n5MD is an American

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based in

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

. The label was founded by Mike Cadoo in 2000. n5MD started out as a

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-only label, the label name meaning "No Fives, Minidiscs!" But when

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Austria stopped manufacturing pre-recorded MDs, n5MD changed over to CDs, continuing to release a few 7" records and eventually moving to 12". Much of the back catalog is available for purchase in MP3 format from the label's web site. The label specializes in more emotive styles of contemporary music, with their releases branching between

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and

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

. The label has released over 100 albums to date. n5MD signed with Redeye Worldwide in October 2017 for North American physical and worldwide digital distribution.

Active roster

* (Ghost) * Aerosol *

Arovane Arovane is the recording name of German electronic music artist Uwe Zahn (born 1965 in Hameln, Germany). He also releases under the moniker Nedjev. Life and career Zahn was born in Hameln in 1965. He first began experimenting with rudimentary ...

* Asonat * Axel Rigaud * Boy Is Fiction + Ghosts Of Tyto Alba *

Bvdub Bvdub is an American electronic music producer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2007 he has released more than 50 albums and EPs under this name and other pseudonyms including his birth name, Brock Van Wey. Residing in Shaoxing, ...

* Dalot * Daniel McCagh * Dreissk * Ex Confusion * Fall Therapy * Hollie Kenniff * ILUITEQ * Jason van Wyk * Last Days * Loess * Mark Harris * Miwon * Near The Parenthesis * Ocoeur * Okada * Porya Hatami And

* Preghost * Ruxpin * Stray Theories * Suumhow * Tangent * To Destroy A City * Winterlight

Alumni

* Another Electronic Musician * Arc Lab * Bavaria * Bitcrush * Crisopa * Dag Rosenqvist * Damiak * Diamat * Dryft * Eleventhfloorrecords * Elise Melinand * Ent *

Funckarma n5MD is an American record label based in Oakland, California. The label was founded by Mike Cadoo in 2000. n5MD started out as a MiniDisc-only label, the label name meaning "No Fives, Minidiscs!" But when Sony DADC Austria stopped manufacturin ...

* Ghost Bike * Hologram * Jvox * Keef Baker *

Lights Out Asia Lights Out Asia is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based post-rock and electronic band that formed in February 2003. History Lights Out Asia formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in February 2003 when Chris Schafer and Mike Ystad, former members of Aurore Rien ...

* Ml * Plastik Joy * Port-Royal * Portland *

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* Run_Return * Spark *

SubtractiveLAD SubtractiveLAD is the electronic/ambient music project of Stephen Hummel, from Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in B ...

* Tim Koch * Tobias Lilja * Vcam * Vesna

References

External links

Official website
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Active roster

Alumni

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