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Clandestine

Manufacturing

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

What we make, and how long it takes

Vinyl, CDs, cassettes, flexi discs and apparel, manufactured since 2010. Vinyl runs from 100 units and takes eight to ten weeks; CDs and cassettes from 50, three to five weeks; shirts from 24, two to three. Colour, splatter, digipaks, shell colours — the options are there, and they move the date.

Quotes are instant and itemised, and you approve a digital proof before anything is cut or printed. Design templates and a mail-in master form are there for the parts that go wrong most often.

Those lead times are real ones, not best cases, and a plant date that moves reaches you while there is still time to change the plan. Rush options exist when the date will not move.

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

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