Project Mooncircle Explained

Founded:	2002
Founder:	Gordon Gieseking

Project Mooncircle is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany, focusing on organic and electronic music.^[1]

History

Project Mooncircle was founded in 2002 by Gordon Gieseking, as an offshoot of experimental electronic Miami label Beta Bodega.^[2] In 2004 Gieseking formed a partnership with the vinyl and clothing mail-order company Hip Hop Vinyl, and when Beta Bodega ceased operations in 2005, Project Mooncircle became HHV.DE's official imprint.^[3] Respectively in 2009 and 2010, Project Mooncircle took up two sub-labels, dub techno imprint Project Squared^{[4] [5]} and blog/label Finest Ego,^[6] and in 2014 it was featured in the XLR8R readers poll on the best independent record labels, behind Ninja Tune and Warp Records.^[7]

Alumni / current artists

• 1000 Names
• 40 Winks
• Barnaby Carter
• Barrio Lindo^[8]
• Blossom
• CYNE
• Daisuke Tanabe
• Daixie
• Darius Vaikas
• DDay One
• Deceptikon
• Deft
• Disc System meets Inner Science
• DZA
• Erik Luebs
• Empt
• Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician
• Flako
• Glen Porter
• Good Paul
• Graciela Maria
• Groeni
• Hanami
• IIIII (Five Eyes)
• Jahbitat
• Jilk
• Joe Kickass
• John Lamonica
• John Robinson
• Kidkanevil
• KRTS^[9]
• Kwala
• Lambent
• Lewis Parker
• Lomovolokno
• Long arm
• Manuvers
• Mathematik
• Mau'lin
• memotone
• Michal Lewicki
• Mike Gao
• Monsoonsiren
• Mr Cooper
• My Panda Shall Fly
• Non Genetic Of Shadow Huntaz
• Nuage^[10]
• Obba Supa aka Teknical Development & Hey!zeus
• Olof Melander
• Parra For Cuva
• Pavel Dovgal
• The Q4 – The Quadraphonic Quartet.
• Rain Dog
• The Range
• Red Baron
• Robot Koch
• Rumpistol
• Sekuoia
• Senoy
• Sieren
• Shahmen
• Soosh
• Strand
• Submerse
• Sweatson Klank
• Szenario
• Tendts
• Tom Diciccio
• Walrus Ghost

Notes and References

1. Web site: Project: Mooncircle readies Uprising. Resident Advisor. 23 March 2017.
2. Web site: A Guide to Berlin's Project:Mooncircle. Red Bull Music Academy. 23 March 2017.
3. Web site: Kidkanevil and Daisuke Tanabe are Kidsuke. Resident Advisor. 23 March 2017.
4. Web site: Project: Mooncircle takes over Gretchen. Resident Advisor. 23 March 2017.
5. Web site: Project Mooncircle Fly Me To The Moon. Metal. 23 March 2017.
6. Web site: Deal. Chad. Mike Gao's Beta World Peace. San Diego Reader. 23 March 2017. en.
7. Web site: XLR8R's Best of 2014: Readers Poll. XLR8R. 19 December 2014 . 23 March 2017.
8. Web site: Argentinia's Barrio Lindo announces debut LP for Project Mooncircle; hear the soft and bubbling 'Garza Bruja'. Fact (UK magazine). 15 March 2014 . 23 March 2017.
9. Web site: George. Christopher. KRTS Set for New Album on Project:Mooncircle. XLR8R. 8 October 2015 . 23 March 2017.
10. Web site: Nuage preps Neida on Project Mooncircle, shares nocturnal 'Haunting'. Fact (UK magazine). 5 August 2015 . 23 March 2017.