a San Jose, CA, based record label owned and operated by SCOTT MEISBURGER, TOMI MENDEL, and BRENDAN WHEATLEY. From the beginning, OCR has tried to find and sign artists that other record labels are likely to completely ignore. At the same time, we believe in record deals that are friendly to musicians. Many of our artists are challenging, experimental, or unusual, but we make sure all of them are also thoughtful and fun. Our main mission is to find contemporary music that we think is important, though it may be far from a surefire hit. That being said, not all of the artists on ORCHESTRAL COLOUR RECORDS are hard to listen to. TEAM RED is a crowd-favorite hip hop group who are always the life of the intergalactic party. We all share an equal love of both pop and experimental music, and we want the artists we sign to reflect that philosophy. That's why we organize shows where pure electro-dance acts like PROTON PIGEON can play alongside the challenging, noisy beauty of NESSIE & HER BEARD. Even NESSIE's new album BOLD/HARD is a perfect example of our philosophy, combining dreamy and industrial pop songs with crazy bursts of cacophonous sounds and eclectic instrumentation. Our primary goal for the future, other than continuing to release creative records, is to contribute to contemporary music education. It is our belief that much of the music being created today is overly derivative and nostalgic, and we want to educate people about the original artists whose creativity is still ahead of its time. We hope to discover and re-release rare and forgotten albums that need to be heard.

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