Journal

Filed in order 006 memos

Notes from the label and The Room, filed like memos. Why we do things the way we do, written down so we keep doing them. Start anywhere.

Handing your phone over at the door sounds strict. Here is what it actually changed for our crowds, our artists and the sound in the room.

Streaming made the single king. We still think the best way to meet an artist is forty minutes, front to back, with nothing else on.

NPS-001 is more than a label on a sleeve. Why we number every release, and what we promise each one before it goes out.

The industry plans in quarters. We plan in albums. Notes on giving people the years it takes to get great.

How we place songs in film, games and ads without turning the music into wallpaper.

From small jazz bars to basement hi-fi nights: the rooms that taught us how people want to hear records.