Freerange

227 releases tracked from 1997 · 173 producers · latest jul 2026

21 tracks · 18 charting artists · 18 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active

Founded in 1996 by Jamie Odell and Tom Roberts, Freerange Records is a deep house label based in London. It operates a sublabel called Freerange Records Colour Series.

◢ what the catalogue measures

sound

68% one genre

Deep House, then House and Classic House

68% of the 227 releases we can tag · 9 of the last 12 we could tag

tempo

±3 BPM

123 BPM typical, 120–126 across four in five releases

55 of 227 releases carry a tempo reading

career stage

7.7 yrs median

Producers here had a median 7.7 years of releases before their first record on the label

across 53 producers whose earlier history we can follow

format

65% solo/duo

Solo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases

counting compilations too, 154 of 236 · 9 various-artists compilations

remixes

62% of releases

Remixes are a large part of the catalogue

34 of the 55 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Atjazz, Solomun, Hipp-E

◢ how often the roster changes

4.5

new names a year

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

69%

get a second record

33 of the 48 producers who debuted here over a year ago released again

1.5

releases a month

36 records in 24 months

◢ first records here, by year

19releases · first-time signings02013 · 10 releases · 1 first-time signing20132014 · 7 releases · 5 first-time signings2015 · 4 releases · 1 first-time signing2016 · 10 releases · 3 first-time signings2017 · 9 releases · 7 first-time signings2018 · 9 releases · 5 first-time signings2019 · 5 releases · 4 first-time signings2020 · 4 releases · 4 first-time signings2021 · 2 releases · 1 first-time signing2022 · 10 releases · 8 first-time signings2023 · 13 releases · 7 first-time signings2024 · 13 releases · 19 first-time signings2025 · 15 releases · 13 first-time signings2026 · 19 releases · 9 first-time signings2026

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.

which labels sign new artists →

◢ on the charts, week by week

15chart placements / week0w/o 6 jul · 8 charting tracksw/o 13 jul · 14 charting tracksw/o 20 jul · 15 charting tracksw/o 27 jul · 11 charting tracks · 1 neww/o 3 aug · 8 charting tracksw/o 10 aug · 7 charting tracksw/o 17 aug · 4 charting tracksw/o 24 aug · 5 charting tracks · 1 neww/o 31 aug · 5 charting tracks · 3 neww/o 7 sep · 3 charting tracks · 1 new3w/o 6 jul7 sep

new entries

week of 7 sep: 1 new entry · 2 top-20 placements · avg rank ▲ 21.3 places

◢ where the roster releases

came fromof 53 traced

labels this roster released on before their first record here

went on toof 53 traced

labels the same producers released on afterwards

also releasing onof 173

labels sharing this roster in the same period

55 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 173

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