London x Haarlem based record label specialising in direct-to-disc recordings.
02/07/2025
We’re back in Séte for another Night Dreamer takeover at Worldwide Festival 2025! 🌊
Join us Thursday from sunset-to-starlight at the iconic Théâtre de la Mer. Huge thanks to Gilles and the Worldwide team for bringing us back for another unforgettable night.
Théâtre de la Mer: 20h - 03h
La Bonita (live)
SambaDrive feat. Celeste Caramanna (live)
Rogê (live)
Back in 2020, legendary Turkish psych innovators Moğollar () graced Artone Studios for their first ever direct-to-disc session. The group recorded sides A and B on the first day, and C and D on day two - Revisiting their most renowned hits to lay down energised new versions, and dusted off some of the most sought-after cuts from their enormous catalogue.
The result, "Anatolian Sun," a masterclass record in the true roots of the Anadolu psych sound: fuzzed-out, committed, and straight from the source.
Available NOW on Vinyl / Cassette. Link in bio 🔗
Photos by Elaine Groenestein &
19/02/2025
AVAILABLE NOW IN-STORES! Recent Night Dreamer releases - Ronald Snijders "Penta," "Akkor," "Direct-to-Dub" 🔥
And if they don't have it, just ask them to stock 📞 or grab them from the Night Dreamer shop at the link in bio!
12/02/2025
Slated to play 2025 festivals such as & — We look back on our Night Dreamer direct-to-disc session with .
The first to be released on the Night Dreamer label, Seun Kuti, son of afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, and leader of his father’s Egypt 80 band, took on Artone Studio to cut the record in a single take.
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - ‘Direct-to-Disc’
Available NOW on Vinyl / Cassette. Link in bio 🔗
Photos by Elaine Groenestein
29/10/2024
A special Saturday afternoon at Rush Hour HQ ✨
Join us for an dub session with the legendary Scientist at the controls!
MARCELO D2 + SAMBADRIVE LIVE SHOW + EXHIBITION IN LONDON, UK 🇧🇷🇬🇧
LIMITED TICKETS AT LINK IN BIO 🔗
Live Show: November 2
Join us for the release party for Marcelo D2 & SambaDrive’s Direct-to-Disc album featuring an intimate live set, DJs, a Night Dreamer record shop, free caipirinhas, and more! Tickets available for purchase at link in bio.
Free Exhibition: October 31 - November 2
Featuring photography from the session by Magnum photographer, . Visitors can immerse themselves in the creation process of the record, exploring how Jazz, Hip Hop, and Brazilian music and culture influenced its sound and narrative. Free RSVP at link in bio.
Special Thanks:
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SHOW AO VIVO E EXPOSIÇÃO DE MARCELO D2 + SAMBADRIVE EM LONDRES, REINO UNIDO
INGRESSOS LIMITADOS NO LINK NA BIO
Show ao vivo: 2 de novembro
Junte-se conosco na festa de lançamento do álbum Direct-to-Disc de Marcelo D2 e SambaDrive, com um show intimista ao vivo, DJs, uma loja de discos Night Dreamer, caipirinhas grátis e muito mais. Ingressos disponíveis para compra no link na bio.
Exposição gratuita: 31 de outubro a 2 de novembro
Com fotos da sessão feitas pela fotógrafa da Magnum, . Vocês poderão descobrir o processo de criação do disco, explorando como o jazz, o hip hop e a música e cultura brasileiras influenciaram seu som e sua narrativa. RSVP gratuito no link na biografia.
06/09/2024
SCIENTIST: DIRECT-TO-DUB VINYL IS HERE! 🇯🇲
Comes with a special limited edition 56-page photo booklet chronicling the making of the record.
Also available on cassette via
Get your copy now at the link in bio + 🔗
30/08/2024
Los Angeles!! ✨
Celebrate the release of the & album ‘Things Are Getting Better’ on Saturday, September 21st at with TWO live sets and a vinyl signing!
Come one, come all - Time to join this caravan of love, joy, faith, and unity ❤️
Tickets in bio + 🔗
14/08/2024
A breakdown of Night Dreamer’s debut Direct-to-Disc session with legend Seun Kuti () & .
The youngest son of afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, and leader of his father’s Egypt 80 band, Seun Kuti entered Artone Studio in 2019 with some of the foremost afrobeat musicians in the world — and captured this session in one take, direct-to-disc.
Vinyl + cassette available on / link in bio 🔗
31/07/2024
night dreamer playlist and it’s the same but there’s thirty more songs so it’s not ft. & , quincy jones, , al green and more...link in bio!!!
28/06/2024
To celebrate the forthcoming Scientist: Direct-to-Dub album - we’ve cooked up a special playlist inspired by the dubmaster himself featuring … King Tubby, Cornell Campbell, The Chantells and more .. link in bio to run it 🔥
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26/06/2024
Amsterdam! & are coming back into town on 11th July for a very special in-store celebrating the new album ‘Things Are Getting Better’
Exclusive copies of the LP will be available alongside DJ’s, drinks and intimate hang with the choir from 6-8pm. RSVP via link in our bio or email [email protected] ✨
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“It’s a paradox, in a way, like you’d have in a dream – something that’s both light and heavy,” Wayne Shorter muses, speaking to Nat Hentoff for the liner notes of Night Dreamer, his 1964 album and first for Blue Note as a leader.
Night Dreamer takes its name from this album, and retains something of the essence of what he was trying to convey.
Working with Artone Studio, and located above Record Industry pressing plant in Haarlem, Netherlands, Night Dreamer specialises in direct-to-disc recordings – the process by which music is cut onto acetate from single-take live performances, without interference: Neumann microphone to Neumann lathe. From there, it is simply ‘walked downstairs’ to the pressing plant.
For musicians recording at Artone, the process speaks to Shorter’s paradox. The levity of liberation vs. the weight of expectation; trust in raw musicianship vs. vulnerability of exposure. It is in such alchemical moments of contrast that the essence of expression can emerge.
Every Night Dreamer release is produced using a wide range of vintage mastering and recording equipment assembled and painstakingly restored over seven years. With one of just four remaining RCA 76D mixing desks – the same model used at Sun Studios – alongside Westrex Capitol cutting amps, designed specifically for Capitol studios to record the likes of The Beatles and The Beach Boys, it brings together state-of-the-art, often bespoke gear that has never been bettered.
Shorter captured Night Dreamer in a single day, an art not lost on today’s musicians, who, although afforded a surfeit of choice, are as wedded to the idea of collaboration as those of previous generations. The methods are timeless, and the impulse is as contemporary as ever.
