n5MD is a

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

based in

Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...

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

MiniDisc MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year fo ...

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

Sony DADC Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation (Sony DADC) is a manufacturer of CDs, DVDs, Universal Media Disc, UMDs, and Blu-ray Discs. The company has many plants worldwide. Although it primarily services Sony Music Entertainment-owned record labels, Son ...

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

post-rock Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by a focus on exploring textures and timbre over traditional rock song structures, chords, or riffs. Post-rock artists are often instrumental, typically combining rock instrumentation with ...

post-classical In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 AD to 1500, roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages. The period is characterized by the expansion of civilizations geographically and development of trade n ...

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

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 started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to r ...

. 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 40 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 * Ghost Bike * Hologram * Jvox * Keef Baker * Lights Out Asia * Ml * Plastik Joy *

Port-Royal Port Royal is the former capital city of Jamaica. Port Royal or Port Royale may also refer to: Institutions * Port-Royal-des-Champs, an abbey near Paris, France, which spawned influential schools and writers of the 17th century ** Port-Royal A ...

* Portland *

Proem __NOTOC__ A preface () or proem () is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a ''foreword'' and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes ...

* Run_Return * Spark * SubtractiveLAD * Tim Koch * Tobias Lilja * Vcam * Vesna

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control American record labels Record labels established in 2000 American independent record labels Classical music record labels Ambient music record labels Experimental music record labels Electronic music record labels Alternative rock record labels

Active roster

Alumni

See also

References

External links