Take Off to Indie Labels: Dais Records

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Space Africa, Choir Boy, Xeno & Oakland and Death Bells.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from ADULT., Choir Boy, Body of Light and Getting The Fear.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Death Bells, SPICE, Choir Boy, and Death of Lovers.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Riki, Private World, SRSQ, and SPICE.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Cold Showers, Pierce with Arrow, ADULT., and Xeno & Oaklander.

Today we’re covering DAIS Records, who focuses on artists “new and old,” including SPICE and Stephen Mallinder.

Welcome to Night Flight’s DAIS Records Video Profile, highlighting the New York and Los Angeles based label featuring artists such as Cold Showers, Merzbow and Space Afrika.

Today we’re looking at DAIS Records, whose roster of emerging and influential artists include AURAGRAPH, Cold Gawd, and Body of Light.

Dark analog dance songs for the post-modern era.

Warped tape loops, aging VHS home-movie samples, and processed vocals tinged with harmonic specters from Body of Light on Dais Records.

A potent blend of nostalgia-laced romantic pop from Choir Boy on Dais Records.

A Shoegaze pedigree with smoky compulsions of post-punk and no-wave influences.

Brooding romanticism expressed through unforgettable hooks and expansive sounds from Dais Record's Death Bells.

Death Bells is the longtime musical collaboration of Will Canning and Remy Veselis, two Australians who moved to Los Angeles in 2018. Their music blurs the lines between post-punk and grunge, and their latest EP “Take My Spirit Now” explores “love, paranoia and destiny.”

Philly post-punk outfit Death of Lovers on Dais Records.

"An experiment in the identity of creativity…" Tune in for an exclusive visit to Night Flight from Drab Majesty's Deb Demure: a unique delight and another timeless entry to Night Flight cultural canon.

Drab Majesty, the project of Deb DeMure, blends New Wave and early 4AD sound into a “hypnotic and futuristic originality.”

Haunting folk noise and cinematic textures from experimental producer Michael Anderson.

Drew McDowall's work mines the hallucinatory spaces that exist between reality and celestial otherness.

“Anti-hero, artist, and Pandrogenist.” Genesis P-Orridge was an icon of experimentation.

Chicago-baed electronic / dark industrial duo HIDE on Dais Records.

Harassor are a Los Angeles based metal band influenced by Southern California’s rich history of distinguished metal acts. Fronted by Pete Majors, the group evokes the consummate hallmarks of black, death and doom metal without surrendering to any established order.

High Vis, led by enigmatic front person Graham Sayle, play “aggressive, gripping, and artful punk” that is sonically beyond the parameters of any single genre or scene. On their second album Blending, they bring a more introspective focus to their political lyrics.

Los Angeles, CA-based Electro-punk act on Dais Records.

Suzy Poling's latest record uses sounds and samples collected from the Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Oakland, CA.

Dark-synth pop act Riki from Dais Records.

SRSQ (pronounced seer-skew), is a synesthesia of sound and feeling taking cues from the delicate miasma of Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, and Dead Can Dance.

SRSQ is the moniker of Oakland singer and musician Kennedy Ashlyn, who has steadily honed her songcraft to create a “music of tumult and triumph.” Her 2022 LP “Ever Crashing” is an “aching, reverent” dream-pop creation.

Spice shares the authoritative drive of Jawbreaker, J Church, and Fugazi, but set in their own world of unrest.

Stephen Mallinder, co-founder and frontman of the iconic Cabaret Voltaire, returned with his first solo album in over 35 years: Um Dada, for Dais Records. Laced with leftfield house and cut-up sound collages, Um Dada is a melding of energies that are an exercise in simplicity and motion.

Tempers is a New York based synth-pop duo whose rigorous electronic production is paired with instinctual, unleashed vocals. The pair released their debut album Services on the cult German imprint Aufnahme + Wiedergabe and quickly became staples in both European and American synth-pop scenes.

Art rock outfit of multi-instrumentalist Graeme Jefferies.

Tragic beauty from Dais-signed duo from the Bay Area.

Soft-focus sounds from painter and an ambient composer Tor Lundvall on Dais Records.

Over time, through his vast collection of pure and cinematic ambient hymns, Tor Lundvall has steadily established himself as one of ambient music’s most familiar faces.

Audio/visual provocateurs who transpose the identifiers of death rock, synth punk, post-punk, ambient, and ethereal soundscapes. Aka, VR Sex.

Xeno & Oaklander is an American electronic group from Brooklyn regarded as a key act in the coldwave and minimal electronic revival of the 21st century. The duo combine crisp analog synths with poetic lyrics to weave dark synth-pop soundscapes that are ultimately greater than the sum of their parts.

A conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge discussing he/r friendship with William S. Burroughs and the original creation of the album "Nothing Here Now but the Recordings." Dais Records reissues of William S. Burrough's experimental works are available now.