Zone Magazine Issue 037 Spring 2023
Well Folks, Lots of great things happening here at Zone HQ just for you lot, so keep coming back! Well its Spring 2023, we have a packed issue with all the regulars, and lots of interviews! We would just like to say RIP to our brother Pete Van Payne who passed away recently. He will be missed for his music, his radio show, work. an good soul!
In our feature interviews in this issue we talk to cover superstar LEMON8. Harry Lemon aka LEMON8 has been at the forefront of dance music both as a DJ and producer, whilst producing a soundtrack of a generation at the same time. Model8 - his first ever produced track from 1993 - is now being recognized as a classic and landmark in Techno and dance music in general. The Inner Sanctuary Sessions double album, solely consisting of his original music and remixes is now recognized as a highlight in Progressive House Music with tracks like New York, New York and Lose Control just to name a few. The latter was even voted all-time best record on the iconic Bedrock label in 2020 by the fans by a landslide.
Well Folks, Lots of great things happening here at Zone HQ just for you lot, so keep coming back! Well its Spring 2023, we have a packed issue with all the regulars, and lots of interviews! We would just like to say RIP to our brother Pete Van Payne who passed away recently. He will be missed for his music, his radio show, work. an good soul!
In our feature interviews in this issue we talk to cover superstar LEMON8. Harry Lemon aka LEMON8 has been at the forefront of dance music both as a DJ and producer, whilst producing a soundtrack of a generation at the same time. Model8 - his first ever produced track from 1993 - is now being recognized as a classic and landmark in Techno and dance music in general. The Inner Sanctuary Sessions double album, solely consisting of his original music and remixes is now recognized as a highlight in Progressive House Music with tracks like New York, New York and Lose Control just to name a few. The latter was even voted all-time best record on the iconic Bedrock label in 2020 by the fans by a landslide.
LABELfeature _________________ Words Anthony Piercy ____________________ Photography Kyle Surber ____________________________ Connect https://householddigital.com/ A Label based in the West Coast of the USA, in the Bay Area of California. Running since 2002, and initially a vinyl label. Tracks released via Household Digital are usually Tech House, Deep Tech, House, Techno, Minimal and Deep House. Their aim has and is always to showcase quality house & techno music producers, with whom they work with and respect as artists.
Who are we chatting to today? Digital. Tone Rangole- Label Manager of Household When did the label start? I belive it was call another name back then? The Record Label was orignally called Household Recordings and was created in early 2002. Back then running a label was completley different than now. What did it take to run a label back then? Running a vinyl record label back then was much more work for just a single release. The cost was much larger and the process was much longer from beginning to end. It took a lot more patience and money to get records produced, mastered, manufactured, marketed and sold. Who did and now does the day to day managment and who did the A&R? I'm currently doing the day to day management now and since the inception of the label. Jason Lehman did the A&R during our vinyl days and up til 2018 in our current digital era. I took over the A&R full time in 2019 to present. Do you guys have an exclusive roster? We didn't have a roster of artists that were strictly exclusive Household artists but we did have a few resident artists of Household that have appeared a few times over the past 2 decades that helped pioneer our label. Artists such as Terry Francis, Eddie Richards, Jay Tripwire, Nils Hess, Nathan Coles (RIP), Daniel Poli, Gideon Jackson and now more current artsist like Richard Cleber, Dubman F., DJ Simi, Dylan Debut and Tome R. Take us trough the release schedule of the original label? The original release schedule during our vinyl years was set for 1 EP per quarter. One release every 3 months was ideally our goal just due to the time it took to get a release out and distributed globally, before finally getting first round of paychecks from distrubutions to start the process for the next release. Lets do the numbers, if you dont mind? which releases shifted the most copies? Our first couple of vinyl releases definetly moved the most copies. Household 001 sold nearly 3600 vinyl copies in 2002 followed with Household 002 with 2400 copies. Up until the digital switch over which EPs where the most successul? Like mentioned before the first couple of vinyl releases did the most sales wise, but I would say the most successful EP overall has to be the "Garage Sessions Vol. 1" EP featuring artists Evil Eddie Richards & Terry Francis with two versions of two originals called "breakfast @tone's" and "Helicopter". It was the first time these two artists had collaborated together on a EP. Initially, we released it on our side label Lifted Music but later on re released it on Household Digital. This ep has continued to sell, get played and supported globally for nearly two decades now. Even digitally "breakfast @tone's" continues to be a top selling digital track on Household on all platforms. How did the label define sucess? We define success through a few measures consisting of top artist promo support, sales, global presence, features and chart placement. The more it checks off on those measures the more we consider the EP to be a successful release. After the digital switchover run us through your release schedule up until now? When we switched to digital in 2012 we released EP's around once a month at first. Then for about 4-5 years between 2014-2018 we released every other week to push our Household sound forward by saturating our releases. After I took over A&R in 2019 I have gone back to averaging one release per month, other than the rare covid year in 2020 when I released only a few EP's all year when sales came to slower pace. How many digital releases up to now? We currently just released Household Digital 120 and have Household 121 on promo. Schedule wise we are signed up to Household 127. Things like; support, chart placing, and so on, how vital is it for the label? Support and chart placing are important for sales and traction for the ep to gain momentum. It definetly helps push both the artist and label forward.
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LABELfeature<br />
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Words Anthony Piercy<br />
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Photography Kyle Surber<br />
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Connect https://householddigital.com/<br />
A Label based in the West Coast of the USA, in the Bay<br />
Area of California. Running since 2002, and initially a vinyl<br />
label. Tracks released via Household Digital are usually<br />
Tech House, Deep Tech, House, Techno, Minimal and Deep<br />
House. Their aim has and is always to showcase quality<br />
house & techno music producers, with whom they work with<br />
and respect as artists.