams across the board and expand to countries you haven’t reached yet
—Get featured on our playlists and channel (this includes tracks you’ve already released)
— Appear on larger artists and labels’ radars
Perfectionism.
We know you want a discography you’ll be able to look back at in 10 years and be proud. So, we’ll review your track and pedantically explore every nook and cranny to ensure your final track sounds nothing short of crispy.
- In-house evaluation and advisory.
- Mixing and mastering by industry professionals.
Community. Outreach.
We’ll leverage our connections built over the years to get your track out to everyone who wants to hear it.
- 200,000+ subscribers across social media.
- Various artists and larger labels follow our pages.
Streaming & Royalties.
This is what you really care about.
- Ensuring artist and label interests are aligned by featuring on our dedicated playlists.
- Fair rates—we will never rip an artist off, under any case.
- Featured on our partners’ playlists and making efforts to synchronize & syndicate the music.