King Street Sounds

King Street Sounds (originally BPM King Street Sounds) is a New York garage house record label founded in 1993 by Hisa Ishioka, inspired by the Paradise Garage nightclub. It releases soulful and vocal house, deep house, and Afro/Latin/Jazz excursions, and its roster has included Kerri Chandler, Dennis Ferrer, Louie Vega, Blaze, David Morales, and Danny Tenaglia. Its sister label Nite Grooves, launched in 1994, focuses on darker underground, techno, tech house, deep house, lounge, leftfield, abstract, and experimental productions. The label reissued Dennis Ferrer's 2006 album 'The World As I See It' for Record Store Day 2025 and underwent a relaunch in 2024.

King Street Sounds began with the Paradise Garage nightclub, home of Larry Levan, whose influence shaped dance music luminaries such as Francois Kevorkian, David Morales, Louie Vega, and Junior Vasquez. Born of this musical phenomenon in 1993 was BPM King Street Sounds, founded by Hisa Ishioka to continue the ten-year tradition of soulful-spiritual house music the club helped birth from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. The label has established itself as one of the finest and most respected dance music labels, releasing soulful and vocal house, deep house, and Afro/Latin/Jazz excursions, and remains one of the few consistently strong independent labels. Its sister label Nite Grooves, to the left of King Street's center, launched in 1994 and releases darker, more underground, techno, tech house, deep house, lounge, leftfield, abstract, and experimental productions. In 2024 King Street Sounds underwent a relaunch, marked by a documentary from Armada Music and Beatport. In 2025, Dennis Ferrer's 2006 debut album 'The World As I See It' was reissued on vinyl as an official Record Store Day 2025 release, the first time all ten tracks were available in one vinyl package, available at participating retailers across the U.S. and U.K. from April 12, 2025.

One of the finest and most respected labels releasing dance music today; a proper NY Garage House record label on the cusp of dance music.

• Dennis Ferrer – 'The World As I See It'

  2006 debut album, reissued on vinyl for Record Store Day 2025; features 'Church Lady', 'How Do I Let Go', and 'Touched The Sky'.

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