Arawakan

193 releases tracked from 2014 · 79 producers · latest aug 2026

6 tracks · 3 charting artists · 9 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active

Arawakan is a house-music label based in Brooklyn, New York. Launched in January 2014 by Afro house producer Victor Hernandez, also known as Realm of House, its name derives from the Arawakan language family of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. The label releases Afro house music and, since launching, has maintained a consistent presence on the Afro House chart; it notes that most of its releases have reached the chart's Top 10.

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◢ what the catalogue measures

sound

88% one genre

Afro House, then Afro / Latin / Brazilian and House

88% of the 193 releases we can tag · 10 of the last 12 we could tag

tempo

±2 BPM

121 BPM typical, 120–123 across four in five releases

14 of 193 releases carry a tempo reading

career stage

3.4 yrs median

Producers here had a median 3.4 years of releases before their first record on the label

across 24 producers whose earlier history we can follow

format

84% solo/duo

Solo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases

counting compilations too, 167 of 199 · 6 various-artists compilations

remixes

29% of releases

Remixes are a large part of the catalogue

4 of the 14 releases whose credits we can read

◢ how often the roster changes

1.5

new names a year

averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace

36%

get a second record

8 of the 22 producers who debuted here over a year ago released again

1.5

releases a month

35 records in 24 months

◢ first records here, by year

Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.

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