Different Recordings is a Belgian electronic record label owned by the PIAS, an international music company based in Brussels.
Different's first release in 1996 was the album Pansoul by Motorbass, a project of producers Etienne de Crecy and Philippe Zdar of Cassius. De Crecy’s next project, Superdiscount, was released a year later and is still considered by some as the first album of the French house genre.
By the next decade with the signing of acts like The Hacker, Tiga and Vitalic, the electronic label started to develop a broad electronic artist roster.
In 2008, Different Recordings licensed and released the eponymous debut album by Canadian electronic group Crystal Castles, which was named by the NME as one of the best albums of the decade with the band featuring on the magazine’s cover twice in a single year.
However, sometime in 2012, the label entered a state of hiatus, which was unfortunate for those following. Fortunately, that didn't last long, as in 2015, the label returned with a family of new signings from Claptone, Anna of the North, Vessels, KLLO, Infinity Ink and Denney, with a goal to champion a fresh crop of forward thinking, electronic artists.
Launched during the emergence of the French house scene, Different Recordings over the years has represented a broad range of electronic music with material released by artists such as Etienne de Crecy, Alex Gopher, Alan Braxe, Tiga, The Hacker, Felix Da Housecat, DJ Pierre, MSTRKRFT, Crystal Castles, Vitalic, Agoria, the Bloody Beetroots, Motorbass, Matt & Kim, The Hacker, and many others.
Wanted DJs[]
| Greentea Peng |
| Alfie Templeman |
| AHADADREAM |
| Kidnap |
| Nathan Nicholson |
| lau.ra |
| Mayer Hawthorne |
| Pet Shop Boys |
| Seal |
| Like Mike |
| Mansionair |
| James Vincent McMorrow |
| Nia Archives |
| Lava La Rue |
| Trim |
| Kele Okereke |
| Max Cooper |
| Vessels |
| Eagles & Butterflies |
| ELDON |
| Pirupa |
| John Grant |
| LIMITS |
| Jinjé |
| Game |
| Bon Voyage |
| Shoffy |
| Laurel |
| Shadow Child |
| Vitalic |
| The Hacker |
| Abstraxion |
| Cosmo Vitelli |
| Kris Menace |
| Max Bett |
| Agoria |
| Ben Hoo |
| Noob |
| Beni |
| Xenia Beliayeva |
| Kiko |
| Alexander Kowalski |
| Terence Fixmer |
| Junior Jack |
| Funk D'Void |
| Alex Gopher |
| TDR |
| Tricky |