Naked Music is a dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 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,...

, centered in San Francisco and New York City

New York City

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. It is known for smooth signature deep house

Deep house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. In the early compositions , influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads which are held for many bars and...

 and downtempo

Downtempo

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. It began life as a production company in New York, in 1992

1992 in music

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, when founders Dave Boonshoft and Jay Denes scored underground success with releases on indies such as Francois Kevorkian

François Kevorkian

François Kevorkian, alias François K, is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner. Having started his career in renowned clubs such as the Paradise Garage and Studio 54, the New York City resident is widely considered as one of the forefathers of house...

’s Wave Music

Wave Music

Wave Music is an independent dance music record label founded in 1995 by François Kevorkian, headquartered in New York City.Its catalog features a wide spectrum of musical styles by many different artists, as well as several successful compilation series, such as Body&SOUL-NYC, Deep&Sexy, Bossa...

, and UK’s XL Recordings

XL Recordings

XL Recordings is a British independent record label owned by Richard Russell. It originated as a 1989 offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records.Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire...

. A string of high profile remixes followed with artists as diverse as Sade

Sade Adu

Helen Folasade Adu OBE , is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.-Biography:Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria...

, Kelis

Kelis

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, Maxwell

Maxwell (musician)

Maxwell , is an American R&B, funk and neo soul musician. He played an important role in the development of the soul sub-genre, neo-soul.-Early life:...

 and Britney Spears

Britney Spears

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. Blue Six is the alias of producer Jay Denes, whose debut album, Beautiful Tomorrow, delivered a mix of deep house

Deep house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. In the early compositions , influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads which are held for many bars and...

, soulful pop, and smooth jazz

Smooth jazz

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. In 1998 the production company became a true 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,...

. It was distributed by Astralwerks Records.

Artists

• Lisa Shaw
• Blue Six (aka Jay Denes)
• Gaelle
• Aya (aka Lysa Aya Trenier
  Lysa Aya Trenier
  Lysa Aya Trenier is a London-born singer, songwriter and actress. She most notably is associated with the Naked Music recording label. She is of Singaporean/Irish/Scottish descent....
  
  )
• Aquanote
• Eric Stamile
• Miguel Migs
  Miguel Migs
  Miguel Steward, better known as Miguel Migs is a deep house DJ, producer and musician from San Francisco, California. -Biography:Migs began his music career at 18 years old, as a lead guitarist and songwriter for a Santa Cruz local band called Zion Sounds...
  
  
• Monique Bingham
• Guy Malul

Nude Dimensions series

• Nude Dimensions Vol. 1 (1999)
• Nude Dimensions Vol. 2 (2000)
• Nude Dimensions Vol. 3 (2001)

Carte Blanche series

• Carte Blanche Vol. 1 (2000)
• Carte Blanche Vol. 2 (2000)
• Carte Blanche Vol. 3 (2002)

Studio albums

• Beautiful Tomorrow by Blue Six (2002)
• The Pearl by Aquanote (2002)
• Colorful You
  Colorful You
  Colourful You is Miguel Migs's proper debut album, after working extensively on previous album projects for the Naked Music/Astralwerks label.-Track listing:All tracks by Miguel Migs except were noted#"Introseduction" – 4:53...
  
   by Miguel Migs
  Miguel Migs
  Miguel Steward, better known as Miguel Migs is a deep house DJ, producer and musician from San Francisco, California. -Biography:Migs began his music career at 18 years old, as a lead guitarist and songwriter for a Santa Cruz local band called Zion Sounds...
  
   (2002)
• Strange Flower by Aya
  Lysa Aya Trenier
  Lysa Aya Trenier is a London-born singer, songwriter and actress. She most notably is associated with the Naked Music recording label. She is of Singaporean/Irish/Scottish descent....
  
   (2004)
• Transient by Gaelle
  Gaelle Adisson
  Gaelle Adisson is an Urban, deep house, and downtempo singer/songwriter/producer born in New Jersey.- Career :The Atlanta-based artist is most notable known for her vocals on the hit "King of My Castle", a song by the Wamdue Project. In 2004, Gaelle released her debut album, Transient through the...
  
   (2004)
• Cherry by Lisa Shaw (2005)
• Aquarian Angel by Blue Six (2007)
• Re-Creation by Naked Music NYC (2008)
• Noesis by Blue Six (2010)