A Different Drum is an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 and online store based in the US

United States

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 state of Utah

Utah

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, specializing in synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 and related genres. The label has released hundreds of albums, singles, and compilations, and is the biggest synthpop label in the U.S.

A selection of songs from the label's artists have been featured on various versions of Konami

Konami

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's Dance Dance Revolution

Dance Dance Revolution

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 series, including the arcade version of Dance Dance Revolution X

Dance Dance Revolution X

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Artists

• Access Zero
• Alien Skin
• Alien Six
• Alphaville
  Alphaville (band)
  Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...
  
  
• A Blue Ocean Dream
• B! Machine
  B! Machine
  B! Machine was a synthpop band from San Francisco, California.The band was formed in 1996, consisting of the sole founding member, Nathaniel Lee Nicoll. The current line-up of the band varies but typically consists of Nathaniel Nicoll, Mike Hayden, and James Wong...
  
  
• Blu Mar Ten
  Blu Mar Ten
  Blu Mar Ten is a music production outfit based in London, and is made up of Leo Wyndham and Chris Marigold and Michael Tognarelli.-History:Blu Mar Ten's first track to be released was "The Fountain" / "Lunar" in 1996 on the now defunct Way Out Records. The track appeared on numerous compilations...
  
  
• Blue October
  Blue October UK
  Blue October UK are an Essex based synthpop/pop/dance band, formed in 1996 by Glen Wisbey and Barney Miller.Their first album Incoming was released in 1998, on the US record label, A Different Drum. Tragedy was to strike suddenly as Miller unexpectedly died soon afterwards...
  
  
• Blume
• Code 64
  Code 64
  Code 64 are an electronic music band from Lysekil, Sweden formed in 2000 by the three teenagers Christian Espeland, Hasse Mattsson, and Henrik Piehl.-Biography:...
  
  
• Cosmicity
• De/Vision
  De/Vision
  De/Vision is a German synthpop musical group. The band started as a quartet consisting of Thomas Adam, Steffen Keth, Stefan Blender, and Markus Ganssert. They formed the band in 1988. The name De/Vision is a play on words. The majority of the band's lyrics are in English, but they have had some...
  
  
• The Dignity of Labour
• ∂aybehavior
• Droom
  Droom (band)
  Droom were an electronic music duo from Vancouver, Canada that combined elements of futurepop, synthpop, post punk and gothic rock. The band had two club hit singles and enjoyed success on college radio charts...
  
  
• Echo Image
  Echo Image
  Echo Image was a Norwegian synthpop band. The band unofficially started in 1997 when Pål Magnus Rybom started experimenting with electronic music. Later that year Fredrik Hansen joined and Echo Image was officially formed with Trine Bilet joining towards the end of the year providing backing vocals...
  
  
• The Echoing Green
  The Echoing Green (band)
  The Echoing Green is an electronica/synthpop band. It began as a duo between Joey Belville and Aaron Bowman in 1992, and has since released eleven major albums....
  
  
• Elmodic
• Endless Shame
  Endless Shame
  Endless Shame is an electronic band from the South of Sweden. The music is inspired by various types of electronic music and alternative rock and pop....
  
  
• Faith Assembly
  Faith Assembly
  Faith Assembly is a Synthpop project run by Mark Stacy, who founded the project and currently continues it in the USA. Stacy started out releasing recordings on his own Record Label, The Diary of Winter Publishing, and later was taken on by the record label A Different Drum.Faith Assembly has...
  
  
• Fantazja
• Fischerspooner
  Fischerspooner
  Fischerspooner is an electroclash duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York. The name is a portmanteau of the founders' last names, Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner...
  
  
• Intuition
• Iris
• Junk Circuit
• KieTheVez
• Leiahdorus
  Leiahdorus
  Leiahdorus is a synthpop band on the independent Section 44 Records label.Leiahdorus was created by Jason Smith in 1998. When Joey Belville of The Echoing Green acquired a demonstration tape, he took Jason under his wing and produced a demo with him....
  
  
• Merge
• Michigan
• Midnight Resistance
  Midnight Resistance (band)
  Midnight Resistance is a German synthpop musical group.The band started as a solo project of Nico, since the end of 2007 Gorden and Gregsen completed the current band line-up...
  
  
• Monica Schroeder
• Monolithic
  Monolithic (band)
  Monolithic is a synthpop band on the A Different Drum label. Although Monolithic is categorized in the synthpop genre, the infusion of many other sub-genres of electronic music make Monolithic's music distinctive in the synthpop scene. Genres such as breakbeat, trance, ebm, techno, industrial,...
  
  
• Neuropa
• Neuroactive
  Neuroactive
  Neuroactive is a synthpop/futurepop/EBM group from Finland. Its members are Jarkko Tuohimaa and Kimmo Karjalainen.- History :Neuroactive was formed in 1991 by Jarkko Tuohimaa, Ville Brusi, and Vesa Rainne. Signing their first album, Morphology, in 1994 with Cyberware Productions, the group went on...
  
  
• Nevarakka
• Opium
• Pristina
• Provision
  Provision (musical group)
  Provision is an electronic musical group based in Houston, Texas. Provision was founded in November 2000 by Breye 7x and Leslie Hyman ....
  
  
• Raindancer
• Real Life
  Real Life (band)
  Real Life are a Melbourne-based Australian New Wave/Synthpop band that had hits with their debut single, "Send Me an Angel" and with "Catch Me I'm Falling" , both of which were featured on the band's debut album Heartland .-Biography:...
  
  
• Rename
• Rupesh Cartel
• Sequencia
  Sequencia
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• Somegirl
• Syrian
  Syrian (band)
  Syrian is an Italian synthpop band, formed by Andylab and Voyager .-Discography:* 2003: No Atmosphere * 2003: De-Synchronized * 2004: Space Overdrive...
  
  
• System22
• T.O.Y.
  T.O.Y.
  T.O.Y. is a German Futurepop/Synthpop band. The project was formerly known as Evils Toy, which was closer to electro-industrial in sound.-as Evils Toy:...
  
  
• Ultraviolet
• Wideband Network

External links

• Official site