Alpha Pup Records is an American

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and digital distributor based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded by

Daddy Kev Kevin Marques Moo (born 1974), better known by his stage name Daddy Kev, is an American DJ, Grammy Award-winning audio engineer, record producer and executive from Los Angeles, California. He is the owner of Alpha Pup Records and the founder of L ...

and Danyell Jariel in 2004. ''

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'' placed it at number 2 on the "Top 10 Most Exciting L.A. Indie Labels of 2010" list.

History

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has supported Alpha Pup Records from its inception and comments that "the artists involved with Low End Theory, with the

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label, with Alpha Pup, with Leaving Records all have close ties with the UK". In 2014, Chris Ziegler of ''

'' described the label as "a big part of the reason why" "Los Angeles is one of the most vital cities in the world for electronic music right now". It has released music from

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, Daedelus, Reefer, Nosaj Thing,

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, Free the Robots, Take, Dibiase,

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, Young Montana?, Kone, Virtual Boy, Dot, Nobody, Mike Gao, Astronautica, Elusive, Invisibl Skratch Piklz,

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, and Ryan Porter.

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