Level Plane was a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 based in New York City, that tended to aim towards traditional emo

Emo (music)

Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace...

 and screamo

Screamo

Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...

 artists.

Level Plane was founded in early 1997

1997 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.-January:*January 9 – David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy...

 by Greg Drudy

Greg Drudy

Greg Drudy started his career on drums practicing with the defunct band Quid Pro Quo in a Tampa warehouse next door to fellow warehouse owners Cannibal Corpse and Brutality. Drudy was the drummer for the bands Southpaw and Saetia, and was the original drummer for the band Interpol. He left Interpol...

 in order to put a label and an address on the back of Saetia's

Saetia

Saetia was a New York City-based screamo/post-hardcore band. Their name originates from a misspelling of the Miles Davis track "Saeta", from his album Sketches of Spain, which, in turn, was named after the saeta, a religious tradition of flamenco music...

 first 7". Drudy ran the label until it ceased to exist in 2009.

Level Plane Records released screamo, dream pop

Dream pop

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...

, post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

, ambient noise, and experimental rock

Experimental rock

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Bands that are/have been on Level Plane

• A Day in Black and White
  A Day in Black and White
  A Day in Black and White are a band based in Washington, DC who formed in 2001. They have been described as post-punk, post-hardcore, experimental/indie rock and even post-emo. Their sound has been compared to bands such as City of Caterpillar, Sonic Youth and Fugazi...
  
  
• Amanda Woodward
• Anodyne
• Aussitot Mort
• Bloody Panda
  Bloody Panda
  -History:The band was formed in 2003 by Yoshiko Ohara, an established visual artist based in Osaka, Japan, who "decided to spend her savings on a trip to New York City, brand new recording equipment in tow, with the idea that she’d move to America to make music, this despite the unfortunate fact...
  
  
• Books Lie
• Bright Calm Blue
• Bucket Full of Teeth
• City of Caterpillar
  City of Caterpillar
  City of Caterpillar was an American band, from Richmond, Virginia. They released a split with pg. 99, a full length album, and an album-length compilation of their demo and some live tracks....
  
  
• Coliseum
  Coliseum (band)
  Coliseum is a punk rock band that formed in 2003. They released their latest album, House with a Curse, through Temporary Residence in June 2010.Exclaim! named "House with a Curse", as the No. 6 Punk Album of 2010.-History:...
  
  
• Drain The Sky
• Envy
  Envy (band)
  Envy is a rock band from Japan. They are signed to Rock Action Records in Europe and Temporary Residence Limited in North America, though originally they worked with Level Plane Records. More recently in their career, Envy's music has grown to include elements of post-rock.Vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa...
  
  
• The Fiction
• Forstella Ford
• Get Fucked
• Get Rad
• Gospel
• Graf Orlock
  Graf Orlock (band)
  Graf Orlock is a grindcore band from Los Angeles, California. They are named after Graf Orlok from the film Nosferatu. Consisting members of hardcore punk bands Greyskull, Arctic Choke, Dangers, and Ghostlimb, Graf Orlock commonly uses audio snippets and script dialogue from action movies like The...
  
  
• The Holy Shroud
• Hot Cross
  Hot Cross
  Hot Cross was a hardcore band from Philadelphia. They were signed to Hope Division Records / Equal Vision Records. The band was composed of former members of such bands as Saetia , Off Minor , You and I , Neil...
  
  
• Kaospilot
• Landmine Marathon
  Landmine Marathon
  Landmine Marathon is an American extreme metal band from Phoenix, Arizona.The band started in 2004 and is currently signed with Prosthetic Records...
  
  
• Lickgoldensky
• Life at These Speeds
• Light the Fuse and Run
• Malady
• Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana is a Japanese punk band that is known for playing extremely fast noise music mixed with experimental electronica and pop-based song structures. They have worked with artists as diverse as Merzbow, John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Discordance Axis...
  
  
• Mikoto
• The Minor Times
• Muslimgauze
  Muslimgauze
  Muslimgauze was a music project of Bryn Jones , a prolific British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
  
  
• Neil Perry
• North of America
  North of America
  North of America is a rock band from Nova Scotia that has recorded with Matlock Records in Canada and the American label Level Plane Records. Members of Halifax's State Champs and Truro's The Motes formed North of America in 1997...
  
  
• The Now
• The One AM Radio
• pg. 99
  Pg. 99
  Pg. 99 was a screamo band from Sterling, Virginia on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The band formed as a six-piece in fall 1997 and later expanded to an eight-piece...
  
  
• Ruhaeda
• Racebannon
  Racebannon
  Racebannon is an American noise punk band from Bloomington, Indiana.-History:Racebannon was formed in Indianapolis in 1996 by Michael Anderson and James Bauman. The group cites The Melvins, Melt Banana, and Ice Nine as early influences. They cobbled together a lineup from members of other...
  
  
• Saetia
  Saetia
  Saetia was a New York City-based screamo/post-hardcore band. Their name originates from a misspelling of the Miles Davis track "Saeta", from his album Sketches of Spain, which, in turn, was named after the saeta, a religious tradition of flamenco music...
  
  
• Saviours
  Saviours (band)
  Saviours is an American stoner metal band. The band was formed in 2004 in Oakland, California. Since then, they have released four full-length albums and two EPs.-Members:*Austin Barber - vocals, lead & rhythm guitar...
  
  
• Shikari
• Sinaloa
• Stop It!!
• Thou
• Tombs (band)
  Tombs (band)
  Tombs is an experimental band from Brooklyn, USA. They have released albums under Relapse Records and Level Plane Records. Formed out of band Anodyne, Tombs combines an mix of multiple metal styles including sludge metal and black metal.-Albums:...
  
  
• Transistor Transistor
• Warwolf
• You and I