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LWE’s Top 5 Labels of 2009

LWE’s Top 5 Labels of 2009 Artwork by Emma Hack To start off our year end coverage, LWE correspondent Chris Burkhalter breaks down the top five labels in 2009 Dance music enthusiasts are almost certainly the most label-conscious people in the record-buying world. How else can you explain the bickering over new Perlon signings, the ubiquity of the compound adjective "buy-on-sight," or the hastily depleted stocks of anonymously-produced 123s? We follow our favorite DJs and producers, naturally, but a record publishing operation with vision and taste is very often the best guide to [...]