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Clandestine

Distribution

Los AngelesChicagoCincinnatiNew YorkAmsterdamBelgrade
By referralA small number of projects at a time

Two ways a record moves

Wholesale into independent record stores, and mail-order direct to the people who buy this music. Around forty labels are in the catalog — Northern Spy, NNA Tapes, Egghunt and Whited Sepulchre alongside Iron Lung, Avant!, True Panther, Torn Light and the rest — across vinyl, CD, cassette, print and merch.

Stores work from an order builder rather than a PDF, so what you see is what is actually in the warehouse. Wholesale access is by application: the buyer list is deliberately a select one, because a record that lands in the wrong twenty shops comes back.

The mail-order side is curated, not comprehensive. It leans toward hard-to-find labels and adventurous music, which is the reason someone browses it in the first place rather than a larger store.

The team

You work with these people directly — there is no account manager forwarding your email to someone else.

Tom Abbs

Co-owner · Business Affairs

Adam Downey

Co-owner · Head of A&R

Nina Payiatis

Senior Project Manager

Catie Moore

General Manager · Design Specialist

Mark Mendoza

Warehouse & Distribution Manager

Jon Lorenz

Warehouse & Distribution Manager

Chance Berberich

Warehouse Associate

Who we work with

Label Clients 47

ZumElevator BathTorn Light RecordsRope or GuillotineColorfield RecordsFuneral PartyThe GarroteMumbling EyeInfrequent SeamsIdeell EditionCROUX RecordsXol MeissnerNNA TapesFantastiqueLA Dark RecordsGilgongo RecordsEast Meets West MusicGood NeighborLILATrue PantherBeso de MuerteCeremony of SeasonsSuction RecordsNorthern Spy RecordsDifficult InteractionsFixed RhythmsEgghunt RecordsFigure Eight RecordsLeaving RecordsAurora CentralAlter RecordsForward Music GroupWhited Sepulchre RecordsAvant! RecordsBlack Day In JulyRedscrollBliss PointInternational AnthemOmni SoundAKP RecordingsAmerican Dreams Recordsa La Carte RecordsOrange Milk RecordsSkin GraftRaw CultureIn the PinesFloorjazz Recordings

Artist Clients 97

Amirtha KidambiAnne-ClaireAlyssa GengosTALsoundsConvinced FriendGreg JamieMasma Dream WorldAmir ElSaffarSam GendelPauline OliverosKalbellsAllegra KriegerSam HoyekFay VictorMatt McBaneKalia VandeverNicole McCabeHorse LordsV.V. LightbodyBenny BockLukas LigetiTyler SabbagShuta HasunumaEmily KuhnAbby HustonGuerilla TossLea BertucciOdetta HartmanKatherine PerkinsDoug WieselmanPsymon SpineAlex DupreeO'DeathArto LindsayKenneth GregoryKyle BruckmannnumünShoko NagaiThe NecksBentley AndersonDeniz CuylanAdam SchatzAlexander NoiceJosh JohnsonWill EpsteinCuddle MagicHannah MohanYuka HondaBeauty PillTakeshi NishimotoLizzie LovelessAndrea ParkinsBenjamin Lazar DavisMicah ThomasAngel Bat DawidStephen BeckerBalmorheaRubblebucketSarah PagéMaurice LoucaRachika NayarShilpa RayChuck JohnsonJeremy CunninghamChristopher DonaldsonMat BallPhillip GolubElliott SharpSUSSSonny SinghAlan SparhawkJeff ParkerJon DalyMare BergerRhys ChathamGregory UhlmannAlex E. ChávezZiembaJJJJJerome EllisMIZUShane ParishDarius JonesNick SchofieldHannah FrancesWilder MakerPan AmericanCole PuliceAsher GamedzeTristan CappelSenior CitizenRenata ZeiguerAlex KmetLuke ElliottTōthMarvin TateJeremiah ChiuLEYA

How this starts

You write to us

Tell us about the record and send a private link. That’s the whole ask — no forms with forty checkboxes.

We listen and we talk

A real conversation about the release and whether we’re the right people for it. Sometimes the honest answer is no.

We scope it to the record

A plan built around what this release actually needs. No packages, no tiers, no minimum spend.

Most people find us through someone we’ve worked with.

If that’s you, we’d like to hear the record. If it isn’t, write anyway and tell us what you’re making — we read everything that comes in.

Tell us about your project

info@clandestinelabelservices.com