About
Lowfield Records is an independent label out of Portland, Oregon, founded in 2014. We release ambient, post-punk, experimental electronic, dub, modern composition and field recording — vinyl first, always mastered for the format it’s pressed in.
We still think an album is a whole thing, not a playlist filler.
Lowfield started in a Portland basement in 2014 as a way to get friends' tape loops onto something that would survive longer than a hard drive. Eleven years and 61 releases later, the basement is now a proper mastering room, but the standard hasn't moved: if it doesn't sound right on a needle, it doesn't go out.
We press everything in-house runs of 300 to 1,000 copies, work directly with a single pressing plant we've used since year two, and turn down records that are "vinyl releases" in name only — mixed for streaming and pressed as an afterthought.
More about the label →What people are saying.
“Lowfield has quietly become the label you check before anyone tells you to — a farm system for artists who end up everywhere else eighteen months later.”
The Wire“Their pressing standards are almost stubborn. In an era of streaming-first vinyl as merchandise, that stubbornness is the whole point.”
Bandcamp Daily“Dust Chapel's "Interior Weather" is the best thing this label has put out, and this label has put out sixty other records.”
Tiny Mix Tapes