EST. 2019 — ROTTERDAM / EVERYWHERE

VANTA
BLUME

Independent electronic music label. Acid, electro and gutter ambient, pressed loud. Every release below is synthesized live in your browser — no files, no streams, no permission asked.

A / THE LABEL

WE PRESS WHAT THE ALGORITHM CAN’T.

Vantablume started in 2019 with a borrowed lathe, a basement under a Rotterdam print shop, and a rule: if a track sounds like it was made to be skipped past, we don’t want it. Four years, forty-one catalogue numbers, zero apologies.

  • R.01No playlists. No pre-saves. No polite music.
  • R.02Artists keep their masters. We keep the receipts.
  • R.03Every pressing is numbered by hand, badly.
  • R.04If it clears the club, it might be right.

B / THE CATALOGUE

FOUR RELEASES,
SYNTHESIZED LIVE.

These aren’t previews of audio files. Press play and your browser builds each track from raw oscillators and noise, right now, on your machine. NOTHING AUTOPLAYS. HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED.

VB-041 · 12″ + DIGITAL

ACID / 138 BPM

GUTTER ORCHID EP

NOVA KESSLER

A 303 line with a grudge. Kessler recorded the original in one take at 6 a.m. after the venue cut the power; this patch rebuilds its filter snarl from scratch.

€12 — 300 COPIES · EDITION ENQUIRIES ↗

VB-040 · CASSETTE

GUTTER AMBIENT / BEATLESS

CONCRETE LULLABY

SORE THUMB

Forty minutes of detuned saws breathing under a motorway. The cassette shell is poured from recycled venue ashtrays. We are not joking.

€9 — 150 COPIES · EDITION ENQUIRIES ↗

VB-039 · 12″

ELECTRO / 132 BPM

PVC HEARTBREAK

GRIEVOUS ANGEL

Broken-hearted machine funk. Kick like a car door, snare like the argument after. Cut loud at 45 for people who dance facing the wall.

€12 — 300 COPIES · EDITION ENQUIRIES ↗

VB-038 · 2×12″ COMPILATION

RAVE / 145 BPM

ACID CIVICS VOL.1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Six artists, one instruction: make the room vote with its feet. Proceeds split evenly, sleeve screen-printed until the squeegee gave out.

€18 — 500 COPIES · EDITION ENQUIRIES ↗

C / THE ROSTER

SIX NAMES.
NO FILLER.

D / DEMOS ARE OPEN

SEND US THE TRACK YOUR OTHER LABEL WAS SCARED OF.

One link. Unmastered is fine. Unfinished is fine. Beige is not. We reply to everything within two weeks, even if the reply hurts.

WE LISTEN ON MONDAYS, LOUD, IN FULL. NO FEEDBACK-FOR-FOLLOWS SCHEMES.