Subject Matter Records
An imprint from Twente, the Netherlands, founded in 2022, with an archive behind it. It releases music, so far electronic and ambient, and its archive holds work in other media too.
IKENO
HadamardSMR-005Digital12 tracks
IKENO is a cinematic journey through sci-fi electro. The backdrop is a story, told in fragments: a research station near a magnetar, two people, and the records they keep.
Press and DJ copies: [email protected]
Releases
Artists
- Hadamard
Electronic music, since 2006.
Earlier records on Bunker, Fundamental, Last Known Trajectory and Solar One Music.
- Janko Bartelink
Ambient music.
More names, in other media, are in the archive.
The archive
Behind the imprint is an archive going back to 1993: every release, including those on other labels, and much that never left, from paintings and graffiti to video and software. All of it is listed, some with more shown than others. In the archive, a release is called a dispatch; that is what the SMR numbers count.
The office of archivist is held by two persons, a human and a machine, signing as one.
Bulletins
About once a month, a short letter: a new release, new arrivals in the archive, sometimes the story behind a record. No spam, your address is never sold or shared, and stopping takes one click.