SeyNoe – SeyNoe World
I will always remember when SeyNoe sent me the first two demo tracks from SeyNoe World. I was walking home from work, stuck the tracks on and zoned out. I don’t think me or SeyNoe expected this album to blow up like it did. Selling out two cassette releases, as well as opening up the […]
Focus Group – FOCUS TAPE 2021
FOCUS TAPE 2021 was a MASSIVE achievement for the label, one I look back on very fondly. With a track from each focusonthe artist at the time, as well as some label friends, Aphextwinsucks as well as Andy pls & Temma (before they became artists on the label!). Releasing this felt like a great achievement, […]
saves – loser
By the time I met saves, I’d started to have an idea of what types of sounds I wanted focusonthe to focus on. I remember being at work and listening to the first demo of this album saves’ had sent to me the night before. Almost all the tracks were different from what the album […]
unbecome111 – approximations of deity
After meeting unbecome111 online, we talked a lot about our love for electronic music, exchanging demos we’d made online. After hearing some of his music I knew I’d love to have him as part of focusonthe. I love the soundscapes created by unbecome in this release, as well as the accompanying single (exclusive to the […]
unbecome111 – a toxin misfire atop pod y
Unless you’re a die-hard fan of the label, it’s quite unlikely you’ve heard this fun little project. Included as a B side to accompany approximations of deity, this project focuses on some completely different sounds to what you may expect. Long, droney ambient synths will overpower your eardrums. Although unbecome111 would come back to these […]
idiffer – 違い
I originally created this album to help me with my mental health at the time. It was quite interesting to focus on making music that represented my current mental state. I find this album quite hard to listen to in retrospect and have often considered taking it down from the internet, however, I am fond […]
lhk – 5D TETRIS MATCH & REMATCH
lhk has been a friend of mine for a long while now, first meeting in April 2020 through a mutual friend, we spent time discussing our love for music. I hadn’t listened to breakcore before lhk introduced me, I have a lot to thank him for. After originally releasing 5D TETRIS MATCH & REMATCH as […]
WEI x Ashura – Hrimfaxi
During my process of creating the label, I met Cyberphrenic Records‘ WEI & Ashura – two really awesome guys who make fantastic music. This was way before I’d created catalogue numbers for focus releases, hence the reason it doesn’t have one! WEI’s original track displaying some of his skill creating dark halftime music, the 5 […]
Feelassikan – The Beginning is a Door Back in Time
During the start of focusonthe, I started looking for artists to join me in the process of creating and sharing music. I happened to stumble across Feelassikan in a Discord server dedicated to Ed Banger Records. We talked about our love for early French house, rock and other music genres – after hearing Feelassikan’s music […]
Jakku – BRKWRK V.1
Way back in June 2021, I created my first album “BRKWRK V.1”. After self releasing a few mixtapes and beat tapes before this, I decided I’d like to release with a label. I didn’t know where to look, or where to even begin – I decided to create my own record label to release on. […]
