Independent music distribution
Our legacy
With a 30-year legacy in independent music, we've established robust ties with major and indie retailers, facilitating both physical and digital sales and distribution. We strategically secure optimal product placements to ensure your releases reach the right audiences. Through close collaboration with retailers, we customize our services to meet their unique needs. We simplify your music distribution process, supported by our extensive decades-long experience.
What we do
We've an expansive network across the UK, and the rest of the world through various trusted regional independent distributors and music services, ensuring comprehensive coverage.
Distribution
We're an indie music distribution company, getting your music into stores by handling the distribution and marketing of physical products to retail outlets.
Digital
Distribution and marketing of your digital releases and catalogue to key online music services, globally.
Physical
Manufacturing and warehousing physical products, then sales and marketing to retail outlets in the UK.
International
Utilizing our vast partner network, we distribute physical products internationally in major record-buying markets, offering a range of retail and promotional marketing opportunities worldwide.
Online Shop and fulfilment
As well as fulfilment - our online platform empowers you to establish a store for direct fan engagement.
The Cargo Collective
A monthly initiative uniting a curated set of independent record shops in the UK, focused on showcasing 16 new releases a month.
- Click here to listen to a track from each release. Updated every month.
Cargo Collective Store Finder
Recent Releases:
J.R.C.G.
Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra)
Sub Pop
The debut Sub Pop album by art-punk ensemble J.R.C.G., led by Justin Gallego (also of Dreamdecay), is filled with ominous, darkly melodic tracks that stir Krautrock, Latin rhythms, and post-punk into a hypnotic stew.
Dean McPhee
Astral Gold
Bass Ritual
“Achieves a sort of elegantly blackened transcendence like, roughly, Michael Rother and Bohren & Der Club of Gore enacting a slow-motion ritual in the remotest Pennines ****” MOJO
Royal Trux
Twin Infinitives
Fire Records
“Sounding like a subway ride inside a television inside an earthquake inside the end of the world and a pounding death rhythm of apocalyptic now.” Pitchfork
Uranium Club
Infants Under The Bulb
Static Shock
"Once again win their dear listeners over with eccentrically wild guitar parts, revolving voices, elastic-tight drums and the addition of their very own Saints-styled horn section"
Astrid Sonne
Great Doubt
Echo
"The Danish experimentalist turns toward singer-songwriter introspection, finding drama and yearning in melancholy, understated arrangements" Pitchfork
Public Image Ltd.
End Of World
PiL Official
"The apocalypse on poppers" Pitchfork
Public Service Broadcasting
This New Noise
Test Card
"A heartfelt hymn to a national treasure" Classic Rock
Jessy Lanza
Love Hallucination
Hyperdub
"Spans pop and beguiling abstraction on her fourth album" The Guardian
Goat
Medicine
Rocket Recordings
"Perhaps their best, most fully realised record yet." The Wire
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Future Is Your Past
'A' Recordings
"Another glorious explosion of 21st century mind-blowing psychedelia" Louder Than War
Vanishing Twin
Afternoon X
Fire Records
"Embodies a lively sense of exploratory wonder" Pitchfork
The Shits
You're A Mess
Rocket Recordings
"Killer album of psych hardcore dirges, one that offers salvation at the cost of sanity" Norman
Lee Gamble
Models
Hyperdub
"AI is outstripping our ability to understand or harness it. Models can be seen as an unsettling commentary on that reality." Pop Matters
Pigs x7
Land of Sleeper
Rocket Recordings
"A parallel universe where Motörhead preferred cannabis to amphetamines" The Guardian
Kristin Hersh
Clear Pond Road
Fire Records
"At the top of her considerable game" Uncut
Emma Anderson
Pearlies
Sonic Cathedral
"The Lush singer’s first solo album is a hypnotic, electro-pop slow-burner" The Guardian
Shintaro Sakamoto
Like A Fable
Zelone Records
"Sakamoto continually updates his sound, and with Like A Fable, he has made his best pop album yet."
Loraine James
Gentle Confrontation
Hyperdub
"Offers an invitation to bear witness to a process that’s human, hard to define, and close to the heart" Pitchfork
Mui Zyu
Rotten Bun For Eggless Century
Father/Daughter
His Golden Messenger
Jump For Joy
Merge
Blind Boys Of Alabama
Echoes of the South
Single Lock
Say She She
Silver
Karma Chief
Labels we work with:
Sub Pop
'a' Recordings
Fire
Merge
Planet Mu
Pink Flag
La Vida Es Un Mus
At The Dojo
Sonic Cathedral
PiL Official
Hyperdub
Rocket Recordings
Wisdom Teeth
Sealed Records
Bad Taste
Posh Isolation
Teklife
Damaged Goods
Alter
Pressure
Wrong Speed
Fuzz Club
Scopitones
Western Vinyl
Tough Love
Rune Grammofon
Static Shock
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