Protogen Records
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Drum and bass
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from Kassel
Kassel
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, Germany
Germany
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created by drum and bass producer and dj Typecell
Typecell
Typecell is a producer of drum and bass / dubstep music and D.J. presently residing in Germany.-Career:He started his career around 1992, performing under the alias DJ P.M.C. In 1996, he started producing...
(Guido Hoppe), also known as DJ PMC in the techno scene. The plan for Protogen Records began in late 2001
2001 in music
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, with the first release being Typecell's "Bad Illusions" / "Justice of War", in May of 2002. Part of the reason behind starting the label was Guido's frustration with the current drum & bass scene. Since the launch, Protogen has signed an impressive roster of talented producers and is establishing itself as one of the most dynamic and innovative labels in the international drum and bass scene. The production genre is Techstep and Neurofunk
Neurofunk
Neurofunk is a subgenre of drum and bass which emerged between 1997 and 1998 in London, England as a progression of techstep. It was further developed by juxtaposed elements of heavier and harder forms of funk with multiple influences ranging from techno, house and jazz, distinguished by...
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Artists
The artists are very diverse, coming from many places all over the world such as Germany, DenmarkDenmark
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, Brazil
Brazil
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, South Africa
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, Hungary
Hungary
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, United States
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, U.K
United Kingdom
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, Canada
Canada
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, Australia
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, Ukraine
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, Austria
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and France
France
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Artists who have had material released on the label are:
- Allied
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Black Sun EmpireBlack Sun EmpireBlack Sun Empire is the stage name of a team of Dutch disc jockeys and Drum & Bass music producers Rene Verdult and brothers Milan and Micha Heyboer....
- Budoka
- Cipher
- Division
- Deejay Delta
- Empirical Law
- Giocator
- Kaskaad
- KemalKonflictKonflict, also known under their separate artist names Kemal and Rob Data, were a musical duo that composed Drum and Bass music, consisting of Kemal Okan and Robert Rodgers. Their music had a strong techno influence and it was influential in the shaping of the neurofunk sub-genre...
- Kenei
- Kubatko
- L-Plus
- Malsum
- Materia
- Mental
- Mikka S.
- N.Phect & Diz:Play
- NickBee
- No Money
- NSL
- Organikismness
- PhacePhacePhace is the alias used by Florian Harres, a drum and bass producer and label owner from Germany. With long time friend Michael Braeuninger, more widely known as Misanthrop, they both teamed up to create the record label, Neosignal, in 2008...
- Rob F
- Polarity & Shroombab
- Proktah
- Saymour
- Speaker Wrath
- Su3-ject
- Subwave
- Truebadour
- TypecellTypecellTypecell is a producer of drum and bass / dubstep music and D.J. presently residing in Germany.-Career:He started his career around 1992, performing under the alias DJ P.M.C. In 1996, he started producing...
- WRM
- X-Zero
- Zero Method
Discography
- PROTOGEN001 Typecell - Bad Illusions EP (12") June 01 2002
- PROTOGEN002 Su3-ject - Blind World EP (12") 2002
- PROTOGEN003 Typecell - Egomatric (Rob F Remix) + Alone In The Dark (12") 2003
- PROTOGEN004 Typecell - Astrocubic (Kemal Remix) / Cosmological (12") 2003
- PROTOGEN005 Typecell / Polarity and Shroombab - Bad Illusions (Black Sun EmpireBlack Sun EmpireBlack Sun Empire is the stage name of a team of Dutch disc jockeys and Drum & Bass music producers Rene Verdult and brothers Milan and Micha Heyboer....
Remix) / Illicit Game (12") 2003 - PROTOGEN006 Diz:Play & N.Phect / Pyro - Rotor / Scanners (12") 2004
- PROTOGEN007 Typecell & Phace - Subsystem (Subwave Remix) / fraXion (12") 2004
- PROTOGEN008 Su3-ject / Apparatus - Control / Gag Reflex (12") March 2004
- PROTOGEN009 D-Struct - Ritual / Astral Projection (MP3 only) Feb. 2005
- PROTOGEN010 Typecell - Twilight of the Dark Master / World of Bass (12") Mar. 2005
- PROTOGENCDLP01 Typecell - Mind Traveller (CD) 2002
- PROTOGENCDLP02 Typecell - Out Of The Matrix (CD) 2004
- PROTOGENCDLP03 Typecell - Symmetry (CD) 2005
- PROTODIGIT-001 L-Plus - Amazon / BMW (CD/MP3) 2006
- PROTODIGIT-002 Kubatko - Jaws of Lifeblood / Reverb - Stereotape (Kubatko RMX)(CD/MP3) 2006
- PROTODIGIT-003 Speaker Wrath - In the Shadows / Speaker Wrath - In the Shadows (Typecell RMX)(CD/MP3) 2007
- PROTODIGIT-004 X-Zero - Necromancer / X-Zero - Celestial Point (CD/MP3) 2007
- PROTOGENCDLP04 Typecell - Macrocosm LP (CD/MP3) 2007
- PROTODIGIT-005 Malsum - Nature Infest / Schwarzfahren (CD/MP3) 2007
- PROTODIGIT-006 No_Money and Sub D. Visionz / No Money - Narcothon (CD/MP3) 2007
- PROTODIGIT-007 Kenei - The High Priestess / Mantra (CD/MP3) 2007
- PROTODIGIT-008 Empirical Law - Face Them / Absolution (CD/MP3) 2008
- PROTODIGIT-009 Paperclip & Nounaim - Desert / Paperclip - Bearing Death (CD/MP3) 2008
- PROTODIGIT-010 Cipher and Mental - Pain and Pleasure / Slaughtered Daughter (CD/MP3) 2008
- PROTODIGITLP01 X-Zero - Kinesis LP (CD/MP3) 2008
- PROTODIGIT-011 Proktah - Phalaris / Apprentice (CD/MP3) 2008