Blue Room Released
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Blue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.
Some consider Blue Room Released to be of the most important labels in the psychedelic trance genre. It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from a British loudspeaker company. Allegedly, Ghahary had free rein to spend the money as he saw fit, regardless of sales figures. This allowed Blue Room to move away from "classic" Goa trance into new, more experimental directions. Some of the most well-known artists today were signed and had their work distributed on the Blue Room Released label. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April of 1995 and featured work from artists such as Total Eclipse, Har-El Prussky, and Voodoo People. Three of the best-known projects - Juno Reactor, Total Eclipse and The Infinity Project also released their debut albums that year. Soon the German project X-Dream started working with Blue Room as well, releasing their "The Frog" single and the highly influential Radio album. At its height, the label released such works as Violent Relaxation by Total Eclipse, Juno Reactor's Bible of Dreams, Saafi Brothers' Mystic Cigarettes and Dragon Tales by Koxbox.
Some of the high-demand releases were picked up by Inpsyde Media after the label's fall in 2002.
In December 2004 the owner of the mother label MELT 2000 Robert Trunz bought back the rights to the Blue Room Released catalogue and now works out of South Africa where the new company is based. Some original CDs and vinyl is are still available at their website[1].
