Welcome To Hottwerk

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We are an independent record label and music publishing company.  We release electronic music that we really like, by artists we really like.  We also label manage Sudden Hush Recordings and Arcade Pony.

We like music across the electronic spectrum from off-kilter disco to bassquaking techno to cinematic hip hip to ghost house to strange ambient textures.  We have somewhat eclectic tastes.

Hottwerk gestated throughout most of 2007 in the mind of founder Tobias Doppelganger, a DJ and producer from the illustrious county of Essex.  Having grown up with a record collection full of Factory, Rough Trade, Salsoul, Warp, Mute, Trax, and the like, and at the time carting a record box around London and the south that was full of Kitsune and Ed Banger...  Tobias knew that his future lay in nurturing his own electronic imprint; following those maverick souls who prize art over commerciality, throw their lot in to do battle with mediocrity, and get told on a regular basis that they’re absolutely barking mad for doing what they’re doing.  With a mission to release only the most excellent electronic music, Tobias focused his A & R skills, dug his heels in, and spent his entire student loan on releasing the Inferno EP by his friends Punx Soundcheck (and their shadowy alter ego Chanty Poe); and thus, Hottwerk Records was born....