![]() Only a year after opening the label’s doors, an unsolicited call from band manager Jake Udell landed an early Krewella demo in Darlington’s lap. Launched out of Vancouver in 2011, Monstercat employed the unorthodox concept of sharing all of the label’s music for free to quickly become a major and influential force in the world of electronic dance music. ![]() “I think part of it came from that I was never a producer or anything like that, but wanted to be involved with what my musician friends were doing.” ![]() “We started really as a YouTube channel for friends of ours to host their music on it was really innocent,” explains CEO Mike Darlington about the humble beginnings of what would go on to become his hugely successful indie dance music imprint, Monstercat. In our Cut From the Catalog series, we big-up established and buzzing imprints alike by taking a look at the organizations’ ops while running through a retrospective mix built solely from their respective catalogs. Record labels have long been the gatekeepers of the dance music space, as they continuously define and reshape tastes via releases, endless talent scouting, and the curation of brand-hosted parties.
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