Hard Times

32 releases tracked from 2014 · 33 producers · latest jul 2026

3 tracks · 2 charting artists · 8 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging

Hard Times Records, a house music label, released DJ Romain's 'The Lost D.A.T.S.' EPs in 2024, St. David's 'Message of Love EP', and Byron the Aquarius' 'One Of A Kind (Love Affair)'.

siteUnited Kingdom

◢ what the catalogue measures

sound

53% one genre

House, then Deep House and Soulful House

53% of the 32 releases we can tag · 5 of the last 12 we could tag

tempo

±5 BPM

125 BPM typical, 120–130 across four in five releases

17 of 32 releases carry a tempo reading

career stage

20.5 yrs median

Producers here had a median 20.5 years of releases before their first record on the label

across 17 producers whose earlier history we can follow

format

70% solo/duo

Solo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases

counting compilations too, 23 of 33 · 1 various-artists compilation

remixes

71% of releases

Remixes are a large part of the catalogue

12 of the 17 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Louis Bailey

◢ how often the roster changes

3.5

new names a year

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

62%

get a second record

8 of the 13 producers who debuted here over a year ago released again

releases a year

14 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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