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BLK SCL! is a multi-strand intervention designed to scale up Black music talent, infrastructure and ownership across the...
09/06/2026

BLK SCL! is a multi-strand intervention designed to scale up Black music talent, infrastructure and ownership across the North of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We're proud to share that label strand BLK SCL! Sound has partnered with EMI North. The partnership connects BLK SCL!’s independent, curator-led vision with major-label insight, infrastructure and reach.

This welcome also includes the label’s first two signed artists – KOJ, the sound of defiance rising from working-class Liverpool with a voice shaped by modern Britain, and Mace The Great, a Welsh artist and cultural force whose work reflects the richness, complexity and creativity of Black identity shaping how Wales is heard and seen through a Black lens.

ARTIST: kenzo jaeRELEASE: ‘a right to lose’LABEL: Launchpad+ Fast-rising multihyphenate rap talent kenzo jae shares 'en...
08/06/2026

ARTIST: kenzo jae
RELEASE: ‘a right to lose’
LABEL: Launchpad+

Fast-rising multihyphenate rap talent kenzo jae shares 'end of the world', the final single ahead of his forthcoming mixtape SLOTH, out 17th July via Launchpad+ and EMI North.

Where certain songs written about the current state of the world reach for hope, 'end of the world' heads straight for the dancefloor. Disco-influenced and Daft Punk-adjacent via its flaring synths and irresistible groove, the track taps into feelings commonly shared among many young people today; a desensitised numbness and powerlessness at the seeming inevitability of the global events unfolding before them, and all of their subsequent knock-on effects.

https://linktr.ee/kenzojae

Congratulations to The Slow Country and Crimewave 🎉Make sure you catch both acts at Deer Shed Festival 2026 🦌Thanks to e...
26/05/2026

Congratulations to The Slow Country and Crimewave 🎉

Make sure you catch both acts at Deer Shed Festival 2026 🦌

Thanks to everyone who applied - always a pleasure to hear from such a breadth of Northern artists!

ARTIST: LIFE RELEASE: ‘Wild Grasses’LABEL: Launchpad +Today, LIFE share ‘Wild Grasses’, the latest single from their fo...
14/05/2026

ARTIST: LIFE
RELEASE: ‘Wild Grasses’
LABEL: Launchpad +

Today, LIFE share ‘Wild Grasses’, the latest single from their forthcoming new album ABSTRACT / NATURAL, arriving June 19 via EMI North label partner Launchpad+.

Written in the Lake District and pondering many of the themes first explored in lead single ‘The Dollywaggon’, album opener and new single ‘Wild Grasses’ presents the East Yorkshire quartet at their most intoxicating and uplifting. Bursting with energy and radiating joy via its euphoric synth lines, strummed acoustic guitars and rapturous group vocals, the track’s references to geography and landscape reflect the location it was written while also widely echoing the overall sense of adventure omnipresent across ABSTRACT / NATURAL, instilling a feeling of kinship as vocalist Mez Sanders-Green emphatically declares ‘I belong to wild grasses’.

https://push.fm/ps/life-wild-grasses

ARTIST: Dead Wells RELEASE: ‘Stain'LABEL: Home Taping A curt sonic rupture acting as an introduction, 'Stain' lands as t...
14/05/2026

ARTIST: Dead Wells
RELEASE: ‘Stain'
LABEL: Home Taping

A curt sonic rupture acting as an introduction, 'Stain' lands as the first recorded output from Macclesfield’s Dead Wells, a band whose name has been circulating well ahead of any official release. Built on sold-out Manchester shows and early co-signs from taste making northern bookers as well as their new label, Home Taping, their emergence, like their blend of heavy post-rock and gravelly shoegaze, has affected a steady encroachment into building rumour.

https://hypeddit.com/deadwells/stain

ARTIST: poor effortRELEASE: ‘City Of Hope (The Cutter Remix)’LABEL: Home TapingFollowing the release of his debut EP las...
07/05/2026

ARTIST: poor effort
RELEASE: ‘City Of Hope (The Cutter Remix)’
LABEL: Home Taping

Following the release of his debut EP last year, Salford-based artist, Matty Dagger returns under the poor effort moniker with a reimagined version of one of its defining moments. City Of Hope (The Cutter Remix), reimagined by the hotly tipped Manchester electronic trio, arrives as the first instalment in a forthcoming collection of reworks, signalling a new phase for the project while casting familiar material in a strikingly different light.

https://hypeddit.com/pooreffort/cityofhopethecutterremix

ARTIST: break_foldRELEASE: ‘Tracker’ EPLABEL: Launchpad+Today, ambient electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist bre...
01/05/2026

ARTIST: break_fold
RELEASE: ‘Tracker’ EP
LABEL: Launchpad+

Today, ambient electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist break_fold shares his new EP Tracker via boutique electronic label analog horizons, in partnership with Launchpad+ and EMI North.

Alongside the new EP comes announce of the culmination of his 2 part EP series, a vinyl & digital download ONLY album - 'Planner_Tracker', available for pre-order now.

Planner_Tracker combines the artist's favourite tracks from the previous 2 EPs, plus 5 new tracks, 4 of which will be heard on the album via vinyl or digital download only (not on streaming).

https://linktr.ee/analoghorizons

ARTIST: kenzo jaeRELEASE: ‘a right to lose’LABEL: Launchpad+Today, rising Bradford rap storyteller and multi-hyphenate k...
29/04/2026

ARTIST: kenzo jae
RELEASE: ‘a right to lose’
LABEL: Launchpad+

Today, rising Bradford rap storyteller and multi-hyphenate kenzo jae announces his sophomore mixtape Sloth, set for release Friday 17th July via EMI North label partner, Launchpad+. Alongside the news, kenzo has shared new single ‘a right to lose’ and announced a run of UK tour dates for October in addition to a forthcoming appearance at The Great Escape festival in May.

https://www.kenzojae.com/

ARTIST: The 113 RELEASE: The Hedonist EPLABEL: Launchpad+Today, fast-rising Leeds alternative four-piece The 113 (one-th...
17/04/2026

ARTIST: The 113
RELEASE: The Hedonist EP
LABEL: Launchpad+

Today, fast-rising Leeds alternative four-piece The 113 (one-thirteen) release their sophomore EP ‘The Hedonist’. The collection arrives alongside new single and closing track ‘Entertainment’.

Powerfully rounding off the EP and echoing much of its earlier intent, ‘Entertainment’ is a full-force sonic explosion which sharpens the band’s critique of digital culture into its most direct and confrontational form. Delivered via an unrelenting wall of noise and an electric intensity, the track stands as a stark statement on social media, the attention economy and the psychological toll that compulsive consumption can take on the user.

The Hedonist is available across all streaming platforms, with vinyl & CD being for sale across Bandcamp & the Launchpad+ label store.

ARTIST: LIFE RELEASE: ‘Turning In’LABEL: Launchpad+ Following the recent announcement of their eagerly awaited fourth a...
09/04/2026

ARTIST: LIFE
RELEASE: ‘Turning In’
LABEL: Launchpad+

Following the recent announcement of their eagerly awaited fourth album ABSTRACT / NATURAL, alternative four-piece LIFE share ‘Turning In’; the second track to be unveiled from the forthcoming release which arrives on 19 June via Launchpad+ in partnership with EMI North.

‘Turning In’ offers a gentler, more reflective side to the Hull outfit, finding vocalist Mez Sanders-Green ruminating on his experiences of fatherhood, and drawing on a fleeting but meaningful memory from a trip to the Isle Of Mull.

ABSTRACT / NATURAL is available to pre-order on a variety of formats, including a Pink LP, an Indie Exclusive Green LP and a Limited Edition Dinked splatter vinyl.

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