Question: What genre of music, rooted in 1960s garage rock, does Dischord Records specialize in?

The Midnite Sound of the Milky Way is a garage rock compilation available on compact disc put out by Big Beat Records (UK) that consists of songs recorded at the Midnite Sound recording studio in Danville, Illinois during the 1960s.  The Midnite Sound studio one of many such venues pushing out obscure garage rock in the mid-1960s.  The set was compiled by Alec Palao, who also wrote the liner notes.  The compilation features twenty four tracks by different various artists who recorded there, and all except four have not been previously compiled.  The Midnite Sound recording were often typified by an echo-laden sound, giving them a characteristically "outer space" vibe.  The performers tended to be, even by 1960s garage rock norms, untutored and naively strange and noncommercial racket.  The groups and artists who recorded at Midnite Sound tended to be less British Invasion-influenced than most, sometimes displaying rockabilly and pre-Beatles stylistics.  The best-known act to record for the label was rockabilly/garage rocker Dean Carter, who is known for the song "Rebel Woman", which has appeared on several other compilations such as his "Call of the Wild" anthology on Big Beat Records.  He does not appear on this set, but two performers here, George Jacks and The 12th Knight, do renditions of the song. <SEP>  The company is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded the label in December 1980.  Before founding Dischord, both MacKaye and Nelson were members of the Teen Idles, and the label was initially meant to only foster a single release from the defunct band, the "Minor Disturbance" EP.  By the time Dischord #1 was finished, many new bands had emerged from the same music scene, and like the Teen Idles, also began releasing their records through Dischord. Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. <SEP> Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.  Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.  Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.  Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels. <SEP> This is a list of compilation albums featuring recordings entirely or mostly in the garage rock style of music, including variations of the genre ranging from basic garage rock and frat rock to folk rock-influenced and psychedelic garage rock.  Most of the recordings compiled on these albums was originally recorded in the period between 1963-1968 in the United States and Canada.  However, the list also includes compilations of recordings made outside of North America, in places such as Great Britain, Continental Europe, Latin America, and the far East, which are sometimes considered as counterparts or variants of the garage rock style (and are sometimes referred to as "Freakbeat," "Nederbeat", or "Group Sounds," as well as "beat" or "garage rock").  When known, the city, state, country or region of origin of is given in parentheses.  "US" covers the United States of America, while "UK" covers all parts of the United Kingdom (England, Ireland, Wales, etc.).  "Mixed" means that the music comes from many parts of the world even if individual volumes within a series concentrate on a particular country or region.  The list also contains sections devoted to later garage rock subgenres.  The Nuggets and Pebbles albums were the pioneering series, so they are listed first, followed by the remainder in alphabetical order.