Status Active Genre Jazz, Soul-Jazz Official website Mukatsuku Facebook Founded 2006 | Distributor(s) Self (vinyl only) Location London, UK Founder Nik Weston | |
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Mukatsuku Records is a record label based out of London, UK, started in 2006 and owned and run by the DJ and record collector Nik Weston. The label's general style of music is soul/funk/jazz/disco related and defined as dance music and/or black music of various origins. Many of the early releases were part of the jazz dance scene. Often, though not always, the music has a focus on Japanese recording artists. Mukatsuku Records releases all of its music on vinyl and neither releases albums or digital content.
History
British DJ Nik Weston and two other friends started a club night in Soho, London called Mukatsuku in 1997. It ran for 2 years from 1997 - 1999 in an upstairs two floor room club in London China Town called The Clinic, and were nominated by London Evening Standard Newspaper as 'club night of the year'. According to Weston, the name Mukatsuku translates in Japanese 'to feel sick, irritated or offended', and was picked as a subtle jibe at an acquaintance's use of the word as a catchphrase.
While A&Ring for Exceptional Records, Weston realized it was difficult to sign artists for single releases, so he endeavored to start a vinyl-only, singles-only label. The label has since put out English, Japanese, Scandinavian and even New Zealand tracks. According to JellyJazz, "The Mukatsuku label is one of the best selling independent vinyls [sic] labels in the UK, and it is ONLY vinyls [sic]."
The label often releases music on social media such as their SoundCloud account, which as of June 2014 had over 15,000 followers.