part2 records

part2 released seven eps and a couple of standalone tracks during 2007. since then things have been a bit quiet: 2008 saw no new music, but there has been one new release in 2009 so far, with another one scheduled and ready to go and another in the works. all part2's released are high bit-rate mp3s and are free to download (they're even released under a Creative Commons licence).

part2 hopes to get up to a release schedule of probably six eps per year regularly, with the occasional cd album thrown in... but we'll see how things go.

part2 exists for several reasons. the obvious one is to release music that we love, that explores new territory, that rewards considered listening.

but part2 is about more than just the music. part2 is about culture, art, change and experimentation. we're also very much about community -- the community formed by our artists, our listeners, and all the other great artists, labels and people that make up the ambient and underground electronic music community. any such community can only work through mutual respect, responsibility, support and encouragement.

we also take our responsibility towards the planet on which we live very seriously. when we start releasing printed material, we will ensure that all of it is manufactured and printed in a low-carbon, sustainable manner. those items that can't be sustainably produced (i.e., cds themselves), we will offset as best we can.

part2 is also about change and growth. that means cultural, musical growth... and that means not worrying whether our output is 'good' or 'bad', or whether it will have popular appeal.