Monstercat

Monstercat (also known as Monstercat Media) is a Canadian-based independent electronic dance music (EDM) record label in Vancouver, British Columbia. Monstercat was formed in July 2005 by Mike Darlington CEO, and Ari Paunonen, COO.

The label signs artists on a non-exclusive single-track basis, allowing artists to freely move between other labels and brands. Monstercat follows a simple release schedule, where new music is released three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, in addition to an hour-long podcast that is live streamed every Tuesday on their Twitch account, known as Call Of The Wild. Once Monstercat has released thirty tracks consecutively, a new compilation album is created containing these tracks and two continuous mixes of the album. At several points in time, Monstercat has released a track outside of their regular release schedule for various reasons.

History 
In July 2005, Monstercat's current CEO - Mike Darlington - along with Ari Pauonen, Monstercat's current COO, created the Monstercat YouTube channel as a way for their friends to promote themselves and share music with each other. The two created compilation albums to provide artists with an easy method of releasing their music, as well as lessening the competitiveness between the artists.  Monstercat's first compilation album, Launch Week, featured seven artists: Feint, Halo Nova (currently Varien / Koinu), Stephen Walking, Ephixa, Neilio, Arion and Going Quantum.

Krewella Signs 
In December 2005, Monstercat signed the very notable musical group Krewella, an American electronic dance music duo (at the time, a trio) from Chicago, Illinois. "Killin' It" was Krewella's first original song released by a label. Monstercat promoted Krewella using many social media campaigns and partnered with many EDM YouTube promotional channels for a larger platform.

2014 - 2017 
During the first few months of 2014, Monstercat partnered with the electric family in aid of the Humane Society of Canada. In December 2014, Monstercat launched a 24-hour digital radio station, hosted on Twitch. Monstercat continued to release compilation albums containing thirty songs and two mixes each until 2017.

2018 - Present 
Near the beginning of 2018, Monstercat announced that it would seperate into two brands: Monstercat Uncaged and Monstercat Instinct.

Artists

Current Roster 
The following is a list of all the artists that are on Monstercat's current roster. Please note that not all artists who've released with Monstercat are necessarily supposed to be on this list.

 

 7 Minutes Dead
 Aero Chord
 Astronaut
 Au5
 Braken
 Bustre
 Case & Point
 Deon Custom
 Dion Timmer
 Direct
 Dirty Audio
 Draper
 Droptek
 Emsi
 Eminence
 Fox Stevenson (Stan SB)
 F.O.O.L- Part of Falcon Funk
 Feint
 Fractal
 Grabbitz
 Haywyre
 Hellberg
 Hyper Potions
 Karma Fields
 Krewella
 Laszlo
 LVTHER- Alias of TwoThirds
 Mr FijiWiji
 Muzzy
 Nigel Good
 Nitro Fun
 Noisestorm
 PIXL
 PYLOT
 Pegboard Nerds
 Rogue
 Rootkit
 Slaydit
 Slips & Slurs
 Snavs
 Soulero
 Sound Remedy
 Stephen Walking
 Stonebank
 Summer Was Fun- Alias of DotEXE
 TheFatRat
 Tut Tut Child
 Varien
 Vicetone
 Volant
 WRLD

Former Artists 
The following is a list of artists who previously released music with Monstercat.

 1uP
 23
 Archie
 Arion 
 Atmozfears- Now TVDS
 AZEDIA
 Chris Ramos
 Day One
 DotEXE- Now Summer Was Fun
 Dzeko & Torres
 Ephixa
 Falcon Funk
 Favright
 Gammer
 Halo Nova- Now Varien
 Hot Date!
 I.Y.F.F.E
 Insan3lik3
 Lets Be Friends
 Matduke
 Marshmello 
 Mitchell Claxton
 MYLK
 Neilio
 Obsidia
 OVERWERK- Now an independent artist
 Rundfunk- Now part of Televisor
 SCNDL
 Skifonix
 Stereotronique
 Teqq
 Throttle
 TVDS
 TwoThirds- Now LVTHER
 Virtual Riot
 yh

References

Other websites
 

Record labels